Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle, 10 December 1971. We asked “the rabbi” to give us his personal interpretation of the meaning of the Festival of Light. The Talmud (Shabbat 21b) asks why we keep Chanucah. Every Jewish equivalent of Macaulay’s schoolboy knows the answer given there: “When the Greeks entered the Temple, they defiled all…
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