Thread by @JoshuaCypess

128.14/ Some of my #Chanukah hot-takes now that this Bird Site is on rails towards a trainwreck:

1) Dreidel is a boring game
2) Latkes are about as tasty as flat potato kugel
3) Sufganiyot are bad donuts
4) The Hasmonean kings were pretty terrible.

128.14b/ Two more #ChanukahHotTakes
5) Dairy "gelt" aren't worth it (but pareve is always useful)
6) It's not a minor holiday. Tu B'Av - mentioned in the Gemara - is "minor." #Hanukkah has full Hallel, Al Ha-Nisim, Torah reading, active mitzvot (neirot), etc. It's high Rabbinic.

128.14c/ An interchange about my #ChanukahHotSoHotTakes:

https://twitter.com/DanSchwarcz/status/1607077981872181249

My response

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1607088491237621760?s=20&t=QTxlpB9iavGGk_mET0lDAQ

& @DanSchwarcz's reply

https://twitter.com/DanSchwarcz/status/1607098348808568832

(My favorite latkes, by the way, are pictured below)

128.15/ This picture is making the rounds. As a lifelong gabbai, I can say there are two types of gabbai reactions to this array: (1) stress (who will agree to daven, who gets aliyot, etc); or (2) glee at being center of decision making & klopping the bimah before shemona esrei.

128.16/ Used #Chanukah candles to teach someone the #NFL positions. I explained the names are logical b/c it's based around the line of scrimmage (in blue). The line-men: Yellow are "ends" purple are "tackles" green are "guards" and orange the "center."

128.17/ #Chanukah night eight. Full house. Take THAT Antiochus, ya goon.

(And, sorry @ShammaiIntl, you get to make everything a sheni b'tumah as a consolation prize.)