Chazaq's Torah Talks #83 Rabbi Meir Shimon Eisenberger - The Secrets of Chanukah

Tuesday night program with special guests tonight we have this is a very very special guest for Mayors jimin eisenberger Salita all the way from Barbara Park welcome how's the weather doing Welcome to our headquarters thank you for all that you do for Claudia's job we're going to hear about it momentarily and uh we have a special tour talk on Hanukkah and that we're going to be speaking about the secrets of Hanukkah and it's so exciting but before we get to tonight's exciting topic of the Rob could give a little bit more of a background about the great Halo go work holy work that the rabbi is involved with which I got to see and uh please so the last few years I became involved with Bali tuba it's a total pleasure to be involved with individuals like the Bali chuva I was in the office of the Russia chief of Isha Torah it's like Berkowitz twice and I shared with Rob Berkowitz that one of the difficulties I have in life is to be around ffbs ffb's okay just making sure I got that and uh the the balichuba are so inspiring and so real and so genuine it's just a pleasure to be around them all the time and uh he just smiled to me and he said I could identify with you very much [Music] um we're a platform where the balchova could land after he finishes Yeshiva transition into the world get married establish families and uh I love doing my work and I hope to be able to continue and this is based in Barbara Park of all places well that's uh ffb uh Hub yeah and and you're able to find people that have returned to Judaism or ballet children became religious like I'm saying there's a lot of them in that community so they don't they're not born in Burr Park obviously oh okay they come from all over the United States oh wow and um they're all from different cultures different places and what unites us is the growth and the unity and the support that we do for each other is amazing really amazing I believe I I got to see when uh our very own mayor Marca over here at the kazak headquarters shout out to him and uh all that he does for sadak was introduced to us by a friend amuccio venuez Israel and he had his engagement party we were all there and I saw the energy of all the young guys and I was like wow this is a happening place and I got to meet the rabbi and uh we had a continued success with all your holy work amen and uh the only good news so like we mentioned we're going to be speaking about the secrets of Hanukkah and we all know that the miracle of Hanukkah is that the The Maccabees uh overruled the the ivanim the Greeks and the and the the new the the small outdid the big and uh and one of the things that we're very big into is uh against Greek culture and philosophy philosophy is a better word and in Judaism we're very big into wisdom and the question is what's wrong with Greek philosophy they had a lot of like uh you know the gemara says that uh you should believe in the wisdom of the nations of the world so maybe rabbit could explain it a little bit to us okay so over the course of time I've Came Upon This idea it's really fascinating I'm happy to share it the morale has a safer on Hanukkah it's special for Hanukkah it's called sefer near mitzvah the candle of mitzvah in the safer he has very deep Concepts and we tried to break it down and I Came Upon This idea so we'll start with a little bit of a numbers game we like the amazing because uh Gematria which is numerical value of words yes really brings out the essence of what's Happening scratching the surface so the morale says that the ivanim the Greek which are yavan we're able to defile all the shaman and the beta mcdash all the oil and they were successful in contaminating all the oil besides for one flask of oil that was laid away with the Seal of the coin guardo right so the morale tries to make sense in the numbers and say yavan is strong but there's something that they're not strong enough with and they're not able to get to that level so the moral says as follows we know that the atomic Dash had two parts the oil mode which is the outer sanctuary and the kodashem which is the inner Sanctuary the holy of holies the holies of holy where the coin got all entered on the day of Yom Kippur and only he was allowed to enter there and nobody else was allowed now the word for the external Sanctuary is called the numerical value is 65. was able to contaminate everything in the hecka right so yavan is one number more than the if you you count the numerical value of yavana is known as 66. 66 is one more than 65. they were able to overcome but we have to come with the strength and we have something that's above and beyond their strength which is the Holiness the holiest of the Holy and we come with that strength which the morale says is the secret of the Kurdish scholarship was laid away with the Seal of the kohenga doll kohen is Gematria 75. 10 more than 65 is 75. morale explains that everything that has to do with the number 10 is corresponding to the concept of kadusha of holiness so you have the tenth Meister behema you have to tithe animals Thai 10 your money and everything the 10th is kodesh a Siri kodesh the tent is Holy so if we have 65 we need to overcome 65 or overcome yavan we need to go to the next level which is 75. kohen is 75. now the morale gives you another caveat he says if you write the word hechal and you put the nakuda under the hay you could read the hey hey yod so the word Heckle is 65 but if you add that little U that's hidden you're gonna have another 10. so there is that flask of oil that's hidden in the kodeshim where only the coin has access to it he's 75. and therefore the coin comes and he overcomes yoga so yavan is able to have access to the Heckle is able to defile the heck how they're stronger than the but they're not stronger than the that is in the construction but this is numbers and this is kind of cryptic it's like what is this so how does it answer our question yes so first before we go on coin is 75 right we know that the nature is seven days the world was created in seven days everything to do with nature has to do the number seven eight is always Supernatural shamini is Shaman is eight it means above Terrace eight days because we were able to overcome something and the Cohen is 75 75 is that number that's in between seven and eight 75 7 and a half 7.5 so it's between seven and eight where the Cohen was able to bridge the supernatural with the natural the Cohen's job was to go into the kodesh condition keeper and every day of the year and Brink Jews closer to Aviation to their father in Heaven so how does this relate to Hanukkah and how do we understand this so there's one more source and then we'll get to explaining a little bit yeah beautiful it's coming together I love it the spasmas writes that there's another word that's gamatra has 66 and that's the word galgal foreign so it's perhaps the greatest invention and the history of human human beings the world is the invention of the wheel without the wheel we wouldn't get anywhere I wouldn't be able to come to Queens the the wheel is perfectly round galgal is 66 the same like yeah so what is the concept of galgal what is gal let's first take the word apart what's gimmalama so gimlamic means reveal God reveal if you say gal GAO it means reveal for the sake of revealing so I looked up online and I found that the Greek philosophy and the Greek has the most beautiful architecture they have the most beautiful structures structures and they're into the they worship the art right the Greek believe their belief system is that our art is there for the sake of Art not that it's revealing something that's internal if we see something beautiful we say must be there's something inside that's hidden and that it's being revealed the Greek belief let's worship the art let's just worship the external let's see the art as a means to an end something that has its own significance means reveal for the sake of revealing without any other intention without any other motive we know that when Hashem created the world he needed to create a vacuum create a place where human beings could exist because before the world was created we know from this forum that everything was Godly the whole world there was the world was permeated it was totally taken over with hashem's Glory in order to create human beings with bahira with free choice and an ability to deny the existence to question the existence we need to create a balance so so to speak Hashem needed to evacuate himself create this vacuum which the ramban and barisha says is called in the he quotes the Greeks and he says it's called heuli which is potential which is a vacuum a place where humans can exist okay this this creation is called the kadur aretz it's the ball of the earth everybody agrees that this Earth is round and everything that we see is rounded everything is galgal ah everything is brown but when Hashem took the world and created this vacuum created this place for potential we need to bring some light into the world because if not how are we going to find Hashem so afterwards Hashem broaden the light into the world and that was in the shape of a lion what's the difference between a circle and a line what's the difference between something that's round and something that's a lie a circle has no point of origin and no point of destination we're just going saviv we've gone round and round and some people in the world are just going round and round the line has a point of origin and a point of destination so when Hashem so to speak created the world the way the Spider-Man explained Hashem evacuated and vacuumed this world from his light so to speak whatever we can understand in the subject and then afterwards he said let me bring back the light but in a restricted way so that it's exactly balanced and if somebody wants to find Hashem he could if somebody wants to deny he's welcome and it's free it's exactly so when we talk about yavan we talk about the Greeks if yavan is the gamatria the numerical value of 66 and we know that the Greeks worship the external part of the world we know that they worship the arts art for the sake of Art so they're studying the external part of the world they're worshiping that they idolize that and that is their life so so to speak if we want to go a little deeper we'll say they just tap into the part where Hashem created the world ground and they're able to just go continue round around and they don't have to tap into hashem's world the maimonides in Guide to the perplexed rights that Aristotle knew everything from the you know everything but he didn't know anything beyond that he only knew whatever he was able to experience or whatever he was able to visualize and touch and see but nothing nothing beyond for that Beyond of that when we wage war against the other what we're doing is we're trying to bring in that line that godliness into the world where we understand that besides for things being external and round they also have there's something here that's a point of origin point of destination there is a connection between the Israel between the Jew and his and his father in Heaven and we know that the world is being controlled by Hashem wow so to take it a step further very very very powerful step further okay one step further so where's yavan originate from who is the father so the Torah says the children of EFS one of the children is Java EFS is one of the children had three children we know that Trump is out of the picture he was cursed because of the act that he did we have shea manifest so after the marble the Torah tells us a story about Noah he felt bad about what happened he planted a Vineyard he should have planted something else he drinks on the wine by iskar and he gets inebriated however we can understand Nayak was the big tada if I did he became revealed so now we have a job but the two children of Noir see what happened and they say we gotta take care of the situation so Rashi says that Shay manifest took the talit they took the cloak and they went backwards and they Rashi says but there's a big difference between shame and Nevers Jeffers did the Mitzvah and he did it ethical he said let me do what's right let me do what's proper shame it says in Russian he did the Mitzvah with more alacrity with more zest with more Zeal with more nishama so Rashi says shame got the Mitzvah shame as a reward got he gets the prayer show right and the fs as a result he gets kavura he was able to be buried in a what's the difference the graph a vilna says what's the difference between kavurah and both of them cover the body but since his covers the life the person that's alive and kaburra is covering for the for the body without a soul they are just buried the Dignity of the body but it's a body without a soul it's just physical so we see that yeses was very smart the fs is the father of Javan but what was he focused on he was focused on the the body of the external physical body shame was focused on the shama he did it with more zest with more alacrity with nishama with gishmach and he said not only is it ethical I need to do this because this is Godly this is shame and that therefore shame became the shamites as Jews and yet as became the Greek amen and that's where they get their beauty because their grandfather yes did this wonderful Act powerful unbelievable like you're putting it all together it's just like so now we understand why we don't follow Greek philosophy because they have an AdSense no point like the rabbi was saying and it's like oh God just going around and around and the main focus is the Goof is their body and that uh not where we believe in which is the nishima which is the soul right amazing and another interesting camatria American values we love that GFS yes is the beauty yeah yeah Beauty and in fact the gamara says Hashem gave Beauty the Torah says Hashem gave Beauty TFS but the beauty of the office dwells in the tents of Shame so do we have a place for ufs in Judaism do we have a place for beauty or is it like we don't do Beauty we don't do Greek philosophy we inside the house according to it what they're everything so the camera says that we should beautify a nice little of the four species that we shake on Soco should be beautiful the mezuzah should be beautiful the safer Tara should be beautiful the shul should look beautiful and beautify this is my God I beautify him this is coming so yeah that's the beauty of the office is Incorporated in the Holy shame just an interesting Concept in the soccer we have something called noise if we take the word noise and we flip it what do you get come on Yvonne wants to take the beauty and just make a means to an end for itself and we do and we make we flip Yvonne and we make a noise okay we purify method if you look at the word yavan it's a yud it's tiny then The Verve is a little longer and then the Moon is all the way back which means the Yoda is always wisdom you're just the beginning of every letter in the Hebrew alphabet in the Isle of Base but Javan is stretching down the valve they're just pulling it down and then they pull down the nun so you have that process of externalizing things and not connecting to the youth which is the godliness what we do is we take the long known and we do know it we make we we take the beauty of the world that we say what's the beauty for it's for the for the Youth so it's all it's all there to beautify as well it's so inspiring we're a big eisenberger I love it because schmuck as they say in Barbara I think just to add to the rabbits reduce the inside about uh children it says you should be like them meaning you'll learn a lesson with their names which was Charming shame is you should have a good name Kami should be warm yeah you should be nice so these are lessons from the names of the Torah and no parasana it was many weeks ago but still we could always learn something from these amazing interesting uh insights very very powerful Rabbi yeah always go up okay beautiful so we have to scratch the surface we have to see beyond the surface so yes is the numerical value of pakshama means the external part the junk shame is oh wow so shame has that a default he's supersede TFS because besides for having the judge he also speaks in their Hanukkah so Hanukkah this is fascinating that Hanukkah teaches us that the external is beautiful and it's something that we could incorporate in Judaism but not to worship the external have it in the meat foot in other Commandments that we have amazing Rabbi so let's jump into uh interesting topic of uh of uh of uh you know jelly donuts yeah you know we're talking about the secrets of chanukkah so most of us understand that the reason for suganya is because it's filled with oil and the nase and the miracle was because of the like the rabbit The Jug of oil that was found that was not contaminated so is there anything more that we can learn from from having jelly donuts and Hanukkah all my kids are like into it and there's the jelly and there's the chogan there's the vanilla and the Custard in there all these different so to be a little humorous in my opinion if we would take a wick and put it into the sufghaniac it's gonna burn for eight days straight [Laughter] but according to this idea we could kind of bring it down and say look in all generations even the less Affiliated Jews everyone everyone jelly donuts yeah everywhere incidents so if you look at the shape of this not the jelly ones around but the one that's round and it has that hole in the middle so maybe on Hanukkah we have to just eat those donuts because what we're trying to do is consume that idea back to whatever is of being in that in that in that round without a point of origin point of destination being in the world and just revolving that's something that we have to fight so we eat the donuts on Hanukkah with the hole in the middle to get rid of that interesting way so maybe I could add to that that uh there's also the meaning of the custom of plating with uh dreidel which is you know it's uh round and rounds if you want but we all know the reason is because uh the Greek stuff for bathe the Jewish people from learning Torah but you know a Jew without learning is like uh official Awards Like Oxygen so they had to learn they wanted to learn and whenever they would quote-unquote be called they would put it to the side and it would be say oh we're playing with the dreidels we're playing the game but maybe there's more to that Rabbi okay so the dreidel has two parts the dreidel goes round and round right which symbolic of the Greek philosophy galgal right there is not just going round and round they're not they didn't have a point of origin point of destination so the dreidel also goes round and round and that's what they played when the evonim came around to show that they're but there's something that the dreidel is revolving around and that's that little line on the top coming together so beautifully wow it spins around it all rotates around that point of axis where everything is revolving around this this line which is the line that we said when Hashem created the world he brought the godliness and after that after that circle after the vacuum which one brought it back in with that line and that's the my my idea this is the Premiere the inside secret of the dreidel powerful amazing amazing another thing with the generos we know that the letters is uh spelled the word goshna which is uh I'm trying uh the yakovino and his children they went to kosher which was Shiva so this world going round and round but to have a place a Yeshiva to go to you would have made sure to bring the Torah into intimate right exactly and that's what we have to do wherever we are Rabbi every single word at the gem we're enjoying every so much from it but we have a customer and Torah talks one final message uh that you could uh there's a Jim Enlighten us okay so I was learning this with the fabora guys and one guy came up he's like rabbi and every uh device that we have every machine every computer there's an on and off button and what's the sign of the on and off button you have the circle and the line ah so he he did the his uh due diligence and he studied why is the on and off button a circle on the line if you look the circle is the off button the line is the on button so we have it embedded in all our devices the offer Now button the circle is the off button you want to go you want to turn yourself off in life just go away you want to turn yourself on thank you for giving us the opportunity thank you for all they do for classes for the Jewish people continue that success with spreading the light spreading the message uh what an amazing Hanukkah message Hanukkah Smith to all of you we want to thank the rabbi for coming all to be down here for all the great work that you're involved with I'm gonna give a 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