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Chanukah, Heroism, and President Trump
American Thinker.com ^ | December 13, 2017 | Avrohom Gordimer

Posted on 12/13/2017 10:58:44 AM PST by Kaslin

My Talmud study partner is the rabbi of a small Orthodox congregation in Upper Manhattan, and our Sunday morning study session often starts with my study partner giving me a recap of his Saturday morning sermon. This week, as soon as I got the recap, I knew that I had to share it publicly.

In the Jewish tradition, a portion of the Five Books of Moses/the Torah is read aloud as part of the Sabbath morning service. This past week’s Torah portion featured the story of Joseph and his brothers, and included the narrative of Judah and Tamar. Despite Judah’s initial actions with Joseph and Tamar, Judah later redeemed himself by confessing to having been involved with Tamar and by stepping up to the plate to save his brother Benjamin. Judah acted boldly and heroically, putting himself out and doing what was right, rather than doing that which was easy.

My study partner compared Judah’s actions to those of the Maccabees (the heroes of the story of Chanukah) and to those of President Trump. The Maccabees, who were devoutly faithful Jewish fighters, waged war upon the mighty Seleucid occupiers of the Land of Israel, who were stifling religion and were preaching secularism and hedonism. The tiny Maccabean militia miraculously triumphed over the massive Seleucid army, liberating the Land of Israel and its inhabitants from anti-religious Hellenist influence. This event was marked by the famous miracle of the oil that burned for eight days, and the Temple in Jerusalem, which had been defiled by the Seleucids, was thereupon purified and was rededicated to the service of God.

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1 posted on 12/13/2017 10:58:44 AM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 12/13/2017 11:04:07 AM PST by DoughtyOne (This forum is a Doug Jones free zone! Go Roy Moore!)
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3 posted on 12/13/2017 11:24:42 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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Good Article...thanks.


4 posted on 12/13/2017 11:27:17 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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Nice.


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6 posted on 12/13/2017 1:55:42 PM PST by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: V K Lee

Great article. Many thanks for sharing it.


7 posted on 12/14/2017 11:40:06 AM PST by Faith
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