What Can We Learn from Chanukah? - Part 1 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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

I want to start by telling you a very bitter fictional story appeared in The Daily newspaper my Reeve about 40 years ago but like all good fiction describes an altar present reality this story describes a child coming home from school where they are learning about Hanukkah secular Israeli school he says to his father I but were the Maccabees da te religious Jews says father says no of course not the Maccabees were military heroes revolutionaries fighting for freedom and social equality they were a team the child says but I but they taught us in school that the revolt was triggered by the offering of pigs in the temple and that the revolt was started by kohanim who felt that this was a desecration of the temple and in the end they lit the menorah that's why people light candles I'm konica because of the menorah that was lifted in the temple so father thinks and he has to backtrack it is as well I guess I guess they were that team I guess they were religious the child says Allah do you think that they kept Shabbat the files as well I guess if they were that Ian must capture bad and kashrut and holidays and you go through a list of standard missiles and the father has to agree that they probably hid then the chest was Father Abba we don't keep Shabbat do we and the valid of course not that old-fashioned it superstition

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2. 3:40it raises a serious question about how to understand contemporary Israeli society and that is one…
3. 6:55the children of Noah I having their futures described and this is prophetic the verse says…
4. 10:08religion on the contrary this attitude goes back to Noah 4,000 years ago that the Greek…
5. 13:22is everything nature's everything everything that exists is natural there are laws of nature the laws…
6. 16:34building up and dissolution that has been going on from forever and continues to go on…
7. 20:24goodness drawing it in the future a goal of oak this draws it to develop in…
8. 23:32undergraduate program and how do I get there a good high school record and that's what…
9. 26:52Mila bris milah circumcision and rosh chodesh beginning of the month I don't think that's obvious…
10. 30:19monthly cycle of the waxing and waning of the moon but there happens to be a…

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