Chanukah: Bizman Hazeh and Al Hanisim
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AI summary (may contain mistakes)
Why do we say bizman hazeh in the bracha, and why did Chanukah become a Yom Tov when other nisim did not? The sefer answers that a Yom Tov is a nes whose kedusha the Neviim saw returning every year. On Chanukah that nes came from Hashem's love for Klal Yisrael, so the sefer calls the days of Chanukah days of chesed, shown in Al HaNisim and in the menorah.
Key points
- The sefer teaches that a nes became a Yom Tov when its kedusha returns every year.
- The Gemara says they made Chanukah a Yom Tov the next year, which fits this answer.
- The sefer compares punishing those who harm Klal Yisrael to a father protecting his son.
- Mentioning the Kohanim in Al HaNisim shows the nes came from chesed, the Kohanim's middah.
- The nes came through the menorah, standing in the darom, the side the sefer links to chesed.
