Category / Derrida / Hanukkah / Jewish affairs / Levinas / Music / Philosophy / Politics / war

    There are two traditions regarding Hanukkah, an older light tradition about the increase of light in the dark time of the winter (Avodah Zarah 8b) and one a military tradition about the Maccabees’ victory over tyranny, the victory of the many over the few.   I like that Jewish tradition preserves both–one about…