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The Maccabee’s victory proved
that the Jews -then already an old
people—ponton) the secret of
eternal youth: "The ability to
rejuvenate itself through courage,
hope, enthusiasm, devotion, and
sdf-aacrifke of the plain people.”
Thus spoke United States
Supreme Court Justice Louis D.
Prsidrit in a 1912 address in
BulM.
These words, though spoken 65
yean ago, are as true today as they
were then, and trill continue to be
true 1,009 yean from now.
Unfortunately, the attitude of
many of oar Jewish teenagers (and
adahS) is that Hanuka is a holiday
for little chddrea, with its soogs.
games, gifts and bright lights.
Actually, the impact and the
extent of the Maccabean victory is
very real not just to Jewish
teenagers, but to. teenagers
everywhere, for one of the major
problems confronting the
Maccabees (which is a problem
confronting most of us, and
especially teenagers) was the
problems of conformity.
To understand the impact of
conformity of the teenager, it o
necessary to understand that the
teenager is at a stage in his
development when be is struggling
to find the answers to the
unspoken questions of "Who am I?
What am IT The road to “finding
oneself” is a road urith many
pitfalls and many threats. In his
efforts for acceptance and security,
the teenager will follow the pattern
at behavioral the group; for by so
doing, be becomes one of them and
is not left to walk his “road” alone.
To act differently, or think
differently than the group, is to
risk being rejected by the group.
The Jews who lived in Judea
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during the Maccabean period, had
the same problem to cope with.
Many Jews became “Hellenized"
and were willing to lose thier
Jewish identity by the complete
acceptance of Greek culture. Then
(as now) there were some Jews who
felt uncomfortable unless they
could be with the majority, so that
they could not be tingled out as
being “different.” Today, as then,
this is true especially of people who
frequently come in dose contact
with others different from
themselves, in business, in schools
and socially. Also, when being
different may mean less prosperity,
people have the incentive to say,
“Why be different. Jet's, be like
others."
The observant Jews of the
Maccabean period rebuffed the
attempt of a tyrant to impose upon
them laws, beliefs, customs and
ceremonial rites which were
different and which they felt
inferior to their own. To conform
would have been much easier than
to resist; but they preferred to
resist and to remain loyal to their
traditions which they felt were
nobler and better.
Viewed in this sense, Hanuka is
an important observance—not just
for teenagers but for all of us.
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The author is assistant executive
director of the Atlanta Jewish
Communit y Center.
Say Hanuka prayer
for the Soviet Jews
Keep an extra unlighted there are still tens of thousands of
menorah next to the one you light Jews in the Soviet Union who are
each night. Let it remind you and denied this opportunity,
your family that as you celebrate The following reading would be
this joyous holiday and the an appropriate addition to your
triumph of religious freedom, nightly candle lighting ceremony:
LET THERE BE AN END AT LAST
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Let there be an end at last to the yean of darkness and suffering of our
brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union. As we remember the struggle of
the Maccabees we are reminded that even today Soviet Jews are not free
to learn the language of their fathers; to pass on their religious traditions
and their past; to train the teachers and rabbis of future generations. They
are not free to leave without harassment.., ,
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We remember the Jewish Prisoners of Conscience the Asirei TZion
who sought to live as Jews and struggle to leave for Israel—the land of
our fathers—but now languish in Soviet labor camps or exile.
May we have the strength and will to light up on this Hanuka the
darkness that envelops the lives of our brothers and sisters in the Soviet
Union. As they assert themselves in the tradition of the Maccabees, may
they be joined by all freedom loving people who are aroused by their
plight and may Soviet Jews soon emerge into the light of freedom.
Amen
Bernard Klug and Family
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