Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Four SOME THOUGHTS ON CHANUKAH By LIONEL J. ZIPRIN m °ties of . • living. 1. Luc • oy...., • come ..•,...— •••.,•.., ,.....•• over 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, ours. Buy Victory Bonds. 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. SAM ELLIS FS CO. It missed the single firmness! It struggles is that, it was "a once nd the Greeks supplied them! vacillated! It played with ge- Wholesale and Retail Clothing 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 401 Gratiot 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. CA. 9458 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 . ' 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 OUR BEST WISHES TO THE ENTIRE A culture was at stake. Ju- 1 there. There would have been no of be endured, JEWISH COMMUNITY FOR A JOYOUS daism held the banner. It would daism 3 turning back. There would have Mattathias called his people not permit itself, nor the world, i been no new chance for victory. CHANUKAH.—BUY VICTORY BONDS to slip back. . Zeus could not tri- t The result, in short, would have t ogether. His five sons were tip- FOR PEACE AND SECURITY. 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 Mr. and Mrs. Nate Goldman 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. 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