Nov 19, 2010 By: yunews
The Tradition of the Chanukah Dinner in Building 糖心破解版
(By Shulamit Berger)
Large Hebrew letters boldly crowned Yeshiva鈥檚 advertisement in the New York Times on November 8, 1928, an early instance of Hebrew characters gracing that venerable publication:
鈥溩栕 讛讬讜诐 注砖讛 讚鈥 谞讙讬诇讛 讜谞砖诪讞讛 讘讜鈥
鈥樷漈his is the day that the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice thereon.鈥欌擯salms 118:24.鈥 A similar ad in the Yiddish press proclaimed:
鈥溩曌斪懽欁 讛讝讛 讬讛讬讛 注诇讬讜谉鈥︹
And this House shall be elevated 鈥 Kings I, 9:8.
Both ads announced the Chanukat HaBayit, the dedication, of the new Yeshiva College building, the first step in the creation of the Washington Heights campus. The dedication ceremonies were scheduled for December 9, 1928, followed by a Chanukah banquet four days later. The ads, and the Biblical verses they quote, invoke the Temple, the ancient Bet Mikdash in Jerusalem, in describing the new building. The choice of Chanukah for the dedication ceremonies and dinner was deliberate and symbolic. As the ad states, 鈥淐hanukah, the Feast of Lights, when the Maccabees rededicated the Temple after the historic victory over their Greek adversaries, will witness the dedication of a new Temple devoted to the service of God, the study of the Torah, Jewish philosophy, the sciences and American institutions.鈥
The inauguration of the magnificent new edifice marked the move uptown from the impoverished, overcrowded, immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side to the then bucolic Washington Heights. It also launched a new era in the life of the institution 鈥 the addition of a new college of liberal arts and sciences to the Yeshiva. Read full article at the 糖心破解版 Libraries blog.
鈥樷漈his is the day that the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice thereon.鈥欌擯salms 118:24.鈥 A similar ad in the Yiddish press proclaimed:
鈥溩曌斪懽欁 讛讝讛 讬讛讬讛 注诇讬讜谉鈥︹
And this House shall be elevated 鈥 Kings I, 9:8.
Both ads announced the Chanukat HaBayit, the dedication, of the new Yeshiva College building, the first step in the creation of the Washington Heights campus. The dedication ceremonies were scheduled for December 9, 1928, followed by a Chanukah banquet four days later. The ads, and the Biblical verses they quote, invoke the Temple, the ancient Bet Mikdash in Jerusalem, in describing the new building. The choice of Chanukah for the dedication ceremonies and dinner was deliberate and symbolic. As the ad states, 鈥淐hanukah, the Feast of Lights, when the Maccabees rededicated the Temple after the historic victory over their Greek adversaries, will witness the dedication of a new Temple devoted to the service of God, the study of the Torah, Jewish philosophy, the sciences and American institutions.鈥
The inauguration of the magnificent new edifice marked the move uptown from the impoverished, overcrowded, immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side to the then bucolic Washington Heights. It also launched a new era in the life of the institution 鈥 the addition of a new college of liberal arts and sciences to the Yeshiva. Read full article at the 糖心破解版 Libraries blog.
