Sadducees and Pharisees
As a continuation of my posts on Hanukkah and of my discussions with Rav Michael Jedwabny—see Hanukkah, The Son of the Star and the “Three Oaths”, The Storming of Heaven and the History of Hanukkah—discussions in which, it seems to me, there were interesting and profound thoughts on both sides—I noticed a historical circumstance to which I had not previously paid attention: