A Great Nebesh Happened There

My mind is spinning like a dreidel...

When I wrote the post yesterday about Chanute, Kansas, and the municipal endeavor creating their own broadband system, I titled it:

Chanute, Kansas ! Huzzah ! 

Now every time I see it fly by me as I edit, I wonder

(1) is it Hannukah yet?  (I pronounce the word with a hard "ch" sound as in the Scottish "loch", and that is usually transliterated as Channukah)  so it's the "Chan-" in "Chanute" that misleads me.

and

(2) I think of Eddie Cantor singing "That Old Sultan's Harem".
"Cantor" in Hebrew is Chazzan  (sometimes chazzin), and it is the "ch" and the "-zz-" in "huzzah" that beguile.

As an aside, the letters of the dreidel spinning toy are Nun, Gimmel, Hey, and Shin - n,g,h,sh - and their symbolism is as follows:

sh = sham = "there"

h = haya = "happened"

g = gadol = "large, great"

n = nebesh = nebesh 

and there is some doggerel like "nebesh gadol haya sham", or an approximation to the title.
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Hurry Sundown

 חג אורים שמח

Hannukah starts soon. Hurry sunset!
I have gelt for all the children.

Which reminds me of the year that I was at a freundliche and gluckliche get-together at a friend's house, and at the time his children were young, so I had put some gold-wrapped chocolate coins, the gelt, in my pockets earlier, so I would have it ready to give to them.
When I saw the bright faces of the children, I could not find the chocolate coins in my pants pockets.
I could not figure out what happened to them.

I found them the next summer melted in the pocket of my coat, oozing from the golden foil.

As it is said, Life is brief (Vita brevis), Art is long, (Ars longa), and Vey ist noch länger... woe is even longer (than Art!)

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