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  2. Mattathias - Wikipedia

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    Mattathias's story is related in the deuterocanonical book of 1 Maccabees and in the writings of Josephus. Mattathias is accorded a central role in the story of Hanukkah and, as a result, is named in the Al HaNissim prayer Jews add to the Birkat Hamazon (grace after meals) and the Amidah during the festival's eight days.

  3. Miracle of the cruse of oil - Wikipedia

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    Rabbi Joseph Karo is known for asking why Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days, if the oil was expected to last one day, so seemingly only the last seven days were miraculous. This question became famous and many answers were suggested to it; indeed a book was published in 1962 compiling 100 different proposed answers, with a more recent work ...

  4. Matthew 9:13 - Wikipedia

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    In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The New International Version translates the passage as: But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'

  5. When is the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah? What does it mean? Is ...

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    Hanukkah, which means dedication in Hebrew, marks the Jewish victory over the Syrian dynastic ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes who invaded Judea in 164 BCE, desecrating the second temple in Jerusalem ...

  6. What to know about Hannukah and how it's celebrated around ...

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    In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after a small group of Jewish fighters liberated it from ...

  7. Matthew 9:16 - Wikipedia

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    So, therefore, the rent is made worse. MacEvilly further points out that parable connects to the verse before, that Christ does not enjoin strict fasting on his new disciples, preferring rather they do so of their own free will out of love for him, which they do later (see Acts 13:2, 3; 2 Cor. 11:27; Acts 27:9).

  8. The Meaning of Hanukkah Goes Beyond Lights and Latkes - AOL

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    The Hanukkah story. According to Jewish tradition, after the winning back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...

  9. Matthew 9:18 - Wikipedia

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    And in Mark’s account, the place where these things might come in, is evident. In like manner, Luke does not contradict Matthew; for what he adds, And behold a man, whose name was Jairus, (Luke 8:41.) is not to be taken as though it followed instantly what had been related before, but after that feast with the Publicans, as Matthew relates.