Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Chanukah Isn't Holiday

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everybody I just want to talk a little bit today about uh the Kaneka story and khek is coming up and uh you know people debate is khek an important holiday or unimportant holiday you know some people say oh uh in the in the secular culture people like to build up Kaneka because that way Jewish people feel they have an important holiday when Christmas comes along so they're equal other people say oh no Kana is not a y Kana you know is not like PES it's not like R it's not not like PES it's not like R it's not that important uh the truth of the matter is though Kana is not a yum in the sense that you know you can do work and everything else but khaka is a very very important holiday and it has some very extreme vital lessons for us as as as Jews uh we know the basic story of Kaneka but by the way the date just to give you the sense of the dates the Kaneka story occurred around 180 BCE before the Common Era now this is during the era of the second is during the era of the second temple okay the Babylonians destroyed the first temple there was a 70-year Exile we then built a second temple after 70 years many Jews returned to the land of Israel many Jews didn't and we built the second temple and initially we built the second temple we were under the rule of Persia that's King Cyrus King aash fos uh but the Persian Empire was defeated by Alexander the Great of Macedonia who established within Erich

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6. 22:08ability to keep the the Torah now you know we have our tanak our tanak are…
7. 26:46BCE 180 BC the macbes gained control of the BAM mikash can you imagine what a…
8. 30:55didn't do is it didn't end the struggle the struggle went on for almost two decades…
9. 35:33of getting back the the B mikdash okay and uh this is why uh we celebrate…
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