Chanukah: The Vilna Gaon Reveals Why Hashem is Called Hakadosh Baruch Hu

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good as we prepare for so in the which we mentioned was written by we say the expression and for you you made a great and holy name in your world what does that mean that's a good question what does that mean that through the miracle of of kanah has made a great and holy name in his world and this is the question that is brought up in the for is written by and this year they came out with a new edition and obviously the new edition has 100 more pages so even though you have the old Edition you have to buy the new edition but it's well worth it um so he want what does it mean and another di which I found very insightful is if in fact on Kan God made a great and holy name for himself if you look at the end of the it says what happened to I mean so then we should say would have messed up a number of words so what happened oh then you went to equal you see that at that point very good okay anyway I'm going to present a question to you I don't think anyone here ever thought about this question um neither did I it's because the more obvious something is the more we're used to something the less we think about it and that is what do we call God how do we refer to did anyone here ever think why do we call hasem why don't we call him who decided that God's name should be like who gave him that name now by the way where does it say that it doesn't say that in the nowhere in the is God referred to as where does it say go for it no the word I know God's it's also he's a he's a Gib he's a NE I a lot of words for hasem but who decided name should be that's that's the earliest uh is that the earliest Source I'm saying yes if you find an early one then we'll have to change it yeah I mean I think so I don't think it's in the I don't think it's not in the so the v in his commentary to the ha is bothered why is God called what does kados mean and what does mean Kad is the most misunderstood word what's Kad you sit there and you roll up the black of your eye into your head and people only see the white then you're a kades right even know the guy's thinking about who the stock market who knows what the guy's thinking about doesn't make you a kades because you can't see the pupil of his eye what's what does it mean to be holy separate different the guy is definitely different yeah no question un what does K mean separate different Hal Hal is the what is Hal I remember when I was in in elementary school so they used to T into yish so I don't know the I don't know the all I know is kades means but I don't know what either word means what does it mean so says 11 so we're too short we got to find out who other two is what no it's not oh I'm sorry I thought it was a rage not sorry okay it encompasses both dimensions of God's Providence what are they kindness and might he's called when he does when he employs his name is Sanctified and people are afraid of him and everyone understands that he's above and beyond so I'm not sure if I knew that that when we refer to God as we're referring to his exercising because when he exercises his name is Sanctified and people are and people recognize that he's like it says in the words represent refers to to God's kindness that prevails in the world because when people see God's kindness they bless hem nobody blesses for you know it's hard to bless hem for but when people see what better name is there that sort of encapsulates both facets of God's than a word that that describes both which is okay I never knew that here I am I'm using the word my whole life I never knew why and now why do we say he is third person why don't we say why we say because his kindness is hidden in other words we say who why who why don't we say how why who because it's hidden wouldn't be ni we always say right but listen to what the go says since God's kindness is hidden through his power a little bit of his kindness is revealed now the the is bothered by why do we say we should say first talk about and then talk about the answer is because God's is only revealed through his by the way where does it say that where does it say [Music] we have such a learned bunch of gentlemen here that they're they're familiar with these words if anybody knows we're in says It's amazing people out there they will never they would never know how great that's why when we have somebody came from South Africa they're so impressed with our group right they knew yes our group knows that it's in I became great and I became Sanctified right I will become great with my beneficience and I'll become Sanctified with the Revenge that I do with these two groups save us from Hashem saves us from them moreover listen to what the is saying first of all he's telling us a very important idea that the reason why it encapsulates both faets of this is similar to the which obviously you all knew is the basis for the words of kades says the why he says something which I'm not 100% clear on and that is God's only becomes recognizable through his gura in other words we don't see God's kindness in the world but when he exercises gura and then through that we see his kindness I'm not sure I understand what that means but again like I say many times that's the words of the gra the words of the gr is that God's kindness is not manifest and open we only recognize him through the question though which is obvious then is now the says why is he first and then is because we through through we recognize so then why in the world in the does it say or why in kades do we say if God is and only then then we say we should say like we say should be or we could go back to the and we could ask why do we say isn't he meaning so is it in other words why is following the pattern of of or the pattern ofes why does it not follow the pattern of by the way in the he also brings down okay is any talking in this this is the end of the saer right so we talking about so he's talking about maybe that's what we're saying in but in we had a turnaround no Alan it also follows that pattern right yes I'm saying in Alan you had a turnaround from a very bad situation to a good situation also we hope that it'll be from a difficult situation to a good situation so don't when we hope for that well look at also when God took us out it was not good and it was first and then okay you're barking up a good tree the uh look at number eight he says we could be m in the words of the gr since the normal s had hug is first and then because God's kindness is hidden and only through his a little bit of his is revealed why in does it say and then his so says you would think then it's p that only in God's kindness is hidden only in this world do we not see God's kindness we don't have in this world God just showing his kindness direct it's it's it's masked and we have to perceive it through but like you mentioned then we'll have a raw unadulterated revelation of we won't need or to be able to see but the will become revealed initially by itself not through but independently so that's why we won't be sort of limited in our AB ability to perceive God's kindness and only be able to see it through mid but it will become independently inherently initially revealed that's why we say in other words we're daving that God should reveal his to us straight up but the question then is why in the do we say why but we just pointed out in this world the say there is that we only perceive God's kindness through mid so you'll say r that the truth is that Kaneka was also a special revelation of God's kindness somewhat at a somewhat in a way a pagead of the world to come where God's attribute of became revealed independently it didn't come through US seeing God exercise mid in other words the Gil which was an independent of God's we saw god without being massed by so um let's let's say out the following idea that we know that there there's a famous question see we have it in number 17 there's a famous question you know we have these two miracles of kanaka you have the miracle of the flask of oil mentioned in the you have the miracle of the military Victory mentioned in the so you know how do you reconcile these two Miracles what was the function of these two Miracles so the maral says look it's obvious we're not we're not we're not making a yum because we had one flask of oil last for eight days you know what's that got to do with me we're thanking Hashem that he saved our skin and Judaism continues that's more meaningful the problem though is that somebody who doesn't perceive God's hand will say okay you know that that that's Dems are the break that's the way the world works you know the underdog sometimes wins it happens you know the not every time there's a superpower win the war it happens pretty often so therefore the purpose of the miracle of oil was to give us an understanding hey God God's doing things in this God's doing things in this T so then the miracle of the oil revealed to us that that military victory was not just the underdog one that was also 's hand in the victory so in other words the miracle the oil revealed that the the military victory was Supernatural That's the famous idea of the number 17 the main celebration is the military Victory it was not apparent it was miraculous they may have mistakenly thought it was their own might so was not that through God's power we saw his it was sort of the opposite through the miracle of the oil where we we saw independently God's kindness that revealed on thees in other words the the kindness of asem gave us a glimpse into the G ofm the miracle the oil the kind gave us a glimpse into God's into the as opposed to I'll explain it as follows um the bivi in number 10 the bivi says that in a footnote in he says we know that another way of saying mid which which name of God refers to MIM is is is what Tess v wait a second it's only 81 the answer is is 86 another way of saying mid is is when God lets nature take its course and is when he supersedes it so let's say in the times of P everything was guised in nature so that's the typical through nature through became app parent right that's the that's the normal way through through we see God's kindness is just the opposite according to the moral through the miracle of the oil which is what Supernatural we recognize that the of the war was also God goes backwards normally it's like and then we recognize God's kindness through the is the exact opposite God and only thenes through the of the we recognized that the military Victory the was God himself they don't recognize I mean military Victory if you have 13 people overcoming the Empire the Roman Empire are they Greeks I mean no human nature is that you don't recognize you say look those Greeks they're a bunch of dumbbells they don't have good generals they don't have good military Acumen they don't have uh you know people there so many rationalizations we had better positioning yeah there are more but we had better strategic loc look at our just look at our times7 so then it comes out is the page out of the at a time in our history will bees that's why writes that the word which means inauguration what are we inaugurating he says we're inaugurating the Mia what does have to do with mashiah is a of that will only become a parent when we'll see rather let's add another PR let's add another PR here see I hope we could say this properly we know there's a concept that God's name is y and we know that when amik is is around God's name is not complete but when God when amik is in the world it's so you only have so let's try to understand a little bit it says to me I will raise you up because you know my name which means that when a person studies the name of hasem it's a tremendous alyah raises them up so let's try to study a little bit the name of hasem what does YK VK mean what does yud K mean what does VK mean what why are the letters absent when amik is in the world so the wrote A Commentary to the the raras you ever see those garas like fantastic my your story is about jumping on whales turning an island it's a whale all kinds of very Fantastical you know outrageous in a good way it's very hard to understand obviously it's Laden with all types of M and allegory and the vill wrote a comment to this so in his commentary to the says [Applause] meaning when aik's around his name is not complete but rather we could only use two letters which letters what does this mean says the go in even when the is standing let's see what this means in another place when was destroyed it's enough to use two letters now we don't really know what this means what does it mean when the B standing and when the B destroyed only and we don't have says the who are we to investigate Secrets but let's try to explain let's explain it a little bit in the simple according to our small minds when we speak of God we don't know what God is in his Essence it's all it's all what it's based on our understanding comprehension the way the world operates the different names of God are not the different aspects of God it's it's the different ways that we comprehend God it's not God's different it's that we could only compartmentalize different ways of understanding him there's no name to call him it is known from KR is thought is speech thought speech speech and act is revealed but thought is secret you need only with extra contemplation could you attain an understanding of likewise with God so again let's try to get that is ISB he is andb are is so what does that have to do with when the was standing even though his was not completely recognizable as long as amalik was around the chief heretic in other words the V is saying when we say so long as amalik is around God's name is incomplete it means even when the stood if amik surrounds his name is not complete in other words the understanding of is not complete in other words you know what the meaning is that we don't have when when amik around that means God is Not revealed V represents dor and he represents in other words those are things which are revealed God's is not clear in the world so is it our responsibility to Second yeah not right now not this minute we're not finished the share yet but yeah after sure and likewise the throne only in theik is God recognizable through the Miracles like it says and the string of red which turned white when we did in the or the the always landed on the right side or the crouching of the fire and all these Miracles that happened in the the when when the Embraced each other ah so in the bikash when God was God's was open and apparent there were so many Miracles besides the 10 Miracles all these Miracles that's why the and the mdash were able to pronounce why because God is revealed in the mikdash not just he's not just nistar yud is the nistar of hem that God is always he's always but he's only in the mikdash that's but when the mikdash was destroyed then it's enough to use two names because he's not nicker only to those who are misb him and therefore that's why we're left with Y this is what it means wherever God wherever is is exiled is with them what does that mean not revealed but the which is this is the concept of where Hashem is not recognizable and is not recognizable from the that's what it means with the because right now it's only which means god is hidden but we hope one day to bring back that V that God's be revealed in the world that's why God created this world now so so this is a big that y represents the Nar of which is always there God is always this star yes no mdash wherever we are in the world God is hidden but the which is debor and the he which is which is the revealed manifestations of God we only could say in the B mikdash we can't say outside he's not revealed the also says in is what but is right like the P says fortunate is a man that God rebukes so so think about it this way is always yes there's always when the stood it's good was a parent destroyed we can only use so says we have an added dimension of understanding here when K is in Galos his name is not complete why he's only cuz K and Galos are not God's in the world the only thing that's recognizable in the world today the only thing that's apparent is you see is hidden is hidden CU God's is not apparent in the world and therefore we call what today through only then you could through the you get a little flavor forid that's why God's name is not complete will not be in the in the it will be apparent on its own no comes up slowly goes down slowly to you have to see it yes it's couched it's hidden it's is hidden in nature but nature is this comes up this time it says this time you can't change you you can't move it you know if somebody's not feeling well they're sick so supersedes the rules so yeah almost almost L again it's not every we yeah the me but you have to be able to perceive it it's not open you have to be able to see you have to be able to see that from behind the scenes is being native as it's not it's not if if it was nicker in the world then then we'd be acting very differently you know people is cloaked and masked and couched let's see how he brings this out let's see how he brings this out at the end of like this listen to this in the times of Kan in the times of Kan it was a little bit of a different it's not that we recognize through the military Victory and we say you know what even though it looks like an natural process God's really there God openly revealed through the miracle of the n and through Thea and the that revealed on the so therefore says we don't say we say and therefore specifically because from the fact that God's revealed on his K and the the was enacted why the the of he says was enacted to be um to sing and H to that independent Mida in other words this was a unique situation normally we only recognize God's kindness through another vehicle and Kan we were able to see his Gullah independently and therefore the of was primarily nikva to thank hasem for that independent revelation of God's god well this would explain another in we know in the what do we say what do we call the out of order we already said in the there was a different we didn't recognize God through mid through the through mid we recognized God openly we saw so I just want to add one one small and that is there's another time in daving where we first say and then kades we say wait a second but that's opposite but maybe it's because think about what we're about to say it's part of a to return to the bikash so maybe since it's in the context of the return to the B mikdash we also use but now I'm thinking there's another one uh oh I didn't think of that one here so don't ask it one second I'll come to Bening in a second I'll see if I have an answer if I have an answer then I'll ask it in we say [Applause] know do we say it we have problem so good cannot take responsibility for what does say just joking they only have here good what about what they have what say we say no no no I need I need so if look just because we remember it it doesn't exist until we find the no but I think in we say but maybe because in the context of it we say so what's also the so let's come to where do we say oh what could we do here he he caught me he says but maybe because we're about to say in other words we reference also we have this of recognizing God's before we recognize this what about oh that's okay so that's the same answer say we never do we ever say I'm trying to think of my head it would be it it sounds funny you know one second I just thought of another one one second we don't even say okay okay we'll end the year before we have any more questions all the questions that we ask are answered I wish everybody a k you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com