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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/06-38-03-scaled.jpeg25601707The intense pressure the Greeks exerted upon the Jews sparked spiritual resistance. Most famously, when the Greeks arrived in the village of Modi’in, with the intention of forcing Mattathias (the son of Yoĥanan the High Priest) to worship idols, Mattathias rose up and killed the Greek officer and his Hellenized Jewish collaborator. What was different about this was that instead of sanctifying God’s name through dying, like many other pious Jews, Mattathias decided to sanctify God’s name by staying alive and killing the oppressor. In this way, Mattathias and his sons (known as the Hasmoneans) raised the banner of rebellion against the Greeks and Hellenism. The war was difficult. Mattathias’s son, Judah Maccabee, led the fighters. With courage and skill, the Hasmoneans overcame the Greek forces, and – after two years of fighting – liberated Jerusalem. On the 25th of Kislev, 3596 (164 BCE), they began purifying the Temple and ...