[Avodah] Chanuka and the winter solstice

[saul mashbaum]

A while ago RYBG cited on this forum AZ 8b regarding the shortening and lengthening of daylight during the winter. 

R. Menachem Leibtag relates this to Chanukah in a particularly enlightening shiur:

http://www.tanach.org/#shiur11.

The second shiur which appears is the one I'm referring to; I prefer to link to this page because the other shiurim on Chanukah linked to there are excellent as well.

Chanukah sameach

Saul Mashbaum