now the mark simone show on seven ten w o war filling in for mark here's ken rosado well you have

made it yes you have made it through another christmas mark has the day off it is an honor to sit

for him i am the very same ken rosato who used to work as a tv news anchor here in new york

at channels five seven ten and fifty, gosh, community cable 228.

I'm just throwing that in there.

I was there for the better part of three decades at all those stations, so it's nice to

be back on radio where I used to be before I did TV, and I happen to love radio.

It's just such a more personal medium.

And how nice was it to have christmas

and the first night of hanukkah fall on the same day honica of course began at sundown

last night we are still technically in the first day of honica until sundown tonight

then it becomes the second of day of uh day of uh day of eight i should say uh it blessed uh honica i wish a blessed honica i should say to It blessed Hanukkah, I wish a blessed Hanukkah, should say,

to all of my friends who are Jewish, and to all of my Christian friends, too, because there's

nothing about Hanukkah that you shouldn't or can't celebrate because it's part of your faith, too.

It predates the birth of Jesus, for those who don't realize, by about 150 years.

So when Jesus was a young Jew, he would have celebrated Hanukkah himself.

Now, I remember this blessing in Hebrew. Let's see if I could remember this.

Baruch, Adonai, Elochay, Eloch, Haolam, Asher, Kiddshanu,

by mitzvotav vizivano, La Hadlik Nershiel Hanukkah.

That means, blessed are you adenoy are god sovereign of all who hallows us with mitzvote

commanding us to kindle the hanukkah lights there that's that's where i end my religion for the

day but i hope for those who speak hebrew that i did okay i did some justice to it speaking of the

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