There are many lessons to be gleaned from the passage in Sefer Zekharya that we read as the haftara for Shabbat Chanuka. Through a close examination of the text, we learn important messages about Jewish identity and the uniqueness of the nation of Israel in the world. We also learn about the ideal model of leadership: spiritual leadership alongside social leadership, the former embodied by the Leviim and the latter by the sons of Yehuda.

Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion