Chanukah Story by Rabbi Yitzy Erps

because i hardly hear myself you up the volume by me my microphone i want to be able to start okay [Applause] i'm ready to start here we go this story takes place quite a while ago it was a stormy night the winds were howling it was thunder it was pretty heavy blizzard snow conditions and then of course there was someone trudging through the snow with a wagon and as the swag it was going through the snow and it was charging through there was a wagon driver what they're gonna do i it's snowing like crazy out here i must have been a stickler michigan to come out here to try to do this but i gotta go i always like to be by my rebbe the first night of hanukkah and i'm not gonna make any exception i maybe i think i should turn back oh my the wind is very strong you know what i just go day and night that's what they're gonna do and he started going day and night the winds were howling and it was still thundering and the snow was coming down hard blizzard condition couldn't see where it was going i i go this way so many times i go so many times but i'm lost i can't see where i am i remind you help me out meanwhile up on a tree with two people peter you have the log oh yeah boys you hit the log good okay here comes a wagon oh must be a rich man has a lot of money there i can't see where i'm going oh i think this must be the road it's a space between the trees all right here i go and he started to go when all of a sudden this big log fell from the trees [Music] and it landed right in front of his wagon he had to stop his horses what's going on here where did the slog come from oh i'm sorry is that in your way too bad oh yeah is that in your way who are you two people oh you want to show me the way is that what you want to do you want to show me the way that's nice oh no we're hopping aboard your wagon hopping above my wagon and the other one stopped and he hopped on and they were mamas like they were sitting there next to him and they started squishing him where's your money i don't have money what are you talking about you have to have money i do not oh yes you do i do not oh yes you do i do not yes you do he says you got money you got money we're gonna search you i'm ticklish and sure enough they couldn't find any money because he was just going to the river and meanwhile what happened was this he starts crying his head off over there oh please don't do this to me i just have nothing like to imagine with you and as this is going on suddenly one of them says hey you know what maybe we should take him to the big boss yeah you're right and they slapped him and they took the wagon they pulled the string that pulled up the log and they started going as fast as they could and the wagon wheels were crunchy through the snow and smashing through the snow as best they could and finally reached the boss and the boss looked at him hey what is the problem here who is this guy boss he's a jewish guy we found him going alone he probably has a lot of money all right mister you give me your money and you live if not i'm gonna beat the living daylights out of you uh you could beat the living daylights out of me it could be the nighttime daylights out the nighttime lights it doesn't matter i have no money and he started beating him up he slapped across the face [Music] and of course they hit him hard they threw him down on the floor and of course he didn't have anything and meanwhile what ended up happening was the boss says hey where are you going and he explained about what's going to rub borac of mesovich's rep and how it's a very holy special thing to him and this is where he has to go and the boys started to have harotta and he said i'll tell you what i'll let you have your wagon back you go back to your rabbi but if you make it over there which i doubt it because they're going to be wolves and everything i want you to understand i will change my way but how i know if you make it you drop your handkerchief in a pit right next to there okay and he went with his wagon and all of a sudden the horses stop uh come on horses we got three come on let's go and he heard the wolves in the background and he got really scared and suddenly he saw of light a light popped out of nowhere and this light popped up and he looked at the light and he's looking at he said aye where'd this light come from oh look the horses are following and the horses followed this strange light and it brought him all the way to roborock of mesovich and he comes there he opens the door oh hey sorry i'm late but i had a little problem and he told over the whole story what was going on there and they told him in a story how they looked at hanukkah and one light just disappeared it just disappeared and then suddenly turn around hey guys take a look the light is back over there and sure enough they saw the light was back and they realized and he realized that we should all realize that just like the candlelight led him back to the home of borac also this generation we should all recognize the lights of our menorahs to bring us all back home thank you very much thank you very much rabbi it's the earth for the