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Blaze Radio Network. And now, the Rabbi Daniel Appen show. The more the world changes,

the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Greetings, happy warriors.

And thank you for being part of the Rabbi Daniel Appen show, where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world really works. Thanks for being part of the show.

And as you know, I deeply appreciate you promoting the show, telling friends and like-minded

people of the show. If you enjoy it, if you derive value from it, the odds are that you have friends

who will too. And those of you have been doing that have been extremely effective and I very

much appreciate it. Also, if you are not yet a subscriber to the show, it would be great if you

could do that as well. Take care of that right away and you will have my appreciation.

And here we are right on the threshold of Christmas and Hanukkah,

both of which occur very close to one another at this point.

We're at the end of 2024 and they happen to come very, very closely

together. And I want to talk about that a little bit. I want to explain one of the sad aspects

of both those holidays, which is the tendency to secularize them. And that's been going on since the

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