{"id":1902,"date":"2015-10-29T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1902"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:20:43","slug":"shabbat-hannukah-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1902","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat Hannukah (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash\u00a0Cards for Shabbat Hannukah (ca. 5760)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 I want to discuss religious detail of Hannukah, part of its history, and then ask how do we view it now?<\/p>\n

\u2022 We say Hallel on Hannukah but not on Purim. Why is this?<\/p>\n

\u2022 One reason: \u00a0Hannukah happened in the land of Israel, Purim did not.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Another reason: Hannukah is a bona fide miracle, but Purim is not.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Some history: When Alexander when bursts on the scene in 334 BCE we have the mixing of Hellenism and Hebraism. \u00a0He founded cities, peopled them with Greek colonists, and beautified them with Greek art. \u00a0He died in 323 BCE and the empire fell apart.<\/p>\n

\u2022 By 198 BCE \u00a0the politics was stabilized but the question arose: \u00a0Could Judaism survive if Hellenism became the dominant culture?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Matthew Arnold noted that \u00a0Hebrew culture asks “What must I do” and sees beauty in holiness, but Hellenistic culture asks “Why must I do it?” and sees holiness in beauty.<\/p>\n

\u2022 One cannot accept a revealed law as ultimate and honestly question its foundations. \u00a0The question is to submit to a moral law vs. exploit without restraint.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Now my own interpretation, and personal growth. \u00a0I once saw Hannukah as an imitation of Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I now see it as a celebration of diversity and one of the first revolts of an Eastern people over a western oppressor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash\u00a0Cards for Shabbat Hannukah (ca. 5760) by Marc Mangel \u2022 I want to discuss religious detail of Hannukah, part of its history, and then ask how do we view it now? \u2022 We say Hallel on Hannukah but not on Purim. Why is this? \u2022 One reason: \u00a0Hannukah happened in the land of Israel, Purim … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1902","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1902\/revisions\/1903"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}