The Holiday That's A Cut Above the Rest

There’s a few holidays, July 4th, December 25th , for example which are dates rather than days, as in being a Monday in the Spring and Fall to facilitate a three day weekend. One such, January 1st has just begun our year as it begins all our years but this first holiday of 2009 by definition has every bit as much to do with Jesus as does Christmas, his generally accepted birthday. Why, because January one is the date of the young Jewish Jesus’ circumcision. Thanks to Northern Rebb we (at the Faux) recently discovered this is well known by most all serious religious scholars, and that counting his birthday, this time honored, and now time marking ceremony would have come one week after his life began. To repeat (just) one of our creeds is “knowledge is good” (thank you “Animal House”) and we can think of few things the world needs more than an honest knowledge and respect for the customs of Jews, Christians and Muslims by Jewish, Christian and Muslims. And while people may debate whether Jesus died for our sins, he certainly went under the knife for our holiday of revelry, hope and resolution(s), and no doubt cried out as do all recently Jewish (and other) infants so ceremonially (or unceremonially) snipped. But after that cut, the infant healed – which we hope in some way really is one of the accomplishments of 2009.Which would make ’09 what it should be, a happy new year for all of Fauxvia.