"The Great Cover-Up” - Why the History of the Chanukah Story Was Hidden From the Jewish People

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

two reasons first of all the concept and the ideas are very unique very novel very creative and I was a little nervous to present them and also I wasn't sure how much substantiation there is but um this year we're going for it um hopefully we have some degree of substantiation for this uh concept and uh so let us begin if you look at the alanm and uh hopefully we will see who wrote the Alan the Alan which is specific for Kan so the emphasis and the focus is on the military Victory the fact that claur was facing an opponent which was stronger than them more numerous than them more powerful than them better armed and this was certainly the miracle that CLA needed after all our entire existence was on the line you know if if theim would have subjugated us completely that would have been the end of Tyro mitz and that was The Nest that we were hoping for and that we needed and the question is and this is very interesting maram tell you the truth it's a concept that I heard many years ago it probably goes back I don't know 8 years ago 10 years ago I heard it from a great speaker a great R his name was R Isaac Bernstein he was a r who passed away in his Middle Ages he was a rabbi in London he actually came from Ireland maybe the best speaker pure speaker I ever heard and he always presented very novel ideas and um he quoted a concept from rash

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3. 9:46that they became that the what didn't want to be like the rambam against the Ran…
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5. 18:56gave up um chab they gave up they gave upes of left the fold these people…
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7. 28:17when the gar says the it doesn't mean the it means the the Jews destroyed it…
8. 33:12you you know the guy who saved Judaism who is his father that y was his…
9. 37:34spark goes out and it burns down the building he's you have a camel that's Laden…
10. 42:18of on the where sh asked that he agrees with the CL babba and he says…

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