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So who here is celibrating Chanukah?
I'm looking forward to the jelly donuts and latkes, and I'm breaking in a new menorah that I got on sale last year after Chanukah. There is a Jewish gentleman that I go to a community menorah lighting at Chabad every year -- it's well worth the drive.
What does Chanukah mean to me? The preciousness of the purity of observance. Because of the Greek occupation, many Jews were bowing to the pressure to Hellenize. They had forgotten how precious Torah was. But there were always "the proud, the strong, the Shomer Shabbat!" so to speak. When pig was sacrificed in the Temple to the idol of Zeus, that was the last straw.
Today, things are similar. Many have forgotten how precious Torah is. Jews are intermarrying and their line is lost to Israel. It is the secularization of Israel. Chanukah reminds us to return. I don't think we need the Maccabees or a violent war. We just need burning hearts, and it will catch on. Nominalism will die out of its own accord.
I'm looking forward to the jelly donuts and latkes, and I'm breaking in a new menorah that I got on sale last year after Chanukah. There is a Jewish gentleman that I go to a community menorah lighting at Chabad every year -- it's well worth the drive.
What does Chanukah mean to me? The preciousness of the purity of observance. Because of the Greek occupation, many Jews were bowing to the pressure to Hellenize. They had forgotten how precious Torah was. But there were always "the proud, the strong, the Shomer Shabbat!" so to speak. When pig was sacrificed in the Temple to the idol of Zeus, that was the last straw.
Today, things are similar. Many have forgotten how precious Torah is. Jews are intermarrying and their line is lost to Israel. It is the secularization of Israel. Chanukah reminds us to return. I don't think we need the Maccabees or a violent war. We just need burning hearts, and it will catch on. Nominalism will die out of its own accord.