Tonight Chanukah comes in, “she’asa nissim laavoteinu bayamim haheim lazman hazeh.”
We thank Hashem who made great miracles for us back then and enabled the Maccabim to take on the great Greek army and all the legions and advanced technology of the Greeks.
We thank Hashem who made the miracles back them until today.
Today we’re living here in Hebron with modern-day Maccabim surrounded by all types of enemies are trying to darken us. But Israel as a whole is fighting that war of Chanukah.
All the miracles, all the holidays that we have are all miracles from above. Hashem made supernatural miracles. He took us out from Egypt with the Ten Plagues and the Splitting of the Sea.
He gave us the Torah and we were passive recipients. He surrounded us with the clouds of glory on the holiday of Succot.
But Chanukah is a miracle of Am Yisrael. The Jewish nation has an awakening of passion, of longing and yearning to fight for their freedom to fight for the Holy Temple. To fight against the darkness of the Greeks and to light that menorah when we had enough for one night.
We have to get that spirit of the Maccabim that awakening that we’ve had since the war. And our chalayim who are fighting today with so much strength, with so much courage against so many odds, against so many condemnations.
God willing, the One who brought us to victory back then will bring us to great victory today and we should be able to see the light prevail over the darkness. be able to see our light being Mosif V’holech in our personal life also every night another candle, another candle, we should just get stronger and stronger. We should be able to prevail and be victorious over all our enemies.
Shabbat shalom. Chanukah sameach.
– Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum, Hebron Tourism Director
