8 candles and decreases throughout the week (Beth Shamai)
a candle is added every week (Beth Hillel)
sages discussed and said as Beth Hillel
8 candles and the law is like Beth Hillel
A walk in a multidimensional feast poorly understood
Orchard de.Hanouka
Treaty of Babylonian Talmud Shabbat in the sheet 21b Our Rabbis taught
: The twenty-fifth of Kislev, the days of Chanukah are eight in number, and during which he must not speak of elegy nor fast. Because when the Greeks entered the Sanctuary, they defiled all the oils that were there and when the reign of the Hasmonean house was fortified and routed them, they looked and found nothing that a single pot of oil standing with the seal of the High Priest (who certified his ability) and there was just (quantity sufficient) to be able to switch with him (one) day. A miracle happened and we could turn him (during) a week. The following year they established and transformed (these days questions) in festive dates, praise and thanks
Rambam Hiljot Hanukkah 3.3
And that is why the wise men of this generation , established that the eight days that begin the twenty-fifth of Kislev are the days of joy and praise. And these days, candles are lit the night at the entrance gates and at each of the eight nights in order to publish and produce the miracle that occurred in the sanctuary ...
Treaty in the Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah 8a
When Adam saw that the days were getting shorter, he said: "Poor me, perhaps only because of my sin, the world around I was trying to darken and return to chaos and the abyss, then this will be the death that I was decreed from heaven. "For this, he begins to observe eight days of fasting (and prayer ). But when he realized that the winter solstice arrived and the days began to lengthen He said: "This is the cycle of nature!" and then he observed eight days of celebration. He stared at the name of Heaven, and the pagans did in the name of idolatry
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The Persians lit huge fires and they let loose the birds that were dry grass. The Romans celebrated Dec. 25 as the birthday of the sun and they began their eight days before Christmas
If you think it was a coincidence that Antiochus chose a 25 Kislev in the year 167 to start feasting his idolatrous Temple of Jerusalem in the middle, you're wrong.
By extension, we can not say that when the Maccabees theoretically re-inaugurated the Temple was a date at random. It was the most concrete demonstration of his triumph over Antiochus and the face of Hellenistic Jews, who had incorporated, by mass, the ranks of the culture I see coming hellénique.Et the question: Christmas, which falls on 25décembre ?!
What have we found? Hanukkah that did not begin at Chanukah, Christmas, let alone over Christmas, but that history goes back even to Adam!
"Hanukkah" is divided two to understand it thus: "'Hanou Ca", where "' Hanou" is "they rested" and "ca" are two Hebrew letters, the "CIF" and "hei," which together mean value in digital "25" which, as regards the name of the celebration, would indicate that the 25 of Kislev , they were able to rest after battling a long time to re-inaugurate the temple.
As if that was little, and with the mêmedivision, there are those who read the first two letters, the "jet" and "noun" as "jen", meaning "grace", which is equivalent to saying that the uring this 25 , the Warriors found the Maccabean victory with God's grace.
Another interesting hermeneutic exercise is to ask why we continue to celebrate the miracle for 8 days. If the pot of consecrated oil that thebright found, was for a single day and that it lasted eight days when there was a miracle in the remaining 7 days. Would you consider yourself? Ifyou have any doubts and while you do, I offer some suggestions:
mazaltovpages • The oil was divided into 8 parts for 8 days (while we produce new oil) and chaquepartie was sufficient for its night.
• The first day as we see it as miraculous for allowing us to conquer the Greeks, as we were fewer and weaker. • When
put oil in the candlestick, the container remained filled as if it had not utilisé.Cela not noticed it from day one. •
candles of the menorah lit all night and the next morning, oil was complete pourpouvoir the relighting.
• The first night we made some very fine strands and have put very little oil for qu'ellespuissent last 8 days. Despite this and the light shone nediminua not normally
Let's move further
start with the principle: "Bereshit baráElohim ...". Our task is to discover the secret of 25. Because that day, the ultimate meaning of Hanukkah is concentrated. And in this dimension we arrive at 25 in cash
What is the word number 25 in the Torah?
If you counted correctly, the correct answer is "gold", that is to say "light"
The primordial light of creation, that God first, called into existence during the jouroù the universe began, this light is that which are tconcentrée in this issue. And obviously it is occult.
should not be confused with the sun and the stars that they appear only on the fourth day!. The mystics say that is why the declaration of faith pourlaquelle largest ofOur people, the statement of monotheism, the "Shema Israel," is inexorably composed of 25 letters. Because when we say the Shema, a little light this unfolds.
But it still accounts faire.Nos sages say this is restricted to light hidden righteous people (Jaguigá 12a). And she shone in the Creation only for 36 hours (Ierushalmi Brajot 8:5). And that is precisely why, in every generation, there are 36 righteous occult (that which is enshrined in the Sucá45b), known as the "lamedvavnikim (lettreshébraïques of" lamed " and "vav" which form the number "36"), without which the world would lose immédiatementson existence.
Hanukkah, also called "Chag Haurim", that is to say, "The Festival of Lights" starts the day just commuting number 25 to number 36. Why? Because we
allonsen increasing light on our chandeliers, adding a candle each day, and so ... 1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 =..... 36!. My fellow walkers, the miracle of what is secret, it's not just that of Hanukkah. The miracle is that of discovering the presence of what is extraordinary in the everyday. And recognize when it is clear and public, as is the case especially during the celebration, when the traversde candles, we can see a few sparks of light that obscures, with which God, according to the most esoteric sle text of our tradition , feeds the world - (Zohar, Shemot 149a)
Sameah Hag! ..
Rabbi M. Polakoff
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