The history of Chanuka - By Liora Meier

What’s said in this shiur

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

We've all heard the story of Hanukkah. And we've No, we hear the summary of Hanukkah being told to us time and time again about, you know, the basically the Greeks forbid different Torah laws such as Brit Milah, Rosh Chodesh, this fast assimilation of the Jewish people that are adopting this Hellenistic ideology. And so five priests, the Maccabees, they join up together and they just like we're going to chase the Greeks out of this empire. So they gang up together and these five priests chase them out and these five priests chase them out and a few men like join them along the way. And then they go to liberate the temple in Jerusalem and they want to light the menorah after they clean out the temple and they only have enough oil for one day. They light it and it lasts eight days. This is the summary, you know, we hear time and time again. And this is kind of like summarizing Yetziat Mitzrayim, the Exodus of Egypt, in a way saying, you know, all the Jewish people were enslaved by Paro. And so he decreed, you know, all the Jewish babies get killed and someone's like I'm going to save my and someone's like I'm going to save my baby and they put it in the river. He floats along and someone from Paro's household takes it in. He's like, "Oh, I'm going to take this in." He's raised in Paro's household. When he gets old enough, he acts out, he gets chased out of Egypt. Eventually, many years later, he returns wanting to free the people. And then, you know, Paro doesn't want to let him go, 10 plagues happen, and Paro agrees. They leave. They head They get backed up against the water and Paro changes his mind. He chases after them. They go The

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1. 0:08We've all heard the story of Hanukkah. And we've No, we hear the summary of Hanukkah…
2. 6:10And what it appears is that Shem, he saw beyond the physical of what happened to…
3. 12:21husbands and they just give them some like a little bit of a break. And they'd…
4. 18:29Hellespont in modern-day Turkey with about 45,000 men and invaded the Persian Empire. With just about…
5. 24:37them. The Greek historian Hecataeus from 360 to 290 BCE, he describes the unique monotheism of…
6. 30:48How did he put in a cohen that wasn't It was he was Jewish, but he…
7. 36:55all the planets are like named after different Yeah. And but the Jews, you know, their…
8. 43:01And there's a lot of people whose love for Torah brought them to the grave. And…
9. 49:12And, this miracle, it was really, you know, a kiss from Hashem because it wasn't necessary…
10. 55:20She spoke She was a noble daughter of, you know, Yochanan the High Priest. And she…

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