Towards the end of Chanukah this year, I started to think about the whole story involving the oil. I was thinking that maybe there was a connection, a common thread, to other miraculous stories involving oil. The two that came to mind were in I Kings 17.14-16
and in II Kings 4.1-7.
I spoke with several different rabbi’s that I know and none had any thoughts off the top of their head. So I didn’t really pursue it much after that and was kinda just hoping that somewhere along the way I would hear something….
…sure enough, not more than a week goes by and I make my weekly journey over to Rabbi Berel Wein’s page. He also had some post-Chanukah thoughts, which I thought tied in nicely…
http://www.rabbiwein.com/Jerusalem-Post/2007/12/279.html
