It’s that wonderful time of year when we celebrate Hanukkah. Hanukkah means “dedication”, as in cleaning and purifying the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple after it had been defiled. I’ve written a lot about Hanukkah, what happened and why. But I’m going to touch on a few of the elements to explain why America is ready for it’s own Hanukkah. Hanukkah was about the culture of Judaism. The laws that G-d had given us that were to be observed. Things like
Some Jews became quite infatuated with Greek culture. But the more they imitated the Greeks, the less respect the Greeks had for us. They began to mock Judaism and enact laws against it. First they locked up the synagogues and schools. People prayed and studied in one another’s homes.
Then, the Greeks passed a law that all Jews had to write a sentence stating they had no portion in the G‑d of Israel on the horns of their livestock and on their doors. The Jews sold their livestock and removed the doors from their homes.
The Greeks passed a law outlawing circumcision. The Jews made up secret signs through which they announced circumcision ceremonies, and guests risked their lives to go wish the new parents “Mazel Tov!”
The Greek soldiers started assaulting Jewish women The Greeks outlawed Shabbat, the celebration of the New Moon, and Torah study. Jews hid in caves and continued to observe all three. The Greeks found hundreds of ways to try to stamp out Judaism. Jews found hundreds of ways to quietly rebel and to remain what they had always been. Then the Greek soldiers started assaulting Jewish women. The governor made a decree—unfortunately, a common one in ancient cultures—called jus primae noctis, “first night rights.” The governor would kidnap and assault every bride on her wedding night.
Which brings us to the first of the two women I’m going to speak about. Channa, or Hannah. She was the sister of the Maccabees, and she had a very strong objection to being raped on her wedding night.
Amidst the elegant flowers, soft music, and the conversations of the guests, the bride suddenly stood up, walked to the center of the room, placed her hand on her chest, and tore open her gown.
Shocked, angry, and embarrassed, her brothers rose to drag her from the room. But she stood firmly in place and addressed the room: “You who are so zealous that you would kill me, are not zealous enough to protect me from the hands of the Greek governor who will come here to assault me tonight.
“Did you not learn from Shimon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, who, though only two men, killed the entire city of Shechem for her sake? Place your faith in the One Above, and He will help you.”
Her five brothers declared their willingness to go to war, and were answered by a voice emanating from the Holy of Holies promising victory.
And honestly, Shimon and Levi were around 13 or 14 at the time. Those kids knew what they were about.
The next woman were going to speak of is Yehudit, and she is more of a participant than being an inspiration only. Though she is pretty darn inspiring! Yehudit’s story occurs a few hundred years before that of the Maccabbes. Yehudit’s story takes place in and near the town of Bethulia, in Judea when it came under siege by Holofernes, a Syrian-Greek general, under Nebuchadnezzar. Holofernes was extremely cruel. When he laid siege to a town and then conquered it every living creature inside, men, women and children and probably animals would suffer. They’re like the state of New York in that way. The town was on the verge of surrender. They had been under siege and were out of food and water. After a town meeting Yehudit addressed the town elders and asked them not to surrender in the five days they had given G-d to rescue them. She told them they should have more faith in G-d than to put him on a time table. But she had a plan. Which they immediately tried to talk her out of. Ok, I can kind of see that. It was incredibly risky for her. But the only people she was putting in extreme danger were herself and her loyal maid servant. Yehudit was a widow, but still very beautiful, wise and charming. She donned her beautiful apparel she had put aside when she was widowed, donned her jewels and a veil. She and her servant left Bethulia near dark and went to Holofernes camp. To his tent after telling the astonished sentries that was her destination. This just simply wasn’t done! But, she did it. She convinced the evil Holofernes that the town was about to fall, and she wanted to save her life and that of her family and servants. She and Holofernes worked out a deal, she would supply him with intel and they would live. Holofernes then threatened his camp if anyone laid a hand on her. So she and her servant were given complete freedom to roam around unmolested. Every day she would take intel to the town and spread Karin Jean-Pierre like lies back to Holofernes. One evening she told Holofernes he’d be able to take the town the next day as they were out of Kosher food, and they would be forced to eat un-kosher food and then G-d would turn his back on them. Holofernes was, I’m sure, elated. With a twinkle in his eye he invited Yehudit to a “private dinner” that night, just the two of them. Gag. But she’s really good at this, like one of the original honey pot traps! She shows up, probably had a brand new color of nail polis…oh wait, that would be my idea.. anyway, she shows up with her own food because of course Holofernes doesn’t have Kosher food. So she tells him she’s famous for her goat cheese, and proceeds to ply him with goat cheese. Which is salty, which makes him thirsty, which makes him drink a ton of undiluted wine that she helpfully provided, which makes him drunk as a skunk, which makes him pass out. In retrospect, probably works better than nail polish anyway. So when he’s passed out cold, she takes his own sword and as my Rabbi tells it “daintily cuts off his head”. She take the head back to town under the cover of darkness. The next day the soldiers wake up to a not only dead drunk Holofernes, but a flat out dead Holofernes. Which understandably discombobulates them. So, they scatter and the town is saved! I’d say not only Bethulia, but whatever town he was going to hit next. But that my friends is why we also eat cheesy and dairy foods at Hanukkah. Originally it was cheese pancakes before potatoes were known.
Both women took a strong stand to preserve their homes, their towns, their families and their honor. There are some that say Yehudit was in fact related to the Maccabees, and was the daughter of Yochanan the high priest, father of the Hasmonean family.
And we know that the Maccabees fought, not so much because the Greeks wanted to kill Jews, although it wasn’t a problem for them, but basically they wanted to kill Judaism, their way of life, their reason for being. To deprive the Jews of Judaism, is to destroy them.
So since I’m speaking of women, lets look at what the culture of America has done to women under the power of the evil Holofernes Biden and his puppet masters. Now, I have no problem saying Biden is evil, and it goes way back, but at this point he’s basically barry sotero’s cardboard cutout. And I suppose whatever malice “Dr Jill” pushes him into. The demoncrats talk about Republican’s “binders of women” well let’s see how those champions of women stack up. Women’s sports have been decimated under the biden crime regime. Parents Speak Out After Daughter Suffers Life-Altering Injury Playing Volleyball Against Transgender Opponent. Their goal appears to be to erase women, and motherhood all together. They have a big guy in drag that is suppose to be Assistant Secretary for Health and Human services. They have a person with I’d say some kind of mental disorder in charge of health and human services. And under his leadership, they have pushed and groomed the transgender agenda which is making big pharma giddy with glee. Those homones are a lifetime commitment and the surgeries ain’t cheap. Drag queens don’t seem to want to read stories to the elderly, only little children as they “normalize” the sight of big hairy men in makeup and dresses. Parents that have understandably objected have been labeled terrorists. The biden junta celebrates DEI and the ignorance and stupidity it brings by nominating a woman of color so stupid she doesn’t even know what a woman is. But to be fair, there are republicans (little r) that voted to confirm it. Since it doesn’t know what “it” is. This Broadway Production Called A Little Retarded Girl Up On Stage. <satire> Under the biden crime regime with the support of demoncrats and their loyal mouthpieces in the media, voters and the deep state they have denigrated anyone objecting to the crime that they have imported across our borders for the last five years. Names of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray have tragically made it clear that the biden junta values illegal invaders far more than peaceful law-abiding American citizens. Giving the illegal invaders the resources meant for American citizens from FEMA rather than it being used as it was intended, to help American citizens in time of crisis has more than driven that point home. The demoncrats under the power of corrupt prosecutors and judges have brought about a culture of danger for women. By going after Daniel Penny, a good man bravely protecting the people trapped in a subway car with a raging lunatic with something like 42 charges against him, and a record of violent assault on women the demoncrats and their voters have made it clear they care nothing for the safety of women. Part of the people in that car were people of color. The left cares nothing for people of color. Some of the people in that car were children, the left (and I mean voters, the media, the politicians) care nothing about children, so next time they start with that “oh you can’t deport…oh children in cages…they’re lying. They. Don’t. Care. But Alvin Bragg did send a clear message with the persecution of Daniel Penny. So when on Sunday, December 22nd one of the demoncrat’s illegal invaders lit a sleeping woman on fire in a subway car, fanned the flames no one intervened. At all. Not even the police. He had been previously deported under President Trump, but came back in under the demoncrats. Demoncrats all the way down, biden, harris, mayorkas and hochul and adams. All enable and embrace illegal invaders. But in Kathy Hochul’s world, or as I’ve heard a radio show host call her, Bucky Beaver, all is right with the world and the subways are perfectly safe. Tone Deaf NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Grotesque Timing: Praises “Safety” of Subway on Same Day Guatemalan Migrant Allegedly Sets Sleeping Woman on Fire. Demoncrats don’t care about safety of anyone, only the appearance of safety. The truth is an after thought with them. They have let millions of illegal invaders in, not caring what it does to our country, our citizens, our culture, only the craven attempt to get more bodies voting to hang on to power.
The results of “defund the police” have predictably, well, at least we predicted it, resulted in scrapping the bottom of the barrel for police candidates. Remember when people used to own their own homes? Well, when you have crappy judges and crappy cops that’s not how it plays out so much any more. A Georgia Homeowner Tried to Move Back Into Her Home Inhabited by a Squatter.
The ordeal began in August when Hale reported the squatter to police. Clayton County Magistrate Court Judge Latrevia Lates-Johnson ruled that “Sakemeyia Johnson is not a squatter” because she is related to a previously evicted tenant’s partner.
“How can she not be squatting when I’ve never had any type of contract relationship with this person?” Hale reportedly said.
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Johnson told police that Hale arrived “out of nowhere” and showed up with a guy, adding that “he forced himself in telling us to get out.”
In the camera footage from Dec. 9, a deputy can reportedly be heard telling Hale to see the situation from the illegal squatter’s perspective.
“Just think of it from this perspective, though. Everybody isn’t as fortunate as you to have a bed. All the little things, a bed in their house, food in the kitchen,” the deputy said to Hale.
And, in the incident report, the responding deputy reportedly wrote that Hale “executed an illegal eviction and forcibly removed Ms. Johnson’s belongings.”
Where is our country?
But it’s not just our country that has been permeated with evil. I’m sure everyone heard about another attack on another Christmas market from another member of the religion of pieces.
This one has left 200 injured and 5 dead, including a toddler, following Friday’s attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The perpetrator is a 50 year old doctor of psychiatrist and psychotherapy from Saudi Arabia. Germany foolishly took him in on a permanent residence permit in 2006. Even more foolishly they ignored the extradition requests of Saudi Arabia for the totally assimilated muslim doctor due to “human rights concerns”.
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: “Reports suggest that the perpetrator of the Germany attack is a well-known fugitive traitor named Talib Al-Abdulmohsen. He fled from Saudi Arabia, where he is a wanted individual, and was granted asylum and citizenship by Germany, which refused to extradite him to Riyadh under the pretext of human rights and freedom of expression. He repaid this favor today by committing a massacre. 🤷🏻♂️ Europe is destroying itself from within.)
In addition to that, Saudi Arabia had warned Germany he was dangerous. More than once actually. Three times, in addition to people that knew him warned the government he was dangerous and wanted to kill. I believe it was the German Interior minister that Der Speigel was quoting:
Der Spiegel is claiming that the man no longer identifies as an Islamist, writing that “He appears on the Internet as an ex-Muslim and opponent of Islam. The background to the incident is still completely unclear – as is the possible motive.”
The outlet claims that the man “had been threatened with death for turning away from Islam.”
The report also claims that “SPIEGEL research has shown that Taleb A. openly sympathized with the AfD online.”
The AfD is the right wing populist party in Germany that is gaining massive support owing to its anti-immigration/pro deportation stance.
Which of course is why it totally makes sense that he went after a bunch of Christians at a Christmas market and not people at a mollusk.
BTW kids, this is what “globalize the intifada” looks like.
Professor Gad Saad is understandably worried about a resulting rise in Islamaphobia. Professor Saad is a Lebanese Jew who escaped.
But Professor Saad isn’t alone. How does the left wing propaganda media cover things like this? Europe’s far right seizes on Magdeburg attack to hammer migration, Islam
Remember, first they kill the Saturday people (the Jews) then they come for the Sunday people (the Christians).
But the German authorities had a good hand on things.
The horror crash comes less than a month after Germany’s interior minister Nancy Faeser said that while there were no concrete indications of a danger to Christmas markets this year, it was wise to be vigilant.
And while the German police didn’t have the area of the Christmas market safely cordoned off, they did take strong measures to ensure the safety (of the terrorist, the German Christians, not so much), they took strong measures. They confiscated a Swiss Army knife from an elderly German lady.
But Germany is far from the only country having problems. I’ll admit to a bit of amusement at this next one. Ireland has been making such horrible antisemitic statements about Israel that Israel recalled their ambassador to Ireland. Pro-Gaza Protestors in Europe Continue Attacks on Christianity- Storm Irish Church During Mass
Just days after the attack in Germany, pro-Hamas terrorists stormed St. Mary’s Church in Dublin, Ireland, to disrupt mass.
My helpful suggestion for Ireland is, there’s tons of Falestinians floating around available for adoption just in time for Christmas. Take in little Ackmed, at 22 years old he’ll be a great help around the house and comes with his own AK-47 and knows how to make bombs AND IEDs! He can’t really read or write well, has a woeful grasp of geography but hey, he hates Jews just like you do, he’ll fit right in.
How is the culture of the formerly Great Britain holding up? Abortion clinic payout woman shocked at prayer arrest, yep being in the vicinity of an abortion clinic and praying silently is a crime. Well, kind of, I’m sure her life was awful after being arrested but the British police did have to shell out some money over that. And to keep everyone “safe” the Brit’s have a policy of “Think before you post”: The U.K. is now jailing people for social media comments
Western civilization appears to be on the cusp of a new Dark Age — for any government that arrests and locks up its own citizens for saying, writing, or thinking the “wrong” opinions or beliefs can no longer say it stands for freedom or human rights.
Abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’ turn the UK into a censor’s paradise
Even silent prayer can land protesters in jail under a new law.
In Britain, free speech is all but dead. Police in the country that introduced John Milton, the author of the most renowned defense of civil liberties, are now arresting people for their private thoughts.
And the British police take their safety seriously! Immigration Riots: One in Six Arrested Were Children, Data Reveals.
An investigation utilizing data from 32 police forces identified 1,233 arrests, 219 involving individuals under 18. Thirteen police forces did not provide figures. Public order offenses were the predominant reason for arrests, accounting for over 700 cases of unrest-related detentions. Other charges included 69 for assault, 45 for theft and burglary, 38 for possession of weapons, 32 related to drugs, and 19 for so-called malicious communications, such as sharing “grossly offensive” social media posts.
But to be fair to the Brits, the biden crime junta does this as well. Flurry of pro-life arrests spurs charges Biden administration is trying to ‘intimidate’ Christians
Moshe Phillips did a Hanukkah article, I’ll share a bit. Hanukkah: The reason for the season
The Jewish holidays—every one of them—is inextricably bound to the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Hanukkah is no different.
Ancient Jewish wisdom identifies multiple ways that the Rabbis of the times of the Mishnah did just this.
One way was the name of the holiday as the word Hanukkah means dedication / rededication for it was the Maccabees that liberated the Holy Temple, cleaned it so it could again be used for holy service, and restarted the sacrifices that had been halted.
Another was the choice the ancient rabbis made in selecting the Haftarah for Shabbat Hanukkah. It is a reading from the Prophet Zechariah and there the Prophet insists that the Beit HaMikdash (the Holy Temple) will be physically rebuilt in Jerusalem.
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That is why the Amidah is concluded thusly every time we recite it: “May it be Your will, L-rd our G‑d and G‑d of our ancestors, that the Beit HaMikdash be speedily rebuilt in our days, and grant us our portion in Your Torah.”
One way to bring the authentic spirit of Hanukkah into the year is to concentrate on the above line every time one recites the Amidah.
There’s an additional way to make sure that Hanukkah is rescued from those who would subvert its true background and remake it into some kind of universal holiday that even a secularist can embrace. And that is to push back strongly against any and all attempts to seize any part of Jerusalem from the State of Israel and put it under any else’s control. And that especially includes the Temple Mount.
As Israel’s greatest national poet Uri Zvi Greenberg [1896-1981] wrote: “Whomever controls the Temple Mount controls all of the Land of Israel.”
When we recall the stories of the Maccabees in and their re-inauguration of the Beit HaMikdash all of this takes place in what anti-Israel extremists, and their enablers, deliberately call “East Jerusalem.”
“East Jerusalem” does not actually exist and what they are really saying is that Jerusalem’s Old City and its surrounding neighborhoods, the Western Wall, and the Temple Mount are not part of Israel or part of Israeli Jerusalem.
The original and oldest parts of Jerusalem, where Hanukkah story took place, are what they falsely label “East Jerusalem” and this is the Jerusalem that the Maccabees fought for and not the “New City” which lies outside those walls.
Believe it or not, that is not the whole article, but the whole article is good.
I feel to an extent, with the elections Americans are taking that first step, like Hannah saying “No I don’t want to submit”, like Matityahu say “Oh heck NO! You are not making an unclean sacrifice in my name”. We are staring into the abyss of losing our entire culture and way of life to the evil of the left and their agents. And we don’t want that. Is President Trump Yehuda? No, I’m not even saying that. But brave men, the Maccabee among others and brave women, Hannah and Yehudit among others, have shown us if our religion, if our way of life matters to us, to U.S. enough we must take steps to ensure it’s continuation for future generations. Basically, I think Europistan or I’ve heard it called Eurabia and formerly Great Britain are gone. I think they have so many there now they can’t come back, the invaders and the left, government, voters and media are a toxic brew. Because if the government takes any steps they don’t like the “refugees” seem to have no problem rioting, murdering and burning the country to the ground. While the left and the media will cover for them and provide excuses, it never brings anything back, does it?
America needs a Hanukkah, we need a re-dedication to our founding principles and morals. We need to return our focus to our Judeo-Christian origins. We need to be the light that brings knowledge of G-d into the world.
May your and yours have a most blessed holiday season, be it Hanukkah or Christmas on through the the coming year.
Best Hanukkiah ever.
And to settle another eternal question…It’s a Hanukkah movie
חג חנוכה שמח
