BiChof Hai BiKislev 5736 Class One. This Ma’amar is clearly a Hemshech from the one before it. This class we learned the middle (the ‘Biur’) of the Ma’amar. It is the classic Chanuka idea. Most Tuma’ah touches Middos and Mitzvos. The Tuma’ah of the Seriain Greeks (the ‘Yevanim’) touched ‘Mochin’ (the Torah itself) and therefore needs Mesiras Nefesh to remedy it. It requires the The ‘big idea’ here is that we don’t celebrate the miracle of the war OR the miracle of the Menorah’s lights burning for eight days; rather we celebrate the miracle of FINDING the one jug of oil, as IT the power that allowed winning the war, and for the candles to burn for eight days.
