Maccabees - A Live Chanukah Adventure
Maccabees - A Live Chanukah Adventure
Nov 25, 2009
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Happy Hanukkah! You know the story: The Maccabees, the Temple, the oil that lasted eight days. 🕎✨ Except... that’s not what happened. The original Book of Maccabees never mentions the miracle of the oil. Even the greatest historian of the era, Josephus, admitted he had no idea why Hanukkah was called the "Festival of Lights." So, who turned the lights on? 🕯️🤔 The historical evidence points to a shocking source: The very man who murdered the last descendants of the Maccabees. King Herod. #Hanu
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Happy Hanukkah! You know the story: The Maccabees, the Temple, the oil that lasted eight days. 🕎✨ Except... that’s not what happened. The original Book of Maccabees never mentions the miracle of the oil. Even the greatest historian of the era, Josephus, admitted he had no idea why Hanukkah was called the "Festival of Lights." So, who turned the lights on? 🕯️🤔 The historical evidence points to a shocking source: The very man who murdered the last descendants of the Maccabees. King Herod. #Hanu
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Do you know the miracle of the oil? Hanukkah is a season of increasing light, in rememberance of the oil that lasted 8 days in the temple Menorah when the Maccabees retook Jerusalem from the Greeks. Jesus celebrated Hanukkah: “It was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple …” (John 10:22-23) | DFW New Beginnings
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Do you know the miracle of the oil? Hanukkah is a season of increasing light, in rememberance of the oil that lasted 8 days in the temple Menorah when the Maccabees retook Jerusalem from the Greeks. Jesus celebrated Hanukkah: “It was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple …” (John 10:22-23) | DFW New Beginnings
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Maccabees From to Messiah: Hanukkah’s True Power Hanukkah isn’t just a Jewish tradition—it’s a story of light, dedication, and the same miracle that still burns in every believer today. Join Rabbi Schneider as he explains what the menorah teaches us as followers of Jesus. Hanukkah dates 2025: Begins sunset Sunday, December 14 Ends nightfall Monday, December 22 | Discovering The Jewish Jesus with Rabbi Schneider
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Maccabees From to Messiah: Hanukkah’s True Power Hanukkah isn’t just a Jewish tradition—it’s a story of light, dedication, and the same miracle that still burns in every believer today. Join Rabbi Schneider as he explains what the menorah teaches us as followers of Jesus. Hanukkah dates 2025: Begins sunset Sunday, December 14 Ends nightfall Monday, December 22 | Discovering The Jewish Jesus with Rabbi Schneider
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More than 2,000 years ago, after the Maccabees reclaimed the desecrated Temple in Jerusalem, they found only a single cruse of pure oil. This was barely enough to light the menorah for one day. Yet, in a moment our tradition cherishes as miraculous, that tiny amount of oil burned for eight full days, long enough for new oil to be prepared. The miracle was not merely that the oil lasted; it was that light was rekindled at a time of deep uncertainty. Because this miracle was a light made visible,
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More than 2,000 years ago, after the Maccabees reclaimed the desecrated Temple in Jerusalem, they found only a single cruse of pure oil. This was barely enough to light the menorah for one day. Yet, in a moment our tradition cherishes as miraculous, that tiny amount of oil burned for eight full days, long enough for new oil to be prepared. The miracle was not merely that the oil lasted; it was that light was rekindled at a time of deep uncertainty. Because this miracle was a light made visible,
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