Chanukah

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Chanukah: An Eternal Message

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the painful realties of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double standard. What in other cultures is done with impunity often causes an uproar when it is the State of Israel doing the exact same thing. While…
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Meat, Milk and the Chanukah Candles

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

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Chanukah: A Special Nation

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the painful realities of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double standard. What in other cultures is done with impunity often causes an uproar when it is the State of Israel doing the exact same thing. While…
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Chanukah: Looking Backward and Forward

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The holiday of Chanukah is a most beloved one. Lighting the candles is the only mitzvah that has, built into its performance, a three-tiered system: what we may call good, better and best. We begin with the basic mitzvah of one candle per household…
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Chanukah: 70 Bulls and 8 Lights

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Perhaps the greatest challenge facing Jewishly conscious people in the modern world is figuring out the proper relationship we are to have vis a vis the outside world. Should it be one of rejection, integration or compromise? The above models have…
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Chanukah: The Dark Days of Winter

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Of all our holidays, only that of Chanukah begins in the second half of the month. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Shavuot occur towards the beginning of the month, when the moon is growing stronger. Pesach, Sukkot, Purim (at least in Jerusalem), Tu b…
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Mai Chanukah

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"Mai Chanukah? What is Chanukah?" (Shabbat 21b). To this rather strange question, the Gemara answers, "Our Rabbis taught: From the twenty-fifth of Kislev the days of Chanukah are eight on which eulogies and fasting are forbidden" (Shabbat 21b). The…
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The Prophet Who Stole Channuka: The Biblical Roots of a Rabbinical Holiday

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

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The Prophet Who Stole Channuka

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

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Chanukah: Moving Home

Rabbi Jay Kelman

On the surface, it is difficult to understand why we celebrate Chanukah, a festival commemorating the rededication of the Temple and Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel. We should have ceased to celebrate Chanukah in the year 70 when the Temple…
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