The Greeks Wanted to Destroy the Jews' Status as the Chosen Nation
The Greeks Protested the Chosen Nature of the Jewish Nation The exclusive nature of the Jewish Nation vexed the Greeks. They tried assimilating them by prohibiting the three Mitzvos which separate Jew from gentile; Chodesh, Shabbos, and Bris Milah.
Shabbos and Chodesh, the establishment of the Jewish calendar through the lunar months, (a system unique to the Jewish People) separates us from the other nations in the realm of time. Bris Milah marks the Jewish body as different.
It was to maintain their status as the Am HaNivchar of Hashem, that Mattisyahu, the son of Yochanan and his army assembled to fight. The gematria of the words "בימי מתתיהו בן יוחנן" is חדש, שבת, מילה. (They both equal 1099).
Mattisyahu’s objective in his G-dly war was to uphold these cherished Mitzvos that elevate and preserve Am Yisrael as the nation of Hashem.
Shabbos and Chodesh, the establishment of the Jewish calendar through the lunar months, (a system unique to the Jewish People) separates us from the other nations in the realm of time. Bris Milah marks the Jewish body as different.
It was to maintain their status as the Am HaNivchar of Hashem, that Mattisyahu, the son of Yochanan and his army assembled to fight. The gematria of the words "בימי מתתיהו בן יוחנן" is חדש, שבת, מילה. (They both equal 1099).
Mattisyahu’s objective in his G-dly war was to uphold these cherished Mitzvos that elevate and preserve Am Yisrael as the nation of Hashem.
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