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Lord of the Universe!
The past week has been an extremely trying time for Am Yisrael. A terrible tragedy struck all of us when so many lost their lives in the Meron Lag BaOmer celebrations, followed by a murderous drive-by shooting.
At the same time we have seen outbursts of anti-Israel acts expressed by Arab civilians attacking and in some cases attempting to lynch Jews. Nobody knows better than You that I could continue this list with more atrocities that have lately been committed in Your holy country.
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The two miracles of Chanukah were Hashem’s response to the Greek denial of a realm above nature
Chanukah falls at the darkest time of the year, the time when the nights are longest. And the twelve months since last Chanukah have certainly been dark ones for most of us.
Yet just as the darkness of night better offsets the Chanukah lights and increases their glow, so too if we genuinely appreciated the meaning of those lights, they would have the power to dissipate much darkness in our lives, both as individuals and as a people.
THE MIDRASH (Bereishis Rabbah 2:4) expounds the word “darkness” at the beginning of Bereishis (1:2) as a reference to the Greek exile: The Greeks “darkened the eyes of Israel with their decrees, for they would say to them, ‘Write for yourselves on the horn of an ox that you have no portion in the G-d of Israel.’ ”