How did the Hanukah Al HaNissim integrate the Book of Maccabees and the Talmud into a prayer for all Jews?
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Rabbi Dr. Reuven Kimelman
Reuven Kimelman is the former rabbi of Beth Abraham, the Sephardic Congregation of New England in Brookline, MA., and Professor of Classical Judaica at Brandeis University. His Ph. D. is from Yale University. He is the author of the Hebrew book, The Mystical Meaning of ‘Lekhah Dodi’ and Kabbalat Shabbat, published by The Hebrew University, and the forthcoming The Rhetoric of Jewish Prayer: A Historical and Literary Commentary of the Prayer Book, published by Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. His audio course books…