Chaunkah question #3: The Beis Yosef famously asks -- shouldn’t
Chanukah be celebrated for seven days and not eight? Since there was enough oil for one day, there
was no miracle in being able to light the menorah that first day. The miracle was only in the menorah burning
for seven days after that.
There are dozens and dozens of answers to this
question. Someone told me the reason
this question has so much torah written on it is a midah k’neged midah. The Greeks wanted to cause us to forget about
Torah, so davka on these halachos we have a multitude of torah discussion.
The Pri Chadash answers that the first day is not a
celebration of the lighting of the menorah.
The first day is a celebration of the victory over the Greeks in battle.
If the Pri Chadash is correct, then why do we light a menorah
on the first day? Why should we
commemorate the victory in battle the same way – through lighting a menorah –
that we commemorate the miracle of the oil on the other days?
Because the proper way to celebrate the victory over the assimilationists and their goyishe buddies is illegal, at the moment.
ReplyDelete[And would probably end the viability of the Democrats as a political force].
I saw a news report that our leader said today that he has a Jewish soul.
DeleteSadly, his Jewish supporters probably think that he does.
More sadly, his "Jewish" supporters wish that their souls were like his.
DeleteYour really asking a more general question. How the rabanan were mesaken this din rabanan?
ReplyDeleteNot sure I understand what you mean?
DeleteSorry I wasn't clear. There are 2 sibos for the takana. So How do these 2 relate with each other.
ReplyDeleteAlso I found a targum yonoson in devarim, that says we celebrate war victories with fire, as in Yom hatzmaot and independence day. So the lighting isn't to commemorate the oil but rather the war.
more specific mar'eh makom, please
Deleteif begs the question about lag ba'omer...