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Episode: Twelve Against Ten Million (Lessons From the Chanukah Story & Miracle)
Description: A single van’s worth of fighters against a sprawling empire isn’t the setup for a myth—it’s the spine of a moral challenge. We take a hard look at the Maccabean revolt and strip it of sentimental glow: twelve or so members of a rabbinic family stood against a Greek world packed with soldiers, arms, elephants, and millions of citizens. The numbers weren’t close, and that’s the point. The heart of Hanukkah is not cute; it’s costly. It asks what happens when conviction refuses to make peace with pressure.We walk through the sc...