Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!hou5h!hou5a!hbb From: hbb@hou5a.UUCP (H.B.Braude) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Heat and light over a menorah Message-ID: <632@hou5a.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 16:08:08 EST Article-I.D.: hou5a.632 Posted: Thu Dec 20 16:08:08 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 02:28:20 EST References: whuxi.203, <366@wxlvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 16 An issue that bears mention in the quest to have a Channukah Menorah publicly displayed through the auspices of a municipality or federal agency is the law of 'Bechukosaihem Lo Teilaichu,' which is an ordinance recorded in the Bible that was given to the the Jews when they entered the land of Israel. The gist of the law is that the Jews should not try to mimic the modes of worship practiced by their neig