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Riskin, Shlomo
The Jewish Week
12-22-2000
Shabbat Chanukah: The Essence Of Mazal

SHLOMO RISKIN

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is spiritual leader of the Israeli town Efrat.

In Maimonides' compendium of Jewish law, we find a combined section
covering Purim and Chanukah. Strangely enough, Purim precedes Chanukah
though Chanukah comes before Purim. Why does Maimonides change the natural
order?

Maimonides (Rambam) opens the laws of Chanukah with historical background,
an approach that he uses nowhere else. Why the switch from law to history?

Rambam chooses to appendage the laws of Hallel to Chanukah. Hallel is said
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