Reflection On Chanukah (audio)

Reflections on the most misunderstood Jewish festival. A great chag to be sure, but one which most Jews have tragically distorted. Meet the real Maccabees.


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Bibi's Delusions

From the website of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Could you imagine any Arab/Muslim country in the world that would post such demoralizing, suicidal, propaganda on their own government websites? Could you fathom the existence of any Arab/Muslim leader that would ever think such thoughts, let alone state them aloud?

This is the Likud. This is the face of their impotent and arrogant leader, Bibi Netanyahu, who thinks the Holy Land is his own private real estate plot to dole out to our enemies. With the Likud in power, Labor, Kadima, and Meretz can close shop and join the ranks. Its the same playbook. Fear of the Arabs. Fear of the x-tians. Fear of the E.U. , the U.N., and the U.S. Fear of the decrepit, shrunken Hillary who hates Israel with every fiber of her shriveled, rotting, body. Fear of the socialist, Arab loving Pharaoh, Barak Hussein Obama. (May their names and memories be erased!)

And yet no fear of The Almighty. Even worse, these fools spit at the heavens. The "best of the worst" are a disaster. Look at Danny Danon, whom the die-hard Likudniks like to tout as their messiah. Now he's openly joining forces with soul snatching missionaries, committed to the spiritual genocide of Am Yisroel.

With all of this insanity going on, and the state of the Jewish soul in such moral decay I pose the following question to the reader. Is Chanukah an ancient relic? Is there a place for the modern Maccabee in today's age?

I think so. And being a Jewish fundamentalist, I'm not afraid to say that there are only two options for the Jew to choose. The side of G-d or the side of baal.

I choose G-d. Rise up and fight.

Hellenism Personified- the "Maccabeats"

I get physically ill just watching this garbage that's been circulating around the web. It's bad enough that the music is so bad, and that the effeminate singers in this "Jewish" boy-band act like a bunch of sissies. But it's much worse than that. This is hellenism personifed. Copycatting the worst elements of gentile society. Boy-bands. Pop music. Gender confusion. Role reversal. Forget about surgically attaching a piece of skin to recreate a foreskin. This is the metaphorical equivalent of cutting one's genitals off. What do we have here? A group of modern-orthodox guys wiggling and prancing about like a troupe of fairies, singing euro-trash music about Chanukah. What do these clowns know about the Maccabees? The Maccabees fought against the kinds of gentile influences that penetrated the Torah world and allowed the formation of Jewish boy-bands like the Maccabeats. And don't get me started. The yeshivish versions of these boy-bands are just as bad and un-Jewish. The difference is that in the modern-orthodox world this kind of stuff is celebrated and praised. Instead of creating the next generation of  scholar-warriors, the modern-orthodox movement is creating these types of gender challenged individuals to further skew the lesson of Chanukah and disgrace The Almighty's name on the world stage.

This is from the Maccabeats website:

Strongly committed to the philosophy of Torah u-Madda, the integration of traditional and secular wisdom, the Maccabeats perform an eclectic array of Jewish, American, and Israeli songs. Their breakthrough piece, Lecha Dodi, is the epitome of this synthesis, combining some of the most beloved words of Jewish liturgy with Leonard Cohen's meaningful and melodic Hallelujah.


I think a little disclaimer in is order, don't you?


The Jewish Fist Warning: Listening to the "Maccabeats" not only reflects a horrible taste in music, (and if you're a man, extremely low levels of testosterone), it may also be hazardous to your Jewish soul. As an aside, listening to this music before taking the battlefield may get you killed.