The Love Jewce: The Truth About Hanukkah and Why Girls Run the World

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Exploring the Book of Judith and its parallels to modern-day society

OCDG : A story of the typical good jewish girl or why you shouldn’t judge people based on appearances.

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As many of us were taught to spin a dreidel and say the Hanukkah blessing there’s one story that goes a little unknown. It’s about the power of the female and why women play such a valorous role in Hanukkah. Let’s take a trip back to the ancient times when the Greeks had rule over the Holy Land and studying Torah was forbidden. Meet our girl Judith, your newest role model. Judith is a young Jewish girl whose story is told in The Apocrypha, a collection of books from the biblical period which didn’t make it in the Jewish Bible. Judith is a courageous girl who brew up an idea that single-handedly saved the entire Jewish village of Bethulia.

As Judith tries to convince the elders that she has the perfect plan to defeat the evil general Holofernes they keep dismissing her. As the people are ready to surrender to the general the elders reluctantly give in and agree to let her leave the camp for one day.

To prepare herself for the scheme Judith dressed provocatively and prepares a bag full of food and wine. Within in seconds of approaching the camp she is captured and brought to Holofernes, the evil general. Stunned by her beauty, she schmoozes him so well he goes along with her suggestion and they proceed to his tent alone.

Along with the wine, Judith brought salty cheeses and as Holofernes eats he becomes very parched and drinks mass quantities of wine. Soon after he becomes a bit tipsy and she offers up dessert. Dessert wasn’t nice chocolates though. Dessert was Judith taking Holofernes’ sword and cutting his head off. Quickly she puts the head into her sack and trots through the sleeping camp back to Bethulia.

Shocked by her success the elders take the head of Holofernes and place it on the walls of the city. By sunrise the enemy soldiers see head in the distance hanging from the walls of Bethulia and as the tale is told decide that if a Jewish women could do such a thing they’d be frightened to fight Jewish men in battle.

So yes ladies, this Hanukkah while you fry your latkes, take time to celebrate you. Who runs the world, girls.

Andria Kaplan is ShalomLife’s 89% kosher resident dating/love columnist. Find her on Tinder, but only if you’re Jewish.


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