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The Eight Days of Hanukkah: Day Eight, The Most Important Story of All
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Brad Hirschfield
This one is easy. The Most important Hanukkah story of all is yours. For seven days we have shared versions of a 2,200 year old story that have inspired people across the time and around the world. And it was all a kind of warm up exercise to help begin telling the version that matters…
The Eight Days of Hanukkah: Day Seven, Your Inner Light
By
Brad Hirschfield
Hanukkah also celebrates the little light found within and its ability to dispel a great deal of darkness. Whether within a little vase of oil found in the Temple or within our own hearts, this story promises that good things really do come in small packages and that each of us is one of those…
The Eight Days of Hanukkah: Day Six, Freedom of Religion
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Brad Hirschfield
For thousands of years people have struggled for the right to practice their faith freely. Not surprisingly, the story of Hanukkah as the celebration of religious freedom became particularly popular in America where we have been conducting the single most successful experiment in religious freedom ever conducted in human history. But the history of Hellenism…
The Eight Days of Hanukkah: Day Five, Zionism and Homecoming
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Brad Hirschfield
Another day brings yet another Hanukkah story. But, in case you missed them, check out yesterday’s and previous days’ Hanukkah stories too. Worth doing so for the comments alone! But now, on to today’s telling of the the Hanukkah tale. For the last hundred years, Hanukkah has also been observed as a national holiday celebrating…
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