Happy (C)Hanuk(k)ah Languish!

[The Minsky Moment]

Thus it is kind of surprising this is the only holiday we have in the western world dedicated to it in both senses.

It's not the real meaning of the holiday though.
It's really about how a failed effort to become a Ptolemaic puppet state miraculously resulted in successfully becoming a Roman puppet state.

[Valmy]

Thus it is kind of surprising this is the only holiday we have in the western world dedicated to it in both senses.

It's not the real meaning of the holiday though.
It's really about how a failed effort to become a Ptolemaic puppet state miraculously resulted in successfully becoming a Roman puppet state.

Indeed. What more could be proof of God's greatness?

[The Minsky Moment]

Thus it is kind of surprising this is the only holiday we have in the western world dedicated to it in both senses.

It's not the real meaning of the holiday though.
It's really about how a failed effort to become a Ptolemaic puppet state miraculously resulted in successfully becoming a Roman puppet state.

Indeed. What more could be proof of God's greatness?

Deus ex machina, in fact.