Thursday, December 14, 2017

Happy Hannukkah!


My friend and author Yehuda Remer posted this to Instagram. The Jewish festival of lights began at sunset on this past Tuesday. Hannukkah or Chanukah, depending on how you want to spell it, celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over a Syrian-Greek army and the rededication of the Holy Temple. When they went to relight the menorah in the Temple, they only found enough pure oil to light it for one night. However, this vile vial of oil lasted for eight days which is why Hannukkah goes for eight days.




As I mentioned, Yehuda is an author. His first book was Safety On! An Introduction to the World of Firearms for Children which brings firearm safety to kids in a way they can understand. He followed that up with his Safety On! coloring book.

Finally, just released in mid-November was his book 10 Little Liberals - A Tale of Hope. That book follows 10 little liberal snowflakes as they are exposed to conservative triggers. I received my copy this past Sunday and it is a hoot.

For those that don't know Yehuda, he grew up in anti-gun California and only knew guns from TV and the movies. The only people in his world that had firearms were the police. This changed when he moved to the Dallas area because as an Orthodox Jew he didn't want to raise his children in ultra-liberal California. He learned that many good people other than cops have firearms for self-protection and he became one of them which is why eventually led to his book Safety On!

6 comments:

  1. Ummm, don't you mean "vial" of oil? Or perhaps "phial"? I mean, if the oil was pure, how could it be vile?

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  2. Can I blame an antisemitic autocorrect? Nah, I didn't think so either. It has been corrected. Thanks for catching that.

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    1. Good deal. I myself have had some weird autocorrect results, so let's just blame it on that.

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  3. I like the Hannukiah (no, it's not a menorah).

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  4. It looks cool, but it isn't kosher: The candles on the pistols should all be at the same level, but they aren't.

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    1. Oy! I'm just a nice Catholic boy. What could you expect?

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