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Torah
A thought for every day of the Hebrew year, from the Rebbe’s book. It is the same entry every year, on the same Hebrew date.
29 Kislev 5787
The sins of Israel in the time of the Greeks were: Fraternizing with the Greeks, studying their culture, profaning Shabbat and Holy Days, eating t'reifa and neglecting Jewish tahara.[1] The punishment-tribulation was the spiritual destruction[2] of the Sanctuary, death, and slavery in exile. Through teshuva[3] and mesirat nefesh,[4] that great, miraculous Divine salvation - the miracle of Chanuka - came about.
Compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory.
Purity. The term "family purity" (for taharat hamishpacha) describes Torah laws concerning marriage, particularly mikva, and all observances related to family sanctity. See Sh'vat 21; Nissan 10.
The defilement of the Sanctuary, its altar, and the famous cruses of oil. The physical destruction centuries later was by the Romans.
"Return," or "repentance," a frequent theme in Torah and Chassidus. See for example Tishrei 3 to 8.
Total devotion, to the point of martyrdom.
Footnotes
די עבירות פון די אידען [אין דער צייט פון די יונים] זיינען געווען: דאס חבר'ן זיך מיט די יונים, לערנען זייער קולטור, חילול שבת ומועד, עסען טריפות, ניט היטן די אידישע טהרה. די שטראף-צרה איז געווען דער גייסטיגער חורבן פון בית המקדש, הריגה און שקלאפערי אין גלות. דורך תשובה און מסירת נפש איז געקומען די גרויסע ג-טליכע וואונדער-ישועה, דער נס חנוכה.
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Hayom Yom, compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory. Text from chabad.org.