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Hiddur vs. Kallos: Chanukah's Competing Concepts of Beauty

Speaker:: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
Date:: December 11 2011

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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Chanukah

References: Shabbat: 21a

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Brief shiur on the Greek and Jewish concepts of beauty, and how they play out in the way we celebrate Chanukah

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