אִכְלוּ מַשְׁמַנִּים וְסוֹלֶת רְבוּכָה תּוֹרִים וּבְנֵי יוֹנָה שַׁבָּת וַחֲנוּכָּה הַאי הַאי בֵּית כּוֹר תִּמְכּוֹר תַּחְכּוֹרתִּשְׂכּוֹר בֵּית כּוֹר לְצוֹרֶךְ שַׁבָּת חֲנֻכָּה בַּרְבּוּרִים אֲבוּסִים בְּשַׁפּוּדִים צְלוּיִם וְכָלִיל לָאִישִׁים אֶחָד מִן הַמְנוּיִם הַאי הַאי בֵּית כּוֹר תִּמְכּוֹר תַּחְכּוֹרתִּשְׂכּוֹר בֵּית כּוֹר לְצוֹרֶךְ שַׁבָּת חֲנֻכָּה רַךְ וָטוֹב וְשָׁמֵן צְלִי אֵשׁ וּמַצּוֹתעֲנוּ וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן וְאִכְלוּ בְּדִיצוֹת הַאי הַאי בֵּית כּוֹר תִּמְכּוֹר תַּחְכּוֹרתִּשְׂכּוֹר בֵּית כּוֹר לְצוֹרֶךְ שַׁבָּת חֲנֻכָּה הַקּוֹלוֹת יֶחֱדָלוּן מִנִּסּוּךְ הַמָּיִם בְּבֵית הַיַּיִן נָלוּן בְּכֹל יוֹם פַּעֲמָיִם הַאי הַאי בֵּית כּוֹר תִּמְכּוֹר תַּחְכּוֹרתִּשְׂכּוֹר בֵּית כּוֹר לְצוֹרֶךְ שַׁבָּת חֲנֻכָּה מִקּוֹלוֹת מַיִם רַבִּים תְּצִּלֶנָה אָזְנֵיכֶם וְכָל מִשְׁרַת דַּם עֲנָבִים לֹא יָמוּשׁ מִפִּיכֶם הַאי הַאי בֵּית כּוֹר תִּמְכּוֹר תַּחְכּוֹרתִּשְׂכּוֹר בֵּית כּוֹר לְצוֹרֶךְ שַׁבָּת חֲנֻכָּה
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An interesting article, about An ancient, anonymous song for Shabbos Chanukah, Ichlu Mashmanim, appears in siddurim and is chanted in some communities. The whole composition sings the praises of food, meals, meat dishes, wine and miscellaneous culinary delights to be consumed on that Shabbos and the line ending each stanza goes: “A beis kur sell or lease; rent a beis kur for Shabbos Chanukah!”
In his Responsa (137), Mahari of Bruna, a pupil of the Terumas HaDeshen, remarks that no Torah scholar could have written the song as a Chanukah meal is not defined as a se’udas mitzvah.
Others even stress (sefer shaar yissochor) that only foolhardy people or a laitz could have composed it, as evident from its contents (Orchos Chayim, 670:8). On the other hand, some rebbes, such as Rebbe Pinchas of Koritz zt”l, sang it on Shabbos Chanukah and a few scholars attribute it to Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra as the initial letters of its lines form Avraham.
Those favoring the song were somehow able to lend its contents a spiritual connotation and some surmise that beis kur is used as a pun: In Old French a yard for raising and fattening poultry was called a bas court (“low courtyard” – the final s was then, as in certain dialects today, pronounced). The message, then, is “Sell your beis kur” – your field – and rent a bas court for Shabbos Chanukah.
Others explain the reference to Bais hayayin is talking about the Bais hamikdosh.
ReplyDeleteHoping the spirit of Chanukah revives, enlightens, and energizes all of you. Is what I’m going to say PC popular or EC? No. But neither, ever, was Chanukah.
In a certain sense the exilic subjugation of Yavan was more egregious than any of the other exiles-as is brought down. Possible? They didn’t destroy our Beit Hamikdash, they didn’t murder and enslave tens of thousands. However, it is indeed so. The others understood that they musn’t ruin us until at least the Beis Hamikdash was first destroyed. The Greeks are compared to a leopard and a goat in Daniel’s Vision. הוי עז כנמר & עז It was a brazenness of the Greek attitude to want the Beit Hamikdash to remain specifically standing. And for the Jews to remain in their land. Only then could they be sullied and wretchedly polluted to the point of permanent no return
Some are already attempting to draw comparisons between Chanukah and the Hamas war. Let’s be frank and acknowledge there isn’t any. At all.
If you wish to contrive some kind of classic ancient comparison to the present fighting: try instead the on &off conflagrations vs pelishtim; Yael vs. Sisera;etc. [However, one will surmise a satisfying resolution to the present crisis ,IMO has been posited for two months now- only expulsion will count.]
But nothing with Chanukah.
Shall we imagine what the chashmonaim’s reaction would be to the insidious record of those damaged kibbutzim; expanding mixed corps. in the IDF; the wild Rave;viz a viz the ensuing events of October .. would they have stood aloof over both sides-with” a plague on both your houses”?
A note irreligious figure wrote a couple of years ago regarding about much he disliked Chanukah. Chanukah, in his words, was a group of hardliner nationalistic religious trying to impose their worldview and will on the hellenizing [i.e.secularising] free majority socio-culture. He challenged his coreligionists to be more honest with their families, and stop celebrating the holiday of Chanukah. Whatever his agenda of the suitable moment we could respect his candid honesty. But how about us?
If there is any comparison between the Chashmonaim and the past year however comparably minute and mangled it might venture to be-it would a bit closer to the pro judicial reform supposedly ‘dividing ‘ israel during the previous nine months of 2023