{"id":106,"date":"2005-12-28T00:56:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/12\/28\/third-light\/"},"modified":"2005-12-28T00:56:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T04:56:32","slug":"third-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/12\/28\/third-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a249'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/fensterm\/fixmenorah.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\">&#8220;&gt;<br \/><font size=\"3\"><br \/>\nA Chabadnik prepares the Menorah in front of Houston City Hall for the Third Light.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><font size=\"3\">Some time ago, I met a rabbi of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/default.asp\">Chabad<\/a><br \/>\nin front of the Science Center. I told him that while I am not Jewish,<br \/>\nmy Pennsylvania Dutch heritage was also a guilt based religion with bad<br \/>\nexperience in Germany. I thought it was funny. The rabbi repeated my<br \/>\nremark. He seemed contemplative. I did not know what Chabad was. I<br \/>\nasked him a few questions. Unsurprisingly, each one was answered with a<br \/>\nquestion. Having lived on the lower east side, I had a vague idea about<br \/>\nthe Chassidim. I learned that Chabad is a branch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/library\/article.asp?AID=278335\">Chassidism<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<br \/>On a later day, I met the rabbi walking across the Yard. I asked him if<br \/>\nI had offended him with my remark about my heritage. He said, &#8220;Oh, God<br \/>\nno!&#8221; My relief was seasoned with a pinch of surprise.What? A rabbi<br \/>\nshouldn&#8217;t say &#8216;Oh, God&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>My third encounter with Chabad occurred before the Third Light of Chanukah. Not by design. At least not mine.<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&gt; A Chabadnik prepares the Menorah in front of Houston City Hall for the Third Light. Some time ago, I met a rabbi of Chabad in front of the Science Center. I told him that while I am not Jewish, my Pennsylvania Dutch heritage was also a guilt based religion with bad experience in Germany. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}