This article on Kang Yeong-ahn’s book on Levinas, seems to miss something:

"Levinas explains that our identity is not blank like Heidegger says, but becomes richer by helping neighbors, others, and people in pain. So justice is before truth. Don't you think that this is the real spirit of Christmas?"

It's not often one sees Heidegger saddled with proposing humans as a tabula rasa. And although I can see where he's coming from with Levinas prioritizing justice, there's also something dissonant about Levinas being more in tune with the xtian holiday. In the spirit of which, around this household my fave xmas tale is Burrough's The Junky's Christmas, which has the most effective use of Mendelssohn in a short story. We like to hear the old man read it--it was also a clamation short. And about which The Fall said:

The x in x-mas is a substitute crucifix for Christ

'Nuff said.  ¶ 6:26 AM