The Story Behind the Story
A Hanukah Message from Rabbi Yamin Levy
Vice President of Yeshiva Affairs, YCT Rabbinical School
Kislev 5769

While the traditional story of Hanukah presents Greeks as wicked tyrants bent on our destruction and Greek culture as the ultimate force of darkness, we know from world history and Jewish history that Greek culture was a source of  much light in the ancient world. Much of western philosophy, medicine, mathematics and geometry is born out of Greek culture. Rambam, Maimonides, regarded Aristotle in the highest esteem and even suggested he could be a prophet.

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