Have we not received from the mouths of the Sages that Yose ben Yo'ezer and Yose

ben Yohanan, who were during the days of the conflict with Greece, were the fir
st ones to stand in a dispute in Torah law (the first dispute in the law of layi
ng the hands [on a sacrifice] on festivals). That is, that on account of Greece'
s darkening of Israel's eyes with the decrees it decreed "to make them forget Yo
ur Torah", this darkening-forgetting led to the first dispute in the Sanhedrin w
ho sat in the Chamber of the Hewn Stone. In this sense, the proliferation of opi
nions and dissenting positions in the "war of Torah" until present times [can be
traced back] in a straight line from the darkening of Israel's eyes via the for
getting of Torah caused by the decrees of Greece.