Prisoners of our own narratives

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What if the famous saying uttered during most Jewish holidays was actually "We tried to kill each other, then they tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!"? What if Hanukkah wasn't the sweet festive week we were sold on as kids but actually a memory of a moment in our history that was anything but ? Something happened at 161BCE that is still happening today inside each and every person. It's happening inside of you right now, an epic struggle between two world views that holds the keys to the temple—not some mythical structure of wood and stone but a higher state of consciousness that is available to us right here, right now. Latke anyone?

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Lio: We tried to kill ourselves first. We tried to kill each other. Exactly. It's always us. It's always us. And it's the job of the new generation each time to become a new generation of Jews, meaning I think a new generation of showing unity above all these things. I bet that the attention is going to turn to the Jews pretty quickly. Seth: The Jews saw them all, beat them all. And he is now what he always was. All things are mortal, but the Jew. All other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?