Chanukah and the Five Fingers - The Ben Ish Chai Reveals the Secret of Chanukah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning to the carl edgardo here in kugan hills new york want to welcome all the great tamil hachem who have come to join us this morning so last week we learned about ain mikhoyetsumidev shutoi we learned to be on shot today we're not going to learn about shot actually we're venturing as far off from that as possible you know we like to change it up a little bit so let's begin afraid of hanukkah um let's begin with the tikuni zayar and tick on your gimbal it's dap test in the defusan for those who are more familiar with the old print of the kunes but it's also quoted in the sheriff the media the sphere of hyde hanukkah is called hoid of the spherois hanukkah is uh associated with hoyt what that means uh there's a share on that you could check it out on tour anytime but that's beyond the uh today's share to now we know the eight days of chanaka begin on with which day of kiss slave the 25th day of kiss life after how many days of kiss slave after 24 days of kiss slave says after 24 days now what's the significance of 24 the second passage in shema has 24 letters baruch shame kavoid has 24 letters so the 24 days of kislev corresponds to baruch and after you're done with 24 what do you get to allah says the olive branches grabbed in her mouth now what the connection between the alizarius and the the name barak shame is that's for a different time but after 24 shariah israel the number 25 rests and resides on israel on which day on the 25th day of kislife what is the significance of the twenty-fifth day after all twenty four they're twenty-four oysters of our shame what's the significance of twenty-five elaine inon [Music] these are the twenty-five letters of hashem the inun how many letters in the shema 25 letters in the shema connecting shema israel to the amtif of chanukah this is hanukkah says if you want to know what hanukkah is because 24 days of kiss slave correspond to the 24 letters of 25 days of slave corresponds to israel somehow connecting they rest with a s somehow the czar is being magalla to us a wondrous side that there is a very deep connection between the letters of the shema israel and the umpif of chanukah and that's what we would like to explore today what is the connection between shema israel and the twenty-five letters of chanaka okay there's a sephirah in hamish which uh barak hashem is becoming a little bit more well-known the name of the safer is surah hamar sraharmar was one of the geruse safarad and he wrote an incredible commentary on hamish so ravram saba it's almost a resha and maybe we could even consider him a reshine he was born in castile in the closing of the 15th century 1492 already was an acclaimed scholar and he flees to apartheid in portugal he comes to portugal he writes his commentary on hamish he writes a commentary on all five megillahs he wrote a parish on turkey of ice the only thing is he caught his stay in portugal was very short-lived because soon after king emanuel expelled the jews from portugal but not before he made a decree that all children under the age of 18 were forcibly kidnapped and baptized and had two children and they were both kidnapped and baptized and he never saw them again if you lived in portugal the end of the 15th century and you had children when you left portugal you didn't have children there were no exceptions there were not even one exception thousands and thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of children were taken away kidnapped baptized parents never saw them including this great we shine the suramar lost both of his children and even more painful his manuscripts were taken away all of his commentary hamish megillah his perky elvis however he had one original copy that he had with him and he buried it but then he was given word that the government found out that he buried his manuscripts and he had to take it out of his home he buried it by an olive tree and he never saw his payroll again incredible ver he lived a very um a very difficult uh life he comes to a fez he rewrote from memory swarham what we have here is the rewriting of his commentary that he rewrote alatoira he rewrote his commentary to esther and rose called ashko hakoifer and maybe you could say he did he did have a um have nakas from his grandchildren because his granddaughter became the wife of none other than maranve yosef married the granddaughter of rabbi abraham saba okay so ram sabha is magala to us an amazing uh sawed and he writes in parasha's verse by what was revealed to me belief safer i didn't see it in the book of ali malamada i didn't hear it from my rebbe this is just a matano menasha mayam god somehow gave me this gift i never saw it why is it called chanukah so i'm sure you've heard many many reasons over the years we weren't born yesterday this is a reason that nobody says says it's a pella why is the world why is it called chanaka every yantov the name of the amphitheath describes what happened on the yamthev pesach hashem skipped over the house sukis hashem gave us purim because of the lottery but what does chanukah mean it is not the name of what occurred on the amtif what is why is it called hanukkah by tam there's no reason for it what do you mean they rested on the 25th day you don't name ayamth of the day that the it was over the day that you rested you name it yamtha based on what happened what happened on hanukkah says it's rahamar all it is is and if it means we rested on the 25th they say um you could still ask why is it called chanukah well it says an amazing thing and that is we know that of all the mitzvos in the torah of i made a torah and avoided that's very important davening is very important every jew has tadavan three times a day if down with a minion damning is very important sahara is not really that scared by your daubening yeah i'll live with it is beautiful it's wonderous tsudaka but of all the mitzvos the one that is called the most important muslim natara the mitzvah that really gives the sahara it gets him very nervous and is ultimately the antidote you know the kryptonite of the itsahara and that is points out yes sahara never try to wrestle and destroy abraham sahara never tried to wrestle and destroy yitzhak abram doesn't mind you greet arkham and you're nice to people all day long get sahara says gazoontahid be a nice guy you could dive in from the morning until night you could damage messi 70 hours yet sahara says doesn't care but what could a person do if he's in very um limited circumstances let's say let's say a person has a mitigating circumstances they're not able to learn what if khashoggi is wrong and there are decrees that we're not able to learn so what could a person do so it says that and probably he's saying this from experience he lived during times of persecution expulsion when you couldn't act as a jew openly he says if heaven forbid there's a decree not to engage in learning at the very least you have the passage of shama like the gemara nadaram even if you just think it in your heart of lahem hashem will consider it as if you learned why if you weren't able to learn at the very least saying the passage of shema and even more thinking the pasak of shema under the most trying circumstance will be considered in the eyes of god as if you learn torah the whole torah yahim balaylah in fact says the swahili more if you look in pakistan the mishnah says it talks about schneiderm devry torah what's the lotion of vietnamese i should say their i say in torah why the latin of yesh bay nahim divay tyra he says rav khanina ben chadyan was one of the sahara malchus it was at a time that they were not able to be oy sake but so even if they were in isaac pattaya but there is bainem torah this one's thinking and learning that one's thinking and learning that's also very valuable that's why in parque aba it says hashem is talking about what's the guy doing learning himself he should have been in kuala lumpur why is he learning by himself the answer is he wasn't able to learn with anybody else it was a shasmaat it was a shasta but even at a time like that if a person is mahar at the very least in the passage of shema yes the passage of sort of is like the executive summary of kalatarakula you ever go to a draw so you go to a speech and the guy's rambling on not the guy the per the right and you speak for hours and hours an hour and you're out cold your mom is having some very high madriga and you wake up on the last second and you're and here so basically to summarize and then somebody said what do you what did you speak about so hashem you woke up for last moment you got the one minute summary and you know you basically got the same thing as uh the person was listening last two hours you know you got it i was just joking but but to some extent but to some extent not none this year but in the some extent the trauma says that hashem knew that there would be times in history that you're not able to uh to dedicate large amounts of time to tamatara so he gave us basically the executive summary of kala tarakula what's the executive summary of khal tarakula shema israel hashem is the concise the cliff notes of tarakula therefore says the tsarama in the last paragraph hashem evangelion wanted to give us the parasha of the unity of god's name concisely like the gemara says when you teach your tamidim give it to them in sound bites and this way if you can't say the whole parasha of shema at the very least you'll say the first passage what's in the first passage how many oceans in the first passage that's the site of kai yeah zaracha this is the soy hayiko yaakov gave over to his children from abraham this is the soy that mushroom was making when he said if somebody is miyake the shame hashem by saying shema because of the great distress and the decrees they were not able to be involved in learning what did they do what was the clarion call what was the battle cry of the kashmir nom who were not able to and they didn't have the luxury to open up they didn't have the luxury to spend time learning what did they do which has 25 letters and with the kayak of that's how they were victorious it's not hanukkah they rested on the 25th day hanu they encamped they were victorious with the 25 letters of shema until shalazah karu shame hamoir that's why it's called hanukkah this is the real name without a base if it was khanu on the 25th it would be to be marames to the yikhor of the passage has 25 layers this is the side of chanukah like now ah the truth is we always know that we are victorious is what 26 so the 25 letters of yukhud plus the shame hashem itself is 26. mirami's two the shame hashem as we know loi now let's add let's add what were the names of the hashmonoam what were they called macabee maccabi okay i'm not going with that version that's one that one doesn't work out for me so so mehmed hashem what's the significance of that 72 rasheed rashfos that's 72 which is the ultimate shame hashem the ultimate hashem is 72. or as oblivious writes whatever we do downstairs is a mirror image of what's happening in shamayim whatever happens down here is paralleled in the upper universe how many narrows do we line on hanukkah without the shamish 36 36 downstairs 36 upstairs the shame hashem the i shame ayan bays this is how we beat our enemies with the 25 letters of shema and that is they were victorious and that's how we will extricate ourselves from the saris this is the explanation of the aram sabbah with sarah hamar that the reason why it's called chanaka is because we were victorious with the hashem we didn't have the opportunity we didn't have the luxury to be sick but in a more fuller sense but at the very least we were making says that if a person is not able to if a person is shame hashem then it's considered as if already taught us that there is some kind of very deep connection between the shema and the amtif of chanaka why because that's how they beat their enemies with shamayisram now maybe let's try to explain this on an even deeper level what the connection is between the shema and hanukkah after all we don't only say shaman we say tish we say shiman tishbov also we don't call it you know we can you could end you could add the cafe to any day of the year what is the precise deep connection between the pasuk of yikarashan and shema israel mavra bhuisai how many goliaths do we have how many exiles do we have we know there's a concept in jewish thought a very fundamental concept they're dollar goliaths in fact the concept of the dalai galios is so fundamental that on the second pasok and hamish already there's a remis like it says about babal and yermia rao ucia who is um is they darkened our eyes with their decrees shahid they would say to us right on the horn of an ox shayin bila that you have no share in god okay and of course refers to the fourth long bitter and final gala so let's talk a little bit about yavan what was the decree that yavan imposed on the jewish people that we should write on the horn of an ox that we have no share in islam israel that's a rather odd decree why in the world would they make us write on the ox what's the significance of the axe so a parship shot is you know if you want to get a glimpse into who a person is just find out look at their car right their cars a person's car the person's mode of transportation speaks volumes about who they are the first thing you is look at their bumper stickers you know from a person's bumper sticker you could tell a lot about them because people like to advertise what do they feel passionate about what what are the what do they stand by you know some people they put who they voted for on their car that means their entire life is invested in a certain candidate or a certain political movement a certain sports team or whatever it is people advertise themselves by the type of car that they drive person's motive of transportation reflects on who they are so that that was the push-up shot the ivanam said you move around on the shore you get around on your shower right on your shore that you're not connected to your god but we're going to look into that a little bit further and it will be if you listen carefully to the voice of hashem your god lishma says to preserve to perform all the mid-s god will place you supreme on all the nations of the world gentlemen today we're going to speak about your fingers okay that's the topic of today's share your fingers the topic that's on everybody's mind i know i could tell everybody's thinking about their fingers everyone brought them we have fingers what do they mean what do they represent what is the indian of fingers take a look at number seven aposic and michele shimar write them on your heart so your heart i get your heart is the central organ of the body it's the seed of emotion it's the sea it's the source of vitality for the body why is tie them on your fingers your fingers don't seem to be yeah your singer's fingers don't seem to be a very critical and fundamental part of the body i mean we need them but why the emphasis on the fingers so we have any accountants here or calculators ah we're going to count now you ready how many fingers do we have let's go you ready one two get out your text ascension three four five fingers but the five fingers there's a one group and another group you have the four fingers and they're all going one way and you have the fifth finger there it's all going the other way there's another there's another difference between the four and the one yeah and that is the four fingers they have three joints and the and the thumb only has two joints don't say i have two i have three you don't okay your four fingers have three joints you're you're you lie you can't find me on that one and the thumb has two joints so what's the meaning of this comes from and in this draw shows from 1832 to 1909 says and the thumb represents claudius so there are four umois and then claudius the reason why the thumb is separate from the four fingers is because claudius is separate and claudiuso resides alone so the four fingers are the four umais and claudius is the goydell there are five fingers zerus the zerus you know what the zerus is for it measure measures the zerus of the choice the kamitso when you do kamitsa this is the finger that's the final scoop the amma from here to here is an amma the etzba measures that's voice khamee shatsu shisha's voice and the guy dow okay these are the five fingers these four fingers are the um the fifth finger is claudia the um islam are three jointed claudia swirl is double jointed marv what's the meaning of this very posh it says claw you swallow to god god is loya k israel he's the god of the jewish people but god is not the god of the umass islam do muslim refer to god as eloy ke ho eloy kim he's the god of the celestial bodies who are the middle men between god and the nations of the world as we find in tanakh oh saryavan so it means like this says the banish the nations of the world have an intermediary when they need something god allows the intermediary to bestow it through him of course but through a middleman all prayer goes up through a middleman and then to god and god sends down shepa through the intermediaries of the masalas there's no go between there's no intermediary there's no there's no rabbi you don't go to a rabbit for any shepherd and the rabbi is not needed for tafilah you dive in straight to rebound some animal shahabati is there's no confessions there's no rabbanim are not needed for your relationship between you and god you're they're needed to teach tyrant for other things but you go to god with the muslim come straight down to you for shava it's a straight relationship the um there's a go between there's an intermediary mela says the four fingers are triple jointed nation intermediary god nation sar revenue shall islam all the nations of the world have a knuckle in between comes the goydel which is claudius royal it's just us represents our devacus directly to the rivaslam meaning the lesson of the fingers are we enjoy a completely different relationship with ubuntu um have to have a go-between um have to have an in-between clause by the way that's why claudia's soil is compared to a dog a fish why because a fish has no neck a neck is the connection between the roish and the guff the royce is banished and the goof is claudius we don't need a gobi we're like a fish the head and the goof are mesdabix says that's how kaiser compared to a dog fine now the question is so hashem says look careful look at number five tishman if you listen [Music] because all the nations of the world they're on the bottom they're like this when you turn you give a handshake claudius throws the goydell as elio you know the nations of the world but only if you follow if you follow the rashem if you don't follow the russian hashem hashem is going to say you guys get lost and you deal with malachim you deal with malachim by the way it's a very dangerous thing that's why when somebody needs something and people go off and to all kinds of you know um ulterior motives so you do you want to evaluate you wanna you want other means so you you go you get your yeshua through your gesheft and i'll leave you alone you don't deal with me now we deal straight with ribani islam if you want you banish them to make you el yo now go yeah then you have to be mrs so these four fingers are the dalai malchios the dalai mahiros are triple jointed claudius royal is the guy del now of all the um hashem is saying is a compound word elio in al yavan that if you're misdabbing to me and you cling to me i will give you dominion and shlita and i will give you elevation not only the um solemn over the evening that's the secret of the baneshkai i happen to see this morning and there's a safer semester i don't i don't own it but i saw it inside sasemas writes the same thing that the word elion is a compound word that the revolution says i will give you dominion over the nations of the world not only nations so now the question is rabbi why is revenge from singling out yavan yavan is not the only one of the dalai lamas why doesn't hashem say in the hashem so vanessa addresses that by saying yavan was the weakest of all the umass i'm saying al even i'll even give you meaning i'll even give you dominion over them what but then you read it like this and not only elian but also which is normally you don't say it that way normally you won't you would you would um you would single out the most powerful one so then ishkai says no it's saying and not only that but even our koga yaras so what would we like to offer today is no a reason why the ivanisham is promising us that when we connect to the ribbon islam of all the ummah is going to give us dominion over we're singing out el yoin al yavan why are we singing out alive and again is the smallest but maybe we could perhaps suggest a very important reason why yavon is singled out over all the dalit markets so again the secret of the fingers the goedel is claudia israel claudius there are not they're only two joints on the thumb as opposed to the four fingers the four fingers are triple jointed which represents um let me tell you a little look at number 9 israel the only thing is nobody has any idea what they mean they're so beautiful and so poetic and i bet you could even lane them but what they mean is a different story when god bequeathed supremacy to the nations and he separated the sons of man he establishes the boundaries of nations according to the number of israel for the shear of the lord is his nation jacob the rope of his inheritance right we could translate it in very fine english but we still have absolutely no clue what the name so what do the sukkah mean comes from says one of the most fundamental concepts in all of jewish thought and that is we have to know that a lottery took place a long time ago right you know what a lottery is i remember when i was a kid in um yeshiva in brooklyn so the highlight of the year was a hanukkah so the principal had an arrangement with feo schwartz and he would literally have shipped on a school bus stuffed animals that were like 20 times the size of us and you know the school bus would pull in arab hanukkah with these beers you know they must have been 10 feet high sitting in the school bus you look in the school bus and the greatest present the greatest prize was a snake that went from one end of the school bus to the other end of this class and the whole year you know you were anticipating yearning dreaming if only you're going to win that snake now what you would do with the snake i don't know beats me but i just remember i wanted to win that snake never won it okay still bothers me you know so so you would get you get a ticket you get a ticket and basically you know it's pat luck you know who wins the rebbe calls up zero zero five three you know and everybody has zero zero five three and everyone's screaming yeah yeah i'm still in i'm still in there then fine says tag me on the son that when hashem created the nations of the world he also made a lottery now how many nations of the world are there their number the number of nations in the world correspond to the number of the souls that went down to missouri were 17 and hashem said look there are 71 nations let's make a lottery okay everyone's going to get a ticket and you know one one of you guys can get north korea and one of you guys are going to get you know saudi arabia and one of you guys is going to get you know italy france japan and so on and so forth and one of you is going to get the kali israel so they made a lottery and this got north korea that mala got a different nation and who won the big prize who who was the big winner of that lottery the reba nisham won the lottery we became hashem's says targe look at number ten when god was giving as an inheritance the world to the nations was separating the languages to man badara de palgusa during the dara flaga vehu zimna at that time rama pitzesa god made a lottery in shuvin malachi with the 70 angels ravr vayamin the chiefs of the nations the number of nations that existed in that time came out as the number of souls that went down to massayam and who won the jewish people when the jewish people fell out in the lottery of the ribanus islam mikhail opened his mouth [Music] evan salman that he won the lottery he won us by the way it says the particular blesser says the is shalilam looking back at number 11 in the fourth line america i'm very pleased with my helac my sheer in life is so sweet says the ubanislam so this is a very important aside do you say it is what does it mean that we are hashem what do you mean we're hisher what do you mean we're hished that means we shall literally won us we became gods so we have no malach between us and god but all the other nations of the world were one by other malachim and they became the khelak of other malach what does it mean then that we're the khelak of hashem of what significance is it that hashem won us as his ladder as his lot what is the significance that we are the khelak of hashem you know what does that do for us what does that mean for us surambhan says in partisans very important ramban look at number 12 the secret of the matter is because of [Music] created everything and he placed kayak of the nym in the el yonem meaning he gave dominion over what's going on down here in this world to the constellations and he gave over every nation in their land of um a known and specific star in constellation and if you know astrology you'll know what this means possession is god gave as a shirt to all the nations one nation has this star another nation has a different star every nation has its corresponding astrological star and above the constellation are angels that are sarim like it says paras or saryavan and these malacca and these angels are called milochim kings like it says [Music] but not eretz israel artistrol is different hashem is the inheritance of god he didn't put a malloch he didn't put a shot there he didn't put a mushel he gave it directly this is what it means what does god mean when he constantly tells the jewish people i'll be your god i'll be your god i'll be your god no kidding as opposed to who as opposed to a different god what does god mean when he tells us i'm going to be your god what he means is i will deal with you directly without an intermediary without a go between that's what the sukkah means this is what it means you don't need another intermediary astrological star star or angel okay so the concept that we are the khelak of hashem means more than just where gods share but we don't need to go to an intermediary this is the the meaning of hashem is our god when you say hashem is our god no kidding as opposed to a different god kasper shalom it means that we deal with rebellion directly yeah what did the lighting of the menorah represent the gemaran shabbos says take a look at number 14 on your sheets the famous question but god needs light god needs your illuminance hashem it's all the same it says they walked by the light of god the god doesn't need the light what is the menorah symbolizing the symbolizing is israel it's testimony that the shrine resides in the jewish people what in the world does shrina mean everybody says what does the concept mean the shrine resides in claudius and the answer is understands the concept of shrina is this concept that we're bringing out today the idea that we don't need an intermediary the idea that we don't need an astrological sign the idea that we have direct connection to god is the concept of hashrat when we say kobayasara when we say the shrine resides in the kaiser maravi the concept of shrine look in rabbi number 15. israel is the concept of ye si lohem lelo kim this idea that the ramban calls hashem is the concept that he calls hashras hashgrin israel meaning when we say the shrina rest in khlasan when we say we're by lighting the menorah that reflects the idea that the shrine rests among us that's the concept of all the nations of the world are triple jointed god is not their god he is not to them as a god he is not all the nations of the world have that middle joint and there was only one nation who stood up over claudia israel and he said you goidel you thumb you think you're miss barco you think it's you think you're going to light the menorah and demonstrate the shrine of shara because we're going to show you that the shrine is not with you do you know which nation rose its ugly head to challenge the idea of the goedel to challenge the idea that we're like it was yavanna said to the jewish people you write on the horn of an ox if they're telling us to write in which passage are they and are are they coming to uproot which pasta are they challenging if they're saying okay israel they're challenging the notion of hashem hashem says and therefore says marau they said right on the horn of ashar you have no hashem okay why the horn of an ox they're trying to remind us of a certain hate that we did that separated between us that put a third joint in between the gaidal what hate did kaiser do that hashem said you don't want me i'll send an angel you go your way i'll go my way right what happened by the hero egal they said allah they said israel says the morale in number 17 in the safer near mitzvah the meaning of the gezera of kissful al karanashar by the way the rambam writes not only do they have to write it on a shar they had a plow with that shark says marau since claudia sold me the ego when we left mitsrayam that demonstrates that we're not mistaken that we need intermediaries why did we make the ego we said god we can't deal just with you you're invisible we don't see you we don't perceive you we need a physical manifestation as a go-between says rashi on the madrish that when they made the shah from that time you revealed that you have no khalak in hashem and the meaning of the evanim is you don't have to actually write on ashar in lachem they were drumming up the which indicated that we don't have a helac in hashem meaning we have this goedel and we have all the um who are triple jointed bavel never told us hey who do you think you are that you that you're double jointed madai never challenged it and never challenged it was yavan who specifically challenged the concept that we don't have a go between therefore they want to drum up the keto ego because what were the repercussions of the keto ego look at number 19. by the way if that's the case from what do we learn rabbi say that we are ms dabe tahaka who directly without an intermediary what's the introduction to that behind because the superiority of the jewish people that were mastabek directly to god is how he is is specifically overpowering the notion of yavan where yavan specifically challenges that concept yavan says no israel so when says as an introduction to that behind eliot look at number 19. ascend an angela terrible report look at number 21 what was the terrible report imam that the shrine would not go with them meaning the result of the heidel egal was just like all the nations of the world are triple jointed are goidel our thumb grew a third joint says the ramban look at number 22 removed his shrina from among us and he wanted that there should be a malach until [Music] if you're not going to come with us we're not moving we're not budging we're not leaving them in bar then if we we want to be different because what happened was after the ego we had five fingers going straight up triple jointed they're all the same beneflinum said we want to be different you look at your yad you look at your hand you see it's an amazing thing look at number 20. when hashem saw that khloe saw sin with the egg the pasta says going to send an angel we know that before the keto egal claw you saw we're going to live forever there's going to be no yatsuhara there's going to be no what posikin tohilum refers to the state of man before the ania marti [Music] elohim atem i thought you would be like god el yo we could say i thought you would be elion al-yaman i thought you would be supreme over even the notion of israel i thought you would be atta but what could we do you're going to have to die like adam harishan when you when they accepted the torah you the hamas lost his job i thought you would live forever look at this when you accepted the terra hashem put the malham of us out of business hashem told the um you have rashes over everybody else second wide line number two because they're my helac and just like i'm eternal they'll be into eternal life meaning when god gave the torah to the jewish people we were behind we were over yavan we were kikela kashem and the moment we sinned with the egal what milo was lost the myla of and therefore which aveira does did the ivanam want to remind us up of what do they want to drum up they wanted to constantly drum up yes saved us from that and the did rest hashina with us so we never lost that return of the shrina and our thumb always remain double jointed figuratively the concept of hashra hashrat when we say hashem eloy keno rabbi what we're saying is there's no middleman does anybody know what point of davaning do we annunciate and articulate the concept hashem that there's no go between between us and hashem like when do we are this is a very important idea right because all the nations of the world they have uh they have a certain disconnect with the evangelical but claudius deals with god directly does anybody know when do we articulate this concept a very fundamental concept maybe the most fundamental concept in judaism that a jew needs no go between says the chubas shima israel hashem eloykeno he's our god what do you mean he's our god he's the god of the world he's not the god of the world he created the world he's not over the world but the direct intimate relationship directly with god is alloy knows only by us says the rajva look at number 23 it's inherent philosophy that's a tough job it's a tough job to be a miss philosopher mishtapshan they are corrupt and they say god is not mashiach directly and that there's like a thick crowd we articulate eloqueno is there any wonder then that the ibanezham says that when we cling to him and we understand that the sight of the fingers which finger does god specify straight out yavan so danish why is the weakest who says yeah you're right yavan and even all the others but maybe we could say very beautifully that the whole message of the fingers is that the other fingers and all the nations of the world have intermediary and we're misdog takashwara directly which finger is the most antagonistic to this concept which nation it tries to be okay this idea which nation does not accept it fought it yavan so therefore in the context of the fingers the context of the triumph of the nations of the world in terms of the idea that we are ms the torah specifically annunciates and spells out and points out not only the nations of the world but even yavan because yavan's mission was kisful yavan was trying to be oika what we articulate when we say what shema and how did we counteract yavan what was the battle cry of the kashman you say what enlarge was the exact battle cry that was needed to cry out against the cry of the evonum of elohim so driving here this morning hashem gave me tremendous natana listen to this you ready the magnum writes either in summon or summon samakalev that there are six things we have to remember every day so people when are you supposed to remember it so but the the at the end of the year you know it doesn't say anywhere in chicago so when do you remember it it says you remember it in avaraba how's that take care of tanoma keno the shimha hashem brought us close [Music] we have to thank hashem and not speak lush in her like miriam god loves us now but when he made the girl he doesn't he didn't love us what's the very last word we say before shema what are we supposed to be thinking about when we say that word faith and immediately after the um remembering we addressed that immediately okay so the introduction we address it immediately the same way when the ivannim said in israel the response was 25 letters of hashem every single morning do you know when the juncture to remember the hero eagle is when you say the final word before shema says you remember and we immediately addressed it out of this world so you have five fingers right you also have five senses right five senses you have hearing and you have sight and you have touch and you have smell and you have taste so each one of the five fingers services another one of the five senses you ever notice you have something in your ear there's one finger that conveniently fits in the ear the pinky not the the rest of them you can have a hard time stuffing it in you know if the pinky is designated for the nose excuse me for the ear we'll get to the nose soon the pinky is designated for the ear says something in your eye you ever notice instinctively use this finger why because this finger is the shamish of sight then the middle finger is the tallest and the widest most surface area it's for touch you want to feel something use your middle finger this finger conveniently fits into the off into the nose that's what it's for it's a service of now that doesn't mean other people have to know what what's the bus gate on but that's what it's for and then if you have something on your mouth people use their thumb that's what it's for it's not me writes a re-shine one of the greatest bishop writes in parishas that the five fingers correspond to the five senses each finger services another sense it's no wonder then that when we're macabre omaha when we're makaba what do we do we take the five fingers and we subjugate our we subjugate ourselves why the five fingers because basically what we're doing is we're the five fingers that represents the five senses where we're being macabre we're saying we can't just listen to whatever we want to listen to we subjugate our kashmir to you we can't look at whatever we want to we subjugate our ability to see to you we can't taste we can't feel we can we're meaning we're subjugating we're being misabed all of our senses evangelion when we say shema yes but based on the banner we could say that when we're articulating the concept that hashem is our god and we have no intermediary and we have no go between as opposed to the um islam that hashem is not like we take our fingers the the hand the message of the hand is the message of the fundamental difference between the um asylum asylum cannot say hashem only claustrophobic and we take the five fingers which speaks and testifies that above and beyond yavan the notion the notion that we need to go between we say forget about the ego we did shiva we're muslim so when we say so carefully right after we remember reminds us of we say no no then the ribbon didn't love us then we he wasn't our god but now look at our fingers hashem is making to us israel has in the ancient editions of he adds a gematria the gomatria of zaras krizza amma etzma goedel what is the secret of hanukkah the seeker of hanukkah is which finger the guy del what's the gamache of goedel 44 the 44 narrows of hanukkah that's extra do you have it on your sheet some of you have no number 29 right you have 29 said no some of you have it that's in the new edition you have it that's secret mourinho in the secret mountain you can write it we have yes the hoist of ramez okay so so um that's the new added mario malcolm that he says you know when uh reptile kakainen has a cloud that the first time a word appears is the source of the word is the root of the word what's the first time that the word eliyan appears which is aliavan the first time al yavan appears is in reference to kahuna the first time kaine appears also a reference to the victory of the hashman over the ivanam so let's add one thing dice it's good to thank hashem it's always good to thank hashem but what's the yum tiff that's dedicated what do you do on the day of the voice hashem ullah we were victorious with the power of the 25 letters of unity of shema israel to counteract the ivanim who said israel through the kayak of shema we're able to proclaim to the world hashema kenu and that's why says it's called 25 letters have a great day in africa you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com