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CHANUKAH THEN
AND NOW!

By Rabbi Mordechai Yitzchok Friedman, M.S. in Ed.

In the year 165 B.C.E., Hellenist apostate Jews marched into the city of Modin. The Jewish Hellenists (gave up Judaism and made common cause with Hellenists) ate swine and commenced to coerce the inhabitants to ingest pork and worship the diabolical Hellenist King Antiochus and Zeus. The Jewish traitor soldiers and Gentile Greek-Syrian Hellenists were the enforcers. Mattathias the Kohen assassinated the Jewish Hellenist leader and with his sons assassinated the Jewish Hellenist and Gentile Greek-Syrian Hellenist soldiers. Mattathias and his sons initiated the revolution, indeed a civil war ensued! Judah the Maccabee, his family, the Hasmoneans and the Jews became zealots who assassinated the followers of Hellenist King Antiochus who defiled the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. In that era, there was a so-called "Peace" Party that instituted a "Peace Process" (sic) over the objections of Judah. The "Peace Process" was violated by both Jewish Hellenists and the Gentile Greek-Syrian Hellenists and the armed struggle resumed. It took many years to rid the country of Jewish traitors and Gentile occupiers.

Today, the secularists (Modern Day Hellenists), heretical sects, and some ritualists have collaborated with the Arafat PLO murderers in a fraudulent blasphemous traitorous so-called, "Peace Process." Pork is openly eaten in Israel by over 400,000 Non-Jewish Russians and some Jewish Russians, both are 5th columnists. Former Prime Minister Rabin ate bacon while in New York. If Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu, Barak, Sharon, Olmert, Livni Y'S etc. etc., had been alive during the Chanukah era they would have been Hellenists ipso facto the Maccabbeans would have surely executed them! Indeed, Chazal our Sages instituted the Al Hanisim prayer to be recited during Chanukah. The Prayer reads, And for the miracles, and for the salvation and for the mighty deeds and for the victories, and for the battles which you performed for our ancestors in those days and today!

In The Days Of Mattisyahu, The Son Of Yochanan, The High Priest, the Hasmonean, and his sons - when the wicked Greek kingdom rose up against Your people Israel to make them forget Your Torah and compel them to stray from the statutes of your Will You in Your Great mercy stood up for them in the time of their distress. You took up their grievance, judged their claim and avenged their wrong. You delivered the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few, the impure into the hands of the pure, the wicked into the hands of the righteous, and the wanton into the hands of the diligent students of Your Torah. For Yourself You made a great and holy Name in Your world, and for Your people Israel You worked a great victory and salvation as this very day. Thereafter, Your children came to the Holy of Holies of Your House, cleansed Your Temple, purified the site of Your Holiness and kindled lights in the Courtyards of Your Sanctuary, and they established these eight days of Chanukah to express thanks and praise to Your great Name.

Indeed, the main miracle was the few overpowering the many. The miracle of the oil for one day, lasting eight days was also a miraculous occurrence. At that time, the Maccabbeans were what is termed today “Orthodox”. Today the Orthodox in Israel, don't follow the teachings of Chazal (Mahasah Ovous Simon Lbonim), we are too "emulate the actions of the forefathers”.

Since 1948, the secularist governments criminally failed in security. Over 40,000 Jews have been murdered. The secularists continuously surrender to the Islamo-Fascists. If today’s Hellenists, were transported back to the Chanukah era, they would be tried for capital offenses and receive capital punishment. Indeed, there was a civil war during this era and tens of thousands of Jewish Hellenists were executed by the Orthodox Maccabbeans…

The Almighty instructs us indeed, the Torah outlines the total expulsion of Gentile hostiles (Numbers 33, 50-56). If not, Hashem, declares, the Gentiles will harass the Jews, the Gentiles will be as thorns in the eyes, and as pointed weapons in the sides of the Jews, and the Jews will be driven out of the land. Unfortunately, in this instance, Biblical prophecy comes true. Jews, today, are suffering this prophecy.

What Israel needs is a Medinat Torah (Jewish Theocratic State).

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