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This Land Is Our Land! | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Rabbi Reuven Taragin | 2 Tevet 5784 – Thursday, December 14, 2023

This Land Is Our Land! | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Rabbi Reuven Taragin | 2 Tevet 5784 – Thursday, December 14, 2023
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This Land Is Our Land! — Bayamim Haheim, Bazman Hazeh - The 5 Towns Jewish Times

  “We have not taken a foreign land; we do not hold the property of others. Rather, the land is our ancestral inheritance taken from us lawlessly. When G-d gave us the strength, we returned it to ourselves.” (Maccabees 1:15:33–34) This was Shimon HaMaccabee’s response to Antiochus’s demand that the Maccabees cede territory to him. We, […]

Purim, Ukraine, and the price of silence

From the blog of Frederick L. Klein at The Times of Israel

When Rabbis Tread Where They Should Fear to Go

Remembering Yitzhak Rabin: We Miss You Haver

bayamim hahem uvazman hazeh – in the days of old, and in our day. Bayamim Hahem – In Days of Old The Maccabean revolt sought to rid the Temple, Jerusalem, and the Jewish leadership from the influence of the idolatry, wealth, and ideas of the Seleucid Greek empire. The Hasmonean family was a regular priestly family that presented a nationalistic and familial alternative to the out of touch aristocratic class. However, in the generations following their idealistic revolt, the dynasty would become that which it overthrew. The Hasmonean dynasty at its best sought the advice of the Sanhedrin’s religious leadership under Shimon, forged peace treaties with Armenia under Shlomtzion the Queen, and built monumental infrastructure second only to  Herod. At its worst, the dynasty was a conquering empire that forcibly converted others to its own religion and an aristocratic society that fought a civil war against its own people – the very people that would have fought arm-in-arm with

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