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Normally the words hod and haddar occur together in tenach, “hod vehadar lephanav”, “hadar kevod hodechah” and so on. The exception to this is in the nevuah in Doniel perek 10, where Doniel was misnabe that Persia would fall and Greece would take over. The possuk says: ח וַאֲנִי נִשְׁאַרְתִּי לְבַדִּי וָאֶרְאֶה אֶת הַמַּרְאָה הַגְּדֹלָה הַזֹּאת וְלֹא נִשְׁאַר בִּי כֹּח וְהוֹדִי נֶהְפַּךְ עָלַי לְמַשְׁחִית וְלֹא עָצַרְתִּי כֹּחַ... כ וַיֹּאמֶר הֲיָדַעְתָּ לָמָּה בָּאתִי אֵלֶיךָ וְעַתָּה אָשׁוּב לְהִלָּחֵם עִם שַׂר פָּרָס וַאֲנִי יוֹצֵא וְהִנֵּה שַׂר יָוָן בָּא. (8) I was left by myself (when Doniel saw the malach, Chananya, Mishoel and Azaryah ran away and he was left alone) and I saw this great image and there was no strength left in me and my glory [הוֹדִי] was turned against me to destruction and I was left without strength…(20) And he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the sar of Persia and I will go out and behold the sar of Yavan is ...

Two נסים happened during Chanuka, one was the victory of the Chashmonim over the Greeks, the other was the נס of the oil. There are three things that we do on Chanuka to thank Hashem for these nisim: - We light the menora - We say al hanisim in Shemona Esrei and - We say hallel Are these all for both nisim or are they specific to one nes? The Emek Beracha points out that when the gemara in Shabbos (כ״א עמוד ב') explains what Chanuka is, it does not mention the nes of the victory: מאי חנוכה … שכשנכנסו יוונים להיכל טמאו כל השמנים שבהיכל וכשגברה מלכות בית חשמונאי ונצחום בדקו ולא מצאו אלא פך אחד של שמן שהיה מונח בחותמו של כהן גדול ולא היה בו אלא להדליק יום אחד נעשה בו נס והדליקו ממנו שמונה ימים לשנה אחרת קבעום ועשאום ימים טובים בהלל והודאה “What is chanuka? …when the Greeks entered the heichal they made the oil tameh and when the Chashmonoim defeated them they searched and could only find one jug of oil that had the seal of the kohen gadol. This jug only contained enough...