Chanukah: The Return of The Shechinah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning so let's begin today with the uh perhaps the most well known or at least the second most well-known question regarding the empty of hanukkah we know the gemara tells us probably the two most celebrated words in talmud beverly my hanukkah and egmar says the tan rabbanan the ivanam went into the and they defiled all the oil in the hekal and when the came in and they prevailed they were searching they were looking and they found one flask of oil is only enough to last for one day and miraculously it lasted for eight days so the question is why did they need the miracle to last for eight days so go make new oil so the answer is very simple either they were tame mace and it was going to take seven days to become tahar or to get to the north where shaved usher was it was going to be three days there one day to make the oil three days back okay but the question is like this we know the riban islam does not make miracles for naught god does not like to change nature for uh no reason hashem has to have a mighty good reason to change the laws of nature when the rebellion created the world he set the laws of nature into effect and he likes them to run their course unless he has a very good reason to change them the question is why did god have to make a miracle that the tummy oil should last for eight days let them light with tame oil after all we all know we're all familiar with the principle tomah hutra bitsy bar tomah is not ha it's hutra and there's a very big difference between if tama was if the tomah is just pushed away in the face where the majority of the jewish people are tame then at least it's better it's preferable it's ideal to do the avodah betahara however tomohochobazibra means it's not even a hitter it's not better to do it but hara it's not better you have two guys one guy's doing it in tomah one guy is doing it batara he's a khasta choita what are you doing thomas hutra it's not a hither to do a batara and therefore the pneushuwa asks in number 5 why why the whole bother of the miracle the milan everything is shah breaks us why because then it's a hidden at least god made a miracle so that we could do it as opposed to the amanda um it's not even better like the gemara says in yuma then kane kusha tuva the whole miracle was pointless it didn't accomplish anything it wasn't needed so why did god do it god doesn't just make miracles you know let's say you're thirsty i guarantee you would never happen the cup picked itself up and came to you you know why because it's unnecessary go get it yourself you don't god doesn't just make miracles so in this case allowing the oil to last for eight days was completely unnecessary it had no purpose so why did god do it that's question number one question number two the menorah is the only thing that's going on in the base hamikdash you think in that whole building there with 93 caleb and hundreds of kahanam the only thing they did all day long is they took a candle and they lit them in ira what about menachem number of menaches that they brought every day let's say the men so what do they do obviously they use tummy oil so if it's good enough for the menache it's good enough for the manara but the vintage i mean doesn't have to be as pure or it could be from the second or third beating of the alarm but they remember there has to be whole it has to be pure they were you think the ivana went in and they said let they had a legislation we're going to look for shemen and touch all the shemen so they see soyuz they say no we're not going to touch that and they see no we're not going to we're just going to touch shaman but they had an obsession with shemen because they they did everything they defiled everything so whatever they used for the menaches they could have used for the menorah that's the second question of yeshua the nigeridah takes us even further now in jerusalem gimmel he says that forget about the menira forget about the shaman for the menache what about the soils for the menaches if the ivana went in they touched everything they contaminated everything they ransacked everything so what kind of soils do they use for the menaches they had nesachim that were brought every day what kind of yayan did they use for the nasahim they used tamayin because the ivanim defiled everything so if it was good enough for the nasahim and tomohochobazibra worked for the nasahim and tomohochobuzeb worked for the menachem then why didn't tomohochobatsebor work for the hadlakkas look at number six you could ask even further advan they were matame most likely their matami everything is why didn't god make a miracle for the oil i mean for the flower there's only enough flour to last for one day i think some people think god did make a miracle with the flowers that people are eating jelly donuts no rabbi public service announcement the the miracle was only the miracle was only in the oil when it comes to jelly doughnuts it's best to use the principle inland but that's the uh that's the principle what okay so just drink the bottle while you're at it you know so um so what question the miracle with the god did not perform a miracle when it came to the uh soilless of the menachem is god did not perform a miracle when it came to the yayan for the nisakhim madua nasa hanes that's the question of the night so number one the whole miracle was unnecessary number two they used tummy oil for the menache number three god didn't make a miracle for the wine god and didn't make a miracle for the flower why did he have to make a miracle for the oil let's come to the haftar of shabbos khannaka bayas is kalashing to uh get to the haftara you want to sing it the first passage very good now this year we don't have to shabbas khan because we only have one shabbos hanukkah but at least we have two monday hanukkahs you know how what are the chances of that we have two monday hanukkahs here we get to have two hanukkah shirom on monday so they have toyo of rani vissim [Laughter] they know him so this is a very interesting half torah that seems to have absolutely nothing to do with hanukkah oh yeah in middle it says that the novi saw menorah so now i have to read 20 something because one puzzle you have the word menorah i could find you other psukem and tanakh where the word menorah i have a question this shabbos we should lay in pasha's truma you know why because it says the word menorah we should suspend the reading of the regular privacy what is the connection between baklava what's this gotta do with hanukkah furthermore furthermore when there's another half torah when there are two shabbos hanukkahs so on the second shabbosh hanukkah if you look at number two we relaying from aleph park zion yes we read about the menorah of king solomon question that all the reshinam asks is we have two possible choices for have taurus of shabbos khannaka one from the navi zakaria which the navy sees the menira and one the construction of the manager on the times of the first place to make dash in the times of shlaimai who came first shlaimai or zakaria shlaimai what navi is first malachim or why when there are two shabbos hanukkahs that we first read from zakaria and then read from malachim and when there's one shabbos hanukkah do we only read from zukaya and not and we suspend malachim altogether why does zucharia have precedence this is the kasha of the base yosef so the base yosef quotes the iran because of haran number three afagav the news to scandals of come first nevertheless the navi of zakaria is better the zachariah the navy zechariah he's looking into the future and they're not the apostrophe's talking about the manure of the past it's always better to have a half torah about the future than i have taught about the past that's the answer to the basis of that's the answer to the basis the kalbai one of the reshannam writes that even though the nearest summer first it is more reasonable to read about the prophecy of zakaria because zakaria prophesied in the time of the bayasheni albeit before the miracle of chanukah the miracle of chanukah took place during bayashaini malachim is about by his reinshine better to read ah torah about the same temple in which the miracle of hanukkah occurred even though the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other okay is the are these satisfying reasons that the navi of the navy zakaria should take precedence because it's a prophecy about a 400 year period in which hanukkah was 200 years later but it was in the same 400 year period as opposed to the bias re-shine and baklal why in the world do we read the habitat of rani gribasyan we're reading 20 in one passage it says the word menorah so therefore this is the appropriate haftarah for hanukkah how in in any way does it connect to the theme of chanaka an interesting idea parshas mr pasha summer is the parsha of the yamantagam so i was saying halal this morning and i got up to lailanu you know and usually you skip leilano you know and usually you skip ahafti but luckily things were working and i remember today's hanukkah and you say hello shalem on hanukkah so i did say loilanu and ahafti especially was dying for the um so it worked out that i did not skip it and we said hello shallam today yeah yeah right and who said yeah yeah yeah he's right right so so the rambam says right so we say hallo shalem why do we say hello the reikayak we have listed there in the discussion the yamthaf of pesach followed by the mesvira followed by shivuas followed by rosh hashanah followed um so even though you would expect that there should not be any discussion about the um because hanukkah is nevertheless chanukah which is madra banun is maruma's in the immediate aftermath of the pastor of the uk now this alludes to the that we need to use pure oil on chanukah and it says nair and then it says it's a space hillel you start with one there and then you progressively go up but says roy kayak why did the torah juxtapose hanukkah to circus we all know the basics kasha i told you i was in lakewood i didn't tell you i was in lakewood this past thursday so you can't go to lake without going to a farm store if you think farm stores are big in queens then go to flatbush if you think they're big in flatbush go to borough park you think they're big in borough park go to lakewood lakewood it's oyo and venoira the the farm what's going on over there so i find that we've been looking for i got a safer the basilicia i used to have near lemay 100 and basis of kasha 500 answers to the basics cash and the basis have held they were all wrong right so the the miracle is only seven days so one of the answers given is they patterned hanukkah after sukkah just like sukis is eight days eight days because since in the torah hanukkah's remez appears right after sukis just like sukis is eight days chanaka's eight days and just like sukis we say hal el shalem and khariko you say halal shalem oh yeah just because in the torah hanukkah is juxtaposed to sukis therefore hanukkah should be eight days just because chanukah is just supposed to sukkas khannaka we should say hello shalem what is the connection between hanukkah and sukis imagine if hanukkah was juxtaposed to you may spira you know how long it would be but kind of is saying that why what's the macaroon of saying hello shalem for eight days the juxtaposition of hanukkah to sukkis why is hanukkah eight days the juxtaposition of chanukah to what's the connection between chanaka and sukis furthermore we all know that we have mahlitis be so well says when you light the narrows you go down my reading you lied eight seven six five four three two one basilos as you go up mal and makaydesh vayne muriden right da vujoham says hanukkah's rasheed khasneroys says you go down why does bishop say you go down so if you look at number eight the gomorrah says in shabbos time of the day shag it corresponds to the bulls of circus on sukis you bring on day one thirteen bulls day two twelve eleven ten nine eight seven total of seventy bulls connecting the shiva mum when you light the menorah you're supposed to go down down down down down what in the world is the connection between the bulls of sukkos and the yumtif of chanaka just because the bulls of sukkos you go down what does hanukkah got to do with sukis now we just saw hanukkah's jack supposed to suck us but on a deeper level why are we patterning hanukkah after the yamtif of sukkus what is the connection between the two what because it's a move that's what he said okay but what's the connection between the two furthermore listen to this watch this watch this look at number nine from the safer hashtag when they were victorious listen to what they legislated and listen to how they celebrated in the first year when they hid in the caves and in the underground like animals so they said let's celebrate now hanukkah just like sukkos and we're going to celebrate and we're going to sing shira the magillas the sephir kashm writes that when hanukkah was first celebrated they said we remember the great celebrations of sukkos when we were hiding out so let us celebrate hanukkah just like sukis eight days with halal talarminium in the first year hanukkah was celebrated with dallad medium now that was never legislated but that would seem rather odd why in the world would they take olula vanessa imagine imagine what what mainstream would look like menorahs they'll be uh instead of talking about a gumball laden with piston knocking into them never know we're talking about a guy doing that knocking into the menorah but apparently originally there was some kind of rationale to try to celebrate the yamtif of chanukah with the dal and meenam why would they do that so let's try to understand what did the ivanim try to accomplish what were they aiming for what was their goal and how did we overcome them now we discussed this a little bit last week but we're going to take a different angle this week in mcgill santiagas in pasak lamidalev it says that antiochus says let's let's try the following we're going to come upon them we're going to nullify the three-part covenant shabbos rosh they want to invite us and they wanted to know about mila now what do these three things have in common you know a bris what's the brisk of shabbos there's a briss of rosh there ain't no bristol-reshraidash what is the common denominator of these three things obviously they wanted to harm us they want to take us away from judaism so say worship avoid zara talk by hazard which is and pick another one you know do something else like that but why now what's what's uh most troubling is the fact that in the madrid when the madrid records what the venom try to do the madras leaves out all these three things and the madris only mentions one particular gezera if you look at number 10 rabshiman bin lakish let's talk about khaishek for a moment says the madrish very well known a name shall you swallow sam they darkened our eyes with their decrees and they enforced that we have to write and scribe on the horn of an ox we have no share in the god of israel so we had a take of some kind of knife and etch onto the horn of an ox that we have no connection to god we're not connected to god the rabbi writes in the yaris taiman we had to write this on our clothing and we had to write this on our oxen and we had a plow for it and the gazer was in effect for 52 years says the rama 52 years why doesn't the matter say that why does it why does the matter say they made us right on the horn of an axe we have no share in the god of israel the matter should have said they abolish shabbos they abolish they abolished no the matters doesn't say a word about that the madrid just says we had a right on the horn of an axe we have no helic in god so how do you reconcile the madrish with what it says in megillas so the khida says something very beautiful says that there is a common denominator between these three myths voice and actually these three mitzvahs being connected goes back to this week's passion pastor's meek with the jewish people we're going down to egypt the claude israel had uh where the the brothers of yosef were going down to retrieve him to meet him ultimately to settle there and goshen and yosef is so to speak preparing the jewish people for their stay in mitzrayim and after all we know god told yaakov i'm going to come up with you as well so you're safe is thinking to himself if god is going to come down with us to mitzrayim and he's going to come and ascend with us adam israel then we have to make mitzrayim hospitable to the ribanus we have to make ourselves and egypt and therefore you say paved the way and prepared that claudius should be worthy to be calam to be a resting place for the shrine says there are three mitzvahs that we have that are mashrae the shrina and kali israel number one khaidash is the mitzvah that causes god to reside with the jewish people as we say in the nusakhra el resides with us rest with us the mitzvah of shabbos the zayar says it creates a deera for god god is able to live with us through the midst of shabbos and brusmeela also the writes that through the mitzvah of brasmila rivasham is able to we are able to be a merkava for the shrina so through these three mitzvahs through mila through khaidesh through shabbos we create a makkah and for hashem to dwell hishina with us what does it mean god is everywhere. there's nothing vacant of god but there's a certain concentration of hashem and hashem's ahava which is called the shrina it's a it's an extra manifestation of the hashkah and there are various levels of shrina for example we say that in the times of the second base hamikdash there was no shrina and at the same time we say the shrine never leaves the kaiser hamaravi there are different levels of shrina jews bring the shrine 22 000 jews bring the shrine six hundred thousand jews bring the shrine there are many different levels of shrina but primarily there are three midsoles that bring the shrine mila and chavez and therefore in this week's parasha in preparation for our descent to egypt in preparation for the umpif of chanaka yoi safe orders the azarets mitzrayim khimes rashid voice mila and shabbat says if god is going to come down with us he has to be comfortable we have to be hospitable to him that will only occur through the observance of mila and shabbos and therefore the evanim they wanted us to feel that we were not connected to god they wanted us to feel that the shrine did not rest with us so what did the ivanim do they said don't observe khaidesh don't observe mila don't observe shabbos in effect there's no steroid between the madrish and miguel santiagos they made us write on the horn of an axe that we're not connected to god israel how did they go about achieving that by abolishing so therefore they made us they wanted us to feel we have no helico hashem especially by the way the penaishua points out what is the what is the symbol yeah yeah have a good day i hope everything's up okay so the the what makes us feel that the shrine still dwells in cloud israel what is the symbol that the shrine arrests with us the gemara says says 14 says why do we light the menorah does god need the light god sees in the dark like he sees and like what's the purpose of the menoir says the extinguished and never waned and ever and never diminished at all it burned strongly for hundreds of years until in the in the era of the kashmir in the era of the evanim in the times of sadiq the nerma ravi began to flicker and it went out it is not well known that in the proper in in preparation for the decrees of the evening of the greeks the neremahravi would sometimes go out in the era when the ivanium came in when they and when the venom gained sovereignty the neremahravi was not burning anymore now if the narema ravi was symbolic of the fact that the shrine was showing claudius and now the never naravi goes out what does that tell us well how does that make us feel that makes us feel that ain't lo no hey like malachi exactly what the ivana wanted to accomplish the ivanam said look at the nerma ravi god he used to be with you but he's not with you anymore he's done with you you have no helicopter all we're not going to let you keep hoidesh we're not going to let you keep mila we're not going to let you keep shabbos yo safe is long gone yahweh safe was compared to the shah he allowed the shriner to return to the jewish people but you guys are one and done therefore right on the horn of the ox the ox represents you safe forget yosef yosef is over with you have no choice you have no mila you have no shabbos the shrina does not rest with you anymore the shrine is not sure you're uncloud you strong therefore claudio so we're reeling so we're demoralized kali swarov said him what's life worth if the ibanezham is not with us anymore so we abundance shalom says the penalty yeshua absolutely did not have to make a miracle halachically there was no need to make a miracle halachically it was not better to do it but tahara it was not a hidden it was a nicer like some people come ra it's a mutter mutter is it better no but is it an indian that's a gay guy halawa people should ask you know is it an indian not a steel yes it's an indianapolis it's also a lav in the torah but people care more about an indian than a dairisa so not only is it not a directive to light potaro it's not even an indian it's not an indian so why did hashem do it says the players surely did it for one reason and one reason only the ivanim wanted us to feel that we have no khalak military israel and the shrine is not with us they said the evidence by the fact that the nirmal ravi is extinguished so the ibanezham said i'm going to make a miracle with the menorah the menorah symbolical the fact that the shrina and claudius i'm going to make a miracle that the ivana are wrong [Music] i'm going to show that you do have a share the shrink does rest with you it's not halal necessary it was not required it was not a hidden it was not better it was only to demonstrate one thing israel we call it the return of the srina the shrine left went out we couldn't observe quite this we couldn't observe we couldn't observe shabbos but now the ubuntu made a miracle says in the play show number 17. only to show the great love hashem has for us we find that a miracle happened in the carbon tumid that the ayamo is never a puzzle and then there was a miracle that it it was always correct therefore since the evanim wanted us to write on the cara not sure israel and they made many shema dies and now we were redeemed israel like we say the nerma ravi never went out but in the time of shimmer outside the given that my robbie sometimes went out therefore hashem wanted to show that that the original love was back to full force so let's try to think about one thing here they are in the times of chanaka they experienced the greatest devastation the abandonment of the srinagar the nurma ravi went out they felt that we had no sharon in the god of israel they made us be oyker the achievement of yo but now the roshino returned now they had a miracle in the era to demonstrate one thing the shrine is back so how do you make a yamtif to celebrate the return of shechina after the absence of there was one time in history earlier that the shrine left us we were coming out of egypt and we were being protected by the clouds of glory the clouds of glory were the shrina and we know we commemorate the miracle the clouds of glory on sukis on tesla of tishrei and the vilnigan asks why did you commemorate on sukis the clouds of glory appeared right when we left notre dame on tesla of nisan says the villenega and we don't commemorate miracles we're not going to commemorate the fact that we had clouds of glory take us out of egypt that was just a miracle we don't just commemorate miracles but says legra here's what happened hashem took us out of egypt a nisan er sivan we're standing in harsinai moshe says i'll be right back 40 days mark it on your calendar so we all set our alarms 40 days later the beat's gonna alarm is going to go off the middle of share everything's going to stop right so and the 40th day comes all the alarms go off hey where's nah they look up in the sky mush is lying in a bed and a mess the moisture's done so they said let's make an aegon they made an aegon and they serve the aegon they look up to the heavens and that great cloud said see you later guys we're out we've understood says i'm out of here i'm out of here oh who's going to lead us i'll send an angel first hashem wanted to destroy israel said look i won't destroy them but i go my way they go their way hindi i'll uh do my thing they do their thing i can't be with them anymore she said no there's not we can't do this sasha said no so i forgive them so cloudy so expected that when hashem says is going to come back they look up the night come he's gone they go to moshe moshe says god forgave you but he doesn't love you you know you have a friend used to hang out together you used to go to pizza together and uh you insult him he said i'm not michael you he's baroque is that you are you kippery asks you from so you michael him so the next day you call him up let's go out no i i i don't like you i might call you but i don't like you i'm not interested in i'm not interested in going out with you you go to your place i go to my place so just because somebody's michael you doesn't mean his original love is back so maisha was thinking what should we do he tells us look imagine gives us a command to build the mishkan yadal of tishrei we bring the davos your base of tishrei the return of the shrine the return of the akkad zaman simhasenu a time of joy what's the joy the joy that after mechila we achieve the higher madraiga that is says the guru is not a celebration of the miracle of the celebration of the return of the command so when kai saw in the times of hanukkah were reeling after losing the srina after nema ravi went out after lack of observing and they want to establish a yamtiv to commemorate the return of the shina what is the best and only paradigm we have of how to establish a yamtif of how to celebrate the return of the shrine the answer is hanukkah is an exact replica of the yumptif of sukkos just like sukis after the return to us so to chanukah after the extinguishing of the maharaja is going to return to us the ivanim wanted us to write on the karen of the shah why they carry another shark because there's another shah in our history the ivana said you're over the shrine is gone remember when you made the egg and the left you we're doing this again you're confirming that the ego is who you are and the purpose of the return on the miracle of the oil is to show we have we overcame the eagle the first time we overcoming it again and therefore chanaka mijabanan in the torah appears right after the amphitheucas and just like circus is eight days hanukkah is eight days and just like sukkos we say hello we say because just like sukis commemorates the return of the srina khan celebrates to return and therefore the first year of hanukkah they celebrated mamish bedal to indicate we've we've accomplished again what what sukis did is that we could fall to the level of israel the flower they use tummy flower the wine they use tame wine they use tummy oil because we did not need to use tahr because tomoh but sibor it's not even a indian but the it wasn't even an indian to use tahar oil for the monarch either but the menorah represents it's aedus israel israel hashem didn't make the miracle because he needed to because it was better because it may it's halachically preferable it was only to demonstrate the return of the shrine and therefore bashamah says just like the pariah on sukis you light the menorah to parallel most closely or the rituals of circus that's the connection between hadlock and samanoira and the parim of sukkos according to what we've learned ribansham has given us a great matana a magnificent understanding of the haftaya of shabbas khanna we do not read rani vasimkhi merely because it says the word menorah in raniva simply that helps it probably helps but that i don't believe is the real reason the reason we read the torah of the simply on chanaka is because he expresses the entire theme of chanukah ronniev that's the reason we read this it's so then there's akasha why this this is the the main theme of the torah of shabbas hanukkah expresses the objective of why the evolution made a miracle for us and that is to reinforce and confirm that we could fall to the madriga of israel we could reinstate the hero egal and the ibanisham could return to us in the same way he did in the times of sukis and therefore hanukkah is paralleled after sukkos it's eight days halal shalem and just like perhaps sukkah says the rambam in fact writes that yame hanukkah are you may simcha as well so wishing everyone so we have this great yum tif of chanukah which is patterned after the umph of sukkas but there's one more very profound connection and that is we have a tradition that yaakov avinu passed away on circus in fact the tour writes in cemetery zion that the three young taubem correspond to our three others pesach corresponds corresponds to avraham avinu because malachim came to greet and be master abraham pesach corresponds to yitzchak because the shayframat and torah came from the isle of yitzhak and sukis corresponds to yaakov but amazingly yaakovino passed away on the first day of sukkah and 30 days they more in yaakov after his 40 days of embalming so a total of 70 days of mourning so from the first day of sukis which is the yamtaf of yaakov till his kivura till he was formally buried after being mourned for 70 days takes us says to the first day of chanukah again showing this very strong connection between the amtif sukis is passes away on sukis and his um is his morning is completed on chanukah actually he's buried seven days after that on the last day of chanaka so this teaches us that just like the umph of success which is manson who celebrates the return of the srina the yamtif of chanaka too is paralleled after the emptives of sukis we celebrate the return of the shrina both yamim taybim connected to the bahir shabba awais yaakov avinu and this time for real wishing everyone afraid of hanukkah and until next time you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com