Yehuda: The Other Side of Chanuka - The premature victory against the Greeks and thus the reason why Chanukah was so short-lived has its roots in the differing approaches of Yosef and Yehudah that emerge in this parsha. Yosef’s strength is his chayn – his emotion, his responsiveness, his desire to connect. Yet, caught up in the immediacy of the moment, he fails to see that a long-term vision based on a local event is unsustainable. Yehudah’s strength is a hoda’ah that encompasses the broadest context possible, recognizing any new paradigm as a work in progress. Yet, when he does not allow himself to be empowered by Yosef’s dreams, he withdraws into himself, becoming entrapped in a nightmare. The generative data that Yosef brings need to be reconceptualized within Yehudah’s hora’ah. The malchus of Yehudah requires Yosef – this is the only solution to a universe created with a hey in which there is nothing to stand on except the nature of teshuvah itself. Yehudah’s hoda’ah becomes the essence of an open-ended teshuvah which alone can bring the two together after millennia of work, instead of at the instant of a simple hug.

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