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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Our sages state that it’s a mitzvah on Chanukah to publicize the miracle of the oil by placing our menoros on the left side of the doorway, opposite the mezuzah. But why is this arrangement specifically mandated for Chanukah and not for any other Yom Tov? We don’t read the megillah in the doorway or conduct a Seder there? The Midrash Maaseh Chanukah provides an answer by relating that among the decrees of the Greeks was one forbidding Jews from closing the doors to their homes under penalty of death. Obviously, an open front door meant any sense of privacy was eliminated. Moreover, it symbolized openness to acculturation, assimilation, and all the foreign influences of the street, which leads to the destruction of the sanctity of the Jewish home.

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