Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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SOME THOUGHTS ON CHANUKAH
By LIONEL J. ZIPRIN
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uld accept the Greek easily, did that general know that be-
hanes were as shattered as his!
a rmies. He had underestimated
h is enemy. He had thought too
Ii ttle of this people. Now he had
r eason to be afraid.
When the sons of the Hasmo-
n ean Mattathias returned victo-
r i ous to a Temple no longer
d esecrated by pagan deities, Hal-
1 1 1, the song of praise, the song
a f thanksgiving, was sung. Thus,
t hey showed their gratitude to
a God who allowed his children
t o struggle for the honor of His
name.
Amidst these desecrations a
, ealed jar of oil was found. It
f ad escaped the profanation of
t he heathen. It was lit, and the
f ame burned eight days. Thus,
I he Menorah, the eight-branch
( andle stick! This allowed time
or the preparation of new oils,
i ime for the ritual of the new
, edication of the Temple.
And now, in our holiday cele-
bration, the Menorah is set at
night-fall to burn against the
window . . that a world whose
heaven is darkened may yet be-
hold some light.
— — —
before the passing of many more
Wars are fought for the pres-
to o. The Syrians made idols months, Lysimachus his succes-
ervation of ideals. In our own
he only difference was that the sor would, at Bethsura, be put
times, it has been Democracy
against Fascism. At others, our G reeks made better ones. There to rout in the same shameful
fashion.
They did their job, let's do
own Civil War for example, it w as an immediate affinity.
was unity against disunity. And
There was too much to lose
But Judaea, though it, too,
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our Revolutionary War was, of ft .11 to the influence of Hellen- not to win. The Jew could not
come
had
past.
It
ter all, fought primarily on ac-
sacrifice his
is m, kept up the struggle. Half with too much struggle to be
count of religious intolerance.
dressed
spoke
Greek,
Judaea
of '
Chanukah, the dedication fes- G reek, felt Greek. The High forfeited. The conception of one
tival, celebrated in commemora- P nests themselves adopted Greek God was too lofty a height to be
Season's Greetings
tion of the victories of Judas n ames. Jehova was looked at now substituted with the diver-
sities
of
pagan
deities.
The
soft,
Maccabeas, was fought on the w ith toleration. He was consid-
easily enjoyed morality of the
grounds combining all these
red as just another Olympian Greek was too insipid a solution
three counts. What distinguishes
— a little out of place, to be
it though from these latter st ire! Other Gods were needed! for the complexities of living.
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It missed the single firmness! It
struggles is that, it was "a once
nd the Greeks supplied them! vacillated! It played with ge-
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and for all, win or lose battle."
These though were the short- ometry and logic. The Jew de-
If the Revolutionary War were
Dmings of the people. But there
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lost democracy would, despite c !ere worse abominations. Antio- manded a truth, a way of con-
duct.
He
could
not
tolerate
men-
the defeat, have overcome Eng-
hus Epiphanes, the tyrant, out- tal posing, mental arithmetic.
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lish royalism. If the Civil War
1 wed the Sabbath, built a sta- He could not be satisfied with
were lost, unity would still have ue of Zeus in the center of the
nice, philosophic nuances. Aris-
come about again. But, had the
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emple, sacrified pigs on the sa- totelian
analysis could not make
forces of Maccabeas fallen at
red altar. And these, no matter up for the ecstatic righteousness -
Emmaus, it would have been the h ow far Hellenism had gone to
that belonged to Moses.
"be all and end all" then and hape the people's ways, could
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A culture was at stake. Ju- 1
there. There would have been no
of be endured,
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daism
held
the
banner.
It
would
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turning back. There would have
Mattathias called his people not permit itself, nor the world, i
been no new chance for victory.
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to slip back. . Zeus could not tri- t
The result, in short, would have t ogether. His five sons were tip-
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their leaders. The war umph over Jehovah
Jehovah.
been that Judaism would have pointed
forces of
Already
the
Epi-
i
began!
of
Antiochus
plans
Th
The
gone the way of so many other
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the enemy corn-
Oriental creeds. It would have Opollonius,
nander, had been withheld and
literary
and
his-
remained as a
hrown back. And at Beth-horon
toric relic. Its real life would t
that same year, a second and a Chanukah Greetings
have ceased. Let those who take 1
arger army, under the command
a mystical glory in the fact of
Judaism's miraculous existence if Seron, was hurled against
Frank
realize how thin-worn the thread le Judaeans, only to meet the
its predecessor.
as
fate
tame
actually was.
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than
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He
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Chanukah Greetings
powerful faiths, two cultures, off the assault —
two completely dissimilar ways
We greet our many friends, relatives and Detroit Jewry,
of life — the Hebrew versus the
wishing than a Joyous Chanukah.
Greek.
We take pleasure in extending to our many
Greek Hellenism, after the
conquests of Alexander the Great,
Jewish Friends and Patrons
had filtered through the entire
INCORPORATED
East. Palestine itself felt the
corruption far more strongly
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The shooting has stopped, but
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