A Different Hanukkah Story

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Understanding the holiday as a civil war helps explain modern divisions among the Jewish people.

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0:00.0	This is on the Media's Midweek podcast.
0:04.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:06.0	Happy Hanukkah!
0:08.0	This week we celebrate Judaism's 8-day festival of lights,
0:12.0	marking one of God's lesser miracles involving lamp oil and faith.
0:16.0	And because holidays are times of nostalgia,
0:20.0	I decided to offer a snippet of Stephen Colbert and John Stewart
0:24.0	to take us down memory lane.
0:27.0	When's it start? On the 25th of December?
0:31.0	Keeslev. Which is when exactly?
0:33.0	I will check.
0:35.0	Are there presents?
0:37.0	Yes indeed eight days of presents,
0:39.0	which means one nice one,
0:41.0	then a week of track.
0:45.0	Does Hanukkah commemorate
0:47.0	events profound and holy?
0:50.0	A king who came to save the world?
0:54.0	No oil that burned quite slowly.
1:00.0	Well it sounds fantastic.
1:03.0	There's more!
1:07.0	What are they?
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