Silent Night - A Rabbi Reflects on Christmas
Category: RELIGION
The quiet of these spaces of learning eerily echoes the custom of Nittel Nacht, a name given to Christmas Eve by medieval Talmudists in German-speaking lands, and for centuries in Europe a time when Jews uncharacteristically refrained from Torah-learning.
By Jonah C. Steinberg, ContributorJewish Chaplain at Harvard University, 2015-12-25