Chanuka 1940 in Crown Heights

started this mimer uh it's a hanukkah mimer from the frida kadeboo page 96 you have the safer it's my mother and my look it will cut him from the previous rubber volume one a measure sent out on the whatsapp copies so if you don't have it follow along there based on mcdonald's shop is poshes mccain's tough shenalife this was 1940 poshes mccains 1940 so it's um 80 years ago 80 years ago this shop is this member is dated that year mike hanukkah the mother when the greeks went into the heckle they the they they contaminated all the oil when the household of khashoggi um overpowered them the needs home and they were victorious in war over them but called they searched for they must when they didn't find alpaca one little jug of oil that had yet to seal of the clay and goggles that it was pure and it wasn't contaminated however this little jug only had enough to light one day's worth of candles in the basement there was a miracle that occurred we had like and it lit for 8 days the following years the following year the the the sages um made a yamchav out of these days with the praise and and and and thank give thanksgiving this is the classic murder about words about hanukkah right um yaakov turn off your mute yourself please so um surely my hanukkah then the gemara asks what's hanukkah i mean it seems the mother should ask the question before mentioning the laws in other words the section before this piece of gomura has different laws about hanukkah so the question that that ebba's question is before you begin talking about the details of hanukkah you want to know what's hanukkah so it should have said before that's a question straight forward whenever there's a revelation of godliness whenever there is there is redemption in other words we were in a very precarious situation after the destruction and here hashem made them find a little loyal so the rapper says whether god's revelation at the time at the particular time is invested in nature disguised by nature like purim or beijing [Music] or whether it's the this type of miracle of hanukkah which denotes miracles that are open and clear because there wasn't enough oil hey that they found the oil b that there wasn't enough and it lasted for eight days so this is a revelation of god's miracles in a very obvious way it's not in disguise anymore when do these two types of revelations come about in a set time the meaning of this is the gambas and this is this is our emphasis of the freedom of see this the time when the miracle took place and takes place and we commemorate it is very specific in other words if the would have not made eight days of celebration and one person decides to make a celebration it would be meaningless it becomes meaningful because the human will coveya that these eight days the year after this miracle they will cover that it should be on these eight days hence it becomes special so in other words the timing is everything that's the point of this line the timing is everything from god's perspective from hashem's perspective am i sure you're following no no i'm i'm sorry i i actually kind of missed the main question i apologize the main question the main question is that this piece of gemara that he brings here what is hanukkah and the answers follows a section in the gamora which already mentions various laws about hanukkah the question is if this question should have been before the laws not after the laws the laws are insignificant if you don't know what hanukkah is about you don't know what happened you don't know you know why we're celebrating it that's his question very straightforward and it know and and and and now he starts developing his theme looking deeper into hanukkah so the first thing he tells us is that the various types of miracles of of god's revelation one is god's revelation as it's invested in nature and one is god's revelation as it transcends nature he doesn't say clear but purim is uh a nes hamaduba a miracle invested in nature the skies by nature and hanukkah is what we call nestle my limit attempt it's a it's a a miracle transcending nature that was the first point he made the second point that he made makes now is that regardless of what type of miracle it is timing is everything and if you celebrate if you celebrate the festival not in the right time you've done nothing okay there are people that come up with all kinds of um ways of celebrating judaism and guess what it means nothing nothing putting a yellow egg on the seder plate because you want to celebrate some kind of chagas is nothing it's an egg okay don't give me yellow brown green or pink okay it's not like blamer tonight oh we want to celebrate gender equality go find yourself a good doctor a neck is an egg you want to color it color it i don't care color your egg but don't tell me that you're celebrating gender equality through eggs i mean that's you know like you know people who are far out in the jewish view but even to us ourselves when we decide to make of a of of god's revelation in the wrong timing we've done nothing so this is whatever emphasizes he remember it's about the timing of hanukkah that makes the the experience real let's continue in addition to the fact that the time when the celeb with the miracles celebrated when the gail is mana of it this is relevant to the future about years money when it comes it's time so we should know when we're supposed to celebrate in other words you could say you know why it's important to know when to celebrate you know why it's important to know the calendar because we need to know when to do celebration so that ever says of course that's true but that's not what we're talking about here [Music] says you know it's important to know what day the festival's on because at that time there is a a reflection an emanation of the original miracle in other words in tough shin pail of 2020 as it stands now we're celebrating chanukah we can experience because it's here the actual miracle that hashem did to over 2 000 years ago [Music] the content of these two blessings is this idea the idea that today we're eating we're doing the first time what does it mean you're doing that that's why you make a shaykh no no we've lived and we exist and we've reached this day and we're so happy because on this day we have part of what our ancestors experienced 2 000 years ago if you are tuned in and not tuned out yes yes that if you start writing on one for the second day or on the third day you can make a check on women as well exactly why because that that that's still part of the the giveaway of the revelation very good i know and the rabbit gives an example look to explain this the shame of all your actions all your work it's a commemoration a memory of leadership reminding ourselves that what did hashem have in mind when he created the world and man he had a mind man the sixth day of the creation of [Music] of these special days are remembered and realized each year that was the miracle next page is emphasizing not only is the experience real and fresh you hear that for real and fresh but the time is also real and fresh let's see how he develops this idea the time has a relevance to the of to the content and of the experience this revelation of hanukkah is only a hanukkah not on purim right so in other words the particular revelation and experience that we have with a yum tif is geared towards that time and specifically that time the gum the nice chronicle so going back to speaking about hanukkah because there's kiss liver 25th so the question now comes the second question the previous rapper's second question that's question two what is the relevance between chanukah and the month of kisslich and question number three yaakov had to kiss left after now we know that they they they waged war and they won the one the 24th and the rest of hanukkah that ever wants to look at the spiritual significance of joffrey becky slave of kinslave in general so these are the two additional questions so this was all a buildup for these two questions on page 97. question number four what would you think you that what was the main miracle that they found a jug of oil sealed with the seal of the klein god of the high priest when they contaminated says you know i didn't get to because it was it was hidden under the earth under the ground it was at a time in rabbinic law this was a time that if if non-jews touched the oil it contaminated it says it was recognizable on this jug that the gentiles did not touch the joke so now comes the rapper's question what was the mainness the maintenance is that a little group of husband the maccabee and his people a little group were victorious over the assyrian greek army which was massive right i mean inaudible like the six day war the dirty throw they were victorious over the surrounding enemies the main mess was the victor the victory in war value because through being victorious in war you who lived as a german they were able to find the oil moisture if they would have lost the war they would have been out down and out one two three the count is over you lost they wouldn't be able to go and find it because they would be slaves and they'll be controlled by the greek assyrians so this is this is a fourth question why is the ikea hanes the pakistan fifth question the eighth stick why seven why do we why did the ghazal is established that we should light eight candles hallelujah by the latest if you're following the if the miracles because of them later that in the temple were your zionists there was only seven candles the loma natives kind of gave you might know why why do we celebrate hanukkah with eight question number five the reason is how much oil was there that was able to burn you know what was the miracle that the amount of oil that was there which really should have been for one night lasted for eight nights and that's why we like we lighted eight for eight candles that would be the answer to the fifth question right um um asks that go for sort of love and that answer itself requires clarity [Music] you admit that there was enough world for one day the first of the eight day yakov was not a miracle because he had enough oil the miracle was seven la this next seven days to celebrate seven seven candles not eight oh my gosh but if you look into that the miracle is not only in the seven next days but also in the first of the states eight days meaning that there's a miracle there too the rabbit's question is what is it behind us what we understand is that from this one jug an eighth was used each day of the eight days so the question is wait a minute if i started making a miracle yetis he could have made a miracle that the oil should last for two weeks you're gonna say they went and found new oil that made new oil thank you very much but if if you're riding on god's miracles shoulders right all the way why stop at eight eight days seven days following the first obviously the number eight is very specific in other words hashem wanted this miracle to be only eight not seven and not nine i know no right but this is said according to gomorrah in order to produce new oil it took them eight days i know that but the rabbits questioned it youngest question is if hashem is making a miracle he could have made it nine days say what you know what i'm saying obviously that's his question okay well close here goes question number six or seven i'm lost already whatever next question moving says i have a general question to the whole story the entire fight the war in the with the assyrian greeks when they went into the chambers the whole idea of the victory was how was the victory scene that we were able to find one job that was not contaminated the base have made the trade clay kessel and the basin makers there were vessels of silver vessels the normal way of people who wage war is they take the booty the shallow show the lovers kesem take the silver and the gold and all the precious stones get calls there it doesn't say yakov at all that the yvonne took the booty doesn't even talk about it in the khazal what does it say they contaminated all oils and there was one job they didn't know about and that's how the medical right so the question that i was asking is why did ghazal why they making an issue of them contaminating all oils instead of saying like normal they stole all the kesavansov and took all the booty doesn't mention that that's his question so now begins the rebbe's overall answer to understand what kaneka is and from that somehow the questions the foundation of his answer is that this war with the assyrian greeks hanukkah was a spiritual war yes they fought with their bodies right but the content what were they fighting over us the greatest areas really didn't want to kill jews to make us forget your torah allah make us desecrate your will in other words the divinity that it's divine they had no problem with most torah and mitzvahs that have logical rational explanations but as soon as you get to a mithra like shabbos and brismil etc where it makes no sense why celebrate on the seventh day celebrated on sunday as the blame do or circums don't circumcise exactly there don't circumcise at all etc these type of mitzvahs they had an issue with because it points to one and one reason only that hashem said so look let's let's learn what i just said inside the hole in your mouth [Music] also agreed to study the great intellectual wisdom of tita and the wondrous logic the syrian greeks were very big very bright to have the maximum like the germans and they understood oh there's wisdom here there's great scholarship they should study it because we need more scholars yes you know they translated the degree correct thank you avalyste knock do well say but what did they oppose she told [Music] commemorative mitzvahs testimony mitzvahs from shabbos or pesach okay i guess they they were too shabbos too but one second god gamma yawning also the greeks avo [Music] like the mixes which are statues who have no reason like the impurity and purity and puerto ri next page 98 is not new they opposed from the perspective of an illuminated traitor from that perspective even those mitzvahs that are laws and commemorations not just because they're understood in man's intellect hashem but rather because they are god's commandments and it was against this that the evangel that the jews forget that it's god's torah and god's commandments write the torah on the i'm sorry right on the on the horn of of a ox what should you write down they told the jews you have no part with this god you're like old nationality you're like everyone else don't tell me something different because you belong to a god divinity the entire war of of hanukkah was against one thing and one thing only godliness divinity and yiddish says zombieland and torah go ahead learn torah zone the kinds of mitzvos go ahead be the which are called laws and and testimonies and and and commemorations do not mention hashem then it's god's title not to mention in the study of trader and the performance of mitzvos that they are godliness [Music] therefore when they went into the heckle in the righteous that's why this answer is the last question they're their primary target was not the booty this wasn't about kashmir's it was about roughness so if you want to get to to look this you want to god forbid hurt rook this you go for broke you know for broken spirituality in this case the oil thomas the oil that's used for the moneta to brighten up the world that we have to dampen because that to make sure the oil is a spiritual concept of course it's physical oil but it's physical oil for a candle in a base amigners and supposedly that brings spiritual light to the world it's like it's uh they said we have to get rid of that luckness and so that's already his answer to the last question what's interesting you know you see how you're supposed to end when you ask questions he answers the last question first in a sense okay before we go further any questions comments about anybody else yeah the idea of a human caller it goes for the miner right right i i i didn't elaborate because i think he's probably gonna get into it but yes right the whole idea but that's it but remind i thought remind me where oh was maybe purim when was the alexander on miller and shabbos yakov when when was the exeter was that by purim time it was purim time i mixed i i said shabbos before yo mushroom wasn't no milo was was hanukkah was hanukkah then and it doesn't say shabbos too that didn't i might that's what i thought because here the rebbe says they had no issue with travis he doesn't go into details okay i think it was mila mila mila only yeah you're right you're right yeah yuck of what there's a million that we established now that at its subject its real essence was about spirituality negotiators [Music] this was still at the beginning let's let me just finish the thought let's see what he says take for example people who are involved in a war who lil kaid alistair mayonnaise mayan the first thing you do one of the first things is you close the water the waterways and the and the source of water you you weaken the enemy whoever your enemy is wanted to get hold of israel in the nations are called the psalm to the time what did they do the first thing is they didn't close the waterways and they didn't clog up the the water sources they went and contaminated the oils when they contaminated the oils that were just in the chambers in the basamignation [Music] simple question from their perspective how do they think they would win the war by contaminating oil in the base of mikdash meanwhile you have sources for water you have sources of water the jews will be able to get away and and make an uprising whatever so he's that right so he's asking again on the on the husband of the yvonne the indiana won the war over the as usual greeks on the 24th right only afterwards they go in and find the joke says the war itself the victory was miraculous that they were able to overcome the great syrian or greek army and like we say in in in alanisim the weak ones we were the weak the kashmir in that case with the weak was him they overpowered the mighty the and the few overpowered us as it happened the the multitude shall call a nissan light called was it caught in our rabbis did not set a festival no one has celebrated chanukah for the victory sorry it's a mistake uh no we have praise we say praise we say allah me sin but we don't light him a nature because of that so yes there's praise and thanksgiving that we were victorious vis-a-vis right so that's all made but as far as doing something physical like lighting number niner the monoi is not about it's not for the victory of war the moneta is for the the shaman after they found the joke they said they set up a festival for eight days with eight candles the clothes how did they show that they were overpowering and they won by saying shmayazr [Music] this type of war of of of spirituality having spirituality over power physicality this is a constant war every generation and it's a war that every individual specifically fights or commands and shall and here we go the preview is going to take us into a psychological practical application of a yates or hero in the fight with the eight zahara get ready for the ferris wheel yes there is an individual the nephew disturbs a person by by battling with him being yoni hamidis through character vignoni and hogan behavior leaves that beheads him throwing darts and and and and and you know hits the noise darts and a delight in eating and drinking look what he says here pleasure and dress fancy clothing and dressing well the salsa beside subure making his hair a nice hairdo so yeah you see how it's very specific that one should look like everyone else hayes that's sitting on the street corners and showing off his clothing and his nice hairdo [Music] here we go even though he's a bent tata and he's learning a lot of data [Music] you know what you have to find reasons for boasting with your tighter i have many stories to tell you but i want to read the text maybe this time i'll tell you a few stories stories not stories just anecdotes whatever is you know he starts to say learn toyota but just boast a little bit be proud of your toyota once he has you that mindset he works on your head i have a story for that too it happened years ago with a bucker and electricity yeshiva and he presented a problem to the reverend the rev explained to him why the problem would not go away unless he learns qasid is in addition to the gemara he didn't want to learn qasidis but the rebel cornered him and he knew exactly the rep is right and he marched out of 770 saying i'll never return here again because you know the rep outsmarted him and 10 years later and then he went back and he set a pill and and it was lousy and his friends and his yeshiva friends said what happened to you you're you're the best in the yeshiva and he really said some ridiculous stuff in the presentation of the pill pool and they laughed at him and it bothered him so much because he had guyver that slowly he just left the yeshiva and became not religious left the other sky there's a lot a lot of details to the story and ten years later him he heard up his fabregan over the radio you know they had a w evd in brooklyn in the greater new york area they had the large fabregas broadcast by the yacht of you that jj heath was translating the rebels from bringings and he happened to hear it and um here the rebels said that the terror you once learned will make you do it woke him up like i once learned torah it's been 10 years i haven't picked up a gemara but i did once learn i was in fact the best booker in the yeshiva and so and so as a whole story he went to 770 and he walked in that's when he heard the first words from the river and then he said hey metropolis and he said it is whatever it was and he made up that if the rabbit stops and recognizes him he's doing truthful and guess what ten years later 10 years later and he and he said that he would stop but he was so moved that he didn't he just went further on the line and became a balchu some whatever i think i i think we know who it is and you know he is a real bowel trooper he was from you know he was a from boy he was a from guy but uh the guyver the guy that got to him the guy that got him that he you know you imagine the star student at harvard giving a presentation everyone's saying it's lousy and how did you make such a ridiculous conclusions and you know and they challenge your entire foundation is he really the best student this may be a big show that he's been you know holding over us so upon him that's you know just one example of how geyva can get to a person who is even at the voltage talmud and it's not just a negligence see this too you know the idea where a person you know you know it's very learned and and and whatever the subject matter is but has the guyver is a very detrimental uh element when when they go down they go down very hard so this is one thing so the rebel says this comes from the hate sahara yes never ever says there's another type of how it gets to a person and that's regarding thought in speech and action you're clean but all of a sudden all kinds of inappropriate think thoughts come to the person the race is called now he doesn't mean here you know he's the first well let's see what he said the first thing is he disturbs a person during davening he's in the middle of dominic he'll leave by bali you know his heart's not there vanessa has to show them shane they're anxious he wants the dolphins not that he doesn't want to doubt him or he's classified or maybe that he's at this level shane and my members all of a sudden he doesn't believe anymore in the words he says he wants to doubt him oh my man and he believes the complete what is saying but but he's thinking about the hot dogs he's thinking about his business your military yes oh my gosh you're middle of austria what are you thinking about what's going to be later what are you looking at your phone i'm talking to myself you know it's like what is going on here what is going on you're davening or you're elsewhere where are you that's from the eight sahara that's what is that he says a certain part of david ink with his alev feeling and he sings and his emotional heartsick look at the word in yiddish heartsick is the word for his hearts from the word hearts heart heart seek very heartly avolemis [Music] these particular thoughts have no benefit how to help your business you think about vase whatever it is it's totally relevant now body that ever says from the perspective of a healthy mind [Music] even from the human course minds gosh me that rational mind would never allow you while you're standing before hashem but freelancers if you're speaking to god and now you're thinking about craig starting the latest scores in in in the nfl business a human rational healthy perspective one needs to be organized in all of his thinking if you come to appointment and you're speaking before wise and minister harry david your conversation is not the same when you're speaking to respect to a person as you speak to someone who's the same as you but the armed force and betrayal when you're middle of the afternoon the all of this is talking about a thought that has a token has a general good content but the timing is wrong you're not supposed to think about it now it's irrelevant it gets even worse on top of 100 but if he's thinking about something has no content whatsoever it just confuses you and confusing you like missing knowledge makes you crazy the misu body basically someone who's healthy and you know mental mental wise their thoughts are organized in conversely they are someone who is missing islam his thoughts no this is like schizophrenia whatever the condition is i said like you know here we're not talking we're talking about someone who's in his mind he's going from there to there and back and forth and it's like irrelevant bother you with irrelevant thoughts but it throws in heretical thoughts with whatever talent oh boy boy boy you hear that yo listen why is it and how is it that the nephesh of bombings can ha bring such thoughts of heresy to a person it's because he's accustomed to chit chat to drama taylor now if you tell me this is not enough moosa i'll tell you otherwise sitting around and shooting the breeze right ensure that home here there everywhere getting accustomed being trained in being a professional gossiper a professor a professional forum potato chit chatter and wasting time will eventually lead he says to having heretical thoughts you go tell that to someone that's what the devil says in this reminder i didn't say it i'm just i'm just translating what it says [Music] why moshe because what happens is your mind your moax becomes you know this one i'm sure a puss the cup puss means void empty an empty head and you know what it says in ghazal right uh boy ray came by mayan there was no water in the pit by yosef right maya main bravo if there's no water automatically there are snakes and scorpions if you don't have your head filled with content of data automatically things are going to creep in your head including heretical thoughts and this is a fact this is on the street it's always been this way it is this way you have to fill up your head with a kadusha b even not conducive things but of content go and work go to school but roberta says you shouldn't go to college you're a bar says you shouldn't go to college if you're learning a lake when you're learning a me or learning a chabad if you're not go get a job and go study make something out of your life no what are you gonna do skate on your skateboard all day right in matters of speech there's many differences over here too in matters of forbidden speech gossip and bad-mouthing people four different types of forbidden speech [Music] blackmail bribery is also forbidden speech it's not as harsh it's not you know but it's not appropriate means it's a yiddish word means smooth vertical smooth talker you know smooth nice little talking words you know not nice nice little cute sayings but you understand it's sakura's it's it's it's just it's a waste speaking about speech now he gets to seeing and listening and hearing listening [Music] the application for the concept of shemen what's shem and moshe pleasure oil a salad without oil it's a salad but it's missing oil put the oil into the salad it's a whole different salad what does oil represent he says one egg pleasure in yiddish and then desires to strip the pleasure we have in holiness by giving him substituting that pleasure with having pleasure for the physical material world and in the alley in your name and in all of these matters that we mentioned middles character it's the one that the nephesh obama's contaminates secularizes the pleasure of the oil ie [Music] not only does this take away that pleasure of terror he causes apathy that the person is called to taylor mitzvahs literacy says taking the things the mitzvahs and traitors simply as they are saying the simple sense understands it in a simple way and this is a this is a very important point there are many people are very bright very knowledgeable but they do a mitzvah they do it in cult they're cold you know what means to um i told you i saw husset that government loving a russian jew from and they lived in l.a came to i saw make a bracha on spherus aimer in the middle of the week and you would you you would fall quite him you would bow to him if you know like you thought that it's your kipper and it's like just one brother or i saw another hustle at the beginning 1989 saying a kapit will tell him i had of tape of it and i can't find it because it'll be worth a million bucks today you see how this man says a capital till him your heart will melt a regular cup it will tell him the whole idea of the van kite of a mitzvah when you do a mitzvah you put until in the morning when you put on film in the morning how do you put on two of them in the morning you put it on and they make the brush and you go for you could see if a person is in love with the mitzvah if the person has tainek of a mitzvah and this is something that's by the way not for just for sadiq it's for each and every one of us by a taking the time and and thinking about the mitzvah for a few seconds then the mitzvah is meaningful to you and that's what the rap is saying the greek the the the the the muhammad of hanukkah is to dampen that to remove that that's what we call the oil of the mitzvahs the oil of torah and they desire to squash that and to eliminate it that's what chanukah is all about so what are we celebrating here for these eight days what are we celebrating we're celebrating the importance of kedusas hattara and kedusha mitzvahs and that ever ends this chapter that we just learned he ends he says something very fast and quick and but but he says it to do things simply don't over philosophize when over philosophizing usually you get nothing it's just an intellectual pursuit and it has no relevance to the practical side and ultimately basically you you just say who cares right another hanukkah big deal for someone who's living with hanukkah or something sorry for someone who's living with a brother and someone's living he jumps at hanukkah why does he jump at hanukkah not just because he's going to have family and latkes and it's a warm time and it's a bit you know because it's the celebration of kedusha over tomorrow and that's what it's all about and the world we live in you should know you do know the world is such and like he says it schleps you in varun talen people you know people are people they make light of everything yeah what are you getting so excited about you did chronic care for the last 20 years you've been dominating for 13 years what are you so excited about that attitude is what we call clipper negativity and it shows that that the person who says that is really not living not living the kedusa satire ever we went a little over but i i felt it's important to finish the the ice and we'll continue tomorrow any questions any it's pretty straightforward zygos and have a good day happy hanukkah make the best of it yeah thank you bye