CHANUKAH ON FIRE CHANUKAH ON FIRE

Ever wonder what exactly is so unique about Chanukah? We’re celebrating that we beat an attacking army that vastly outnumbered us? Hasn’t that happened a million times in our history? Isn’t that practically all of Tanach? If you were to summarize Tanach in a nutshell wouldn’t it be “The Jewish people get attacked- We do Teshuva- There’s a miraculous victory- We are saved- Repeat”? We have so many moments in our history of miraculous salvations that most people don’t even know half of them. Why does Chanukah get its own weeklong holiday when other moments of immense salvation are relegated to mere footnotes in history? The answer might surprise you.