Rabbi Yair Kruskal - Chanukah in a New Light

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on sunday night we're starting hanukkah on sunday night hanukkah it's a festival which last will last us for eight days and it's a time where family get-togethers friends get together we have different parties people eat many donuts actually you go to the stores nowadays from sukkas until hanukkah all you see is just donuts and then for the whole year you don't see these donuts anymore but besides donuts as well we light as well everyone lights their manoras they're pretty small menorahs with small lights what's the festival hanukkah hey we'll discuss we have there's quite a few reasons why we have hanukkah and we'll discuss one of the points why we have chanukah over 2000 years ago in the time where aristotle and then you had his great student alexander the great everyone's heard of alexander the great who must have lived two thousand years ago alexander the great to alexander macedonia he actually was 32 when he died and he was king for 12 years that means he became king at 20 years old he was known as alexander the great actually many people known as the great they weren't so great but he was alexander the great he was actually great but from 20 from the age 20 till 32 he was the one of the big pupils of aristotle and in that time that's when you had the greek nations and the greek and you had as well the greek culture which included literature art sport and science

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