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CHANUKAH
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CHANUKAH
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THE OLDEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927
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'patterns. Greek speech on every!
tontineand who knows what of I
foreign ideas in every mind? Wail
it,---could it be true—that in Holy!
, City, figures of marble were
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placed for ornamentation?
—' it really true that the Sons of
Aaron, the nobles of his people,
raced naked in the stadium and
crowned their heads with garlands'
of heathen consecration? People.
talked widely that those things
were done by men who called
themselves Jews and sought to be
like the Hellenes about them. And
they talked also of men who clung
in speech and thought and dress
and actions to the customs of their
fathers, who assembled in groups
to emphasize all that was ancient,
and reject with force and scorn'.
all that was foreign. In every
city and community, Mattathiah
saw, with scowling apprehension,
Hellenizing nobles, flaunting pur-
ple - dyed mantles in the wind and
reveling in the sound of their
newly-acquired Greek names. And
he saw, too, here and there the
zealous and fanatic Hasidim—
men much more to his temper in
ideas, but far enough removed
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1. Bronze, French, attributed to the Twelfth century. 2. Yellow tion of their spirits.
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For Mattathiah was a stern man
Italian. S. Silver and bronze, Seventeenth century.
who had always dealt with stern
realties. The Hasidim were large-
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A visionary he certainly was not.
And the inevitable crisis came,
That it would come ell reasonable
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Festival Of the Maccabees
The Chanukah story is not likely
to be unfamiliar to any Jew. In
many homes in which the ances-
ral liturgy is long forgotten the
lights still burn at Chanukah and
children are told the legend of the
Dedication, about the little cruse
' of oil and its miraculous exten-
sion. Thousands of family usages
' have gathered about it. It is a
joyous festival, almost as much as
Purim.
And like Purim, it is much older
than the events it professes to
commemorate. Long before Per-
sians or Greeks were lords in Pal-
estine, perhaps even before the
Jews came there, men observed
the winter and the spring solstice
with lights and mummeries, with
gifts and merriment, much as
these two "good days" are ob-
served by Jews today. Learned
men, profound critics and his-
torians have been at some pains
to find us analogies for this or
that ceremony in distant part of
the world, and to discover mean-
ings in many customs that take us
back to a remote and savage past.
It is well to know all these things,
but, for us, that association is
most precious which has given
these ceremonies their strongest
mark. The lights of the winter
festival, in one fashion or another,
got themselves associated with one
of the most colorful and thrilling
stories in human history, with the
story of the Maccabees.
Who were these "Maccabees?"
It is a name they never gave them-
selves and one that was attached
to them in much later times. Leg-
end became busy with them at
once and both legend and sober
history gave it a glory that neither
hatred nor ignorance nor the
blood-lust of cowardly pogrom
mobs could wholly efface. When
modern observers still rub their
eyes in silly surprise at Jewish
military courage, they murmur
something apologetically about
"Maccabees" and believe they
have explained everything.
A priestly caste had existed
, among the Jews from ancient
times. They were not "holy" men
—nor always even pious or God-
fearing men. They had in their
hands the administration of the
complicated ritual. And when, in
later times, such a ritual could be
performed only at Jerusalem, to
be a "priest" meant merely to be-
long to an upper class, conscious
of its ancient lineage and separate-
ness. After the Exile, in the caste
of priests, there came to be prince-
ly and almost regal clans and fam-
ilies and humbler and less illus-
trious clans and families.
One of these less distinguished
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families were those called the B'ns.
Hasmonai, the Sons of Ilasmona
themselves a branch of a gren
elan called the Sons of Joiarib
They lived, apparently for many
generations, in a little village of
Judea, the obscure lives of local
dignitaries, country gentlemen,
not really to be distinguished in
the actual course of their activi-
ties from the people about them;
laborious and energetic men with
the hardness and stoniness that a
difficult soil and the constant need
of vigorous self-defense bring
about.
Welcome Gifts of
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Kings there were many in the
East, but once there had been one
king, the mighty Alexander. And
after him this or that man had
stretched out his hand for the
scepter of the king of kings and
failed. Now, for in the north, at
Antioch, a strange fantastic fig-
ure, certainly demented and as
certainly royal, dreamed of a
great Hellenic empire that could
match itself against the Rome he
knew only too well. It could be
done—of that he was sure—with
courage and craft, even with a
motley people that cried out Greek
phrases from un-Greek lips. One
step—an infinitesimally small one
—so small that he could scarcely
have given much thought to it, in
the vast plans that brooded in his
sick mind—was to check some
groups of Syrian mountaineers
that gave trouble to his devoted
Hellenizers. It was easy to do
that. Even among the Jews he
allowed himself to be bold, all but
the rudest and coarsest had little
love for the strange old rites of
their fathers. To make war on a
God gave a malicious pleasure to
this skeptic philosopher who called
himself a God. Commands were
given and Antiochus the manifest
God, turned to more important
things.
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For they lived in a country that
had again, as in ancient days, be-
come the battleground of great
causes. For more than 100 years,
armies had passed and repassed
over Palestine, and the hill-peas-
ants knew that, whoever won, ma-
rauding troops and plundering no-
mads would sack every field that
could not beat off the raveners.
In his little village Mattathiah, son
of John, of the B'ne llasmonai ,
had doubtless spent his youth and
sturdy manhood in defending his
patrimony and we can well be-
lieve that the blood ran high and
hot in his veins when what he held
dear was threatened.
His old age had been passed in
Doubtless he never knew what
peace. The Eastern Mediterra-
nean was catching its breath and, happened and he would not have
understood,
if he had known. A
for a while, Greek kings and cities
were murmuring to each other of jaunty liellenizing Jew walks air-
ily
to
a
country
altar to prove his
union and fraternization, while
they watched in terror the length. lofty freedom from ancient super-
stitions.
A
great
sword flashes in
ening shadow of the mighty West-
ern city of Rome. That could not the air, wielded by brawny al.ns
last, of course. Inside of a gene- whose aged muscles are like steel.
ration every prince or nation was Mattathiah, son of John, of the
in furious conflict again, each house of Hammonai, faces the
seeking to grasp what was nearest, cowering and terrified multitude.
as ancient houses decayed and "To your tents, Oh Israel!" The
power seemed easy to seize for dream of a isreek empire collapses,
any bold adventurer that would and for thousands of years there-
take the trouble. After all, Rome after tiny candles flicker in homes
was still far away. We may be throughout the world to remind
sure that Morlin, an old and pow- men of the splendid story.
erful man, with five tall sons about
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him, clutched his sword firmly as
he went about his daily tasks.
Ile had seen strange things hap-
Some people don't like this pub- •
pen in these latter years. Ma- lication. They only read it spas.
rauders came rarely now to his modicaly and because now and
Judean countryside. Evidently the then they find in it what they con.
spoil was dearly bought that had sides a defect, even though their
to be wrested from men of this judgment is not infallible, they
type. But other things were occur- get a spasm of antagonism and il.
rin, which to men like him seemed logically con 'omn the entire mag-
even more ominous than the gath- azine. Over against such I found
ering of hostile bands.
a comfort and heartening in a re
The Jews, his people, were the cent message, like which I have
congregation of the Lord. And he many, from Rev. John W. Her-
and his kinsmen were priests and ring, an official of the Federal
ministers of the Most High God. Council of the Churches of Christ
What were these foreign things in America, to the effect: 'I con-
that he saw about him more and eider the Supplement very fine in-
more—buildings in the foreign deed."
It is to be hoped and expected
manner, clothes cut after foreign
that such testimony will make
critics at least a little more cau-
1 tions.—Alexander Lyons.
The Jew
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The rich man's fowls never
kr,w the want of grain.
When the wild geese fly they
the sense to follow their
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leader.
As Egypt's stream, whose turbid waters rise
From whence the warming rays of Afric's sun
Gives life within her burning breasts,
Thence flowing, saw the rising mounds.
Reared by the regal pomp and pride of men,
Whose record seem as shadows dim
Upon the mystic trace of time,
So the red stream that throbs within his veins
'lath lived when history's tablets dark
Bore record only to lives of kings,
But on the trace of ages lasting lie.
Wrapt in no vagueness. the morning of his race.
When in the strength of kinship stood they up
No monarch held their homage only Him.
The Great Jehovah, Creator, Lord and King
Of the eternal universe, to Him they bowed.
All nations knew them then as now.
So within the forest stands a hardy tree—
Upright. though scarred, bearing the mark of time.
Thus stands his kin among the race of men.
And like crude ore that through the furnace heat
Is stretched and strained—by blows made hard—
And by such use become a weapon keen,
Tempered and strong, so Israel stands,
Trained for life's battle by the rack of time.
And by this we know the blighting curse.
That did like autumn leaves, no scattered them
Among the nations, doth now with mercy blend.
—STANWOOD J. DE LAN.
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