The Ten (10) things we can achieve on Chanukah - The secret of the dreidel - Rabbi Alon Anava

now we mentioned before that the days of kanuka are very supicious days that a lot can be achieved in the days we mentioned in the last class I mean I think in the last two classes how at the 30 minutes when the lights of the candles are shining we get a revelation of the orano I don't want to repeat that cuz we made already three classes about that but I explained how the world was created with light and there should be light and this light was shining in the world for 36 hours for 3 days later on on the fourth day hasem created the Sun and he concealed the light saw the light is good and he concealed he removed this light when mashia is going to come this is called the orano and we know that it shined for three days cuz the sun was created on the fourth day which means that this light was shining for 36 hours how do we get to 36 hours because the day has 24 hours in it the Torah says half a day is half the day is B half the day is light half the day is dark so 12 hours of light times 3 days at 36 hours 36 hours is when the oran was shining got a little bit of the orano in the couple hours that he was from him when he was created till he was taken again again before Shabbat and every year we get a little Glimpse from this or the holiday of sh we get a little a little shine of this or I explained in the previous class that's why the zor explains that when you light the the the shabas candles you have if you're looking in the candles you'll see that there are three types of light there's the orange light there a blue light and there's a black light also this is what the zor explains I have a class about it and we're going to do another class about the candles but in short the zor explains that you have the the orange light this corresponds to the neish the blue light corresponds to the and then the black light the black flame if you look at the wick you see that between the wick and the blue light there's also like a a black ring this is what the zor is called the black fire that we don't see inside of it is a a Shine from the or that's one of the many reasons why when you light the candles you cover your eyes so because the orange light corresponds to the nefes the blue light corresp responds to the then the black light corresponds to the I don't want to get into it you can go and look I have a lecture online about that that I'm explaining what does it mean it's corresponding to the but when you cover your eyes is that the Nish can absorb and benefit from the orano from this dark from this black light cover when you cover your eyes that's when you have to also meditate that you are are are looking at this black light this is a a glimpse of the or hold on let's hold the questions in a minute we're done so on Shabbat you have another of this or but when do we really get the most out of the orano is when we light the kanuku candles that's why we have exactly 36 candles corresponding to the 36 hours that the or was shining in that's why we light 36 candles that's why when the Greek when they came to fight us they invented a horrible game and they brought it down in cards there's a very very very harsh clip on in cards all the cards that we play that people play with all the games poker or gin or whatever they play in it this is a very very severe kipa there's actually a m in the book is having a whole M about the T about the impurity in these cards should not even have them in your home these cards and each card has a has these like a drawing of a kipa in these cards and these 36 cards came to fight the 36 Mas of the oral Tora that derive their power from the orano that's why the Greek when they came to fight they didn't come with they didn't come to kill us they came and gave us cards here play play Remy play Jin open a casino so this cards have this impurity so when we light the the the the candles we get a a Shine from this or this is a shine what we're going to see very soon m is going to come and the light that we're going to see is going to be this or 36 candles possess this light when we light the candles the says the major part of the is looking at the candles looking at the candles and your deres such a benefit from the scandals that you you don't want to sit and and and be busy with your Donuts or checking your emails this is the time that you have to meditate on these candles brings in that every day we have to meditate on one Mida one attribute of mercy of the Kos so we skip the first one Hashem hasem on the first night we meditate on K then then every day we have to meditate on one attribute of Mercy I explained on shabat and also in last class about one of the brings about reading the and and if you want I'll repeat that but I want to bring down cuz you mentioned what Gul what powers we have in the time that we light the candles so first of all a lot of us are battling with what's called to have God-fearing and if we're not battling with that then our kids are battling with that and if not our kids and our loved ones that we know they don't have sitting next to the candles and just looking at the candles it brings to a person because you see that the letters of seeing is the exact same letters of just by looking at the candles sitting and looking at the candles it arouses in a person God-fearing one of the things is that in the light of the candles is hidden this or and this is the mashia just by looking at the candles you are able to reveal the light of mashiah we have a very supicious time to concentrate that if as many as Jews as possible would light candles and be next to the candles this hastens the time of the G now one thing is that the power of looking at the candles being next to the candles and saying the that I said has the power of sweetening judgments because unfortunately we are sometimes there's what's called and we want to want to sweeten the that's why we light the candles right when the then the night starts coming down because when the Night comes down this is what's called the kipa becomes more powerful so this is a an auspicious time what's called to sweeten the another thing is that this is a very supicious time for whoever needs health and we learn that because we have a a that says and the gatria of is the exact same gatria of and it has an supicious time for another one is has a for for livelihood and this again it's quoting is your nation isra needs the the letter of each the first letter of each of these words has the numerical value of 250 which the numerical value of n which is a candle is also 250 by lighting the candle I'm actually able to light up Mya uh another quote is a for the is it says now we're reading about y that he was sent to MIT and next week we're going to read actually in this week we're going to read how he's revealing him himself to his brothers after he was rebuking them and and later on when they're afraid what he's going to do to them he says don't don't worry sent me down to this country to bring parasa so in the the verse EXA again has the same numerical of is equal this is brought down by the the book of now another thing that we're suffering from is memory you go to a Tor class you enjoy the beautiful insights that you learn then you go home and you don't remember one thing you go home what did you learn I don't know he was talking about it was talking about something about I don't know about oil I don't remember so some people write notes and even when they read the notes they don't understand one word of what they read cuz you write like just the just the headlines so suffering from what's called lack of zikaron of memory so we know according to Al if you eat too much olives it actually damages the the the memory it's not good to eat a lot of Olives you eat a through three or four and that's it so the opposite of oil of olive what comes out of the olives is the oil and the oil that comes to the that Rel light the candles just by lighting it has the power to light up the memory in our in our system another thing is and this was brought down by RAB by RAB from breev that the lighting up the candles especially on the eighth night has a power for shid for bring getting a shid for for God-fearing for for praying with the right intention and forom B these are the four things that the power of the candles have and again this is brought down by RAB another thing is this is brought by the this is anothera book that it says that a person who's considered Wicked I mean according to the terminology a person who does does a the moment that he doesn't is called rash doesn't mean that he's mean just this is the terminology that right now if I fall down and I do a sin I consider a r but unfortunately in our generation we see that are many people are so the light of the candles has has the power of pulling out a that's why we see that we go out you see many people especially you see all the kabad rabbis around the world they go and light the candles everywhere and they do it outside where you have hundreds of people so everybody can look at the candle doesn't matter who they are and derive a little bit of benefit out of the candle and a few more things we're almost done we we have one mid that we battle a lot and I mentioned we're starting very soon a course about one of the mid that we have a problem with mid is an attribute a character trait is the mid that is called v v is mean to give to give to give away to give over I have a fight Shalom with somebody I I have an argue with my wife then I move back this is called okay even though I'm 100% right just for the sake of the Shalom I I I I give up not give up I think Le is more to to give in this is called mid because if I'm very stubborn and I'm right but the other side is also right so there's going to be an argument and it's not going to come to any solution cuz I'm holding my ground the other person is holding their ground we're both right and that's it now a threeyear argument so especially you see that in couples that that they fight so we need to empower this maida this character trait of V sometimes you have to give in this is very good advice and very smart advice in regards to SCH is that sometimes you have to know when to give in to to let go even though you're right so this mid we can actually ower during the time of kanuka why because we we see that the letters of the word candles if you switch the letters around has the same letters of vatan to give in so by just by lighting the candles and mon Med on it I'm able to empower in me this Mida that it's easy for me to give in and I don't feel that I lost something that oh now he won so this is a very big Mida this is another Mida that that we we're talking about it's called to have satisfaction I mentioned in the last class about yavan how the power of our thirst for all sorts of forbidden things comes from the neav calls it that my soul has a thirst to something where do I get all this inclination this desire for something cuz my neish is pulling me now if I give my nees the lowest part of my soul Holiness then it doesn't have the spool but if I don't give it and I actually feed it with all sorts of mundane and Earthly things then my neish has a thirst this is why say my wants more food wants to sleep more wants to get more Pleasures so the neish never gets satisfied this is called Le to have satisfaction so this is another mid that I have to work on and again we're going to go through all these mid in the course ofid is is how I getting to a point that I'm able to fulfill my my thirst and I'm I'm happy with what I have this again has the power of the n and one more it says about is to be able to see good in anything besides just by looking at the candles you know we have a Prohibition to look at forbidden things especially men men are not allowed to look in something that is impure but also women has the exact same thing I mean we say when we read after your eyes so even by looking at somebody that has a nicer car than me and it arouses jealous jealousy in me cuz I have a nicer car or a bigger home or nicer coat or whatever it is and it arouses this jealousy in me this is so when I look at something like that I damage the power of so looking at the candles has a good good remedy to fix that and the last thing like I said is this tun that we quoted on reading this it long you can look at it on the on the class if not later on I I'll tell you and of course we want to considerate that the two most supicious days of kanuka is the first day cuz that's when the miracle happened and the last day because that's the day that happened what's called the the the celebration of the altar so the last day of kanuka and this year is going to be Friday I mean going into chabas this is the most powerful day that everything can be achieved in that day this corresponds to the eighth day which is above nature the the the corresponding to Y mashia this chabas is a very supicious s shabas you want to make sure that you're Lighting theuk on time that you're doing everything that you need do if you did not pray the whole week shakar like I mentioned and suggested last week cuz you can say Hal in this prayer so make sure that you're praying on Friday make sure you're praying on Friday M I'm referring to you as ladies not to the men that they have to do that I'm saying to you as a bonus because this Friday and Shabbat is a very very supicious time and only one last thing is that this is mentioned by the holy books that on the eighth day of kanuka a simple person can Le all can do an action what a sadik does this is how powerful that day is then on this day whatever action I do I have the ability to change something in the world exactly in the level of a sadic sorry I'm just so excuse me is Saturday the day yeah Saturday day like Shabbat notat is after this this coming Shabbat this is the last kanuka we're celebrating in Exile so I I'm hoping that nobody will see this video next year and have to learn for this for I hope this is this is the last kanuka in Exile so this Shabbat is the most supicious time to do everything that I told you to make sure that you pray and and try if you don't go to sh on Shabbat this Shabbat go to sh why because we're going to have two t so we're hearing also theim and it's the last reading so do whatever you can effort to go this Shabbat to to to a do whatever you can this Shabbat this is the ultimate time where we can actually Le all and one last thing that I want to mention because I don't know if we'll have a chance later on to do it a lot of people are asking me what's the concept of the seon of the Dr so we can do a whole class about the drele maybe another time but there's one thing in the drle that we have to mention in the drle has four corners corresponding to the four corners of the world and on each corner there's a letter gim Shin andna you see now next week we're going to read in the par when when yob is coming to it says GNA go first to to the the city in MIT in this letters we have gim sh and and that's by the way the order not the other way that gim Shin that's not the right order and now they made an invention and they're making Nim Shin this is completely wrong and and it's no I'm people think taking it as as very light headed is not you have to understand that the biggest m were playing with Theon this is not a a joke I mean they explain it that they used to play with it because the yanim the Greek would come in and and and say what are you learning T no no no no we're not learning Torah we're playing with this toy but there's great secrets in the storyy we know about many great MIM that used to play with the seiv the order of the letters is extremely important when you come and change it and he saying n gim hey P that's wrong and in our generation most of the it says gim he Shin that's the wrong order the order has to be gim Shin now what's in this these letters gim is Goof Shin is nees and it's talking about that there's constantly a battle between the goof goof is body and neish is the soul there's constantly a battle between the neish and the goof and when I turn it around and falls on one side it will either fall either on the neish or either on the Goof right can only be one of them so this basically a response to the battle I constantly have between my body my desires and my neish what my neish wants my neish wants godliness and my body wants physical pleasures and the concept of the seon is that we constantly have this battle we turning around life is turning around and constantly I Fall to one side so with the power of the seon I have the power what's called what because constantly my goof wants my goof is a body wants to pull to eat to sleep to have Pleasures my neish needs to pull it away and this in the SE there's a secret in the SE about what's called that my neish is constantly going to be empowering the body and I read one interesting thing is that uh in in in the letters there I don't know idish that will I only know a little bit of idish but in the letters there's a very interesting hint in idish so sh excuse me what letter in the letters of the seon so they used to play a game and that was a couple hundred years ago and the game was that uh the letters go like this in the noon if the saivon falls on the noon noon inish corresponds to the word Nish nothing you get nothing if you pray in the in the in the game now H giml goes for guns everything right so if you falls on the G you get all the the whole the whole KOA the whole uh how did you say pot everything now hey is for H this is half so if it falls on a hay you get only half and the shin is you you have to add and you and you get another round that's how they used to play so if you get the the it falls on the noon you don't get any you had like a pot where they put like let's say all the money or all the coins or whatever it is and you play with it you know mean the cards the if you win the cards you get all the if we play cards Shalom each one of us puts let's say a dollar now if I get the highest cards I get all the dollars right that's how the game goes so this is the the the other side of Holiness in the Holiness so you put the kanuka G now if I get the the the shin so I got this is sorry if I got the N then I got N I didn't get anything then it goes to your turn if you get the hey you get help you get only half of it so I read that just interesting how the letters of the seon have also a meaning to that the point what I want to take from this is that kanuka is the most supicious time of the year I mean not necessarily the most supicious but a very supicious time I say the most suspicious time because a person can reach his kapar his atment some of the the sages of cabala say that you can reach on kanuka more than what you can reach on Yip that's a special is and we mentioned on Shabbat the hint where we see the D the the completion of the kapar is on kanuka so you can go and refer to that video of M Shabbat that I talked about it but kanuka is a very supicious time and it's a time to really meditate on what what I can achieve in those eight days at especially in the half an hour and I'm lighting the candles where I can tap into what I can derive out of it and the most important thing is that we all if we all unite together like the candles we can achieve the ultimate desire that we have is to see the light of mashia this Oro and that can be achieved on the days of kanuka and that's what we should concentrate on we should concentrate on how I am bringing the light of mashiah to the world to penetrate into the world with my CH with my good actions and I mentioned that the secret to all of that is the is the unity exactly like I quoted the song of kids that says we came to push away the darkness in our hands is light and fire each one of us is a small light Al together we are a massive light this is the holiday of Lights if we unite and and we light up the world we can light up the world with mashia with the light of mashia we still have the opportunity of lighting five candles in bet mikdash we still have another five days of kanuka we should Merit to light up theuk mdash already this year if anyone has any questions we'll take some questions and we'll go to the next class yes [Music] h