Is a very strange time for me. I love Hanukkah, but this year I can easily see how the Hanukkah story could be re-done to fit the circumstances of today. Let me just say right off the bat that if someone wants the shot of experimental mRNA gene therapy, I think that is their decision. But by the same token, I vehemently object to it being forced into anyone that doesn’t want it. And that’s where this Hanukkah thought is headed.
We know that Hanukkah is the celebration of the re-dedication of the Temple after it had been defiled by the Greeks. The Greeks were a nation of culture and learning. They knew their beliefs and customs were superior to everyone else. The hysterical fits abound in those absolutely unhinged over the injection like the racist Joy(less) Reid, anyone on msnbc, cnn or most any of the major #FakeNews media really are a fine example of people who know they know more than anyone else. Their opinion is the only one that counts. Or else.
The Greeks didn’t necessarily want to kill off all the Jews, they wanted to kill off Judaism. We were forbidden to observe time related events such as Shabbat and new months, as well as commandments from G-d such as the study of Torah or circumcision. Those could cost you your life. Your thoughts and beliefs would be forced into compliance.
Today we have the purveyors of panic porn that do the same thing, their belief is the only belief, and anyone who attempts to attend religious services when the ATA* 1 says you can not will be punished. Anyone who attempts to hold to tried and true means of handling a medical event will be punished. Anyone who points out the virus is 99+% survivable with treatment, real treatment like the Zelenko protocol or Ivermectin will be punished. Anyone who points out anything contrary to the ATA approved narrative will be punished. The side of “love and tolerance” will brook no dissent. Hysteria, denouncement and de-platforming will ensue. Your thoughts and opinions will be forced into compliance.
I’ll try to put this as delicately as I can without being crass. One of the seminal events that may well have contributed to the Hasmonean rebellion was the marriage of their sister and jus primae noctis, “first night rights.” The governor would kidnap and assault every bride on her wedding night. The whole story can be read here. I urge you to, it is not that long and very worth while. A gist of it is the Greeks continued to make increasingly tyrannical demands of the Jews and their faith which we found ways of skirting and working around. Until it came to a point where the women were forced to accept the injection of a substance into their bodies they vehemently did not want. Then the Jews went to war.
Personally I absolutely see this as a religious issue. My DNA is the way G-d meant my DNA to be, he created me with a purpose, a plan and he equipped me with the things he knew I would need to accomplish it. If he wanted my DNA different, he could certainly have made it so. In short I’m saying the G-d of heaven and earth who created all most assuredly does not need any help from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson or any other pharmaceutical company.
A more amusing comparison is Antiochus the IV, he liked the name Epiphanes, which meant “the gods’ beloved. We called him Epimanes which means “madman”. You know, like someone who would shut down his own country’s oil production and then beg foreign countries who hate us to produce more oil and then lie to the people. Like someone who would sell of his country’s assets to a country that hates them. Like someone who would demand that free citizens be forced to take an experimental injection in clear violation of the Nuremberg code. And it may well come to force as it is in the disarmed nation of Australia where the army is going into Aboriginal villages and physically throwing people to the ground and injecting them against their will. Like a madman who would say people can’t have their job, eat in a restaurant, ride public transportation, or attend events if they can’t prove they have had the injection. Yeah, a madman like that.
As I regard the list of appointees in the Xiden regime I have yet to find one that isn’t a communist, America hater, corrupt or unhinged. The censorship of medical opinions and open discussion has never before been seen like this. The denial of medical treatment to people is unprecedented. What? Next we tell people with a fractured leg to come back when the bone is poking through the skin? This refers to people that come in the ER with Covid and rather than being given the Ivermectin protocol or the Zelenko protocol are basically sent home and told to come back if they can’t breath. We’re suppose to be in the midst of a “pandemic” with a new “variant” on the way and Xiden/Epimanes is ordering frontline healthcare workers who have worked since the beginning fired? And something I find truly frightening is I am beginning to see the discrimination in treatment towards those that are un-injected. Because that I have seen before. That pattern I do recognize.
And the plans for tyranny are just getting started. Green pass anyone? Papers please.
But this is Hanukkah of 2021, and I am seeing miracles. The OSHA mandate has been stopped and my crush (hope his wife doesn’t mind) the gallant Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, lead the charge with other states and stopped the insane decree that forced healthcare workers to be injected. And then in a blossom of goodness the royal decree was blocked nationwide.
What hubris! A madman indeed! Although he is far from the only madman running around.
But America is beginning to fight back, and I can’t think of a more auspicious time, well, maybe Independence Day. But I actually see more similarities with the conditions of the Hasmonean rebellion.
Do you wonder where Maccabee came from?
Perhaps the best known explanation is that the word “Maccabee” is composed of the initial letters of a verse the Jewish people sang after G‑d split the sea: “Mi kamocha ba’eilim Hashem (מי כמוך באילים י׳), “Who is like You among the mighty, O G‑d.”
It is said that this phrase was the battle cry of Maccabees, written upon their banners and shields.
I will leave you with the inspiring speech of Judah Maccabee as he and his little band faced a far bigger, more evil force of Seron at Beth-Horon.
Chapter 3 Book of Maccabees 1
14 So he said, “I will make a name for myself and win honor in the kingdom. I will wage war against Judah and his followers, who have despised the king’s command.”
15 And again a large company of renegades advanced with him to help him take revenge on the Israelites.
16 When he reached the ascent of Beth-horon,* Judah went out to meet him with a few men.
17 But when they saw the army coming against them, they said to Judah: “How can we, few as we are, fight such a strong host as this? Besides, we are weak since we have not eaten today.”
18 But Judah said: “Many are easily hemmed in by a few; in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between deliverance by many or by few;
19 for victory in war does not depend upon the size of the army, but on strength that comes from Heaven.
20 With great presumption and lawlessness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us;
21 but we are fighting for our lives and our laws.
22 He* will crush them before us; so do not fear them.”
23 When he finished speaking, he rushed suddenly upon Seron and his army, who were crushed before him.
24 He pursued Seron down the descent of Beth-horon into the plain. About eight hundred* of their men fell, and the rest fled to the land of the Philistines.
25 Then Judah and his brothers began to be feared, and dread fell upon the Gentiles about them.
“Mi kamocha ba’eilim Hashem (מי כמוך באילים י׳), “Who is like You among the mighty, O G‑d.” Indeed.
חג חנוכה שמח
Happy Hanukkah!
1Aspiring Tyrants Association