[Avodah] Why isn't chanukah mentioned in the mishna ?

[Saul Mashbaum]

RRW traces the "historical development" of Chanukah,and concludes

"I call this the Hanukkah I ,Hanukkah II hypothesis"

RMB
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Less radical variant... They didn't anull and reinstitute Chanukah
as much as not know what to say about it. The practice just persisted
because of a lack of BD gadol mimanu bechokhmah uveminyan.

Until the discussion in the gemara of "Mai Chanukah?" and Chanukah
was shifted in focus.

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Dr. Yitzchak Brand of Michlelet Yaakov Hertzog has a similar idea of "shift
in focus" regarding other chagim. In his article " Rosh Hashana ve Hoshana
Rabba - michagei mikdash liymei din"  he notes that the earlier tannaitic
sources
and the later amoraitic sources present the mitzvot of these days -  tkiat
shofar and n'tilat arava - with different emphases.  He  maintains, as the
title indicates,  that the chagim "shifted in focus"  from
mikdash-oriented ones , as described by the tannaim, to yom-hadin-oriented
ones, as defined by the amoraim.   See "B'rosh Hashana Yikateivun - Studies
on Rosh Hashana", Tvnot, Alon Shvut, 2008.

It should be emphasized that the authority and validity of the rabbinic
sources is axiomatic to this author's approach, as is of course true of our
chaverim here.


Saul Mashbaum
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