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Joel M. Hoffman, PhD · @JoelMHoffmanPhD
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🕎 — The (""), who recaptured the great Temple in from IV, were great freedom fighters but violent rulers.

🕎 E.g, in 135, John Hyrcannus I, one of Simon Maccabbee’s sons, took over because Simon’s other two sons were unavailable: Simon’s son-in-law had murdered them, along with Simon himself.

🕎 The Hasmoneans' tyrannical leadership would pave the way for ...

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#hanukkah #history #facts #hasmoneans #maccabees #jerusalem #antiochus #christmas

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Joel M. Hoffman, PhD · @JoelMHoffmanPhD
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🕎 —
Alexander the Great inadvertently set the stage for the events of Hanukkah? Do you know how?

By dying in 323 BCE without a succession plan. After his death, three Greek generals — , , and — divvied up Alexander's conquered lands, each establishing a dynasty. It was a Seleucid leader in Syria who, some generations later, desecrated the in , prompting the to rebel.

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#hanukkah #history #facts #antigonus #ptolemy #seleucus #jewish #temple #jerusalem #maccabees #Religion

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Natalie Davis · @natalied
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #chagsameach

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The Armchair Activist · @armact
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #chagsameach

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VSNgreen · @vsngreen
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #chagsameach

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VSNgreen · @vsngreen
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #FestivalofLights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #ChagSameach

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VSNgreen · @vsngreen
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #FestivalofLights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #ChagSameach

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Verdant Square · @Verdantsquare
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #chagsameach

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Natalie Davis · @Gratefuldread
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #holidayseason #Peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #chagsameach

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Natalie Davis · @nataliedavisgdread
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #holidayseason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees #chagsameach

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Natalie Davis · @NatalieDavis
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Wishing the global community and the whole world , , and on and every day.

#jewish #love #light #Miracles #hanukkah #chanukah #festivaloflights #HolidaySeason #peace #kindness #strength #maccabees

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Jewish conversations · @JewishConversations
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Although our Temple was destroyed, hope was not destroyed. We lost the building but still had the story and the light. And what had happened once in the days of the could happen again. Those words, “our hope is not destroyed,” became part of our anthem, , that inspired Jews to return to and rebuild
our ancient state. So as you light the candles remember this. The Jewish people kept hope alive, and hope kept the Jewish people alive. - R. J. Sacks

#jewish #maccabees #hatikvah #Israel #hanukkah

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Jewish conversations · @JewishConversations
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A quote from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, ztl, candles are the light that brings to the world when we are unafraid to announce our identity in public, live by our principles and fight, if necessary, for our freedom.

israelforever.org/interact/blo

#hanukkah #judaism #jewishculture #maccabees #jewishpride

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Jewish conversations · @JewishConversations
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#hanukkah #antisemitism #allies #judaism #ally #intersectional #jewishculture #maccabees #chanukah #reformJudaism #conservativejudaism #orthodoxjudaism #hadar #masorti

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Chas. Harris “de Brus” · @chasdebrus
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In 167 BCE Mattathias (a priest) together with his sons Judah, Eleazar, Simon, John, and Jonathan, started a revolt against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who since 175 BCE had issued decrees that forbade Jewish religious practices. So, five brothers, the son of a preacher, take on the mighty Seleucid empire? Clearly, we need to see the role and played in this madness of the ! Celtic Jews are real.
Anyway, !!!

#whiskey #kilts #maccabees #happyhanukah

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Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️ · @bp
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Back for another year, it's 8 days of tips: Mastodon edition!

Each night of , I'll post a tip for building & using web components

On the 1st night, let's start at the end. When the liberated the Holy Temple in from Seleucid Greek invaders, they refused to light the Menorah with the impure oil they found left over

To prevent your element from displaying unwanted content, use the `::slotted` pseudo element and the `:not` pseudo class in your

#CSS #Jerusalem #maccabees #hannukah #WebComponents

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Rabbi Nathan Farb · @rabbinathan
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@ylove
Let's not forget that we celebrate the miracle of the lights, not the battle. The are heroes for defending against a despotic regime and cultural erasure, but we don't celebrate violence. We celebrate Miracles and we celebrate survival!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🕯️🔥🔥🔥🔥

#maccabees #mazeldon #chanukah

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Jim Wald · @CitizenWald
645 followers · 370 posts · Server historians.social

2 stories of ancient discoveries in 2 eras of revolt:

1) Rare half-shekel coin discovered from Great Revolt period heritagedaily.com/2022/12/rare

2) 2,200-year-old coin gives hard proof of Book of , say timesofisrael.com/2200-year-ol

Here, the crucial thing is less the coins than the location, which underscores the importance of proper . The context makes the evidence. Without context, there is no learning, only

#coin #hoard #maccabees #archaeologists #archaeology #looting #numismatics

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Dara Obbard · @dawbird
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This is so cool. Happy , friends!

“Archaeologists have uncovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea. They say this is the first physical proof of something described in the Book of : That Jews fled to the Judean Desert during the upheaval and persecution under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the villain of the Hanukkah story.” haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-1

#hanukkah #maccabees #archeology #israel #jewishlife #biblicalhistory

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Miriam Anzovin · @MiriamAnzovin
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Shalom friends! Welcome to : The story! (Er, also and stories) The perfect holiday for anyone with an interest in guerrilla warfare and/or deep fried foods! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🕎⚔️ 🍩

youtu.be/n37EI6-A81k

#jewishholidayreactions #hanukkah #chanukah #channukah #hannukah #maccabees

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