[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: the Eight Days of Chanukah

[IggyMcSnurd]

> Susan:
>
>Forgive my ignorance but what are Golden Yads?  I am familiar with 
>the rest.
>
 
Iggy here:

A Yad (or is it spelled Yod? Yahd? Yohd?... I can't remember... Can
someone Jewish out there please correct the spelling?  *grin*) is a
small... wand, for lack of a better term, with a small hand on the end
with a pointing finger.  It's often gold or silver (so I've been told)
and is used as a pointer for when reading the Jewish holy texts.

For one thing, it's used because one of the older beliefs of the Jewish
faith includes that if a single character in a holy book is smudged (and
it's easily done so by the sweat and dirt on a person's finger), it
renders the entire book/scroll itself useless.

If I have been informed wrong, anyone who knows can please feel to
correct what I've said.


Iggy McSnurd