Re: greetings- off topic, but current, more

[SamWeiss <SamWeiss...>]

This whole Chag/Chagigah inquiry is not really relevant to the issue of 
greetings.  "Chag" is "holiday" in modern Hebrew, even if it's 
Christmas.  Chag Same'ach =usually= corresponds to Yiddish usage of Gut 
Yontef, but not necessarily.  As far as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the 
traditional Yiddish greeting for =both= is Gut Yontef, so Chag Same'ach 
makes perfect sense.  As far as Chanukah, the classic Yiddish song calls it 
"...a yontef a sheyner", but the greeting is never Gut Yontef, but A 
Freylekhn Khanike. Ditto for Purim.  (As the proverb says: Kadokhes is 
nisht keyn krenk un purim iz nisht keyn yontef. [Fever is not a real 
disease, and Purim is not a real holiday.] )  But that does not mean that 
Chag Same'ach makes no sense.

Chag Same'ach.

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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ

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