Elisha and Hanukkah
Martin Cohen explains here how the story of the Hanukkah “miracle oil” may be a midrash on the story of Elisha and the flask of oil in 2 Kings 9.
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:09 am
It must be fun to get paid to make stuff like that up.
December 13th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Open antisemitic attack in Moldova
An orthodox priest overthrows the Hanuka in Chisinau Moldova now
http://iudaism-ro.blogspot.com/2009/12/un-preot-si-enoriasi-ai-mitropoliei.html
December 15th, 2009 at 7:12 am
A more playful version of the same idea –
An (Un)Original Midrash on the flask nof oil …
http://rabbionanarrowbridge.blogspot.com/2009/12/unoriginal-midrash-on-oil.html