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" #Hanukkah commonly evokes light, family gatherings, and childhood memory. But these associations sit atop a much deeper and more challenging history.
Hanukkah marks the only successful #Jewish revolt in recorded antiquity against cultural erasure.
Not against slavery. Not against imperial taxation. Not against foreign rule as such.
Against forced #assimilation.
The Seleucid decrees were not primarily economic or political. They were civilizational. They targeted the infrastructure of Jewish continuity itself: #Torah law and study, #Hebrew language, #Shabbat, #circumcision, and the #Jewishcalendar. #Torahscrolls were destroyed, and those who taught or possessed them were executed. In effect, the decrees aimed to dismantle Jewish memory.
Most ancient peoples who faced comparable pressures disappeared."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hanukkah-and-the-jewish-refusal-to-disappear/
