Episode 43 Churchill’s Hanukkah
A speech by Churchill to his alma mater, and an oblique reference that he made once to the Hanukkah story, shed “light” on what the menorah represents, and why it suddenly appears again in the Torah.
Text: Numbers 7-8
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