The ancient sources that tell the story of the Chashmona’im Ask any Jewish child who the hero of Chanukah is, and he or she will automatically respond, “Yehudah the Maccabee.” But how do we know this? Our traditional sources (an excerpt from Megillas Taanis quoted in the Gemara, Al Hanisim and Rambam) do not mention […]
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