Timeline for Chanukah: The Hellenistic Jews defaming the Beis HaMikdash
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| Dec 7, 2023 at 20:43 | vote | accept | Shmuel | ||
| Dec 7, 2023 at 0:31 | comment | added | Lo ani | @Shmuel you're welcome! Neither the vessel nor the oil would become impure (assuming the users are not Tamei, I'm looking at it only from the me'ila aspect). If they had in mind to steal the vessel, then they also stole whatever was inside, therefore rendering both unholy but not impure | |
| Dec 6, 2023 at 16:59 | comment | added | Shmuel | Thank you so much. A great answer, shkoyach. So, me'ila does not render oil impure, but the vessel that the oil is in? But what if the Greeks used the menorah-oil for sports for example, as suggested in the mentioned research-article in the comments above? Would that not render the oil unfit for menorah? | |
| Dec 6, 2023 at 2:14 | comment | added | Lo ani | I just noticed that the Maor seems to hold like the Ra'avad, in which case using the oil in any way, so long as they benefited at least a p'ruta, would desecrate all of the oil in that jug. So no need to steal it, anointing themselves, or using some of it to cook or put on their pig-korbanos or anything else would work | |
| Dec 6, 2023 at 2:11 | history | answered | Lo ani | CC BY-SA 4.0 |