oomis, im sure you know that is just one of at least a hundred answers right?”
Yep.
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That can be interpreted two ways, my friend. It can just as easily be understood as “theylit from it (that one tiny oil) for a period that lasted 8 days. That’s what’s great about Torah – so many facets, and each one is worthy of knowing.
The latter interpretation seems more logical to me, as they would have had to use the entire cruse of oil to light the menorah. Or was the menorah in the Beis Hamikdash lit the same way we light our own menorahs, adding a light each new day? I would tend to doubt that. Our minhag comes from Beis Hillel’s decision as to how to light a menorah. But the original neis that took place with it was a miracle because ALL the oil must have been poured into the menorah, but either only an eighth of it burned per day, or it renewed itself each day. In any case, no one would argue that it was not miraculous by all accounts.
The biggest miracle was the national one, where an army the size of a peanut, defeated an army the size of an elephant. Shades of Dovid and Golias!