B"H

HaChashmona'im

Please look at what is written on. Take a hard look:

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/hyrcanus2.html

The site is THE JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY
A Division of The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

It is not an anti-semitic site. It is not a non-Jewish site. It is a Jewish encyclopedia.

What you will read there is only part of the bloody story of the Maccabim.

This is what the Prushim aided and abetted against the holy Isi'im who wished to restore the true Cohen HaGadol to the Beit HaMikdash. In order to protect this the Prushim tried to blot out the memory of the Isi'im of blessed memory and maligned them as "minim".

This is what the Rabbis of today teach you to use Shem HaShem to bless.

Know and understand.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat