The REAL Story of Hanukkah (The One They Didn't Tell You)

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

okay show them dear friends let's talk about hanukkah and let's talk about the real story what is hanukkah really all about what is hanukkah what's the real story of hanukkah so i'll give you the basic version of the story of hanukkah because we're about to have this big party for eight crazy nights and what are we really doing and what's really going on really going on so the simple answer is that about twenty three hundred years ago here in the land of eretz israel the land of israel we were taken over and made into a vassal state by the wicked ancient greek empire who was that was run by the wicked king antiochus if you want to know all about him you come and my kids will sing you all the songs but he was a wicked king and the decrees that he put upon us during that time upon us during that time things that i don't even want to mention right now very very bad decrees against the nation of israel and they started to take over and to add their philosophies into the land of israel it became a state it was run by the hellenists and many of claudius started to follow after those ideologies and they started to spread their ideas and they started to spread their ideas and they started to invite us to their gymnasiums and they started to give out pamphlets about some of their ideas and they wanted us to join their facebook pages and their they started to tweet different uh propaganda and we started to you know get involved it looked you know it's interesting very appealing very alluring and we were moving in that direction and what was that direction that direction was essentially

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1. 0:00okay show them dear friends let's talk about hanukkah and let's talk about the real story…
2. 3:04like they were circumcised anymore to be able to hang around the gymnasiums in the locker…
3. 6:06nature that was above nature it's above nature oil that's supposed to last for one day…
4. 9:13life you know we even speak this way about other people we say he's got a…
5. 12:44other and then you're gonna kiss and at that moment the husband says i just i…
6. 15:50the fire the light in your eyes the passion for me somehow through life has become…
7. 18:55she'll feel that come on he said what do you mean i'm with you look i…
8. 22:32they said you could learn the torah but just don't tell me that hashem is inside…
9. 25:38friends you pull the light out of your loved ones hanukkah is when you don't see…
10. 28:40milk they're looking on the side and saying i don't have a portion of the god…

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