[Avodah] pach hashemen

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' Eli Turkel:
> Hence, this quoted verison of megillat taanait does not mention the
> miracle of
> the oil.
> Note that megillat taanait was composed towards the end of bayit sheni and
> so is the first written word since Tanach and precedes the writing of
> the Mishna by
> some 150-200 years

I was thinking that maybe they didn't bother recording the Neis of the Pach Shemen because they were Melumad in Nisim in the Beis Hamikdash - like the Mishnah in Avos and the Gemara in Yuma record. In the context of the daily Nisim in the Beis HaMikdash, the miracle of the war victory was much bigger than the miracle of the Pach Shemen, and Chazal didn't see fit to record it until later generations who were forgetting about the Neis of the Pach Shemen.

KT,
MYG