Hanukkah wishes

Marilyn
Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:36:29 +0000

I’ve spelled it with the Ch all my life, partly because I feel it more closely represents the Hebrew letter chet that begins the word. And partly because my maiden name originally came from Hebrew and ended in that same letter. And was also misspelled much of my life. So I feel an affinity for the letter and pronunciation!

One of my grandfathers, who came over at the end of the 19th century, was one of a group of young men who promoted Hebrew as a modern language in lieu of Yiddish. He taught class to young boys and had to write his own class books because none existed in Hebrew.