Chasidut para sa Ezekiel 7:22

On Chanukah, holiness and purity descend to the Jewish people. But "the Greeks defiled the oils," such that it follows that the holiness left, as it is written (Ezekiel 7:22), "ruffians shall invade it and defile it." As purity is the preparation (precondition) for holiness. "To make them forget Your Torah," is the aspect of the soul, which is what receives the holiness. "To divert them from the statutes of Your will," are the commandments which purify the body to be a ready vessel, as it is written (Psalms 51:12), "A pure heart, etc.; create a steadfast spirit, etc." As the body needs purity. And they are are called, "the statutes of Your will," because they are called (considered) statutes for the body. However the soul is from the root of the commandments and the Torah. And when the Holy One, blessed be He, "stood for us," He brings down purity to the body and holiness to the soul. That is the "praise and the thanksgiving," as I have written in another place. "You took vengeance for us" - just like they brought in impurity into a holy place, so too did the Holy One, blessed be He, take vengeance, and "gave over the impure into the hands of the pure." So therefore during these days, we are able to purify ourselves even in the impure places outside the Land [of Israel].