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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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Avigayil Roffe in honor of her parents and by the Schulder, Gabe, Papilsky, Katz, Gewirtz and Richman families in memory of their patriarch, Mr. Leslie Gabor, Eliezer ben Menachem Mendel Halevi a”h on his yahrzeit and by the Gittleman family for a zechus of a refuah shleimah for Nosson Dovid ben Chaya Breindel