Silvester 2022: Not Good for the Jews

How can one purify a 'holiday' named after a 'Christian saint'? If you look up 'Silvester' on Wikipedia, you will find the following sentence: 'There is no known specific attitude of Silvester towards the Jews, neither good nor bad, and there is no evidence of Jewish persecution by the church during his time.'

However, if you open any other encyclopedia under the entry 'Silvester,' you will quickly discover that Silvester was the first Christian leader to receive Roman authority to enforce Christianity by force. This is the bitter truth, as the era of darkness for the Jewish people in exile began in the days of the Christian Silvester, reaching its peak in brutal persecutions and blood libels that lasted for over a thousand years. All this started when Silvester I took control of human life and assumed the Christian role of eradicating 'heretics of Christianity.'

These facts were written in the English Wikipedia, but do not appear in the Hebrew Wikipedia... In our Wikipedia, it is merely stated that there is no explicit record of murders of Jews in his name, just so they can celebrate with peace of mind...

Silvester supporters might argue back that the tyranny of the Silvesters persecuted all opponents of Christianity, not just the Jews... as if to say that the Holocaust was less severe because the Nazis also killed Roma and Russians. This is claimed in the Hebrew Wikipedia: 'Silvester, active in the fourth century, did indeed suppress heretics to the unity of the Holy Trinity, but there is no evidence that he acted specifically against the Jews...'

Surely Silvester 'loved' Jews very much, and all those murdered in his time and after? Let's not let the facts trouble us.

The Name Silvester

And what about the name 'Silvester,' which somehow became established as the name of a national holiday in Israel?

Well, December 31 was set by the Catholic Church as a 'holy' memorial day in honor of Christian Silvester, the first leader of the Christian persecutors in the last two thousand years.

Wikipedia did not mention that the name 'Silvester' was handed down in tradition to all future Christian leaders (like the Pharaoh dynasty, where every king was called 'Pharaoh'). Wikipedia also did not mention that 'the Silvesters' were always at the head of the Catholic Church in a perpetual war against all Jews in Europe. Most of the Silvesters were tyrants and persecutors who oppressed and abused the Jewish people, pursuing and harassing them due to their Christian belief that the Jewish people should be humiliated and persecuted.

It is no less interesting to note that the national holiday is called the Christian Silvester only in Israel, and in the two most 'Jewish' countries in the world: Germany and Poland. These facts do not fit the atheistic spirit blowing in Wikipedia, so they are not shown there. To get real information about Silvester and the Silvesters' dynasty, you will need to search for a more objective encyclopedia, preferably in English.

The "Civil Year"

What would you prefer to celebrate as a Jew: the Jewish New Year, or the Christian New Year named after Silvester?

Everyone talks about the name 'Silvester,' but they forget the main point: the civil New Year is meant to mark the Christian year for Jesus' coming.

On this day, the Christian Church chose to celebrate the fact that 2014 years have passed since Jesus was born... Is there a more Christian idea than this?

These Are the Plain Facts (Without Interpretation)

- On December 25, Christmas is celebrated for the birth of Jesus.

- On December 31, the Catholic Church set the memorial and holiday in honor of Silvester, the 'Christian saint' as they define it.

- The "civil" year marks the number of years that have passed since the year Jesus was born. In other words, the New Year "2014" is intended to mark that 2014 years have passed since Jesus the Christian was born.

- In most European languages, the letters AD are added to the year, Latin initials for the expression Anno Domini, which means 'in the year of our Lord' (Jesus the Christian). Therefore, we Jews use to write foreign dates with the addition "to their count," "to the Christian count," "before the count," etc., to indicate that it is not our count.

Here, for a change, the Israeli Wikipedia does not hide the facts and wrote in the entry 'Counting of Christians':

'The counting method used today, "the year of our Lord" (Anno Domini), was invented in Rome in 525 by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus (Dionysius Exiguus), who was working on computing the date of Easter. He dated Jesus' birth to the year 1 BCE. But today, everyone thinks this date is wrong... The first year after Jesus' birth is the year 1 AD.'

I think celebrating the count of years of the Christian false prophet is the most non-Jewish act there is. Not only was the celebration date set by the Catholic Church in memory of the Christian Silvester, but the count of years celebrated is also meant

in memory of Jesus the Christian. This 'civil' holiday is just like how Christmas celebrating Jesus' birth is considered a 'civil' holiday. The idea is and remains fundamentally Christian. This is a date and holiday invented by the Christian Church in memory of Jesus the Christian and a 'Christian saint' named Silvester.

We, as Jews, should not celebrate Christian holidays. In the desert (Numbers 23:9): "... A people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations."

Moreover: How can we forget our own New Year?

We already have our own Hebrew year, passed down in our nation for 3,300 years (more than 1,300 years before the first Christian was born). Our tradition is authentic; only Jews of our people celebrate the Hebrew year, and no other nation in the world. All Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah. This is the Jewish, Hebrew holiday marking the number of years since the creation of the world.

Anyone who celebrates the civil year contradicts the Hebrew year we as Jews must remember, our Hebrew holiday, Rosh Hashanah. We are the only nation that celebrates the Hebrew year, and if we undermine our holiday in favor of the Christian count of years, we will lose the Hebrew tradition that has accompanied our people for more than three thousand years.