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| Wannabe or Maccabee? |
| By Natalie Kovan |
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| The Maccabee's entire struggle was a fight to remain what they were—Jews, dedicated to HaShem, His Torah and His Land. And now, we find ourselves with a similar script... |
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| Hellenism: Nothing New |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| Rabbi Brody gives us an amazing historical background to the rise of the Greeks and Greek influence in the Land of Israel, which led to the enlightenist movement named Hellenism. |
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| Unconditional Resistance |
| By the Lubavitcher Rebbe |
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| The words of the true tzaddikim are relevant and timely always, as we see in the Lubavitcher Rebbe's amazing Chanuka message from over 50 years ago... |
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| Chana and Her Seven Sons |
| By Jewish Tradition |
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| The Gemara tells the moving story of Chana and her seven sons, who preferred martyrdom rather than cowering to the Greeks and the Hellenists... |
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| A No-Debt Chanuka |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| Gifts on Chanukah are not a part of Jewish tradition; the real celebration of Chanukah is lighting candles and singing songs of praise and thanksgiving to Hashem... |
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| Our Holiday, Our Land |
| By Natalie Kovan |
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| How do you describe the simple pleasure of celebrating Chanukah in a place where everyone is also rushing home to light their menorah? Our holiday, our land… |
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| Camouflage |
| By Rabbi Pinchas Winston |
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| Nature is just a camouflage for a more supernatural reality; without emuna, one can be tricked into thinking that bad things happen to good people at random, for no reason… |
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| The Flickering Lights |
| By Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook zatza”l |
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| The Halachic aspects of Chanukah lights reflect the nature of the Maccabean struggle against Greek dominance, in both the political and cultural spheres… |
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| Making the Darkness Glow |
| By the Lubavitcher Rebbe |
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| The miracle of Chanukah took place in a time of darkness, when the Greeks, who had conquered the Land of Israel, sought to impose their culture upon its inhabitants... |
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| Jewish Thanksgiving |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| Rebbe Nachman teaches us that both Shabbat and Chanuka are aspects of the World to Come, where the main occupation of the souls in is to sing songs of thanks to Hashem... |
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| Channa Maccabbee |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| What really happened to trigger the miraculous Hasmonean Rebellion? Few know the real story of a young woman’s courage that led to the downfall of the conquering Greeks… |
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| The Strength of Chanuka |
| By Debbie Shapiro |
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| “I felt very lonely lighting the menora without my husband,” said Naomi. “The other children were also subdued, and since we light in a common courtyard... |
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| A Hellenist Left Standing |
| By Bracha Goetz |
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| At a critical moment before total assimilation, a young lady from Queens remembers that it’s Kislev and not December, and that she’s Jewish, not Greek… |
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| Each Individual Miracle |
| By Batya Rosen |
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| For every single breath, for every single blessing – we must recognize that everything we have is a MIRACLE, a gift, straight from Hashem. We can't take it for granted… |
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