Chanukah

Chanuka

c video sunday chanuka 2014

I didn't hear the begining , not sure whether there was something before this

Why is the miracle 8 days, since it was enough for 1 day the first day was natural. Answer: After creation which was ex-nihilo, everything else/miracle had to be from something, like elisha oil, that is the rule, so oil could not burn out the first night and then the empty continaner would neverthelss burn, had to be that a little burned each night, so even the first night had to burn less tha it should, so the firs tnight was already miracle.

avos imahos fixing of adam & chava

·         first three months are yosef binyamin rochel

·         sarah has the most in torah about her burial

·         rochel diied childbirth, rochelg ives up life for her baby, this is a fixing of chava?)

·         beis hamikdash is in both binyamin and yehuda, kodshei kodoshim in binyamn?

·         Rivka sent food for yitshok was for blessing of Yakov, fixed adam chava i sorro eat bread.

·         Tree of K mixes up god and evil it is confusing, but rivka knew what was good and bad, she fixed it., chose between esav and yakov

Yosef & Yehuda re chanuka:

The biggest miracle of the oil was that they found it to begin with. Yosef gives brocho to Biyamen )before revealing himself), saying “elokim yocnicho bni” yochnecho = has chen = chanuka. Yosef was thereby revealing the future, the location of the cruz hashemen, would it be in Yehyda or binyanin, so y reveals that it is in binyamin,

When yosef was missing binyamin kept the fire burning (AR: is this a reference to the ner tomid?)

yosef & yehuda were figthing over binyamin = fighting over kodshei kodshim, in whose chelek it would be. Mei Hashiloach: who needs the k kodshim the most, a tzadik or BT?Yosef was tzadik, yehuda was BT, he did techuva. Y said it's for tazadikim, Yehuda said for BT (bec for them, holy is not enough, only holy of holies is enough).

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·         why chazal wait for next year {shono acheres} to make chanuka? They waited to see if the energy would return, and this was siman that it was like pesach, shavuous etc.

·         Thats why say 'lehadlik ner chanuka' not 'shel chanuka', it is the actual light of chanuka from then..

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·         fire warms & consumes, greeks wanted to take away all our fire, nights getting long; but the fire of the ner doesn't consume, only warms.

·         shavuous so holy can only take one day, it is like a shock treatment. Chanuka even moreso, one minute of light and that's all. Have vessels only for a minute of the light.

·         In neshama darkness Light of Chanua reaches even where y kippur doesnt reach

·         story of Eshter written down but chanukah not written bec it didn't end et, stil goes on, greeks wanted us to be pagans, world still trying. “Choshech al pnei tehom” is greeks, darkness is when think dont need light(?)

·         Leah gematrai 36, total 36 candles chanuka, light of moshiach, we (adam eve)were in Eden (gan eden) 36 hours before banished, we light licht while they were still in paradise, chanuka fixing ish ubeiso fixing the problem of sholom bayis of adam chava.

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·         Women have to light, bec it started with yehudit: greeks took right de seigneur, the bride as given to greek soldiers on wedding ngight, this was 'culture', germany also cculture [in Dachau one of the Germans was a prof teaching phil in university, and his exercise was pulling people apart in Dachau], not light, lowest darkness. Yeudit, daughter of kohen godol was getting married, tried to keep it secret; in middle of wedding the greeks came and were tearing off her clothes (?) and she is weairng armor to defend herself, siad all the men are cowards, so yehuda macabi her brother was inspired to fight, this was how the uprising began. Yehudit saved yiddishkeit we are here today bec of her....

·         How did Y macabi create his army? He went to the pagan temples where young cohanim were because tere was nothing else for them, he asked them what theyd give to have b hamikdash back, they said their lives.

·         Tzdoko on chanuka: have to give: greeks said god has notning to do wiht money {this world?), god's light is in the darkest corner.

·         Whoever has trouble giving money, obviously god's light is not shining in their pocket. Avrohom fed people, need to invite after shul not just shokkel while in shul;

purim gragger from below, as was the nes, while chanuka dreidel from above.

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before bread wash hands to clean off the notion that our hands got us the bread, not god (AR: Kochi veotzem yodi),this is pagan, ch is the most non pagan, the utmost fixing of verything, to see that god is everything, eveyhing is a miracle not natural or our hands, so we wash our hands before lighting.

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Chanuka december 16 2014:

infinite and in the world, uniting them, greek pagan vs chanuka

le'shaym yichud kbh ushchintoh.

hkbh is the infinite light shchina is the light which is in the world...?

zionism doesnt have vessels for holiness (AR: the infinite light? only for the lighti in the world, ie)national ok withing vessel capacity. need large vessels for infinite light

chanuka = chen, chen = charm, meet someone , you feel willing walk the for many miles, out of proportion, that's chen: on chanuka we get everyhting, out of proportion, and we have vessels for the highest (AR: via lighting the candles, or via the intention, or if we have the right intention we ar egiven the vessels, and then can receive the infinit elight?) ;

light ch lights, ask to unify the light in the world and the infinite, ichud kbh uhchintoh.

"bidchilu": shiver that the connection to god won't break: not as people think fear of god is real fear overwhelming.

before bentching light say intention to fix the light at its root.

le'shaim yichud; inner outer.

1.      oil is the secret rozo and flame is outer open light; greeks defiled oil means destroyed our inner light

2.      god lights up our darkness

3.      gmoro says ch is sof kol hanisim, it is forever, it carries us all the way til moshiach (AR: ie tying it to the fact that it is historically the latest holiday, none afterward, and why we say "she'oso nisim.. bazman hazeh")(maybe that ties also to idea of Tradition, chain, it carries forward..)

4.      kavonoh: pls fix our emotions, shine the light of ch(anukah) into my heart

5.      light from candle to candle, like tradition goes from one person to another (AR not from a match)

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Side point

6.      there's the light of transmission and also a light that you make up (your own contribution to the Tradition),

7.      Aside: r shlomo gives over the tradition of his rebbes rebbes all the way to the vilna gaon.

8.      shl's zeide was one of the last of the chachmei ashkenaz

9.      (had 12 children? 8 sons 4 daughters?), sh's father was last of his siblings, sh gave hesped, said his father was the last of the candles, we need hkbh to kindle it agian.

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inside/outside

10.  greek wisdo is chochma chitzonis, doesnt touch you (AR your insides, so it is outside teaching, opposite of torah, chanuka, it is only the light of the world not the infinite?).

11.  prof yelled at beggar interrupting me while he is writing book on charity; eating cheeseburger while teaching gmoro, he is teaching the outside of the outside of the outside of the outside.

12.  1959 sh's first visit to e y., went to meah shearim, ina yeshiva, kids didnt look up when we was there. they were 'inside'. we want to bentch/light?, the inside light.

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A different idea, not directly related to chanuka, or light (?), just important on its own, as applied to chanuka: gmoro says can't use light for own purposes, so is using the light to light another light is that for my purpose or is it part of the mitzva of chanuka. Does the first light include the second etc, two nights, in all of shas this is very deep. Same idea: Make vow not have hanooh from a river. i'm in siberia can I go to mikva in river in order to blow shofar is it for my purpose or is it for mitzva so it ok? AR explanation (not 100% sure this is what he is saying): it is not a matter of whether or not it is for god or for you, obviously it is for god for mitzvah, but issue is whether it is one mitzva being used for another, or using a mitzva to fulfil my need to do a mitzvah vs it is the same mitza so it is ok.

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13.  B sh tov on street: r sh forgot to continue the story. he wanted to show that what he would say is not just 'chasidishe torah' so he brought gmoro

14.  so he told a did story? sparks are waiting for redmeption.

15.  highests level of knowledge?is to know you don't know: story. impressed by son in law who said i dont know to every quesiotn on bechinah.

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she'oso nisim: make brocho beforelighting;Rabenu Yonah says do it after, but halacha is do it before. AR explanaiton/inteprretaiton: AR: maybe make the brocho 'she'oso nisim' as part of al hanisim? No it is connected to ch lighting, so do it at lighting. Why connected to lighin=ting rather than just anytim on chanuka? And also, if so should make it befor elighting? No, bazman hazeh, so need to see it now, non- pagan so see light and know world in all god always nisim, so it is after see the chadle's light, so make brocho after lighting it, r yonah, but halcooch is not so do it over la'asiyoson.

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