A Day of of Ultimate Clarity and Good: Why the Final Day of Chanukah Determins the Rest of 5786

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> [music and singing] [music and singing] >> I would like to wish everyone a happy and successful Zos Kanuka. Today is a day of such apicious apicious power. uh that each and every person, every Jew and literally through us, every person in the world could theoretically affect great things today, but particularly the Jewish people. So I want to address the awesome power of this day and pose a couple of questions to help define it and so we can appreciate we're giving this as a wrap-up to our observances of Kaneka, the eighth day of Kaneka, which is called Zot Kaneka. We'll explain why. and uh what the significance of this day is to us at this point in our lives and this point in the history of the world and this point in the history of Claustra. Today is a day of decision and I'm going to quote you the sources and explain to you a little bit about their impact. Why is the eighth day of Khaneka so important? Why is it um considered a day when many many great sadikim would have special gatherings? And this is based on something from the Zora kadosh. So this is a deep cabalistic secret that was not even passed down in an open way until our generations. It's a it's a very well-kept secret and may hark back all the all the way to the days of Yakov. Let me explain why. We all know that the main curiosity of Kaneka is as my Kaneka is what really what really is the celebration all about and the most classic question of course is why the particular eighth day 8 days is not a typical number in the Jewish calendar as the Maharal points out in his he says we generally work with the number seven with six days seven days is shabas that's the seder of creation the eighth day is not something relevant to the human experience and uh all the toim that Hashem gave us through the holy Torah and the Torah itself. The Torah is a cycle of sevens. You have Shabbat, we have creator and shabas. The uh the portions of the Torah are allocated to Shabbasim and um but the completion of the Torah is on an eighth day. What do I mean by that? On which is Torah, the day which has become infamous in these last several years. uh as a critical international national national crisis not only for the Jewish people for the world and its struggle to um determine and sort out good from evil. The attack of course of October 7th in Gaza and the world's reactions till today until this very Kaneka are filled I would say with the bilbool of tovara people don't really understand or wish don't wish to understand how to sort out the truth and how to sort out the emis and what the implications are and what's the tove and what's the ra it's such a bilboo it's be to vavu it's is as if the world was completely confused misled led or being um confused by their own thinking. And this speaks to a concept that Rabbi Nakman spoke about in his safer Torah 61, which is really one of the seminal Toras of Rabbi Nakman. And it's also considered by those familiar with his writings as his last will and testament. So what Rabbi Nakman says over there is something super powerful and very relevant to the a day of Kaneka about sorting out all the the the horrible mess of our within our thinking in which we have we just don't know what is good and what is evil. The has has his voice has its voice and our has a voice. And often times we are confounded with what which choices to make. Sometimes it's clear, sometimes it's less clear. But always always there's the danger of convincing oneself or thinking oneself into a particular way of thinking that locks you in and doesn't allow you to reveal the truth. For example, in in processing the events of Bondi Beach, which is a clear act of evil, if there were ever an act of evil, uh this is an example and of course we've seen so many in recent years which thoughtless and people who were bound in their world of thoughts and committed horrific deeds and logically they were convinced that what they were doing was something to right necess necessary. Um, so that's what this people convinced themselves by standing there and shooting Jews on a beach who are trying to observe Kaneka that this is a good thing. This is consistent with a noble philosophy and cause certainly the people who have been protesting on behalf of Gaza, not looking beneath the surface to see what it is that they are championing and to attack Israel with such venom. I saw a reporter sadly speaking to Secretary of State who I thought was a real Israel champion and now I'm not so sure. He said venomous things about Israel killing children and such and such and how can you let this go on as if they're such victims in Gaza and Israel's such heartless murderers of children. And then the the secretary of state didn't deny it. He said, "Yeah, we're trying to calm we made peace. We're trying to calm the situation down. It's not easy." He himself didn't deny at least not forcefully deny the bilsh is the concept of denim. Dinim are conclusions, executions of thought that lead to deed and also to reality. So when a person has in their mind a certain evil thought, he thinks it into reality. the shooter did that. He thought he radicalized. They found pictures. They found, I think, flags of ISIS in his car. I'm really sure. I don't know that the details will emerge. I don't know if they'll allow them to fully emerge because there's a lot at stake here for the world who wishes not to see the blind evil and to deny it. And this is particularly what the eighth day of Khan is all about. meaning utter clarity. The clear light that shines where we can no longer be in the darkness of our own misconceptions, our own misunderstandings and our own self-promoting uh uh justifications of evil. So said he says anything you're diff anything anything that that creates difficulties in life painship suffering hardness is the concept of denim and that comes from our thoughts. Our thoughts like I said we think a certain way and therefore because we think a certain way we experience suffering pain or we inflict suffering and pain. There was a Jewish couple that's world famous in the world of entertainment uh going all the way back to the 70s and films and this is uh the producer Rob Reiner very well-known Jewish producer and his wife who was Jewish was murdered in senseless fashion by their own son who was a drug addict who was violent and uh you know I give them the benefit of the doubt that they did everything that they possibly could to raise this child. But this child uh um murdered them, either choked them to death or knifed them to death. What son does that to a parent? And that illness of the mind led him to believe that they deserve this fate. Those are called denim. Now I'm not saying anything about the situation because I don't know the details. But I do know one thing that this Mr. Riner was a was a virulent opponent of Donald Trump and any and promoted every liberal cause known to man. There's a has many many Jewish celebrities. If you look through the list of Jewish celebrities, they're heavily many of them are heavily anti-Israel. I have to mention names. very famous in the most famous films of uh of our era. They're outstandingly leftist liberal and outspoken against Israel and against any right-wing values. And look how sad that what ended up is that they ended up victims of violence. the very violence that they accused Israel of instead came into their doorstep. I'm not suggesting any sort of that justification for their tragic loss, but I think I do think that Hashem is getting people's attention and ashkis is to take such a celebrated figure u made some of the movies that are most dear to Americans. I don't to can't tell you that I've watched any of them. I really haven't. I really don't know that I have. But I know that he's the the level of fame that this person has and his level of unspokenenness in in against Donald Trump who is also not so perfect. Let's put it that way. um and they can took the liberal high ground and assumed positions of moral greatness and authority. Well, no one can assume that righteous uh self-righteous liberalism is an answer to the problems of violence, drugs, hatred, failure of human beings to elevate themselves above their most animal instincts and drives. It doesn't necessarily help to pump money and pump goods and services into the hands of people who only know violence. So the Palestinians themselves, quote unquote, or the Gazins, they saw the Bondi Beach massacre and they said, "Oh, the Mossad did it to curry uh favor for the Jews." That's a typical go-to because the possibility that maybe their approach is false and evil never occurs to them and will not occur to them because they have made the den. They've made the judgment. They've executed Israel in the court of moral inquiry. I'm not saying Israel is above blame. Far from it. Far from it. We all must always look and see are people behaving according to the will of Hashem. Well, who can say that? Who can say that collectively? Okay, we struggle to do it every day and we're not even being asked these questions of how to conduct politics, war, uh, negotiations with the outside world. No one's asking the world of Torah their opinion. Not outside the world and not inside the world, but people who seek the truth do. And um Zos Khaneka uh is that day in which is above the seven. We lift our we lift our heads above the confusion of the world of and we have one day of the Torah. Okay. Rabbi Nathman calls this the Evans Shashia, the foundation rock of the world from whence all think of it as a a central a central knowledge or intelligence which is called in the world of of Zohar it's the upper worlds and there's a statement by the Basar it's quoting the Zohar amoy This means until Hod which is the associated with Aon, the miracle of the lighting of Anora which which we read today on the eighth final day of Kanek is the reading of Aaron lighting the lamps and the beta mikdesh on the very first day of the of the consecration of the oh moed of the Mishkan which is the day in which the world was reconstructed the way it ought to be. The miniature world. I think there's a place called mini Israel. Laavdo, right? Little Israel. Well, little world is the Mishkan. Little world is the beta mash. You can come and look at the model and then go home and build it wherever it is that you want. Bring its light wherever you want. Today is the day in which mini world is is actualized on a on on its in the spiritual realms in the realms of uh of the ultimate truths of Hashem. And we down here in this world are given such a power for parnasa for blessing. We ourselves have the power of sadikim today. Did you know that? Did you know that according to us from Kadoshim, you don't need necessarily to go out and rely on anybody else but yourself today to dive into Hashem and to receive open miracles such as women who have not had children to be remembered like Saru like uh bringing down Parnasa for situ for situations and bringing down health for desperate situations. Today is our day and I'm going to explain it a little bit at a time. Here we go. So, first point again to summarize is that all judgments and harsh things in the world as we have seen such as bondi beach, such as the Gaza wars, such as the internal strife within Israel itself, such as the hatred of the nations who have declared that Israel does not have a right to exist in I don't know what it does exist. They they'll allow Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is acceptable, but beyond Tel Aviv, maybe a few towns, but that's about it. Nothing too Jewish. Nothing that reflects the seven of Kaduca Shabas and Torah. And certainly nothing that reflects the eighth level, which is beyond which is the realm of Hashem, Malim, Kadoshim, and the world to come. But we are sitting today in that world. The eighth day of Kaneka is that day. It's the same day as the eighth day known as Shminias. And let me explain why. So what we said was that the confusion of the world gets clarified today potentially by every person. And that Rabin says explains how that works mechanically. He says there's a device called allowing your lower brain the the brain that only goes to the world of seven our natural world to elevate and connect with a higher a higher wisdom and that higher wisdom is known as Evan Shashia. It's where everything emanates from in terms of thoughts and so there's you know ironically milliondoll even non-Jews have not revealed this in the 1800s people have picked up this idea even non-Jews have picked up the idea that there's something known as a collective consciousness there's a higher wisdom in which everything is unified um individual judgments go against individuals. Everybody has their problems. They have their problems with children. They have their problems with health. They have their problems with perna. They have their problems interrelating with neighbors and friends and community and government and whoever else it might be. And then the countries have their interactions and the world has its interactions. Correct? But those are all specific. Those are all from this world. On the highest level there is the root of all of all we cannot allow our consciousness to elevate to Hashem's complete unified consciousness which we do through learning Torah through observing Yamtoim and particularly in observation in observing Kaneka and the in particular the final candle of Kaneka we are reaching for something that will help us down here in our suffering world. Of course, there are wonderful pleasures in this world. But no one is free of denim and judgments. It's just that's the nature of our world. In fact, the zora says that there are 24 heavenly courts, one ruling every hour, which means man is constantly evaluated every hour of the day. What you did at 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. is not going to be the same outcome. You're not going to get the same report in heaven as what you did from 11 to 12. Okay? And each one needs a little bit of fixing. Why did Hashem do that? Because he wants us to elevate and fix all problems. How do we do that? And get rewarded and get and get the pleasure of Hashem embracing us and earning our reward. That's why Hashem does all this what he wants to torment people. No, he wants us to rise above, figure it out, and open the cage to our own prisons of thought. So, how do we get there? We have to have some sort of opportunity. There has to be a ladder that opens, a door that opens up that we can climb through occasionally to peek through to remind ourselves. It's kind of like when you're in a dark room, right? And then you need to move around the room. But if somebody will open the window just for a moment or for an hour, you'll map it all out in your head and then you'll be able when they close the window, you'll know where to go more or less or more. That's what we are extended on this day and on several other points in the year. And let me explain the idea of the the idea conceptually of this cababalistic notion that on the eighth day of Kaneka is this final day of the high holiday period. In other words, you thought the high holidays concluded with Torah within. No, there's another shini. There's the shmini of the eighth day of Kaneka which is in time an extended shminateras which itself is an extension of the holiday of of sukus which is note seven days and then so too seven days of kanuka then it's almost as if we slid sukos forward from the end of Tish right two months ahead to the end of okay and there's a couple reasons for that first let me quote the source Aon Mizir who is a student of the renowned Kaduca Ley Leitzich in his teachings on Khan wrote that the shea the light and the the the sustenance, the gifts, the blessings, which is the reward of of being judged favorably and be granted the gifts of Hashem. Hence, Khan presence or Khan guilt. Yeah. Because this is where everything begins to flow. It's called In other words, everything has been held in obeyance. All the blessings and rewards of this of this year have still been held back until now. And similarly the bat iron who is a student of the mag of Chernobyl that's the Chernobyl dynasty it's he quoted the Arizal that the main okay in other words the ceiling that is by definition of all the good you still have a chance to heap more and more good into your year from Rashashan. all the way through yum kipper and sukus and all the mitzvah and everything you do and plus that period of checking which is well okay you finished you finished on the 22nd of of tish now let's see where you're holding on 22nd of of uh kisv and then we're going to start getting ready for kaneka and then everything will will move forward okay so this is you can still pack the year with goodness and light, right? Which is the light, the lammed, the 36 hours of hidden light that Hashem created to end the world and put put aside for the sadikim. Those are the 36 candles of Kaneka plus the eight shamasim that we add which uh which again represents uh that aspect of the final day. All right. And then he quotes from sukas to Kaneka, you're allowed to bring bikurin. You're allowed to sing Hashem's praises for giving you the gifts of the fruits of the land of Israel that you made it. You were successful. We overcame loavan. We overcame parro. We made it to the land of Israel. We're here. We're fruitful. We're celebrating. You can bring it until Kanuka. You can't make a br after after sukus because it's not the main time to bring it but it's still possible. Okay. And that's the sod. This was a cabalistic secret that was sealed for centuries and revealed finally in our generation the power of this day that kaneka actually is another sharaba and the celebration of a victorious judgment. Okay. Um, and that's what's brought down also in the name of Shar it's called and the zerakodesh um that even though on rash on the the the letters the the final edicts of Hashem for the year ahead are are sealed and and delivered. They are not enforced until Kaneka to give us a chance. Okay. Sound like sound like the the books of uh that were sent out on on um by uh Hmon that they didn't get a chance to open them and then Esther sends the new books. Okay. So the Malut Mahar also says that Kaneka is ham. The sweetening of the original judgment of Rashish Shana is now. How do we zoh to this? So if we can connect our minds to to the idea of a elo a higher knowledge higher than what we can possibly comprehend. Then we will unlock all of our all of our mindsets and all of our problems and we'll unlock the rich the riches and blessings that are due to us. So what what we what our restrictions are because perhaps we're jealous, perhaps we're impatient, perhaps we're angry, perhaps we're unhappy with the circumstances of our lives, perhaps we're unhappy what's happening with Cla Israel, perhaps we're we're we're we're questioning uh why these harsh judgments on the Jewish people, why a bondi beach? Why are there people being killed on Russia and shuls in Europe? Why are there why is it that Amam Dani is taking over New York who's rife with hatred of the city that contains the most holiness in Torah outside the land of Israel? I don't know if Lakewood's overtaken that but you know you could ask a lot of questions. We could ask a lot of questions but unfortunately the answers to those questions are not available to us using our normal SEAL. We have to rise to something the central system of Seikh that exists in the world which is known as the Evans Shia the bedrock what's under the kipatasella what's by the harabas which is why is so critical and so important to us because it is the physical manifestation of the single solution for all the problems of the hatreds of the world the hatred of the world which is so vast violence of the world the greediness of the world. The corruption of the world can never be fixed unless we can all rise to that higher. That's the concept of the lion laying laying down with the lamb. Okay, that's the concept of the of the hag. It's not going to happen uh automatically. This the mistake of the liberals is not so much that they want bad things. They want good things. They want the lion to lay down with the lamb. So therefore, they'll say, "Give the lions plenty of food and sustenance and money and honor and they'll stop bothering the lamb." No, it doesn't work that way. You cannot give endless billions of dollars of support to people who are inherently in stuck in the demium of evil and hope that that's going to pry them towards good. It's not going to work that way. It is a re-education, a reorientation, a finding of the light. Think of the guy who protected the Jews on Bondi Beach who who was Mos neph to tackle a fellow Muslim because he felt he was fundamentally wrong. That person had say that person that's the solution. It's not going to help to pour money at them. They don't want money. They want to to act out their decisions that they've made in their mind. These are denim on us and not saying we're not at some to blame for arousing and for being objects of anger. If we were maybe on a higher level, maybe we wouldn't be uh as victimized. Atic is always loved by non-Jew. Chutadikim are loved by non-Jews. Maybe it's a message to us that we have to start to ask ourselves what what what are you trying to accomplish? What what are you here for? Is this just a rat race that you're gonna scratch out your your piece of the piece of the pie or how many vacations you can go on or food you can consume or beautiful you can conduct or does Hashem want us to be sadikim that are going to be mashim on everybody around us and educate them? I don't know and I can cause into question whether the leadership of the the state of Israel really understands this that it's not the goal to be the strongest. We are and I'll tell you an interesting story from Kaneka. People think you know Alhamos that Judah the Makabe won every war and and that we were so great militarily and we defeated those guys. One two three if you really read the history of the wars you will find out the following. Yes, because of their greater amuna yudaki be led the davenining and they fought with people of utter faith and conviction and connection to Hashem and they brought miracles. This is true. But then later on there was going below seahal hashmi to seahal hashi. Let's be real. They made a pact with Rome. Yehuda himself made a pact with Rome. Mutual defense pact. And he started to say listen I don't know if I can keep this up. I don't know if I can play on that level all the time. And then what happened? the Hellenists within us pulled out to our enemies in Antioch. Uh actually by this time it was yeah the the still the Greek still the Syrian Greeks and said come let's get rid of this Yehuda guy once and for all which they tried to do tens tens of times and Yehuda using his faith in Hashem and his moon and his fela was muscab until the till the last war the fourth war of Kaneka after the Kaneka miracle that was the end there was a there was an army that was being led to Israel of 100 that came to Israel of a 100,000 troops and uh 10,000 cavalry and the places where Yehuda saw a miracle like in Bon the Jews were overrun they were cut through like a knife through butter and then they were marching on Jerusalem and the Hellenists were going to have their day that once and for all these annoying eighth day people these annoying people who had a seahal that was like no other in the world that refused to fall into the idea that everything has to be the way the the men of the world, the men of the world see it. The Greco Roman men of the world see it. No, we have a different look. We we have a law and and they were going to get crushed. Yehuda was about to be crushed. He was isolated. He was b abandoned by his troops. He was a goner and then Hashem wrought a political miracle just at that moment arrival to the throne. uh who had there been there had been a contest for the throne whether or not um it would fall into the hands of one of the descendants of Antiochus actually someone who looked like Antiochus his son Antiochus I was one leading the army but then he fig then he found out that h there was a general named Philillip who was his reba who his uh grandfather put in charge of him that decided that he wants to rule and now if you don't go back right now with your 100,000 troops. You're going to lose your whole kingdom. And they decide to pick up and leave one day before crushing Yehuda and destroying the base Hikdash at that time with the Helenist going to be in complete charge. And you know what? They make a peace treaty with Yehuda and they decide to leave and everything is spared. So don't think for one second that these Milamos were the were the solution. Muhammad were incredibly miraculous like the six day war like all those things like all the rescuing inbi like the many miracles that were experienced in the Gaza wars like many many of these wonderful victories but it's not the full answer because in the end of the day we will not win by the kak we never win by the kak of the but the kawak of artos that was Yehuda's secret prayer was his dovening his dvening is what caused his sword to be successful if You're going to try to rely on the material world with weapons of war and common politics unless Hashem is going to be fortunate and bail you out. Uh there is no guarantees will be successful. Israel ultimately will not prevail because it makes the best weapons in the world. Because for all after all is said and done, we are ma mikim and the nations can have their way with us if they choose to as we see with growing impunity. How President Trump wishes to just tell Israel what they can do, what they can't do, to to keep his peace in Gaza at whatever cost there is for the Jewish people. And there's a meeting coming up between Trump and Natanyao where Natao is going to plead with him. Please, Iran is rearming. Hezbollah is rearming Gaza. You're feeding these people who are terrorists who want to continue everything that they've done to us now and still holding hostage. And and he's going to have to plead the case and the decision. You know, Hashem should give him wisdom because I don't know. I really don't know if Trump is still hearing Hashem. You know, he had that very uh close call and Hashem got his ear literally, but does he still have his ear? Or did he decide that thanks God, I'll take it from here. I'm going to impose my peace on the world. And boy, is he in for a rude awakening. And I don't know how rude. and I fear for him because he's done such wonderful things and we're still better off with him than without him. But the path that he's taking is not a path of holiness. To take all the nations of the world and bring them into Gaza to rule it is one smidgen away from doing the same thing for Yehuda and Shamron, which is where all this is heading. Okay. But as we watch all this, we we we tap into our and say if we're going to be successful as we have been till date, it's all a miracle. It's all from the eighth day will of Hashem that even one Jew lives in Arit Israel that even one Jew is able to observe to mitzvah that I'm able to sit and talk to you from this point in Kila Kadosha Bish and broadcast out to you wherever you might be and to the people here is all a gift from Hashem that's the knowledge that's the das of Zos Khan that's what gives us power that's what gave Yehuda power and that's what will give us ultimately power to succeed over our enemies because once we're there we that we will appear quite differently to them. They say when the when um right after this right before the 67 war the only person who predicted that there would be victory was the labreak everybody was gloom and doom because you're right by tea there was no hope for Israel's survival at that time a very weak country and massive Arab armies with deathly weapons and Israel did not have the weaponry or the people to defend themselves They were preparing mass graves in Tel Aviv. Uh the miracle of the six day war was completely malva. People tell stories that two men captured entire platoon of Egyptians with 10,000 men. How could two people hold captive 10,000 men? And they asked they asked these Egyptian soldiers who surrendered to two people. They said, "Why did you surrender? There was only two people there." He says, "There was no there weren't. We saw thousands and thousands of people. We saw thousands and thousands of people. What? Are you kidding me? Who knows if those were the souls of the Niti Shawah of the Shawah who came to fight and captured 10,000 Egyptians of through two people, which is exactly what Yehuda Hamakabi told his troops time and time again. It's not about the numbers. It's about who's on our side. Is Hashem on our side? The people who blasphe us, do they see Hashem on our side? Because if they do, they're going to sing a very different tune. Very different tune. Okay? And then they're going to start seeing, "Whoops, I don't mess with Israel. If I mess with Israel, I'm no I'm going to destroy myself." Okay? So, I want to move on. There's so many important and critical ideas that are associated here. Let's take one. We know that um the problem of the bas's question about the what's the eighth day about. So a related question to that is why are we making such a big deal about the oil altogether? It was perfectly permissible to light oil that was not kosher not say not spiritually strong and clear because is if you have the entire Jewish people are in a state of tumat that they've been in wars and they've touched dead people or they've killed somebody with if a sword if you hold a sword that kills a uh a non-Jew that makes you so none of them could be serve in the beta mikdash they would have to go through the sprinkling ceremony of the meatas they'd have to slaughter a red heer which apparently they did and it takes seven days to clarify. So they found a pure jug of oil but if they're going to resume the work of the beta mikdash which it says they did the next day in other words isuan that's brought down in this as well they rested from their war on the 25th day and they resumed the service of the bas mikdash not that the bas was fully rebuilt it would take time they had to even rebuild the altar but they began again. Um, so what does that mean? That means the next morning they had to bring a carbon tummy. They had to bring a regular sacrifice. They're all tame. So when they lura that night, the the the night before they were going to do the the whole service betuma. So when what was this whole thing? I don't they didn't want to bring oil and and and they didn't want to def what was this? They didn't want to have do the work in a defiled manner. What do you mean? The whole thing is defiled. What are you talking about? It doesn't matter. Go take any oil that's available. Let a let a coh whose tame make the oil today. If there's a problem, do oil today. And maybe they did. They probably did prepare oil that wasn't ritually pure because you can go ahead and do the do the service anyway. But what really happened was this writes this in his uh and he says that this is what happened. He said albeit that it was true that they had to re restart the beta mikdash and they couldn't use the misb that was there. It would they'd had to remove all the stones, put them away, and build a new one. But that's that's done in one day. That that that could be done in hours. You have so many people working. It's not a problem. But something happened. They happened to find a jug of oil with the seal of the coin guttle. But the coin guttle didn't traditionally seal oil. You know, it's not his job. You know, much lower people were involved in producing the oil. There were people who sold oil to the bases of mikdash or propo or or or special craftsmen who created the oil according to the spec specificities of the oil that was needed for the manora which is cussus which means the first cold cold press very special olive oil I by the way bought a bottle of olive oil just like that that they had advertised as this is the real olive oil from the beta mikd that it's made in that manner that was kosher for the monora cost 100 shekels it's about twice twice the price of of of regular oil, right? I bought it. I lit with it. The candles are still burning. What time is it? It's almost 2 p.m. So, it it Okay, but they could have done it. It's a big deal. But they since they found this sealed thing from the cole, it was very strange. Why did they need it? So offer some offer that this idea that it wasn't your typical oil. This oil was not the normal oil for the manora. It carried the seal of the coal because it was a remnant of a previous oil that was used to dedicate the original Mishkan. There was oil that Mosher Rabenu miraculously used cuz I'll tell us to dedicate all the caim of the first Mishkan where Aron AoE lit the first minora of all time and that's what we read today and the Ramban says that was the pro of the miracle of Kaneka in future years was the holy lighting of the manora in with complete purity by Arono. How? Because there was this miracle oil that Mosher Rabenu used to dedicate the Mishkan to pour oil on all the caim to make them holy and he poured and he poured and he poured and they used it for all the years many many years and again different different sources regarding this. It's not your typical oil. It's the oil of the oil of the original days. Now you understand why throughout Kaneka we read the story we read the uh section of the dedication of the the first days of dedication of the Mishkan with each tribe bringing its various sacrifices his various kabonos because there's an energy from that time not that it's an analogy today it is what happened on Kaneka it is what happened on Kaneka that was the oil that Mos Rabeno used that was sealed away for posterity because it was a miracle. Just like they sealed away the mun in a jar. Just like they sealed away the staff of Aaron Cohane which proved which blossom which which showed that he was chosen against Korak and all of his and all the other rivals. there was that oil. And some go even further and they say when Yakovinu wakes up from his dream and he takes a stone, the stones that were under his head, which is the 12 tribes, notice like the 12 tribes that bring the sacrifices on the first day of the Mishkan and he unified, they miraculously unified themselves as they did and that on those days by bringing all of the carbonos exactly the same. Then he poured oil on it. What oil? A jug of oil miraculously was there at the sight of his dream and that oil was hidden and that some say was the oil that Mosher Rabenu discovered and used. And the deeper message of that is is is as follows. If there is a an ability of the Jewish people, which is why we constantly evoke our obos right away, the seven shepherds, notice seven shepherds, including Mosherenu, Yako, Yosephadic, who's also a focus of this para, and we can actually renew, refresh, and go back to those moments. Kaneka was not a later holiday. Kaneka was the origin story of the Mishkan and of the second Ba Mikdash which by the way ironically was dedicated on the first day of Kaneka uh many hundreds of years earlier. Okay, remember the BA mikdash the second B mig lasts for 420 years. The Kashmon come in the last 200 years. So that means that already been more than 200 years since the original um dedication by Ezra of the of the second bas mikdash. You understand that we re we reboot all the way back to that moment when they lit the manora of Kaneka. It was the same day. It was the 25th day of the month of Kisv. It rebooted. It's like start over. Go back to the power of that moment. We go back to the power of the moment of Yakov pouring the stones over pouring the oil over the 12 sons saying you are a unit. I built Kali Israel. Now I'm going to go and do it in reality. But the purpose and the plan is there. The seal the Evan Shia plan. That was the stone. That is the stone that is referring to. So what is the power of the Jewish people to recreate and jump back to those moments? Those moments are reproducible and they're renewable. [laughter] It's like renewable energy. So Zaneka is the culmination of the of the period of judgments because we always can go back to our best best and highest moments. That resilience, that spiritual resilience is what is describing lesson 61. Let your brain go higher and be re revitalized with a different way of thinking. Come back to your brain and then all your problems are gone. Now, being also a therapist for many years, I often think about the the distinctions and the connections between the world of psychology and the world of Torah as if they're two separate things as people want to portray them. But I don't believe so. I don't believe such a thing is possible, at least not for the Jewish people. And so, who's right and who's wrong? What are the the teachings of the world of psychology have one opinion? It's almost like Greece and the teaching of Torah another decision and how can we reconcile them and how can they live together in peace and you've had people like Torski who brought in um notions of from the world of addictions and recovery and applied them in a very broad sense and created what I call a psychology of self-esteem and brought it in from an outside. It was it was from Yavan. was not from our world but he brought it into the keshkadashim and he made it part of our world. He was a person who could do that. Not everybody can [clears throat] do that. Not everybody should even attempt to do that perhaps. But there is this idea that don't you cannot solve problems using the same method of thinking. Like if a couple comes in with marital problems and they have a mindset they have their what I call their denim. They've decided this is what this person is all about. This is what bothers me. This is what I like. And it's a fixed idea and then there's no fluidity to it. They've passen they've given their judgment. There's there's not there's no there's no uh wiggle room. You can't move anywhere. You're not going to reconcile anything. You have to go to higher a different way of looking at it. What we call a paradigm shift some a different way of looking at things. And that's the that is the therapy. You have to look at it differently. That was the secret of all the the addicts. They began to understand and they they made a movement out of it and it does bring value and it is it does contain a light of truth, a light of clarity, a light of the eighth day of Khaneka that no, they can't stop their drinking and drugging and their bad midos without Hashem's connection and intervention. Which is why Rabbi Nakman goes on to say in that Torah that going to Sadikim is what will help you elevate your mind to the next level because they did it. And if you can go to them to their svarim to their concepts to their ideas to their physical grave to offer prayer and commune with them and connect with them emotionally physically and spiritually that is what's going to change your paradigm that's what's going to get you to a completely different place. So in conclusion, we have to wind down. Zhaneka is a day of utter renewal, but it's also the final sweetening of the judgments that began on Rashashana. Many things have happened to us since Rashashana. Some of them exemplary wonderful, some of them difficult and tragic. I don't have to go through all of them. you understand what is going on in Israel, what happens in the anti-semitism around the world, the declarations of the United Nations, the wars that surround Israel. But at the same time, at the same time, there's been some incredible miracles and the support that's come to Israel from places you wouldn't believe and maybe just a turning point where voices of evil are being challenged. This year is being decided today. This year we will this this day we will know what will happen with Donald Trump, what will happen with Bib Netanyao, what will happen with the state of Israel and Gaza and Hezbollah and Iran is being decided today but today its decision comes from the higher place. So let's hope that this sweet this day which we have the power to ask ask to solve your problems. Start to think that you have a higher mindset which can resolve all of your issues. Look at them differently. Approach them differently. Approach them from the point of view that you have Hashem's help. Udah Makabe did it. That's how he won his wars. I can't beat these armies. There was no way. And the minute he descended just a little bit into the world of making deals with the Romans, he was done. He was toast until Hashem sent in a political thing that diverted it. the fourth war of Kaneka which would have been the end of Udam Makabe and no and no era of greatness in which was an era of greatness for Torah at least and the development of Torah to pair and wealth and and success of the Jewish people went on for years and years and brought us all the way into the modern era. It was a massive turning point but it all comes with looking at things differently. Let's begin to look at Israel not from its pragmatic political and military issues but as the its destiny as a as the mini world not the United Nations that's not the world they want to make it the world it's a world that's stuck in dinim that are will only bring strife and with all their goodness that they want to do with the United Nations ultimately It's only bringing about further sinning, theft, deception, hatred. That's what they're bringing to the world. Will not bring that. The H will bring that. Even New York will bring that. Maybe especially New York. But you will bring something else. And we'll bring the world up to a higher level of thinking and being. And then there will be peace. No, Mr. Trump. This is not your peace deal. I'm sorry. Shalom doesn't say Donald Shalom. Sorry, and you got to listen and I hope you do because I'm grateful to you. I'm grateful to what America has done to help Israel. But turning away from that understanding from what Yehuda Makabe taught from what Zos Khaneka represents and embodies will not bring anything but future suffering. So let's hope that this is a big letova simka and from this day forward the year shall be sealed for happiness, joy, success and miracles for the Jewish people, for each one of us, for Israel and for the entire world. [music] [singing] You see your [music] body [singing] [music] [singing] [music] sh Oh [singing] my