Hoffman, a Brooklyn native who was born in 1944, brought with him a scaled-down Torah and did the first Torah reading outside ... brought a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah, although he was never ...

There was a major shift in the world of Torah scholarship 2,200 years ago. A new light was born in response to the Greeks' darkness that, paradoxically, strengthened Torah scholarship for all time.

He elaborates that just as on Shavuot we reaccept the Torah each year, so too on Hanukkah, we are required to renew ourselves and conquer new victories. (credit: Shuva Israel) According to Rabbi ...