Chanukah: Standing on Our Tiptoes - Rabbi Moshe Weinberger

[Music] one of theas in the Su of hanek is the behind we're not allowed to say eulogies over the years I've come to know many many many Jews who have for whatever reason whatever they've gone through they've come to a point in their own lives where they're not sing a hpit over somebody else who has passed away they saying a hpit over themselves that they feel that they have died that they have no ruts and they have no will no to go on so then we have the Y of khah there's a miracle that happened on khah and it can happen for each and every one of us the was a mess the world was crazy like it is now but there was a there was one little pure jar of oil a person needs to find within himself even though the overall situation could be very very very dark that part of us that is still pure that is still good and to stay focused on working on that one part of us from there the miracle ofah unfolds is where the one becomes eight and the eight becomes 800 and the 800 becomes 8,000 so I'm going to share with you my favorite Hana story there was a big big big big and had an AV lighting the Mana people came from all over Russ and to be there and he would light the Mana and it was the first night of kanah and the re was standing there ready to make the first Braha they were waiting and waiting the Reb wasn't saying the Braha he was just standing with the thas then the re turned around he was looking and he said where is sh the where is sh the tall one now in town there was somebody that was known as sh he was very tall skinny person and said sh I need you where are you please come sh was thinking he was terrified why would the re be calling for me and his friend said Shai the Reb wants you so the friends practically pushed him and Shai went walking down all the way where the re was standing with a candle and the Reb said sh I have to ask you something and you're the only person that could answer this question and the rebi asked something that was very strange it would be strange even now but then it was unheard of the rebi asked sh tell me something sh do you love your wife and everybody just stood there in shock and and Shai didn't know what to do and the re said sh I asking you do you love your wife and Shai said yes rabie stby said good it must be shy that because you love your wife sometimes you want to tell her something very personal or secret no how do you do that what do you do so sh said if I want to tell my wife a secret I I have to bend down and I tell her a secrets and the said that's that's very very very good and the rbbi was also little the Rie said Shai show everybody how you do that and Shai bent down to the RBI like this he bent down and then the reab said but sh there's one thing you left out don't forget the most important thing sh think what else so then sh was quiet and oh well my wife is so little that she gets on her toito to hear so said thus is th that's it and the made the BR they never saw him in such a love such excitement the singing the dancing and afterwards some older came to what happened over there with SH and his wife what was that they said what do you mean I was about to make the BR light the candle and I began to think why would Hashem care about my little candle what difference does it make in the world my candle he has a whole universe and then I began to think what difference does it make my my my shabus what what difference does it make who am I that hasem should even think of me and then I saw sh and Sh is so tall and his wife is so little Hashem is so great and was so small but when you love someone you bend all the all the way down from the highest world but there's one thing that hasem asks from each and every one of us that we stand on at the to be a je means today I'm going to try a little bit harder than yesterday like said a little jar of oil something better to find something good inside myself a little more than yesterday hasem give us the strength to find that jar of oil within [Music] ourselves okay