Chanuka: Vintage Vessel

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December 25 2016
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We are all familiar with the miracle of Chanukah, how, after their victory over the Greeks, the Chashmonaim returned to find the devastation the Greeks had wrought on the Temple, how the Greeks had desecrated it and defiled and broken every jug of pure oil used for lighting the Menorah. Then the Chashmonaim found a small flask of untouched oil, still bearing the seal of the High Priest, enough to last only one day, yet miraculously, after lighting the Menorah, the oil lasted for a full eight days until new, pure oil could be produced. Why did this oil become miraculous? Is this flask of oil related to other flasks of oil alluded to or actually recorded in our Holy Writings, and if so, how are they related?

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