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What is the origin of Al Ha Nissim for Hanukka?
In (minor Talmudic tractate) Soferim 20:8, we read:
ואומרים בהודייה והודאת פלאות ותשועת כהנים אשר עשית בימי מתתיהו בן יוחנן כהן גדול וחשמונאי ובניו וכן עשה עמנו ה' אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו נסים ונפלאות ...
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The Rokeach and the Chanukah candle
I think it was perhaps Rabbi Glatstein embellishing a little.
Refer to the bottom few lines of the first paragraph:
כן יהיה בחנוכה בית חשמונים ומדליקין בחנוכה ל"ו נרות לפי שבחנוכת העולם ויתן אתם ...
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Chanukah: The Hellenistic Jews defaming the Beis HaMikdash
1. What does me'ila do
Me'ila is the act of using something holy for one's own benefit, in a way that causes the object to deteriorate (by at least a peruta). Once this is done, the transgressor has ...
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How did the Greeks make the menora-oil impure?
Tosafos on the gemara explains:
שהיה מונח בחותמו של כהן גדול - אם כבר גזרו על הנכרים להיות כזבים (נידה פ"ד לד.) צ"ל שהיה מונח בחותם בקרקע שלא הסיטו הכלי
That was paced with the seal of the ...
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How did the Greeks make the menora-oil impure?
Oil is (the aspect of) Chokhmah, Wisdom.
Wine is Binah, bread is Daat, these are three klals that are very old at least in Zohar -- but then you'll see it's all over Miqra.
Great question, since ...
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Is there any interest in eating a baked donut on Chanuka?
R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach has a novel interpretation of the custom to eat doughnuts (mentioned here). According to him, the point is to eat something which will entail reciting the beracha me'ein ...
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Chanukah and Purim as two friends: insight of the Shaloh
The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Shabbos Parshas Mikeitz 27th Day of Kislev 5744) explained that Purim represents the body, e.g. mitzvos, and Chanukah represents the soul, e.g. Torah.
On Purim, we "...
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Locating a Sfas Emes on the influence of Chanukah
Please see if Sfas Emes Miketz 9 is something that helps you:
כי חנוכה ופורים הם נסים האחרונים סמוכין לסוף תיקון הכולל שיהי' נגמר במהרה בימינו בעת ביאת הגואל
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Chanukah and Purim as two friends: insight of the Shaloh
The Targum Simcha Here (English Here) mentions four similarities and connections between Purim and Chanukah.
Although he does not mention the Shelah which you quoted, he does provide his own ...
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Chanukah and Purim as two friends: insight of the Shaloh
There are a possibly a few ways in which they can be deemed "friends", or in other words, share a similar connection.
The first, from a most basic level, is that they are both Rabbinic ...
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