**Yehudah Maccabi** his son reigned in year 3622, the 2nd king of the Chashmona'im. Maccabi in the Greek language means mighty and a man of war. And some say that thus was written on his banner 'Maccabi' - an acronym for **M**i **K**amocha **B**a'elim **H**aShem (Who is like You among the mighty, HaShem). And he struck down the mighty of Yavan (Greece) who came upon him to capture him, 8,500 men, and then he killed Apollonius the general of Macedon and all his people and took his sword and fought with it all the days of his life.

And so he did to the general Seron and killed 9,000 of Nikanor's mighty men and burned the general Philippos, etc. And Antiochus gathered a great multitude without number and went up against Yerushalayim and they cried out to HaShem, and HaShem struck him with a terrible boil and intestinal disease, and he fell from the chariot and his bones were broken, and the boil spread over his flesh with the smell of a carcass, and his servants carried him in a chair on their shoulders for he could not ride, and because of the evil smell they threw him away and he died in shame and disgrace.

He also struck down 1,000 men, and 21,500, and some say thousands and 1,600. Also 12,000 and 32,000 and 25,000 and 22,000 and 32,000 and 15,000 [(Tzeda)]. And on the 25th of Kislev he and his people came to Yerushalayim and found a flask of pure oil that was sealed with the seal of the Kohen Gadol, etc. [(Tzeda)]. And they brought wood but there was no holy fire, and they called out to HaShem and fire came out from the stone on the altar, and they placed wood upon it and the fire remained until the third exile [(Yuchsin in Seder HaDorot, at Shimon HaTzaddik)].

And why they made Chanukah 8 days is explained in Megillat Ta'anit chapter 9, that the Chashmona'im were occupied with it for 8 days. And in Ma'or Einayim chapters 50, 51, 54 and Sefer HaPelishtim chapter 2 and 10, because before this they could not make Sukkot due to their enemies [(Tzeda)]. On Har HaModiyit, a beautiful city, Mattityahu ben Yochanan is buried and his son Yehudah Maccabi and there are many graves of the Chashmona'im [(Beit HaYa'ar)].

Under the gate of Akko called Sha'ar Chashmona'im, two sons of Mattityahu the Kohen Gadol are buried [(Beit HaYa'ar)].

**Yehudit** [who killed the general Aliporni (Holofernes) - according to the poet this was in the days of the Chashmona'im. And some say in the days of Nevuchadnetzar, and some say in the days of Kambisi (Cambyses) son of Koresh king of Persia, about 200 or 300 years before the miracle of Chanukah, and see Ma'or Einayim chapter 51 and chapters 32 and 34 (Tzeda). She was like Yael, for she was accustomed to weaken his strength through relations with her, until then Yehudit established that she would not lie with him and cut off his head before, and she made him food with cheese like Yael gave milk (Bereishit Rabbah)].