Timeline for Chanuka party on Christmas
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 23:04 | history | edited | kouty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:51 | comment | added | DanF | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:46 | answer | added | Monica Cellio | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:18 | comment | added | user6591 | @DanF my big issues are #1 what was the maaris ayin? Was it dressing in nice clothes on the day that the Christians did? Should we not go to shul because they are going to church? #2 did R' Moshe invent this type of maaris ayin or do we find maaris ayin akin to this earlier? If he did invent this type of maaris ayin, was he able to halachikly? (I don't think we invent new ones) | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:12 | comment | added | DanF | Are you asking how "ma'aris ayin" works, in general, or how it applies specifically to what R. Moshe stated, here? | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:09 | comment | added | user6591 | @DanF As I wrote in the parenthesis I don't understand the maaris ayin and I hope someone can source someone who discusses it. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | DanF | Wouldn't the "maris ayin" factor depend a lot on which community you live in? I think if you live in a mainly Jewish community, it would be pretty clear that you are doing a Chanukah party. Even if not in a Jewish community, wouldn't the setup make it quite clear that you are celebrating Chanukah? You have a mezuzah on all your doors, you're serving latkes instead of spiral ham, and you're spinning dreidels instead of your head trying to pry open the power drill gift in hard plastic. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:16 | history | edited | Double AA♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:14 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | @EzraHoerster So R Moshe holds no singing praises to God at meals on Christmas? This is now approaching Purim Torah status (aka "Nittel"). | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:14 | comment | added | ezra | You are correct. But I still hold by my first comment. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:13 | history | edited | user6591 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:13 | history | edited | Double AA♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | user6591 | The two sides presented in my question make me think it is not so simple. Singing praises will turn your lunch today into a seudas mitzvah. I don't think chanuka is a necessary ingredient. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:05 | comment | added | ezra | Your quotation seems to answer your question. It looks like according to R' Moshe, you would not be allowed to hold a Chanukah party on Christmas due to maaris ayin. Also, a Chanukah party is a seudas mitzvah when there is singing praises to Hashem involved. (See Kitzur S''A 139:1) | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:01 | history | asked | user6591 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |