Januka's essence is gratitude!
If everyone could understand the magnitude of this holiday, they could receive great miracles in their lives...
Unfortunately, there are people who, out of ignorance and others perhaps out of malice, discredit this great holiday, saying that "it is not a holiday commanded by the Creator" or simply "that it is not in the Torah."
The reality is that this is a serious mistake, since as we said, this "is ignorance." We know and have the evidence that it was a real event.
The objective of this writing is not to talk about what happened in these days at that time, because we have already published enough information about it, the objective is to clarify to many who do not know that this holiday is as important or perhaps equally great, than the festivals that were granted to us in the Torah, since these convocations in which the Eternal demands us are an ordinance "from the Eternal to us", but unlike this holiday "Chanukah" is what the Eternal pleases the most, because it is "from His people to Him", We did not do it by command, but out of love and this was and will continue to be an "immense act of Gratitude" on our part towards Him!
This holiday arose as a result of a great miracle! Generated by the "Ratzon" (pure desire) of a few Jews who did not want to be Hellenized; they did not want to lose the Torah, the Mitzvot (Precepts), and all our customs, for a very powerful reason: "Love for the Creator and His Torah."
That impressive event was a reconciliation between Hashem and the people, the great sages tell us that Chanukah is related to the "rehabilitation of the Temple" and from the spiritual point of view the Temple means the place where the Creator and His creature unite, therefore its destruction or desecration (which occurred on Chanukah) refers to the breaking of this union between the two, and that unification is what the great sages show us through this great Holiday!
What better action than to return to the Creator with Praises of Gratitude and Joy! This is Hanukkah!!
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