Day 2 Chanukah Kavana with Harav Yussie Zakutinsky

Kanek everybody. So tonight we'll be lighting two candles be two candles. The second night of Kaneka. So this is the first night of Kaneka where we increase where we increase. Last night was one candle which is uh basic and standard. But this is the first time in Kaneka that we had to that we increase light. Why do we increase? Why do we increase? So one thought that a person can have is the following thing. You know the GRA says that the nature of of gulas the nature of exile is that unfortunately the nature of gullis is that every day brings more darkness until Msiah comes till Mashiah comes there's always an increase in darkness and so because there's an increase in darkness a person has two choices a person can say you know listen I'm just going to give up I'm just going to give up I did what I could yesterday but evidently it wasn't enough and uh I'm just going to throw in the towel and finish But comes Khaneka and particularly the second night of Khaneka which is the first time that we increase light and we tell ourselves and we're ourselves is that no no quite the opposite. If there's more darkness in the world today than there was yesterday that demands of me to bring more light into the world than I brought yesterday. If every day of gullus is a little bit darker that only that only charges me more with the sense of purpose and the sense of of of urgency to increase light. The more darkness, the more light that is demanded to repel it. And that's the of tonight. Not to not to doubt and to second guessess one's accomplishments, but quite the opposite to increase more and more and more. Whatever I've done until now was good and was exactly what was necessary until now. But now what's demanded is even more. And that's of now of increasing. Hashem should bless us. Every single one of us should think about what we could do to increase our mitzvah, to increase our intensity ine. And that's of increasing more to counteract and to counterbalance the unfortunate nature of gulas which is that there's an increase in sometimes darkness. But that demands of us to increase light to experience that I'm here to be on me.