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At this time Menelaus is in charge,
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and his Hellenizing party
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which we could call the radical reformers
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they saw--this is the beginning of the anti-Judaism laws
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About this time several laws were passed that
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forbade circumcision, you can't circumcise your boys anymore
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you're forbidden from observing the Torah
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the Jewish law;
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it may have been that even a pig was sacrificed
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on the altar in Jerusalem in the Holy of Holies
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and the temple was turned into a syncretistic Jewish pagan grove
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In traditional Greek religion and other religions