The Maccabees - Religious Fanatics or Freedom Fighters (or both)?

Brotherly Strife Spoils Yaakov's Plans of a peaceful Retirement

Making the Necessary Preparations for G-d to Dwell Amongst Us!

Yosef's youthful hubris caused his brother's to resent him and sell him into slavery. Many centuries later the Maccabean warriors would rise up against their Jewish brethren, not out of jealousy but in order to stamp out their Hellenizing attempts to assimilate into the Greek culture and abandon the ways of their fathers.

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