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"The Great Cover-Up" - Why the Chanukah Story Was Hidden From the Jewish People {For Woman}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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cheer. So let's just preface uh today's talk with whatever you ever heard about Kaneka. Everything that anybody ever told you, they lied to you. It never happened. >> The story you always heard is really it didn't happen the way they told it. And it's not anybody's fault. Wherever you learned it, whether in your school, they there's a reason they never told you about it. And that's a very important reason. Let's examine the alanim. So I'm not Let's examine the alanim. So I'm not going to tell you the regular questions you always heard. You know those questions already. And if you want to hear them, you know where to go to hear them. I want to ask you one simple question on the alanim. The alanim we give the whole litany of who the enemy was. We sayim there many in the hands of the few. The strong were delivered in the hands of the weak. of the weak. The many in the hands of the few. The impure in the hands of the pure. I have one simple question. The alanim left out the most obvious comparison. left out the most obvious way to describe what took place in the times of just say it. Just say Gentiles through Jews. Why doesn't the Alan say that? Why are we beating around the bush? We're calling them Rabim. We're calling the enemy many. We're calling the enemy tame. We're calling the enemy Rashim. We're calling them Zim. Say what they are. They're goim. So what's the miracle? What what are we

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  1. 0:30cheer. So let's just preface uh today's talk with whatever you ever heard about Kaneka. Everything
  2. 4:04for eight nights. If you really think that that's what we're celebrating on Kaneka, I've got
  3. 8:12that may have done which we're not proud of. And that is the Ramban writes and
  4. 11:52parchment. Ask Salv you have to rip twice. Why would you have to rip twice? Don't
  5. 16:01so he starts writing how many times? Three times. He starts writing. No. Right, left, right,
  6. 20:12destroy the Tyra. Those whether reform or open or whatever you want to call them, they
  7. 23:51gentile. And the second question is historically are these the facts? Is this exactly what happened?
  8. 28:12That's why we eat jelly donuts. Because if you're just going to eat bread and you're
  9. 31:48this is the same the leader of Israel. This is who was the god for 80
  10. 35:58usually even of if at the end he goes off we don't learn his farm anymore

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