Hanukkah emerges as Judaism’s ancient refusal to surrender its light—whether under Greek tyranny, Nazi terror, or today’s resurging antisemitism.
Hanukkah occupies a curious and revealing place in Jewish tradition. It is one of the most widely observed Jewish festivals, yet it has no tractate of its own in the Mishnah and no explicit place in the Hebrew Bible. Instead, its meaning is distilled in a single, almost disarming question posed by the Talmud: “מאי חנוכה?” — “What is Hanukkah?” (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 21b).
In a world again darkened by antisemitism, hatred, and the reappearance of ideologies that once…
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