Rabbi Nota Schiller - Chanukah: Greek and Jew

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in gracious in the beginning of the hummish tamir commentary on genesis gives a listing of the future exiles that claudiosol will have and last one that's listed is edom and spilling into adam is the greek exile which was here in aoteaseal which exile which was here in aoteaseal which is a reference to the time of the hashmanayam of the chanukah story they made an enigmatic statement the greeks and they said write on the horns of an ox that you have no part in the god of israel does it mean various interpretations been offered over the years very esoteric statement one possibility of trying to understand it that a little over a hundred years before the story of chanukah was the septuagint that was the hellenistic king in egypt talmai brought 70 scholars without telling in advance why they were coming last minute he sprang it on them that they have to translate that they have to translate the bible torah written text into greek put in separate cubicles they had no time to consult and yet miraculously they all came out with the same translations exact translation and even with euphemisms in places where it was had to be politically correct instead of getting into discussions that are explicated by the that are explicated by the by the talmud such as verse says we will create man it means god but god consults the talmud teaches with the celestial court god doesn't have to consult but it's didactic it's to teach us that we should consult such variations they skipped the question and answer and they just went

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2. 0:48exile which was here in aoteaseal which is a reference to the time of the hashmanayam…
3. 1:52that they have to translate the bible torah written text into greek put in separate cubicles…
4. 2:22that are explicated by the by the talmud such as verse says we will create man…
5. 3:24have to go to ponevich tervedas graham berlin you can you can count in the university…
6. 4:25when ruby huda nosy decides that it should be written down that's an internal decision and…
7. 4:56we recite on chanukah that they wanted us to forget our torrid means they wanted us…
8. 5:57there's a special dimension in chanukah called hido mitsu to beautify the mitzvah that which wicks…
9. 6:28practice of the community as being an integral part and perhaps we could say that that…
10. 7:28carry the oral law and we know that's the only way to access the soul of…

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