As children, we learn that the hero of the Hanukkah story was the great warrior Judah Maccabee. But how many of us know the real history behind the tales we tell our kids?
In this special, limited-series podcast, Rabbi Soloveichik will uncover the fascinating military and political history behind the events of Hanukkah. He’ll explore the Hellenized Jewish world against which the Hasmoneans rebelled, the rise of Judah, the battles he fought, and what Jews today can learn from the military and religious vision of Judaism’s greatest general.
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15-Minute Maccabees: The Life and Times of Judah, Jewish History's Greatest General: Register Now
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is one of the world’s preeminent Jewish thinkers and educators, and he’s one of America’s most influential religious leaders. He is a Senior Fellow at Tikvah and the senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He is also director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured internationally to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to the miracle of modern Israel, Zionism, faith in America, the Hebraic roots of the American founding, Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, Jewish-Christian relations, and more. He writes a monthly column in Commentary magazine, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Mosaic, First Things, Tradition, the Jewish Review of Books, Azure, and many other outlets. Rabbi Soloveichik is a descendant of one of the Jewish world’s great rabbinic dynasties. He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and studied at its Beren Kollel Elyon. He has also studied at Yale Divinity School, and in 2010 received his doctorate in religion from Princeton University.