Chanukah: A Battle Against God - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

the Greeks and all the others have come and follow in their ways have decided that man is the ultimate and in being the ultimate we are the deciders we decide what life is about and which direction we want to travel and that in essence is rebellion it's a battle against fashion the Greek philosophy is battling a they used us we're just opponent Russians people so they fought us they really battled in a ship ultimately the battle of Konica was deeper than just a physical battle what the Greeks were really trying to uproot from the Jewish people was their belief that the Torah was from Hashem they accepted the Torah as a book of nice ideas that are the result of being smart they didn't mind that Jews would be smart they loved electric pursuit but that it's a divine Torah that transcends the logic of view of human beings that they were against the essence of the Jewish nation as the scripture states is an unbelievable skull of a gory marika chef we are not counted amongst the coin we are separate we are a nation that is in essence Kadosh we have been set aside but to represent how sham and to serve Hashem and to be a right on to the nation and to show what truth and life is really all about which is really Hashem with the holy war that we're fighting today is standing up for truth sanctity and purity by living the life of the Jew amongst the nation's that's what the battle over maintaining that purity that sanctuary without the protagonist without making our poor and shielded the negative elements around us then we sink and become consumed and we lose the battle so today's battle of Chanukah is standing up against status quo politically correctness we have a Torah that tells us what is correct and our fight is to stand up for that by living by example by keeping the home pure and the pettiness at war so all of these outside influences the secular influences and raising our children on purity and sanctity that's the essence of our battle and that's how we win the fight [Music] you [Applause]