QUESTION
What do we tell our children when they see the upcoming December holiday approaching, all the lights and even the Jewish stores are having sales?
ANSWER
The holiday lights are disgusting to us. It’s very wrong to admire anything that is in any way connected to avodah zarah. Chas v’shalom to admire the lights. I don’t want to talk in public about what it celebrates. It’s one of the most shameful things in history. It’s a whole world that is being misled with cathedrals and churches, all kinds of sects, and it’s based on nothing. It’s a world of sheker. And therefore, as you pass through it, you have to say, “יו ̃ל‡ 'ה ̆ העם רי ̆‡ – happy is the nation that Hashem of truth is their G-d.” Baruch Hashem that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has rescued us from this flood of ignorance. That’s what we say to our children.
Now, the Jewish stores? We tell our children that the Jewish people who have stores are trying to make a living and since the goyim are enthusiastic and buying things now, the Jews are utilizing the opportunity. Now is a good time for them to make money. That’s all it is and that’s the truth. Not only Jewish people. All the gentile stores are also interested only in one thing—the holidays are just a big money making proposition. It’s another form of Mother’s Day.
And if you think I’m joking, the Witnesses say the same thing. Although I don’t approve of them at all, but they say the same thing. They say the whole holiday season is nothing but a money making proposition and there’s nothing to it. So even they themselves admit it.
And that’s what we tell our children. They want to make money, that’s all. And so they’re all telling you, “Come into our store and save!” So you tell your children, “Stay out of the store and save!” December 1981
