Do your best and Hashem will take care of the rest
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Chanukah has one overriding theme, namely “Do your best and Hashem will take care of the rest.” If the Maccabees, before they began their campaign, would have considered the overwhelming odds against their victory against the Assyrian-Greeks, they would never have started the rebellion. They would have given up before they began and just tried to survive by lying low. But, instead of lying low or assimilating, which is all the Hellenists wanted, they chose to trust Hashem to help them, as had happened throughout our history, and decided to ignore the odds, and fought.
Do your best and Hashem will take care of the rest
Do your best and Hashem will take care of the…
Do your best and Hashem will take care of the rest
Chanukah has one overriding theme, namely “Do your best and Hashem will take care of the rest.” If the Maccabees, before they began their campaign, would have considered the overwhelming odds against their victory against the Assyrian-Greeks, they would never have started the rebellion. They would have given up before they began and just tried to survive by lying low. But, instead of lying low or assimilating, which is all the Hellenists wanted, they chose to trust Hashem to help them, as had happened throughout our history, and decided to ignore the odds, and fought.