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wrote to the slave dealers, inviting
them to come. Those Jews• who
were not killed, would be sold into
slavery.
When the time came for the
crucial battle the Syrian general
was supremely confident. His sol-
diers numbered five times as many
as the Judeans could muster and
they were fully equipped. But when
he arrived at the point where he
expected to meet Judas Maccabeus,
there was no sign of life.
"Guess they chickened and ski-
dooed," he said.
What should he do?
A few minutes later, he heard a
rumpus behind him. Everybody
turned and looked back. They
could see the Syrian soldiers flee-
ing.
Judas Maccabeus had taken his
army and was attacking the enemy
from the rear, completely disorgan-
izing the army, whose powerful
weapons had been placed in front.
The Syrian general was indig-
nant. This was a very ungentleman-
ly thing to do. Attacking a man
from the rear. It makes you ner-
vous
But the general didn't have
much time to think. He started
running too, and the slave dealers
dropped their bags of money in
their attempt to get away.
Well, the Jews said, now we will
have Hanuka gelt for the children.
And that is how come on Hanuka,
Jews lighting the candles bless the
Lord for "giving the strong in thy
hands of the weak, the many in
the hands of the few."
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Children, said the teacher, for faith. In advance of the battle, he honor here to mark a grant from
our lesson in mathematics today,
we will take up Hanuka.
Some have said, the teacher
said, that Hanuka is of Irish origin,
since it deals with the Maccabees.
They say it should be spelled
McAbee. Of course that story is
nonsense. It has not a latke to
stand on. The Irish of course are
a great people, but Hanuka is of
the sons of Aaron, not of Erin.
The Maccabees were a family
who lived in the town of Modin,
not far from Jerusalem. Just a
little quiet town. Some people were
Democrats maybe, some Repub-
licans. Most were farmers. It's
about an hour's ride from Jerusa-
lem. Some of the young people
going to Jerusalem might thumb
a ride on a passing camel. There
was no bus you could take. There
was not enough traffic then to
justify a bus. Besides there were
no buses then. There weren't even
a irplanes. The fact is people
Boys in the Bar Mitzva class of Chaplain Kenneth J. Weiss, who weren't
a hurry to get
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Mattathias, the kohen, or priest,
party for children of Jewish GIs that takes place in the Jewish
was head of the Maccabee family
chapel at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
and his wife was Mrs. Mattathias
Maccabee. The oldest son was Judas
Maccabeus and his favorite subject
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in school was arithmetic. He was
especially impressed by the new
math which the rabbis of that day
taught. The Talmud says not all
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is. While a single person might
snuff out the light of a candle, still
at other times it was greater than
a whole world of darkness. So how
much really is one or any other
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number? Its value obviously de-
pends on other circumstances.
Judas Maccabeus thought of this
when the Syrian dictator, Anti-
ochus, forbade the worship of the
Jewish religion and set up diffe-
rent idols, and even pigs as gods,
and commanded Jews to worship
them. Antiochus had conquered all
of Asia Minor and he had sent
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in a formidable army of tens of
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When the Syrian officer came to
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be silent when you offer your
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