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Some assimilated (the Hellenizing Jews), while others continued to keep the Torah.

Through their assimilationist actions, the Hellenizers publicly demonstrated their desire to mingle into Greek society permanently. In addition, many people are unaware that the Syrian-Greeks were not the ones who initiated the outlawing of Torah-observances, in the period leading up to the founding of Hanukkah. Rather, it was the Hellenizers, who actively petitioned the Syrian-Greeks to create and enforce the anti-religious decrees. The Greeks, for their part, on more than one occasion wondered out loud why they had gotten so entangled in the internal life of the Jews (since simple governance and taxation had until then been the limit of their involvement). Like the later Sadducees and Essenes, the Hellenized Jews eventually either repented or went lost. The Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks) under Antiochus Epiphanes (2nd century BCE), at the instigation of the Hellenizers, forbade various Torah-practices in Judea, such as Sabbath-observance and circumcision, rededicated the Temple to a Greek idol, and pressed the Jews to offer up idolatrous sacrifices. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Hasmoneans (a family of religious Jews) fought to retake the Holy Temple, which had been seized by the Seleucids, and to enable the people to continue to observe the Torah. The Hasmoneans (also called Maccabees) were miraculously victorious. When they reached the Temple grounds, they immediately reconsecrated it to God.
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