Many Chasidic sources discuss the fact that Chanukah is the final day of judgement for the new year. Since we learn that our judgement is sealed on Hoshanah Rabah, why do we say that we have this extended period of judgement.When a person was sentenced to a death penalty by a Beis Din, but he ran away and went to another town, if witnesses went to the local Beis Din and said that he was Chayev Mesa (deserving of the death penalty)from another Beis Din, they did have to retry him. If the man escaped and ran to Eretz Yisrael he was entitled to a new trial becasue with the greater kedusha of Eretz Yisrael he might be found incocent.
Chanukah is a time of greater Kedusha. We have a spark of the kedusha from the Beis Hamikdash in our homes, and therefore we may be entitled to a better judgement.
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