The struggle to perceive miracles in real time links Hanukkah’s origins to recent events - opinion
From the Maccabees to modern Israel, people miss miracles as they occur and grasp them only later.
The site of the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last year, in Beirut’s southern suburbs: Today’s Jews can’t perceive the miraculous nature of the events of the last two years, the writer maintains.(photo credit: REUTERS/AHMAD AL-KERDI)ByURI PILICHOWSKI
