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Hanukkah - Festival of Lights
Hanukkah 2008 starts at sundown Monday December 22 and last 8
days of celebrating the miracle of a little oil that lasted eight days,
and continues to illuminate our lives to this day. The Jewish Search Team would
like to wish to all our readers and supporters a happy Festival of Lights.
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Hebrew
Hebrew is a Semitic language known
as the Jewish peoples language and the official language in the state of Israel.
The Hebrew language is the third Semitic spoken language after Arabic and Amharic. Hebrew
has been referred to by Jews as Leshon Ha-Kodesh (ìùåï ä÷åãù), "The Holy Language",
since ancient times.
Aramaic
Aramaic is a group of Semitic
languages and has been
the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship.
It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel
and Ezra, the first language of the middle-east, and is the main language of
the Babylonian Talmud.Yiddish
Yiddish is a non-territorial Jewish language based
on the Germanic language, spoken throughout the world and written with the
Hebrew alphabet. It originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from
about the 10th century in the Rhineland, and then spread to central and Eastern Europe, and eventually to other continents.