The Hidden Story Of Chanukah

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

welcome everybody welcome allor anytime viewers so tonight I'm going to try the goal is to try to get the whole Kaneka story Into the time that we have a lot of for today um and you might think Kaneka story you hear the kanuka story you're like okay you know the there was a fight there was makab you know pretty strong Israeli men with swords and Spears and they won the Greeks and then they found an extra jar of oil and they lit the jar of oil and you know we eat donuts and spin the drele and you know like them spin the drele and you know like them know but in fact the the story is is very long very interesting and there's a lot of things the reason why I called it the hidden story of Hanukah is because most people don't know the story of kanuka which also makes you wonder why doesn't anybody know the story of kanuka and in fact there's no books on kanuka and there is actually there's makab one and makab 2 which is actually a book not just Israeli uh soccer team or something like that so we need to understand is first of all if there is a book called The makab then how come we don't have a you know like you know we have Mig when we come to um toim we read the

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