Merry Christmas

Hey /prog/, I just wanted to say merry Christmas to you, I hope you have nice holidays.

Perhaps you are saying: “Are you serious?” That is an
understandable reaction, but before you discount the idea, please
be open minded enough to consider a few points. To begin with,
it is the birth of a Jewish man, indeed an Israeli rabbi, that people
are celebrating. His name was Yeshua, a contemporary form of
the name Joshua. The genealogy of Jesus recorded in the gospels
includes Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and David. Both his
mother Miriam and his legal father Joseph were devout Jews.
The circumcision of Yeshua on the eighth day is recorded and he
was presented in the temple in Jerusalem, as was required for all
first born sons of Israel. So Christmas is celebrating the birth of
a Jew, in fact an Israeli “Sabra!” (Sabra is a modern term
meaning one born in the land of Israel.)