When you contemplate everything our ancestors went through it’s Astonishing to proudly say: here we are thousands of years later still faithful to our religion and thriving.
Absolutely real..you kept your tradition as instructed and culture and people most successful. And you are not asking for reparation. You worked, studied and earned...
One thing to remember is that the Revolt was not just a war of liberation from the Seleucid overlords: within THAT war was also a civil war but between hellenizing Jews -- who wanted accommodation & acculturation with the Seleucid Empire -- and faithful Jews, who wanted to preserve their faith & culture. Americans can see an analogy with our own Revolutionary War, though the analogy is imperfect, of course. The 13 Colonies eventually sought independence from a larger hegemon, but there were thousands of Loyalists in the Colonies who supported the Crown & took up arms. The Battle of Kings Mountain is perhaps the best-known of these engagements. The point is that -- within larger wars for autonomy -- there were bloody civil wars between neighbors, friends, and families.
Excellent rundown. I’m orthodox and we do have Maccabees and we do celebrate them every year. I was raised in Puerto Rico and we studied the Maccabees and there was even a mini series on TV. It’s an amazing history. ☦️
@@elil.severe8207 the whole bible is Israel history so yes it is cannon, man doesn't get to decide what should or shouldn't be included in the bible, we ought to obey god not man, the word says curses are given to those who take away or add to the scriptures, there's a reason for that.
@@richlopez4466 1 Maccabees is such a fun book. Truly exciting, astonishing no one has ever made a movie of it. Has something to do w/ the U.S. being mostly Protestant. As far as Jews, it seems most of them only hear about Hanukah.
I am a Torah-Observant Gentile, and a follower of Yahshua.. Every year at this time, I try to learn more about the amazing Maccabees. Thank you so much for this excellent telling of the story.
6:25-6:28 - I would like to respectfully point out that Maccabees 1 and 2 may not be canonical to some Christian denominations, and I can’t speak for the Jews, but both books are canonical in the Catholic Church and included in the Bible. Thanks for the informative and entertaining vid!
There are many apocryphal texts which the Church doesn’t include in the canon but they’re nonetheless pretty interesting such as the book of Enoch and Tobit..etc. I have a Bible at home which include all apocryphal or none canonical texts.
My reprint of King James version of 1611 has the Apocrapha as that. Between the Old and New testaments. I assume because that is how Jeromes Vulgate was transmitted. Catholic biblies Ive seen today have books of Apocrapha shuffled in with Tanakh.
@@patrickm1right... And the churches outside of Catholicism would have been translating from the Tanakh. I kind of don't understand why they don't include the 1,2, etc Maccabees but I understand why they didnt include Judith and some others because they were wrote significantly long after those incidents would have actually happened.
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I loved your presentation! It was not only full of information but full of passion!! The way of telling the history helps others to remember it! Thank you
@@thetruthofyah7021 its funny if a white person would of said somthing like that they would have people jumping down their throat but any other race can state thier thuoghts .
@@thetruthofyah7021 As a west African I disagree. Stop taking other people's history. God loves and has a plan for us all but you can't insert yourself in someone else's history. Semitic Jews from the bible didn't morph into Bantu west Africans.
I am from Jamaica from the other day God putting this on my heart I should celebrate this holiday I notice on these times of the year something always happens to millions of people
Shabbat shalom my dearest messianuc Jew.. Your explanation increased my knowledge about the history of Jews before Yeshua Lord the Messiah and when walk in Jerusalem and when He death on the cross!
Yes Alexander the Great spared Jerusalem letting all Jews who dwelt there live after conquering Egypt without bloodshed. Isn't it glaring such magnanimity of the world's greatest conquerer is entirely missing from Jewish scripture, when w snap of his fingers Jerusalem would have been annihilated...how did Hebrews fail to record this????
The story of the Maccabees is horrifying. Why was it taken out of the canon? Because its reality? It feels like we are watching it unfold again in our lifetime. The world wants us to conform and will stop at nothing.
If I’m not mistaken, the Catholic and Orthodox canons are the only ones to keep the first two books of the Maccabees 1 and 2. The Protestants removed the Maccabees because they based their biblical canon off the Jewish Masoretic texts that were newer than the Hellenic Septuagint which also didn’t include them. I’m not sure why the Masoretic Bible (or other Jewish texts) doesn’t consider them deuterocanonical but instead apocryphal. Any one know more about the reasoning for this?
I think it was more of them being conceived on a period when Jewish culture was very hellenistic they were not originally written in Hebrew but in Greek this and other books taken out of the protestant bible are like this. This I think is the reason those Jewish texts didn't have em they just had originally written Hebrew
Maccabees is in the Catholic and Orthodox translations of the Bible, just not the Protestant translations. So when she said that maccabees isn’t in the Bible, that’s not entirely correct. It depends on which translation you read.
The story of Maccabees and many apocryphal texts were removed from different denominations like the Protestants versus the Catholic and Orthodox because there was no hebrew text equivalent to be translated from, only Greek. the King James Version for example, would only translate those which had both greek and hebrew text to translate from and many had not print those texts to "save paper" due to the cost of print. The Catholic church includes those chapters as deutorcanonical because they still hold a lot of wisdom Like "Ecclesiasticus"or (the Book of Sirach), and the "Wisdom of Solomon".
Great Video. I teach Ancient history and bible class at homeschool campuses. I am going to share this video. A lot of my fellow Christians have no idea why their new testament is written in Greek.
You are learning my history the real Jews are black.Jeremiah 14:2 [2]Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
@@thetruthofyah7021 oh my..this is embarrassing can u read Hebrew? Bc the original says "אָֽבְלָ֣ה יְהוּדָ֔ה וּשְׁעָרֶ֥יהָ אֻמְלְל֖וּ קָֽדְר֣וּ לָאָ֑רֶץ וְצִוְחַ֥ת יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם עָלָֽתָה" the word that u refer to as 'black' is the word קדרו which is not the word for black in Hebrew which is שחור or shachor the word קדרו is a word that meant to describe weather or a person mood it's means to be gloomy to darken or to become sad not literally the color black it doesn't even make sense in the context of the verse there is so many more correct translation yet u still choose the most misleading/ incorrect one just so it could fit your narrative 💀
She also forgets to mention Jewish king Alexander Janaeous having 800 Jews from Gaza crucified before his court while having dinner looking on, while their entire families throats are cut before each of the 800 being crucified... a little more Jewish history for you
Many of you will know this but you tell the difference between a dreidel/ sevivon (a 4 sided children's top for a spinning game) made in Israel vs. one for outside of Israel by the substitution of one of the 4 lettters. In Israel the sevivon will have the letter NUN, GIMEL, HAY, PE for Ness Gadol Haya Po meaning a great miracle happened here. Outside of Israel instead of PE it will have SHIN for Ness Gadol Haya Sham meaning a great miracle happened there.
Excellent video as are all of the videos in this series and on this channel. I recommend this channel to all my family and friends. One important comment on something stated in the video; the story about the oil lasting 8 days was made up and added later for political reasons. The miracle of Chanukah/Hanukkah was always that G-d enabled the small number of faithful Jews to defeat the vastly superior foreign occupation troops and reclaim their country, religion, and culture. This obviously would not go over well with the large and powerful empires which controlled both the Holy Land and the Diaspora Jewish communities. Therefore Jewish leaders created the story of the oil lasting 8 days as the miracle of Chanukah/Hanukkah. In the Books of the Macabees it says that after the Temple had been recaptured and purified, the 8 day Festival of Succot and Shemini Atzeret had been missed. So the Macabees celebrated that festival as soon as they were able. They also sent out communiques to all the other Jewish communities outside the Holy Land telling them to start celebrating this 8 day holiday as "Succot in Kislev (the Jewish month when Chanukah/Hanukkah is celebrated)." That is why Chanukah/Hanukkah is celebrated for 8 days. For further proof of what the true miracle of Chanukah/Hanukkah was, the blessings made while lighting the Chanukah/Hanukkah lights and the prayer "Al HaNissim ("On the Miracles)" all refer to the battles and victories of the Macabees and the reclaimation and purification of the Holy Temple, but there is no mention of the miracle of a single vial of oil lasting for 8 days. If that would have been one of the miracles, don't you think it would have been mentioned there?
Thank you for great presentation of the Bible's 'silent years'. Some other points I would like to add is that God actually protected the Temple when Onias was High Priest and a general tried to rob the 'tithe' monies and the Jewish people cried to God for help and 3 angels appeared as the general tried to rob the temple and they resisted him and whipped him to an inch of his life. So the general never tried that again. The reason why the angel's, who had restrained thieves and ultimately 'gentile' desecration of the temple, didn't restrain Antiochus when he showed up is because Onias' brother Jason bribed Antiochus IV with money for the position of High Priest and 'apostate' the whole priesthood and followed the ways of the Greeks. This is why God never defended the Temple when the abomination of desolation was set up. This pattern is also mentioned by Paul the Apostle in 2 Thessalonians 2 as it will again play out in a similar manner when the 'antichrist' appears and is defeated by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Also references: Matt 24, Mark 13 verses.
Great stuff. This period of Jewish history is fascinating. It's interesting seeing how Hellenized Jewish political culture became. I love learning about the Hasmonean kingdom. One question though did the Torah not forbid mixing the two offices of Priest and King?
She forgets to mention Jewish king Alexander Janaeous having 800 Jews from Gaza crucified before guests having dinner looking on, after their entire families throats were cut as they were crucified.
"Moussaka and lamb shank"? A very cheap and unbecoming shot. Surely you jest, young lady. Philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, city planning, beautiful architecture, theater, art, music, and dance are but a few of the "things" Hellenism brought to Judea. The Greeks did not emphasize the physical over the spiritual as you say. Quite the contrary. They believed in balance in everything. After all, it was the Greeks who prescribed that a healthy mind should occupy a healthy body. I can see that your reluctance to exercise has brought you to your rolly-polly state of bliss. So enamored were the youth of Judea with the freedom of thought and discourse and the intellectual progress of Hellenism when compared to the conservative darkness of their own culture, that the very existence of Judaism itself came under danger of being supplanted by Hellenism by voluntary means. Yes, the revolt was a worthy fight over an occupier, and the victory amazing. Mazeltov on the victory of one mental illness over another, which is what all religion truly is - mental illness. Mazeltov, indeed.
@@evangreen3080 I do hope you got a chuckle from my diatribe, but I'm afraid that I was so angered by this young lady's myopathy that I couldn't control myself.
I always wondered why the story of the 8 nights of the miracle of the oil is not in the books of the Mccabees, then I found out is not part of the story, is a beautiful legend or tale of the talmud. I dont follow the talmud. So I light up the 8 nights in memory of the 8 days of celebration of Judah Macabee and the rest of his men after restoring the temple and redecorating it...Thanks so much for the summary of the historic awesome event🙏
I think a series taking us through a year in the life of observant Jews is Israel (recognizing the range of observance) - the holidays and other traditions - would be very interesting.
I hope you have a "course" on the Jews during the Roman era and the Israelite Kings. From what I have read for a time a very good alliance between Rome, Jerusalem with Julius Caesar and other Roman rulers. Unfortunately, that came to and end because Rome wanted everything their way.....Multiple people in Israel started calling themselves the "Messiah" as a result of the Roman oppression, etc.
Actually, Unpacked has several episodes that cover this subject. For example, check out episode 15 in this series "Jesus and the Jews" which has an excellent historical review of the relationship between Christianity, Rome, and the Jewish people & community.
The name Alexander was Judaized during the reign of Alexander the Great. During a visit, the high priest Simon promised Alexander the Great that all children born to the priestly families that year will be named Alexander. As Jews have a custom to name children after deceased parentage we still have the name in use as a Jewish name to this date
@@manofvision No, 'the most High' commands the Jews to listen to their elders. Their elders saw the miracle that 'the most High' performed for them, and so they instituted this holiday. In reality, however, it is a minor holiday in Judaism.
@@davidschalit907 Anything that the Most High did not institute is a tradition of man period. Most High gives the command the man/ elder, the next generation is to keep the command.
Shalom! Happy Hanukkah! Thanks for this really cool, upbeat, and educational look at Hanukkah. I found out I've been explaining it wrong, oops... But, now I can point people to your video instead!
Also the HIGH priest was supposed to be descended from a specific Levite, Tzadok since the tome of Solomon. By the decree of God: Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
Absolutely. The Hasmonean ruler Yehonatan, Yehudah's brother, should have brought a scion of the Zadokites back from Egypt and anointed him High Priest. Yehonatan made a huge mistake, to put it mildly, in omitting to do so.
Isaiah 9:6 for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
The world's greatest army and empire? of the ancient world? by that time I doubt it, the Seleucids were in decline and were constantly humiliated by the Parthians and the Romans. Anyway, gaining independence was a feat worthy of recognition for a small nation.
I am.... Jewish by Birth named Martine meaning Makabi (Maccabees) in Hebrew. And MAR Mary Magdalene TINE The Nailed One Jesus in France. With a Son named Phillip Alexander 🙏
