[Avodah] lighting a chanukiya

[Arie Folger]

RAB wrote:
> It still needs to be explained how Chazal were mataken a mitzva that no one
> had to keep for hundreds of years, and only after the churban. What were
> they thinking?

Kindly explain. Didn't you show in your post that lighting the menorah 
on 'hanukah was a standard practice, already long before the discussion you 
quoted from TB Rosh haShono 18b?
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Arie Folger
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