Sunday, August 14, 2011
Why don't Jews read The Book of Judith and The Books of The Maccabees for Hanukkah?
Its simple really- in the time of Ezra the Sanhedrin prayed for true Avodah Zarah to be removed from the world. The problem is, that when that was removed, so was prophecy- meaning that Micah, who was in the time of Ezra, was the last prophet and nothing written after that time was written with prophecy. The books in the Tanach were all written by prophets or by people being divinely inspired. Since Sefer Hamakabim and Sefer Yehudit (as well as some others like Sefer Kuzari) are from after that time, they are not considered to meet the requirement of being written by a prophet or by somebody being prophetically inspired, to be included in the Tanach.
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