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Hanukkah In Our Times

Rabbi Netanel Yossifun
The Hidden Candle
One year when lighting the first candle of Hanukkah with Rabbi Baruch from Mez'ibose' , the flame jumped and disappeared from the candle, with no signs of smoke. How does the flame, the darkness and the exile connect Hanukkah?
The Meaning of Hanukkah Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev 26 5768 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Hanukkah: A Lesson for Our Generation
On Chanukah are we celebrating our incredible victory in what looked like a suicidal war, the miracle of the pot of oil or both? How does this gives us much-needed insight into current events?
Hanukkah In Our Times
26 kislev 5768 | ---- ---
Western Culture – What to Accept and What to Reject
The House of Israel is unlike other nations. Every other nation can replace its culture for another without causing any damage whatsoever to the nation. This is not the case with the Jewish people. Our nation is no nation at all without its Torah.
Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev 5768 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
Pre-Chanuka Thoughts
The rise of The Saducees, eventually encouraged by Alexander Yanai, the most powerful of the Hasmonean kings, undermined the peoples’ faith in Torah and rabbinic tradition. So why is there such a big deal over the matter of Chanuka?
Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev 5768 | ---- ---
What Is Jewish Culture?
“The light shall triumph,” proclaims the Chanukah candle. It conveys the story of the small Jewish nation that stood up to the colossal Greek culture and emerged victorious. Does it also have the power to reveal to me what Jewish culture is?
Hanukkah In Our Times
5767 | Rabbi Meir Goldwicht
Chanukah and a Jam at the Jaffa Gate
On Purim, the faith in God's omnipotence and the Torah's divinity were revealed. On Chanukah, the faith in personal Divine Providence was revealed: God delivered the many into the hands of the few. We, too, must strive to see God's providence in all.
Hanukkah In Our Times
5765 | Rabbi Ze'ev Sultanowitz
Hellenism's Value and Its Rectification via Judaism
The turning point in Hellenist culture came when classic paganism became a general idea. This happened when they stripped paganism of its religious content and transformed it into a cluster of ideas - purposive, active forces became laws and domains.
Hanukkah In Our Times
27 Kislev 5765 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Believing in Belief
Hanukkah In Our Times
5765 | Rabbi Gideon Weitzman
Miracles, Miracles Everywhere
Chanukah is the festival of miracles, but what are the real nature of miracles and how can we celebrate the miracles in our lives.
Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev 25 5758 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
The Lesson of Chanukah
Chanukah is a time of praise and thanksgiving to God for the miracles and wonders that He performed on behalf of our ancestors “in those days at this time.” It is also a time to reflect upon and learn from the great events which happened in those days.
Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev, 5761 | Rabbi David Chai Hacohen
Chanukah - An Eternal Light
Unlike Greek thought, Judaism teaches that all of man's actions possess value and make an impression upon the heavens and earth - momentarily and eternally. The morality of man is not mere courtesy; our commandments are not some external performance.
Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev, 5761 | Rabbi David Chai Hacohen
"Each According to his Camp"
We cannot be satisfied with strengthening only one portion of the people, no matter how important its task be. We must designate persons for each of our national goals, whether the strengthening of the Torah or the building of the nation.
Hanukkah In Our Times
Chanukah 5755 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
The Maccabis of Today are Victorious
Hanukkah In Our Times
Kislev 5762 | Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
The Chanukah Revolution Continues
1. Darkness Before the Miracles 2. How Many, And How Few 3. Spiritual Muscles 4. Think Before You Leap 5. The Chanukah Revolution
Hanukkah In Our Times Personality Development
Kislev 5762 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
Hanukah Candles
In a bustling world of progress and development, in a day and age when the electric light bulb is taken for granted, we continue to light the Hanukah candles - just as we did some two thousand years ago.
Hanukkah In Our Times