Chanukah: True Pleasure vs. Addiction - Rabbi Yisroel Perelson

[Music] konica a freilichen chanukah to everyone one of the questions that's ask is what's the connection between the partyís of the a safe yes of being sold to slavery and afterwards his rise to power becomes the Viceroy of Egypt and Hanukkah and we know that what was the objective of the abundance the abundant stopped us at three missus three mrs. they worked very very hard to stop Colie from shabbos rosh chodesh and mila shabbos we understand Chavez is the foundation of Judaism the foundation so it's very very clear each you that observe shabbos what he's actually demonstrating is that I shem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh and this is what he's demonstrating to the world that I could have broke who God is the one who created the world and that's the idea of shabbos and the same way I could have Sparkle rest we rest from any type of creation we don't turn on lights we don't create fire right anything that has to do with creation we don't do 39 the locks and reload ish what's the idea of a scottish without first release you don't have any of the amon tobin you don't have any of the holidays you need to know when it begins when does the month begin serve our oldish and then you have Milla bris milah is the Covenant this feel is the connection that we have between us and a quarter sparkle going back all the way to have removing that's what it again what's interesting is that the Mitzvah of me law is a mitzvah that almost every Juke took upon himself every Jew took upon itself it's so interesting many of you know that I'm a mile and I go around from place to place doing brisk needless and many times I come upon a family that has no religion whatsoever I walk into the house there's nothing there in fact the other religions are displayed over there sometimes is a Christmas tree sometimes whatever then but they're doing a brisk and I if the parents is the father what made you want to do this Chris and the problem looks at man and he's perplexed you're the rabbi you're the mile why you asking me this I'm a Jew and in my mind was going with what's growing in back of my mind wait a minute there's 613 mistress what made you pick this mitzvah over everything else why dismissive up and I believe that one of the main reasons that this miserable Trump any other Mitzvah in terms of the Jews that would go to all ends to do it is because that's in a Jewish flesh that's in his body it's a mark that I am Jewish and i want to tell you the amazing part is many of the Russians came from Russia and obviously over there they could not have Grissom and there are so many stories that would bring me to tears that people did not want to have not local anesthesia are not general anesthesia yet people that came said i want to feel the mitzvot I want to feel what it means being Jewish not to be believed and parents would take their children five-year-old six-year-olds and the children would go the children would not protest because it's one list of it in their heart it's part of them in their neshama now yavin Yavin was pulling back on that mr. why because the oven served the body the ovens entire purpose was to idealize to turn into an idol our body and they felt that the greatest pleasure and this is really what they wanted to give Connie strong they wanted they cared about us they wanted a city a part of them they said you know you can't enjoy like you're missing out on the good parts of life by sticking in the spiritual stuff get ridda they don't they don't believe in it and therefore the bris the bris represented where the enjoyment of the human being was and they didn't want to touch it don't touch it but did you on the other hand understood much different did you understood that the enjoyment has to be coupled with spirituality in order for us to really enjoy to really have a full level of enjoyment that has to be together with the spirituality and this is something that Yellen could not understand they it bothered them very very much and it's interesting because we know Joseph atomic the ace of italic represented the exact opposite you know Yosef was very beautiful physically beautiful and it says that yes it is to play with us here he was a beautiful person but he wasn't only beautiful on the inside the outside he was also beautiful on the inside which means to say he also used together fused together spirituality with his beauty that was his job Yosef atomic would be able to go to the greatest place of come up and be able to grab the spirituality of it the oven on the other hand was able to go to the greatest play disha and eliminate all the Kenosha and just put physicality where do we see that we see it's about Sally going down to the triumph mizraim was the worst place of tomah possible there was not a vestige of kedusha there and yet yes of atomic brings up to shavasana Fryman menasha we have trouble bringing up good children in Brooklyn right and yet Julie said metallic is able to go to a place which is completely empty and the other rope all the kedusha and produce in a crime in menasha that's the power of uses take the oven on the other hand they go to the greatest place of kedusha they go to the base some mixes to the credit record awesome and they turn it into the distaff I'll it that was the power of the oven so there's a struggle over here one pose to kedusha one is able to make Tom on to kedusha what is able to take beauty and infuse it with condition and the other way one takes kedusha and eliminates it to achieve beauty they feel like a king coexist so much so that what's the braja that Yakima vino gives gives Yosef he gives them a bracha of the far shore harder life you're going to be an act you're going to be the one that's responsible to pave the way for Clowney show going down to the crime and eventually up you're going to be the one to sustain the Jewish nation and yet what does the oven do you haven't desantis it yavin tells cloudy strong the after kids will love her mouth Alcarin ashaar amely shall expel ok from just the opposite they would tell all of the cloudy shop they didn't have baby donald gerber wasn't around so what do they do they took a horn they filled it up with milk and the kids drank so they told every parent you have to write on that horn amely hell acrylic al I have no part in God and the kids will drink it and it will go into their system so here you have both of these struggles the oven trying to eradicate any festive the spirituality Jason is able to leave you until my spirituality and create amazing amazing accomplishments even in a place i can shrine what was at the core of this argument Crowley thrall felt and understood that if you just enjoy life without spirituality with adequate Ashraful then that's not true enjoyment you know what happens to a person that enjoys physicality again and again and again and again guess what he becomes an addict he becomes addicted what happens when a person becomes addicted he needs that same item you need that same vodka or that same drink but it no longer gives us the pleasure and no longer produces the pleasure anymore so he needs the physical aspect of it but the pleasure is gone and this Yavin didn't understand yavin ran only after that pleasure we Jews of course we like pleasure we enjoy pleasure more than anybody but we know how to get it better than anybody think about it think about how much we enjoy pleasure we have once a week everybody do we bring out the best foods sherlyn kogo every type of food possible if your are you got the LACMA gene and you got the cube and you got who enjoys life this way we don't like pleasure we love pleasure pleasure is great but we spend it with spirituality to that pleasure when we turn back and we had such a good time we say wow you know what we didn't waste our time because that time was elevated we're I caught this one who enjoys the fact that we having a good time with the children's and the kögel and the kids and the lack of my genius he loves it but we're taking the physical and worm the only spirituality into it if you add 52 weeks plus over your montauban you end up with maybe 80 days that the Jews are partying every year tell me one nation of parties away 80 days who does that so we want pleasure we love it together with spirituality we elevate the pleasure and then it's true pleasure it's not addiction it's not where we have to take something and we're like we can't stand it anymore but we needed because our body not let it won't let us survive without it and that was the core difference between Yvonne and between Kali strong