The holiday of Chanukah, commemorating the second century BCE victory of the Maccabees over the Hellenist Greeks who were in control of Judea, and Jerusalem and its holy Temple, is again upon us. The Hellenists who forbade the most important and basic tenets of the Jewish religion and who defiled the Temple, were with the help of God, defeated and expelled.
Each year on Chanukah we say in our prayers, “The mighty were delivered into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few, the impure into the hands of the pure, and the wicked into the hands of the righteous…”
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