Chanukah: The Conspicuous Omission of the Mishna Berura Speaks Volumes About The Chashmonaim

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

when it comes to halal and it's a yamtif so in the rambam the rambam uncharacteristically in his introduction to chanukah he gives us historical background now the ram is not a history book the ram doesn't usually tell us the story and the history behind something certainly by purim the rambam does not give us the background of the story well there it could be very simple we don't need the ram 2 because it's already recorded in the magilla but because there is no record of the story of hanukkah in the tanakh so rama feels that the information is lacking but still the ramen is not a work of history but the rambam is trying to give us an appreciation for the miracle of hanukkah and before i tell you what the rambam says let me just remind you what the ramban says on the pacific yasser the ramban learns that even though this is not a love of but it's that's and the will of yaakov avinu and because it's the will of yaakov avinu the ramban says who were hasid the ramban calls them they were pious of the highest degree he says and if not for them the torah and missiles would have completely been forgotten kamat nevertheless they were punished terribly and how were they punished terribly they were punished terribly in that the gemara tells us that anybody who claims they come from the kashmir nayam are avadhim because the hashem were all wiped out to the very last man in fact tells us the story of hordes herod was a slave of the house of kashmir he put his eyes on a certain girl from the family of the kashmir noyam and one day jordis was walking down the street and he heard a boss coil who said

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1. 0:32when it comes to halal and it's a yamtif so in the rambam the rambam uncharacteristically…
2. 1:33and the will of yaakov avinu and because it's the will of yaakov avinu the ramban…
3. 3:07honey is a preservative some say he actually had relations with her while she was dead…
4. 4:41armani ubinai sayam and against our daughters and they went into the hecal and they breached…
5. 6:18true they did but why does ramadan include that in the story of the miracle of…
6. 7:48gemara magilla on da dale it asks why don't we say halal on purim and the…
7. 8:48that they made a melech from the kaihanim it must be the rambam holds that so…
8. 10:21well it comes with sadiq and the safer rasise laila and he says something very interesting…
9. 11:53he is the words of the rambam matak means he copies over he's quoting the words…
10. 13:31but the shibura quotes the rambam and he takes out those words maybe because the mashabura…

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