Podcast: Mark Gottlieb on the Everlasting Hanukkah

This Week’s Guest: Mark Gottlieb

When the Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah each winter, what are they celebrating? The story of the holiday is the tale of rededicating the Temple in Jerusalem after it had been occupied and defiled by the Seleucid Greeks, who—with the aid of Hellenizing Jews—were not content to have conquered the land but also demanded that the Jews living there relinquish their way of life.

Had that happened, monotheism itself would have been snuffed out. The stakes were great for the Jewish people, but each and every believing Muslim, Christian, and Jew who walks the earth today owes some measure of debt to the small remnant of a small people who resisted the mightiest military empire on earth.