Thursday, December 17, 2009

We Still Say a Blessing When We Plug It In


Last year I arrived in Sweden for the first time on December 26th at about ten o'clock in the morning.  A couple of hours later when it grew dark I looked out the window and saw candelabras in almost every window of the building next door.  'Golly!' I commented at the time, 'Who knew there were so many Jews in Sweden?!'  Um, duh, they're not Menorahs, they're adventsljusstakar.  Advent candelabras.  Super Christian, except that we're talking about Sweden here so they've been converted to an almost strictly secular custom.  Ours is in a rather contemporary style, but you can see why I got a little confused by the more common model

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