Different ‘OPINIONS’ Explaining the Chanuka Miracle?!

No.

Since Chazal were somewhat vague (because it doesn’t matter!), and I think there is one other primary source, what we have 2,978.008 of are bald GUESSES.

  • Did the same oil last longer?
  • The miracle was they didn’t give up trying?
  • Did the jug keep refilling?
  • Maybe the jug never emptied, like with Elisha?
  • Did they put in a 1\8 for eight days?
  • Maybe it was the wind in the Chatzer?
  • Or…?

Some guesses are clever, some less so, some rhyme, some don’t, some have big names… that is all.

Nothing wrong with guessing, the same way nothing is (generally) wrong with Derush, despite the rule: אין משיבין על ההגדות.

כל פיטטיא בישין ופיטטיא דאורייתא טבין. כל כדבייא בישין וכדבייא דאורייתא טבין.

And yet, “Not everything one thinks should be said, not everything one says should be written, not everything one wrote should be published”. “Every thing in its proper place”, in a hierarchy of value.

So, we don’t have various “opinions” (as though our perfect tradition is some Broken Telephone game). We have Chazal which is canon. Nothing more.

See a more serious point about made-up Torah material over here.