Chanukah Davening In Halacha & Minhag - Rav Yakov Zev Smith

like to welcome everyone to's from like to notify that the she next Sunday sundaya will be 11:00 11:00 next Sunday please let everyone know now when it comes these days of Kana is the old question what's the most important part of is it Theus the donuts the Dr some little he maybe thinks about the today we're going to learn what really is the because from so many different places there's not a but you see what that there's really a very important aspect which is really the of of the the end of says say his famous he repeats it in that the that we say on is and of course I should mention he's not the first one that says this I saw this quoted in the and quoting that also say that the Hal Ona could be a that's the of the talking about that say now it sounds great but it can't be because the whole Kan is only wasn't the time of the and the one of the who lived a few hundred years before in a different context about the of but at the very end he throws in but when the says the famous in don't be but on is because it can't be because the whole is he's not asking on he was many before the but the point is what does mean so I'm going to try to learn understand a little bit about the of of the MIT and hopefully understand what really meant the G that we all know it's interesting that we know this we learn it all the time but we don't pick up on one of the obvious messages the whole story about continues the next year they first of all it's a there's no but more importantly what is the they made a it doesn't say l or or Donuts or or and the ask the question on what do you mean the of of is what happened to the but any doubt rash both it's not the andash are saying in no uncertain terms that the is now the EM is it's not such aish to us because we say three times a day if not more if we bench is even more but at least three times a day in we say and how about what we say in the don't use it [Applause] why everybody saying that and don't forget a but as we'll soon see even that is a form the what's it's not just the but it's to it's to promote and I'll tell you always bother me but this year I think I understood on a much more practical level many people have this many probably half of which is based on that the is that you make the then you you say or singu and as you saying or sing Halu you light the other n first of all when we do a Mitzvah we give it our full undivided attention we don't sing and and do something and also you make on the fifth night it's going on all the five so why you why you singing before you light the five and Tak many people have the minic day first things first you light all the NS and then you say but as I told you quotes this to do like many people do you make the light one and then you say the is because says this plus is a is a reminder that it's not just a not just lighting their so a person that lights it and then wakes oh what did I do he missed the boat so we have to we have to program ourselves we are lighting to bring out a because the Mitzvah is also a form of but we have even more the has a famous breakdown of the times during the year we say Hal 18 days a year we say eight days of suus eight days of and one day and one day but we know and rest of now has a I I can't say seems to hold explains that not but it definitely has wore his shabas hat ones because he held but is the so why P eight days of and but the is stronger why from only the first day we and is every day so we know the says because every day there's a different carbon you know when you di in suus it's a little complicated you have to know the mus which carbon and you know especially a has get good and Confused say the wrong day it's the same it's not so now the question is but there's no by so why every day is so each day of the nest was greater and greater so in beginning of that adds two other reasons first of all the fact is that Lisa the we we say a different every single day and also that the fact that each day we light an extra that's why is also oh very nice technically you're right but how could it be thata is more than Hollow so for us more more than the ter is like we said because if you understand that that's the mitzvah it doesn't suffice with but we definitely see and we'll see more as we proceed that is integral the that's why I would mention I don't I don't if it says in I think it's you know we definitely see the tremendous put into and the AV is wonderful but remember as we see the Hal is as great if not greater than the also has to be the fifth day should be better than the first day we shouldn't be burned out by the fifth day we should be on fire a lot more you know you know people say I have to run to work I can't finish ding I have to it's my job you know your job is what we say ining that's a ho here but especially by the it would be a wonderful thing if we make a commitment to Hal should be better every day but that's not the full picture yet because there another part of rash mentions and that is the AL that we add in daving and benching I must tell you there are three prominent sources for the AL and the it's all mentioned by the and devot a whole Simon sing and in Bening in fact it's so much integral to the Y that the struggle why is there no mention of is it's a small benching it should have something so the is famous but theber says this that really the Al has to be in in benching and in daving it's in the section there is no section in Al even though he say the that's just the of of the end of the but there's no part of of that's but if you want to see something interesting in the new the he puts together 11 reasons why there's no mention of in Al and in the in the and because if you understand how important it is it should be there and you have to have 11 good reasons why it's not there now people have this attitude you know you know it's not like it's not like forget it's not true we soon see some but I'll tell you what's really what I found astonishing has notes on the page in only has two Shas I hope they're hypothetical he has two Shas one about someone's in jail and they let him do one mitvah on or what does he do first or someone's traveling and the way it is he could only stop once he could stop at night till let light near or he could stop by day and say h what should he do so he says I wrote my that he should say we would say says he says goes first now they just re recently printed his and he says there what's my says do what is of the and what does the respond what's the of the he says why didn't rash when he's talking about say that is is look how he took this literally that 14 take strong exception and because if you have a choice there Kan should be first and plus is also a form of so we hope it's never but one thing I will say I think it's very clear that the is important but the theme of the day is the and the hollow should have such a wonderful P like it's supposed to have has a Priceless CH in if you have time even if you don't have time make time you'll see in O he goes through this theme and he shows how that's really the theme of the Y in fact he goes a step further he quotes theim that the says that the real was that they made then they said then they made the last two bras and then they lit what kind of does that have so he says because you have to when you light that so you have to get yourself ready for that so this is sort of like a a a a preparation why is it there then he goes he has another gem he says that lighting there in is only a Min but the Min is a universal Min we make a on it where we find making a on a even the make he says but is like Hal very good and Hal will also make a then he says it's also for for the old KAS why do we li near that wasn't the nest wasn't yet the nest didn't happen till the next day he says because the is a form of the and then he quotes that the word is when someone's able to say h he says when says says you know why it's it's because it's an opportunity has to be able to say Hal for eight days in a row we say Hal Shing so this is why as we'll proceed we'll see more but I think it's very P what meant knew that was after the T was given but since as says it and the the SM seems to say it that is when someone has a nest he has to PR you know you don't get Bargains for free you have to praise so even though the story of Kan was much like later but since we understand that it's a great Nest we have to say how I'll give you a funny muscle but I bring that the point can I say that if you eat three piece of pizza you have to bench me the I can say it right makes sense right I didn't have pizza in times of the to it's an Italian food they didn't have the Italian times that's an what do you mean you have to bench when you eat so if you eat pizza you eat the same thing right Nest requires H gr The Nest could be that happened much later but was that a has to be plotting bursting from and as we said it has to be now that we have hopefully a better appreciation of the let's apply this to the we'll break it up we'll talk about the'll talk about the AL so first of all I hope this never happens but let's say someone asked you after the I remember last I wasn't sure if I said so obviously if he doesn't know if he said it was but the EM is that you might think you have to repeat but that's stretching it because most say is it means has occur the proves that all Hal is the Ron and he says is suff so we would advise that person if you don't know if you said say it again but not to make regarding specifically says don't don't repeat it without a but let me tell you that's much to at least half of and that is on question first do they have say that when they do a they not to do like they don't make a can they make a and if whatever my man is not feeling well he can say h whatever reason can his wife be his daughter be so the basic CL by a wonderful would be says that from like they part from and why because it's so let us assume and that indeed but the obvious question is there's one major exception and that is so since women were included in the nest of Kana in fact you could even suggest they were the with so why shouldn't there be like but for us it's much more compelling if we understand that the of is the how could be so how could they not be and maybe we could even suggest interesting that if says like only why may okay it's not such a big says the exception is why didn't say plus I don't know if it's from but one thing I will tell you he says except for and you look up you're not going to find anything about what he means to say is that that applies to as well the quoted in the it's it's page 46 he says that that really says even though wasn't from contributing to still but is he's asking a question says that's which is related now that was also says that has on the days of also conclude on the eight days of sorry however equally impressive list of feel that the the fact that t says only on not has a big problem that that is the of so he has a whole in that and he basically says that the Hal is more of the Y than it is on the nce he says where is the to the for the nest of in the Theus near or in the H you look in the whole Hollow you won't see a word about Kana it's but the have to have some form of and that's the lighting of the that's much more of a pronouncing the N of but the is is a generic for all of all of the so it's a beautiful what's should we tell out to to say h every single day so if the is ask and if she could say Hal definitely there's a big M to say I'm talking about but don't forget that the women are busy with children and even daving for them sometimes a struggle you know the son said he heard from his mother that that she because her father her husband your father me I he writes that you have to that's if you're not busy but if you're busy your priority is children so I think we could say if an Isa wants to has a time she should it's pretty but if she's busy with children just like by she's she's from daving he has a beautiful and he says just like many women cannot D the whole ding they're busy they say one one so at least say one one maybe something something that brings out the now I was thinking you could be with the on the night before but it's not true because the is by day next question I hope you should not be n but the question is if there's a base if people are sitting what is the procedure so the EM you wonder what's the but and the EM there's no mention of saying in a base at all when say on but it's clear that an OV is one of the has three reasons why it's not said the is not said by in a by an OV first of all it's an appropriate secondly sensitivity we're going to say that and it's that the of the is is there that's why when you have one you still say the and the says you the full of on a telephone because it's and got to be there the is there so here the is saying an Exquisite thought you can't say if the is there and the third reason he says that really we we don't say we do say it but some say so he say he says that no doubt about it the does not say brings the that there's no in the even those that D in there when they go home do not have to say h now this ra says it already by in his on says it the is clear that after they go home the people with the should say how in their homes you to say it regarding we find much more of and I understand why that's the of the how could anybody not say Hal has to say sometime but even the OV don't the OV does like he does listen to the Milla and that's probably why the same Stile he says that in the they don't say it I guess the reason of of the of the the of the that we said of is there but he says when you go home make sure to say it but it's more than that some besides thank you very much appreciate it besides the fact that taka the people that must say house some actually say that the the himself is as early as the and the and I saw and others all say that the OV himself is because he's why is different so it seems that I can't say you know a they're sff in hog but I think the the predominant Min is that they they say it in the base OV the OV steps out and the OV hears the from the because some better he shouldn't say it he says how in a different room and the the says it either in the room of the a or a different room probably better to say how in a different room at least maybe you don't interfere with the that's there but no doubt about it brings it out very well he says how could not say that's the of the so they do say that if you do say in the B which is the it shouldn't sing the that's already an appropriate but definitely we see the main do include the somewhat in the mitvah question someone asked this question he that was know the first and for some reason he only said don't ask me why the question is does he have to repeat the H with the he so the Em Say you know we call the it's really not it's the whole missing to but says this says it also that the Hal has to be complete Hal sh has to be complete you can't say it and more so and the ra says it in also that if someone missed even one word he's not the cautions that say there are some parts of the Hal that are very similar but you might end up skipping a few words or lines you'll see there's a repetition that somehow you could end up missing a few words or in the because sometimes you could you know sort of you know derail and go and miss a few words so if you miss a few words you're not if you miss and it's see he says really you to say Hal because Hal we know it's moral but make sure you don't miss a word because you miss a word and which is important to mention eight days of Hal sh make sure you say Hal from a don't you know try to say it because you miss a word or two so therefore it makes sense if you want because you ski two you have to say it over with has and again and he says that really is also the me is that we make a we don't say ever we say right so he says if you skipped a few words it's not a hollow it's missing a few words if you made instead of at least it's a he says I would think that you over the but not to make a okay it's a but most po can feel if he w't he would have to repeat the with a now a few Hal related questions before we start it happens often that we finish Hal together with the do we say a to the or maybe since I just finished it's like being which is so the say that really is one of those things a group of they supposed to say on your own Like We Do by some do come out you don't see it anymore but after says so he says even though we don't do that the say but when it comes to it after you finish with say and have in mind it's him not you also people ask do I answer is flying he's saying the basic CL is that is like and you're to be anything except that type but is like kishma so only what's mishma is during Hal if someone was called to an alyah during Hal Hal shom that is so then he goes up but he doesn't obviously and he doesn't even L along with the with with the with the which is we rely on the she you to give a because Ling we're concerned about now part two of the is the Alan as we said has very prominent early sources in and basically the it has to we have to take it take it very seriously you know say in half a line he says you say on eight days of that's the so in other words there are two ways and it's not extra credit you should know the and the that hold that is like that we don't so if you forget you don't D over but it's a very good idea to put a mind in your s a tissue a card whatever it is keep it there for the eight days and every time you get there you remember if someone forgot to say Al in daving so if he's still in the middle of that so the say go back say after start again start from there and say the Straight so it has more of a p a little of a but not a if you think about it let's say he said yes and then he course he said the word name I didn't say does he go back if he goes back he's have to repeat again so the say so what what could you do you have in other words it's not like you know extra credit you do it good if you don't do it good get it in smuggle it in even if it means repeating a kale now how do I know this is true because we soon see in benching the says if you forgot Al you could say it you didn't say of the the second of of benching I in benching you say right away so you're repeating there it is what could you do you have to say it's so important that we'll repeat Sheamus of except of course as we soon so basically you always try to get the AL if it is at all feasible the only exception but it's p is let's say you you're already holding you said either in or in benching what do he do then so people impulsively say but it's wrong you can't say and also you look at you'll see it's not an you started to convert it to a is a beautiful all say if you said then you finish you have no choice you you finish that and then soon you put it into now we the the let's say said you finish the could you put it before you start the next in between so he says no it doesn't belong there it's not brings two days so you allow to put that's that's a at least there it fits somewhat but here it has to be in what to me is the biggest what the say that if a person forgot and remembered at the end of after you put it into now that at first makes no sense someone once asked he forgot he remembered and he put it in there so I said it's a good joke but doesn't make sense in fact the say you can why doesn't belong there so how do you put in so we would say maybe it's wrong but it's not wrong this smack both say you could put it in in in the end of now it's what's but you look in you're not going to find this we'll soon see in benching we'll find that you put into in put it later but we don't find that you add it to B and the is very important he says if you left that you put it into if you left you hear what he said you know why because of the two which is a big benching or dinging the sh says that because benching to eat so if you have this squeez [Applause] in so we know it's real it's legitimate the M says it he C and listen to his when he says it when he left when it says it so we are definitely convinced if you left that Al you have a choice an option at the end but the question is it doesn't make sense Bish you put it into benching with's good it's how does it fit into benching wait wait wait yeah get that wait but here I think the with his tremendous added a few words he added something that does not say in the that he's quoting he quotes Thea and he says now I'm tell you something which is sound like a you know but it's not the PO say this when we say you what does that mean you say you don't say what you're going to have to say and then you're going to say so understood that we're going to sort of reprogram or re identify the into a is a that once you say then you could say what what we want but it's not that you say you say it's ah it's very good and if you look at the T nearly not only which he means at theend in the so I think it's I didn't find anybody speaks his out but it's that if you did forget and you want to put so if you want to ask your children or grandchildren a riddle over where do we see in daving it can't be they'll say if in but they'll say we never did it because we never forgot to say so they're ahead of you but we have in the middle of daving now this is why it fits in and that's why the meing is if you do say it now where to say that's a good question so there are many that spell out that you say it after before the at the end of only has one so don't forget but it's CL from the I read you earlier who says I did see says you say it before before after the first but it seems that that's not the regarding says you put it and that's where it belongs the next group of questions Al in Bening which is also interesting you live and learn it's not no doubt about no but here we find in as well the and if you forget in Bening say it in towards the end of Bening now again it's not but if we understand that's the of the will'll try to get it in somehow to make it complete now here's my next question this is quoted by the way in and much earlier in the end of Bening in other words the ding Edition is not on the benching Edition is twice in R now I'm going to ask you a question that is much trickier than it seems good I remembered middle of the four I didn't say where do I insert it in benching I'll give you three choices right away after why there I'll tell you why it's very P because the the is when you if you forgot to say the the you put it after when when you complete that what do mean could be he means the first not why there I'll tell you why it makes a lot of sense you know the minan brisk that was the bris ra that when someone says the that you add in benching when you're by someone else's house you say it right after why there because I think it's p because is which says in fact the says I can't say but it's definitely much more of than some don't even say so priorities this is and that's and there are some that say that when you edit in benching if you remember you put it right then and there I know that's a but that's to make sense many people follow the p who's the the the puts it in the the regular that we say at the end of benching to put it there before but even so one of the say put it after the last before because that's right we say every single day now you wake up you you forgot you're getting all nervous you know what do we do on which goes first so why is any less so you have three if you forget Al my advice to you is don't forget Al you don't have a problem but I think the is like and you put it in that now this is um important to mention that the Alim is not just a you know extra credit I had the sh and I stopped asking how things happen someone the good news he remember the bad news he said he said okay I guess he was anyhow so interestingly enough that he wasn't but is at a he for his benching so this is part of a big when someone added something to daving that wasn't but it's you know like he said yeah anything so it's not it doesn't belong there but it's not a he but something that's wrong you say it's already a so if you go through the you can trust me some hold it's it's a but the end of the day the seem to feel that's seems to that even a she is not does not P the ding it's inappropriate but it doesn't pel so our probably you know you have to know the you see really it could be it's not even a is really going so hopefully it's not but even if it is there are those that M seems to hold it's not he enough that pass the but again cup and say the right thing we had EI same one same yeah that's talking about same thing if it's if it's not not now someone of course the is that a gab is supposed to announce when we have now really there's a and there's no announcements by but even though there is a but not as much and that's why and quotes this that dominicus to call out even y and understandably even though it's not but it's part of I was once in a and inexperienced G and they already D he did not yet D he was ding with the so that's terrible a terrible mistake that no one does but definitely we announce the Al and Y many people have the meing many the that they don't want to talk it out so so they give a clap fine wonderful I would suggest one night a year you the gab should announce somebody asked me the true story he said y on a random Tuesday night I say why' you do that he said because the gab clapped I knew was last week but I didn't know what else could be so I said what was it December 4th December 5th tell about so people don't and they're not thinking enough to so I advise they should a call out after typically we say kades why is that because the kades is going on theak now on we say what's the reason very POS because because there's no soad is the correct kades on or then we go back to the original of the question is when the if this this happens quite often on a regular day you're supposed to say he said now typically people say no no no and he he's so nervous he finishes and then he says no yeah what do he want he woke up too late so the you cannot say another tab at the end of said once but inappropriate so he says without that's now being an on is tricky because is totally in but the the the we do find the that he could have just Hal he shouldn't be saying he should step to the side let someone take over for Hal and then he goes back for the rest of that's a should mention very few people do it but that's a he says he should at all he could he says I wonder maybe difficult is he could this quoted interesting story someone went up to D and I guess the meing by the was he wore towels over his head so the GU looked at him and said in other words you don't belong to him the meaning was that and each s of course should follow their own Min in important when you do have a quote a Changing of the Guard and let's say let's say either on on Kana or let's say the the B is not a b and someone else will take over who says the at the end of the so everybody knows that thees should be the that's true but thises obviously is going on so let say it that's is that before we try to give a little of a of a table talks I'm going to leave you with four I guess original fear cases for some are tricky and some are easy but something to give over to the family the children at home first of all question number one is typically we say onab on y we also mention the Yim why onab is the no mention of the Kana so the embes could be pit because like I told you earlier why do we mention because it's only belongs in a place of a strong everybody knows it has to fit into but the EM is we could do better because we have a different we of course have enough and we do not why not so the real teror is that if the day is independently a like and then you add it when it's but obviously also and is not itself so we have two why we don't say it in the why we don't in the second question different nature and that is we saw based on clearly that if a person left out whether daving or benching like did how you let to do that we know you not to ask it's wrong to ask so how do we ask said don't forget we saw so his first ter is if you say it daving for aim then you have a free pass daving for ra is special but just for like the cas he wants his his wife his wife's carrying theave become that's inappropriate he says that's why you look at that the a lot of the then he asked an interesting question he says so why he says by the that we say by he says look at the we say how did I do that so he says you have to say I looked in and it says so could be he the answer is a second ter he has a second ter that the is to ask for n that is wrong is okay so if someone is when he says the you want to keep the that's what does fine but you have to be limited to a nest I'm wrong please correct me the third question of beautiful sh many forms but I'll tell you two forms for Kana let's say someone he knows he DAV at a certain pace and he finish a little late but he always catches kadus he has a masle but Kana he has to add Alan takes him longer and he knows from other years by the time he finishes Alan with with he misses K so he wants to know maybe he should skip Al this we also say because don't forget is very important but is so the EM is first of all for us we're a little sensitive about that because an is not a push over buta the same question is on a regular day a person is dingra and is moving should they ask should he should he hurry up hisra so here again it's a very important important Point what to mind is a famous somebody asked he was in jail and he had one day to leave jail which day should he choose to leave jail the first day or wait for maybe says now do it now took strong exception wait for the better day can we say our child is tally in that according to that makes no sense you know you have to have priority maybe Should Skip right now so the is it's not convincing first of all says to skip but more convincingly here we have a different Factor the in says that is not just a T you're not in a Mitzvah when you're doing another Mitzvah if you do it you're not y to the Mitzvah so how do you drop a without for another mitah be it a bigger Mitzvah and that's what it seems that you don't skip in fact some Steinman he's a on a random Tuesday morning and if he finish my he's going to miss maybe she say shom instead of yeah says you know says no thank you you know don't bother in fact I saw he's talking very crafty he'll he'll skip say and then he'll say he'll say the and even that and last but not least let me leave something really beautiful we know the by many is before the there are two reasons given see them keep their original Min that and then I should mention what the say if there's no minion then don't just to have that and I would add always added if your wife needs you at home or your mother needs you at home better stay home but here's a question used to say when when the first day comes on shab then then there's more before had a beautiful let's let's look at your location it's shabas you lit you said three including now you come to you want you have to why you said that's that's considered bringing the so it's it's already it's but you can't say so for that reason you have to really go all out to before says it's not true and it's far as what is the going on there's no there's no on the mitvah and when is the Mitzvah the point is that the is to do things right and listen to the he said he was very to always say that we have to learn more than the rest of the year because these days are given and the on is greater than the rest of the year so the most important is part of is the extra learning on for to like to REM next week Sunday the year will be will be at 11:00 please let everyone know next week 11:00 have the great sponsoring call 718 851 8651 or email.com after hey my we learn first of all the of as we saw and hopefully we'll see and even the is a form of some have that minute after the first they light but at least if you don't have the minute at least to think of the words that the has to bring out the person's the fact that there are eight days of so the has to be is the the the point that is that the is very much part of theah the the with a and even lighting the first night where there was no Nest yet OFA of the indicates that is the of the if someone has a he said doesn't he he repeats without a if they could should say there's definitely more of on but priorities a person that's busy with children is definitely any Capal any would be enough there are two regarding a either they say it in the base oval in a side room or they say it when they get home but everybody holds that the OV and the AUM the the end of the must say someplace if a person said instead of definitely say probably with a be careful not to miss a word because even missing a word even a word is already a problem you could a to the shot's conclusion of Hal because you're saying it on him not on yourself in is like the the is not but it's a very prominent part and it shouldn't be just taken lightly if you forgot it inra you could put it in anytime before and you go back you say and then and you go straight if was already said then it's it's lost and then you continue and put it in as we said before the second you say an original the is that in benching you could it at the end there were three but it seems the prevalent and you put it in there the someone said in daving or in benching the gab could clap o Al he doesn't have to actually could either announce it or clap some have a minute that the gab says it out loud when he gets there but is always said except for or and coincide if the shots is an OV different hug what he could if he could if there's a changing of shots after the says thees the the there is no mention of the because is never the we don't ask for a unless it's either or we don't skip to be able to say somebody asked why don't we be with so the begin but says that that even though is better and the last and even some justifi to say after his sir