Chanukah

Embark on a journey of Jewish learning and discovery, exploring the depth of our Chanukah resources, where tagged items including audio, programs, and podcast episodes await your exploration.

Chanukah: Nature and Miracles

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem

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Chanukah: Back to the Future

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Mai Chanukah? What is Chanukah? the Talmud (Shabbat 21ba) queries, a question we find with respect to no other holiday. The Talmud explains that Chanukah celebrates the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days, allowing the needed time to…
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Chanukah Program

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem and 5 more

Chanukah Shiurim: All times are Eastern Sunday, Dec. 13:   11:00am  The Story of Chanukah, According to the Book of Maccabees: A Different Miracle, or a Different Perspective?  Rabbi Menachem Leibtag Monday, Dec.…
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Chanukah: Timing the Market

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Before there were clocks and standard time, time was determined in relation to the position of the sun—hence, the importance of the sundial. As a rule our Sages followed this course, teaching, for example, that one may daven mincha …
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Chanukah: An Eternal Message

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the painful realties of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double standard. What in other cultures is done with impunity often causes an uproar when it is the State of Israel doing the exact same thing. While…
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Meat, Milk and the Chanukah Candles

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

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Chanukah: A Special Nation

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the painful realities of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double standard. What in other cultures is done with impunity often causes an uproar when it is the State of Israel doing the exact same thing. While…
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Chanukah: Looking Backward and Forward

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The holiday of Chanukah is a most beloved one. Lighting the candles is the only mitzvah that has, built into its performance, a three-tiered system: what we may call good, better and best. We begin with the basic mitzvah of one candle per household…
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Chanukah: 70 Bulls and 8 Lights

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Perhaps the greatest challenge facing Jewishly conscious people in the modern world is figuring out the proper relationship we are to have vis a vis the outside world. Should it be one of rejection, integration or compromise? The above models have…
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Chanukah: The Dark Days of Winter

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Of all our holidays, only that of Chanukah begins in the second half of the month. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Shavuot occur towards the beginning of the month, when the moon is growing stronger. Pesach, Sukkot, Purim (at least in Jerusalem), Tu b…
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