Classically Abby - You've Heard Of Elf On The Shelf, Now Get Ready For VLOGUKKAH For HANUKKAH! ｜｜ VLOGUKKAH DAY 1

00:00:00.000 light the candles left to right each night go and add one more

00:00:09.360 good morning friends and welcome to the first day of vlogica so i decided this year i wanted

00:00:19.160 to do vlogica because i've heard a lot about vlogmas vlogmas is something that a lot of

00:00:24.180 youtubers will do they'll record every single day in december and i watch a few people who do it it's

00:00:29.100 incredibly impressive i don't know how you vlog for 25 straight days but i'm only going to be doing

00:00:34.100 eight days to celebrate hanukkah so i thought it'd be really fun to bring you guys along with me

00:00:39.100 so today as you can see i'm wearing no makeup i am sans makeup because i'm going to the gym i'm also

00:00:46.760 going to be doing kind of part of my morning routine is taking care of any chores or anything so that i

00:00:52.120 can get all that done and then the rest of the day i can just work and then prepare dinner and all of

00:00:56.900 that so i always take a few hours in the morning or maybe just an hour and just kind of like take

00:01:02.080 care of the house and make sure there's nothing that's out of its place then i usually go to the

00:01:07.100 gym and then i just kind of go about my day do a lot of work that kind of thing so i'm going to start

00:01:12.860 off by doing some laundry and yeah i am sitting in front of my laundry basket i just washed a few

00:01:20.040 masks and some clothes and all that but it smells so good and it's because i use these like lavender

00:01:26.900 bags that i got at trader joe's that i just throw in with the laundry i'm very sensitive to scents

00:01:32.440 but because it's totally natural i'm not as worried about it and it smells so fresh and nice

00:01:38.320 and it's great and i haven't had any allergic reactions so i'm very happy about it they have

00:01:43.820 them at trader joe's and they're not very expensive so i'm really a big fan of those because

00:01:49.000 then your clothes still have a nice scent but it's not something that's like really going to

00:01:54.020 actually make you itch or anything like that so wow i am really going to enjoy folding laundry this

00:01:59.560 morning

00:01:59.840 so i made these cookies for my husband for his work he wanted to bring them in to celebrate the first

00:02:19.020 day of hanukkah with his colleagues so i made these for him they smell so good as i'm just sitting here

00:02:24.560 which is a really bad temptation this early in the day the good news is that i only made enough for

00:02:30.720 the people in his office so i can't take any that's the trick is to make just the right amount so you

00:02:37.060 can't sneak any cookies before they leave but yeah so these are the cookies that i made they look

00:02:42.440 so good and i hope they all enjoy it so slight change in plans very slight i did decide to put

00:02:49.720 on makeup and to be honest it's just that i don't love being on camera without makeup for a very long

00:02:54.860 time so i am going to be home for just a little bit longer before i head to the gym so i figured i

00:02:59.140 would just put on five minute makeup this is literally took me five minutes but just to have a

00:03:03.460 little something on i thought would be nicer than just continuing walking around the house without any

00:03:08.500 makeup on at all and so i put something on that was the first thing i did and i'm going to wash the

00:03:14.240 dishes and then i'm actually going to do the first step in making donuts so i mentioned that i made my

00:03:19.780 husband cookies for the holiday for him to bring in to work and share with his colleagues for the first

00:03:26.080 night of hanukkah but what he actually wants to do is bring in treats for his co-workers for each day

00:03:30.900 of hanukkah and so i made cookies last night i'm gonna make donuts today and there's actually a reason why i'm

00:03:36.020 making donuts let me sit down hold on so the story of hanukkah has a few different parts and we're

00:03:41.220 definitely going to try and tell you all of them i'm going to have jacob sit down with me hopefully

00:03:44.640 tonight maybe tomorrow and we'll tell you guys more about the story of hanukkah but one of the most

00:03:49.140 important parts is the miracle of the menorah so when we came back to the temple it had been ransacked

00:03:54.520 and we normally had the menorah lit all the time and the menorah was not lit so we looked around we found a

00:04:00.100 little tiny thing of oil and it was just enough to last one day but we decided to light it and

00:04:05.580 hopefully we would be able to go get some oil come back and then keep the menorah lit well this little

00:04:11.820 tiny bit of oil that was supposed to last for just one day ended up lasting for eight days and that is

00:04:17.820 why we light the candles for eight days on hanukkah there's a very funny meme that goes around that says

00:04:22.940 if you're having a hard time imagining why that would be a miracle imagine your phone at one percent

00:04:27.660 battery and it lasting for 24 hours and i think that's actually a good point it's a good way to think

00:04:33.900 about it and to frame it so one of the ways that we celebrate is that we fry foods we eat a lot of

00:04:40.140 fried foods on hanukkah to celebrate the miracle of the oil so we'll have potato latkes which are

00:04:45.340 basically like potato pancakes and we have donuts so i'm trying my hand at donuts i've never made them

00:04:51.020 before hopefully they turn out okay but i've never done it so we'll see

00:05:05.020 so i just finished putting away all of the dishes and washing a few things and now i'm going to

00:05:23.420 start on the donuts so i am going to be trying this recipe from all recipes i will try and link it below

00:05:29.500 it's their creamy and crispy donuts i think it's called and i'm pretty excited about it i am used

00:05:35.500 to making most of my desserts dairy free because a kosher rule is that you're not supposed to mix

00:05:41.820 meat and dairy and if you have meat you have to wait before having dairy so depending on your custom

00:05:47.420 you'll wait an hour three hours or six hours before having dairy after you've had meat and so what

00:05:53.980 does that mean it means that when you're having dessert you don't want to have to wait six hours

00:05:58.620 between your meal and dessert so people will make most of their desserts without any dairy in them

00:06:02.540 so i'm just used to that and so i'm making these donuts dairy free but it ends up meaning that if

00:06:08.940 you're lactose intolerant then you can totally eat these and it kind of gets you to be creative

00:06:14.540 because you have to figure out kind of substitutions that will work

00:06:44.540 all righty so i have got the dough done i have it ready to sit and rise you see there's the meat

00:06:53.580 label that tells you that this is a bowl that we use for meat things when they're warm so we have to

00:06:59.820 keep our utensils and our meat and dairy bowls everything needs to be separate if you're using hot

00:07:06.220 stuff so this is actually not hot it's all cold but it's it's not going to have dairy in it so this is

00:07:12.380 totally fine also even if it were warm but in any case i have to let this sit and i'm going to cover

00:07:17.980 it and it wants to rise to double so we're going to see what this looks like in a couple of hours

00:07:24.300 or an hour or we'll just check on it so i wanted to quickly show you guys kind of what my outfit of

00:07:30.140 the day is oh got a little fly away there and a little stain from cooking anyways i wear sweatpants

00:07:38.300 to the gym i've got a very funny glare on this mirror but i wear sweatpants to the gym because

00:07:43.660 i have decided that i'd rather be modest at the gym than be cute and fashionable i used to wear

00:07:49.500 leggings you try to wear shorts over or a long top but i've pretty much switched to sweatpants and i

00:07:56.220 think they're cute because they actually kind of they come to like a cute part of the ankle

00:08:00.300 and i think that's adorable and you know what they may not be that flattering but they get the job done

00:08:05.340 and when you're at the gym it's not about looking cute it's about exercising you're not doing it to

00:08:10.060 draw attention so i am happy to wear just a t-shirt and sweatpants to the gym and they're really

00:08:15.900 comfortable and i kind of love it well i would say that this uh doubled in size this is very risen so

00:08:23.260 it's time for the next step let's do it so these are the donuts they have to sit and rise for a bit

00:08:31.260 they're supposed to double in size again so i've got them all done i just used a glass and then i used

00:08:37.580 one side of a jigger and that's how i got the hole in the middle i don't have like a special donut cutter

00:08:43.740 i just kind of improvised but yeah so these look like they will be looking good i mean they get a

00:08:49.740 little wonky but i think it'll be okay once they rise and i had extra dough but i didn't want to make

00:08:56.220 them into donuts so i just kind of put them here and if they rise to double and i turn those into

00:09:00.940 donuts they're going to be humongous but i was thinking you know three little donut holes and

00:09:07.420 then two ginormous i guess we're going to call them donuts the reason this is out is because i

00:09:12.780 don't have a rolling pin either so i was using this as a rolling pin there you go so i am home

00:09:19.340 from the gym i had a very good workout i was on the elliptical for about 30 minutes i've been doing

00:09:23.820 the elliptical more often and i feel so much better when i actually do that and not just weightlifting

00:09:29.740 it makes me feel a little bit i don't know just gets that movement in that i don't always get

00:09:34.460 and as it gets colder my daily walks are becoming less frequent and i actually just enjoy being on

00:09:39.420 the elliptical so i did that and then i did my weightlifting so i did squats i did hip thrusts i

00:09:45.180 did bench press and i did dumbbell rows and i'm feeling really good so now we're going to finish up the

00:10:04.300 the elliptical so i'm feeling really good so now i'm feeling really good so now we're going to

00:10:11.980 um

00:10:29.660 so

00:10:32.700 so

00:10:46.700 so my first ever batch of donuts is officially done that's pretty cool they look really nice

00:11:05.980 actually some of them look better than others but these look great of course the kitchen is an

00:11:11.660 absolute disaster so i have to clean that up but i am i'm pretty proud of what i accomplished here

00:11:16.940 because i've never ever baked something like this and honestly i've really missed baking in the last

00:11:21.820 couple of days i've gotten the opportunity to bake way more than i have in like the last two or three

00:11:26.060 years really happy about it so jacob got home and we actually decided it would be nice to just kind

00:11:31.500 of go out for a drive and spend some time together and we looked at the christmas lights which was so

00:11:36.300 much fun i love christmas lights as you guys know i'm not ashamed to say on my channel how much i

00:11:42.860 love kind of the christmas spirit that everyone else is enjoying it makes me happy to see so many other

00:11:48.780 people happy and christmas lights are so pretty so we definitely had a great time doing that and now

00:11:55.100 we're going to light the menorah which i'm so excited about it's the first night and i can't wait

00:12:01.260 so jacob has joined the chat no he's in the vlogica he's in the first day of vlogica so i'm gonna move

00:12:09.740 this lapel mic to him and he's gonna tell you the story of hanukkah so the story of hanukkah it's

00:12:15.420 important for us to note that this is a post biblical holiday so whereas you have a few holidays that are

00:12:21.180 from the bible this is one that's from jewish history this is from the second century bce uh think

00:12:27.500 the time a little bit after alexander the great and alexander the great is very important to this

00:12:31.980 story alexander goes out conquers his giant empire conquers the known world and he has no political

00:12:38.060 program nowhere he dies he gives his empire quote unquote to the strongest which uh his successor

00:12:44.300 generals did not have an obvious answer about who was the one to step up so they split into four warring

00:12:50.060 kingdoms one of the kingdoms the salukids controls what we think of uh to archivist the middle east from

00:12:56.780 syria all the way over to persia then you also have the egyptian dynasty they go to war a lot

00:13:01.980 over territory including the land that is israel so okay that's our setting the salukids control 1.00

00:13:08.460 israel now and the king at this time antiochus the fourth he wants his empire to be stronger he wants

00:13:14.140 to be able to stand up to rome which is able to bully him around make demands of him and he wants to

00:13:18.700 be more powerful and comfortable in his position to do that he wants a united empire you're going from

00:13:23.740 syria all the way over to persia you got a lot of different peoples under control a lot of different

00:13:28.540 religions uh gods everything like that you know who stands out as incredibly different from everyone

00:13:34.060 else well it's the jews and the fact that you know you're going to their land their territory you're 0.90

00:13:39.980 taking it over and now you want them to participate in the project the irony that you think they're not

00:13:44.860 a team player on that it's apparently lost in empires generally but whatever so he is the scheme to make

00:13:50.380 all of his imperial subjects hellenized greek style citizens the jews stand in the way of that because 1.00

00:13:56.380 the jews do not want to become hellenized greek style citizens and give up all their culture at least 0.74

00:14:01.500 not all jews do and so the story is that antiochus tries to eliminate judaism right so you have two

00:14:08.940 methods of trying to destroy a people and a culture you either get rid of the idea of their people you

00:14:14.060 make them like everyone else so you kill the idea of them or you kill them the genes the race the 0.99

00:14:19.740 nationality of the people jews deal with both of these things throughout history we do people 0.99

00:14:23.900 eliminating judaism or people trying to eliminate jews and so here we have a case of trying to

00:14:30.140 eliminate judaism so he's trying to stamp out judaism he forbids circumcision torah study following 0.87

00:14:35.820 the laws sacrifices in the temple in fact he has the high priest of the jewish temple in jerusalem

00:14:41.500 deposed has a hellenized toady put in place instead who helps to okay giving a jewish temple money

00:14:49.740 to the greek king and permitting the use of greek idols in the temple itself which is as big a no-no 0.63

00:14:56.300 as you could imagine and so our story begins with the priest elder of a town near jerusalem

00:15:03.740 refusing to go along with this program so antiochus has his greek officers go into a variety of places

00:15:09.660 around israel and he has an altar set up and he's trying to get jews to sacrifice pigs on queen animals 0.91

00:15:16.540 to zeus idolatrous god for the purpose of exalting hellenized culture and the king himself which is 0.98

00:15:22.460 again an idolatrous practice all that very not kosher literally and figuratively so this priest refuses

00:15:31.820 so he uh the greek officer gets a hellenized jew to come in someone who is jewish but has assimilated to

00:15:37.820 this cosmopolitan greek pantheistic project so this jew steps up to do it and the priest is not a fan of 0.63

00:15:47.660 this at all slays the jew slays the greek officer the town sets upon the greek garrison and then everyone 0.64

00:15:53.580 flees into the hills to start a rebellion against antiochus why well to preserve the national character

00:15:59.660 to stand for religious freedom and the sovereignty of their nation in their own land against a

00:16:04.140 universalizing empire that wants to i mean if it could take over everything and make everyone the

00:16:10.540 same but definitely for the regions it controls here and so the primary miracle of hanukkah is that

00:16:17.660 a small band of not particularly well-trained jews are able to wage a successful girl war against a greek 1.00

00:16:25.500 military superpower what were we called the maccabees we were the maccabees yes and so there's this priest and

00:16:32.460 his family line who were the primary leaders uh primarily the priest's son judah judah the

00:16:37.820 maccabee as he is known he was the military leader brilliant military strategist was able to take his

00:16:41.900 guerrilla force numbers disputed maybe it was a thousand guys at some points in time maybe it

00:16:46.300 swallowed up to five thousand ten thousand but really not more than a few hundred or thousand

00:16:51.820 people in most times against greek forces that are in the tens of thousands which is unbelievably 0.61

00:16:58.460 impressive so that's the primary miracles the jews ability to despite all odds fight and win this war

00:17:04.940 and gain their sovereignty that's the primary miracle and then the secondary miracle is that

00:17:09.260 when the jews are able to reclaim the temple they're able to clear out all the idolatrous 1.00

00:17:13.420 trinkets left behind by the greeks they're able to re attempt to reconsecrate the temple 0.99

00:17:18.380 there's the menorah a candelabra that's meant to be lit with a specially produced oil that's ritually

00:17:24.220 pure for this purpose you might be familiar that jews keep kosher our food has to be prepared in

00:17:29.340 a certain way to be richly uh fit for a jew to eat well so too in the temple with the oil used to 0.98

00:17:36.620 fuel the menorah and they did not have enough of this oil to do more than a day it's gonna take eight

00:17:41.260 days more in order to produce another batch and lo and behold we have the secondary miracle that the

00:17:45.740 one day's worth of oil lasts the eight days that's a stopgap measure until we can get more oil

00:17:50.620 and that is a wonderful miraculous thing and kind of celebration of the jews taking 0.89

00:17:55.580 back their temple for judaism and that's what i mentioned earlier and that's the story of hanukkah

00:17:59.420 that's the story of hanukkah so we're gonna like gonna save abigail's arm right here and i don't

00:18:05.020 know hopefully i was gonna say hopefully you're yes i'm gonna do powerful boomer selfie tactics

00:18:11.340 just cover it with your thumb oh yeah perfect yeah thumb in the eye is the uh the boomer tactic um but i do

00:18:17.180 want to say what's very interesting about the story of hanukkah is its absolute contemporary

00:18:22.220 relevance it's just you know story then as now is that the jews are subject to being preyed upon by a

00:18:31.100 universal cosmopolitan force that thinks it's the way of the future make everyone equal and take away

00:18:37.980 the jews specific identity and so just present politics there's a lot of encouragement for jews to

00:18:43.180 just assimilate give up your old god give up your old outdated ways you're too particular you're too

00:18:48.700 distinct don't you know you're outdated and that this newfangled thing is the way of the future and

00:18:54.780 it's not as if jews are immune to this stuff as an entire people there was the issue then as now of

00:19:00.060 large swaths of the jewish population going with that program assimilating giving it up and then turning 0.96

00:19:05.740 on the jews who maintain the traditions and say why aren't you hip why aren't you with it why you stick

00:19:11.180 with these things and not bring our people into uh i guess then would be the newfangled second century

00:19:17.580 for us it's the 21st century but whatever it would be and so the wheel turns but you still

00:19:24.700 keep hitting the same points on even as it goes around and around and so that is the holiday of

00:19:29.180 hanukkah and that is the hook in to look to it for lessons that apply to now so i hope you all enjoyed

00:19:35.820 that and now we're going to light the candles indeed we are and now we're going to snap cut because our

00:19:40.940 arms can't take this anymore oh god

00:20:05.820 well that's the first day of vlogica did you have fun good night guys have a great rest of your day

00:20:28.940 and i'll see you guys tomorrow lila tov lila tov by the end of hanukkah

00:20:38.940 we'll have little flames galore open your gifts open your gas

Classically Abby - December 11, 2020

You've Heard Of Elf On The Shelf, Now Get Ready For VLOGUKKAH For HANUKKAH! ｜｜ VLOGUKKAH DAY 1

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