Hanukkah Source Sheet

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Tobias Divack Moss Instagram @ThatJewishRabbiT Faceboook.com/ThatJewishRabbiT December 4, 2017

Hanukkah: Rededication on Every Level Hanukkah Acquires New Meaning Over Time

Temple in Jerusalem Celebrate the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple, after the Greeks had defiled it.

Diaspora, Synagogues and Homes Ourselves Celebrate our country, synagogues Celebrate Hanukkah and homes as by rededicating places where we ourselves to our achieve the ideals of own commitments, Judaism. and to others through generosity.

Rededicating the Temple Josephus--Antiquities, Book XII (Roman-Jewish Scholar, 94 CE) When therefore the generals of Antiochus's armies had been beaten so often, Judas assembled the people together, and told them, that after these many victories which God had given them, they ought to go up to Jerusalem, and purify the temple, and offer the appointed sacrifices. But as soon as he, with the whole multitude, was come to Jerusalem, and found the temple deserted, and its gates burnt down, and plants growing in the temple of their own accord, on account of its desertion, he and those that were with him began to lament, and were quite confounded at the sight of the temple.


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