Maccabees - the story of Chanuka

I suspect that many of you think Chanuka is a story of a military victory and it's partly that.

But it's important to realize that the war of Chanuka was a spiritual war more than anything else. Unlike the story of Purim, where the Jewish people were threatened with physical annihilation, on Chanuka the story is spiritual. Had the Jews abandoned their religion, the Greeks would have left them