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What Happened to Who Were the Chashmonaim?
Yehuda HaMaccabee?
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Yehuda HaMaccabee was
killed in 161 BCE at the Shimon Yonatan Elazar Yehuda Yochanan Daf Yomi For US
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The armies of Bacchides the Shlomzion Alexander Yannai Antigonus Yehuda
Greek, with 20,000 soldiers Aristobulus I on the world through the insightful
plus 2,000 on horses, against Hyrcanus II Aristobulus II teachings of the Talmud
Yehuda HaMaccabee and Alexandra Yonatan Antigonus
his 3,000 fighters. Alexander Matityahu FROM THE TALMUD
Masechet Shabbat, Daf 21
When some suggested Herod Miriam Yonatan Signifies
to Yehuda that he should Aristoblus III marriage What is Chanukah? • When the
not go out to battle, he Greeks entered the Beit HaMikdash,
answered: “I should not run away from them. If this is the battle of our lives and they contaminated all of the oil. The
we die bravely on behalf of our brothers, our honor will not be shamed” Chashmonai dynasty overcame and
(Maccabees I, 9:10). defeated the Greeks. To their dismay, they
found only one jug of oil with the seal of the Kohen
Yehuda’s army attacked Bacchides’s army but Yehuda was killed in battle. HaGadol, the High Priest, still in place. This was only
His brothers took his body and brought it to Modiin for burial. It is written enough oil to light the Menorah for a single day.
about Yehuda in the Book of the Maccabees: “And they praised him and A miracle took place and it burned for eight days.
all of Israel wept over him with great sadness” (Maccabees I, 9:20-22). The following year, the Sages fixed those days as a
permenant holiday to remember this miracle with
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killed during that battle, by the elephant.
– between Yerushalayim and Chevron; 4. Elazar, brother of Yehuda the Maccabee, who was

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