This is the Chanuka Ma’amar that is the opposite of all the typical Chanuka Ma’amarim.
Here darkness is not something that needs to be reversed but to be celebrated! Light and the sun (here) are about Avoda Zara (Chama) and the setting sun leaves only darkness which is God.
The same is true of Sukkos when we make a point of sitting in the shade.
The sun is Parnassa worries and the answer to this test is 1) Broken heartedness (at our own undeservedness) 2) Breaking lust which makes a vessel for Godly light and 3) Faith that Parnassa doesn’t necessarily need a Keli in Teva.
The Chashmonaim defeated the Greeks with this third idea of Emuna beyond reason (and Keli). MP3
