From Noach to Chanukah| Rabbi Sam Shor | November 11th 2025

without her introduction. Uh I don't know if anyone has ever noticed this but almost almost immediately after what starts to appear in the markets here in Israel. Okay, donuts. Now there is an idea in that 30 days before a pending or a pending date on the Jewish calendar, we begin to prepare for that day. So we are certainly not quite we're we're about a week early for 30 days before Kaneka but we are 2 weeks before Rokesh Kislv which means that Rohisv certainly would be within the 30-day zone. So that's the first idea that we're we're not so far off from those 30 days before Kaneka. But it's really no coincidence. We're going to learn together today that donuts start to appear in the market almost immediately after or maybe a week or two after because we're going to explore together this morning is the backstory of many of the are more most familiar minagam practices and customs from from havaku from lighting candles to spitting a drrele to eating donuts. Okay. So, we're going to take a look at these practices and we're going to begin. We're going to jump right in because I want to make sure we cover everything. We're going to begin with what I'll call the backstory of the nashmen. Now, believe it or not, the backstory, the nashmen actually begins not with the story of the kashman itself, but we're going to go all the way back to the time of Noah. Okay? And if that's the case, as we're going to see together, and you're going to see why in a moment. If that's the case, so maybe it's not so crazy that donuts start to appear already, okay, as we're preparing for Shabas Parsha's Noah, because as we're going to see together in a few moments, the story of Noah is actually connected is actually the backstory, if you will, to the So, let's just jump right in. We're going to begin with theim. Everyone knows the story of Noah. He Hashem instructs him to build a tava. He goes on the tava. He he this is text number one on our sheets. He he sends out first when the rains stop, when the flood stops, he sends out first a raven. Okay. And then and then he sends out the yona. The yona comes back with what? >> An aliat in his mouth. Okay. And an olives branch in his mouth. Okay. So the medish, we're going to jump to the medish tuma text number two. Okay. In the middle. One, two, three, four, five lines down. The the Jewish people are cons are likened to what? The And now we're going to jump a little bit further. Okay. Just as that Yona represents what? A sensation of the flood and the sun, so to speak, coming back out in the world. light returning to the world. You who are likened to the Yona will also one day kindle Shem and Ziet okay olive oil and you'll bring and you'll light a candle and you'll bring light to the world. Okay. So what is this medish referring to? What is this medish alluding to? So we're going to now jump ahead a few parios in in safer braces. Okay, here's a source sheet. We're now going to jump ahead a few partial sius to the story of Jakov. Yakov is about to have his second dream. And what happens in the when he's about to have a second dream, the puss tells us Jacob Yakov is left alone. And that's very perplexing because what Yakov is traveling with an entourage of 400 people and all of a sudden before he goes to sleep and before he has that famous dream where he wrestles with the mysterious ish right we're told Jacob is left alone and the famous Rashi why was he left alone he forgot he forgot little jars and he went back to get them. It's very interesting contemporary of Rashi not on your sheets but Raenuaya says the word he says don't read that he was left alone rather he was left with one specific jar so Rashi tells us he was alone why because he separated himself from his encampment to go retrieve jars small jars that he had forgotten and rabbay takes it a step further and says no it's not just that he retrieved the small jars there was one specific small jar that he intended to go and find so what was that small jar so there was a 17page essay written by the rebu the jikov that I've condensed and summarized in two paragraphs here and this is text number four on our sheets and get ready to have our heads turned upside down Okay. The olives from the branch that Noah received from the dove were made into pure olive oil. The oil was given to Noah's firstborn, Shem. Shem, otherwise known as Malited, the priest, the exalted god. Okay. Malited sealed this little jar of oil and gave it to Abraham as a gift. Abraham, in turn, handed it over to Yetsk, who passed it down to Yakov. Now, why is this important? He says that there was a jar of oil that was made from those olives that were on the branch that the Yona brought back. And the Medish tells us what that that Yona is a dugma is a rem that the Jewish people will one day also kindle Shem and Z and bring light into the world. Okay. And on top of that, we're told that Shem is okay and this is from other that is actually Shem. Okay. And is called. Now that expression, what does that sound similar to? The expression. Okay. And now before we continue with the medish, we know that the backstory of the is that they theim search high and low and they find only one jar of oil with the insignia of the and that there's a famous question that could be asked about the Gamarra. That's the story of Khan that we know. But what's the obvious question we ask about the gam? Nowhere in all of the does it suggest that the kohanim were responsible to put a little ou insignia on every jar of oil. Okay. So what is the message? And not only that who are the kashim they're the children of the kang. So doesn't mean they had a search high and low. If anyone would know where there would be a stash of shem and zia put away safely tucked away it should be whom the kash. If indeed that jar of oil was in was sealed with the insignia of their father, the coing, then they wouldn't have to search for it. They know where it was. And taking it a step further, nowhere in the annals of haka does it say that the shea that was used to kindle the monora needed to have uh the oil that was sealed with the coins. So what is that idea all about? >> And whom >> right? And then the the famous answer B okay is that in an environment where there's complete impurity the minute first of all the minute they would have broken that jar open what would happen to that jar all the she would become tame but in such a circumstance for the greater needs of of of reestablishing the aod at least of the of the kindling of the mdash it was permissible in such circumstances in such extenduating circumstances. Okay. So now listen to how what the Rebi of Driov does with all this. According to our sages, Yakov forgot some small jars on the other side of the Yabok River and returned to retrieve them. One of these jars was the oil from Noah's ark. Yakov prophetically hid this oil at the sight of the beta mikdash and laid the foundations to the miracle of Kaneka. This is the oil of the that originated with the with the dove, the symbol of peace and continues to shine until Messiah arrives. The oil that was in sealed with the insignia of a high priest was the oil that was sealed by whom? By Shem, who is also known as Mitak, who the Torah tells us was a high priest unto God. He sealed these this jar of oil and passed it passed it on to Arainu when he has an exchange of gifts with Ara Malit. Okay, we just read this two weeks ago. They last week read when they have exchanged gifts and one of those gifts that was given to Aram was this jar of oil. It's this jar of oil based on the rabbakaya, okay? That when Yakov is left alone, he goes back to get this specific jar of oil he inherited because he's come to the makama mikdash and he has a prophetic vision says the rebikov that he has to place this jar of oil at this very spot before he goes to sleep. And it's that jar of oil that the kashim will find and ultimately light. So the remy doesn't end there because how does he end? I didn't put on the sheet. He goes on the the rem all this the proof text all this is Noah's name is Nun okay okay right oh so I wrote this here in the notes obviously stands for either or okay so the very name Noah is a remnis to this crazy story okay so you could take the midrashim you know with a grain of salt I'm not saying this is absolutely the fact or the or the absolute trajectory it's just interesting approach to the backstory and it also might answer why culturally just as a side note with the smile why the donuts start appearing already okay before before paras Noah okay it's not a coincidence Hashem orchestrates everything okay with that as an introduction I want to talk a little bit more about donuts now okay we know that when we eat a donut unlike when we when we when we wash and say and we bench and we say the full beer kasamazone We recall okay but we don't recall the mikdash in as great a detail as we do in the we recall both the b mikdash being we recall that there was a misb and the b mikdash okay so what happens in the story of theash they come back to the b mikdash they restore the ba mikdash but are they able to bring carbonas right away >> bring carbonote are they able to sacrifice. No, they have to wait a whole year. Why they wait a whole year? Because the misbeh has to be constructed. The stones have to be carved a certain way. Took them an entire year to be able to do what? To reestablish the misb. So every time we eat a donut, but this is based on the Torah of every time we eat a donut, we say the of unlike the we use the we say these words. We want to recall the we recall both the as well as the mikdash. Not just recalling that there was a and asking Hashem to rebuild, but specifically we recall there was a B mikdash and there was a misbeh. And therefore, every time we eat a donut, unlike when we bench, okay, we're reminded what that the real story of Kaneka is not simply the minora, but it's what the reestablishment of the B mikdash in its entirety. And most specifically that it took us a year to experience the true Kaneka of the Kanuka. Okay. the rededication of misb and the capacity to once again restore the entire sacrificial rights that took us a year to reestablish one sec. Yeah, we'll take questions at the end. Okay, so if you take a look just to summar mentioned this is text number seven that after the war with the Greeks the kashonim entered the defiled temple and attempted to purify all the holy vessels. They were successful in purifying everything except for the stones that made up the made up the misbehot which are fried dough and whose eating mandates the recitation of alamika in order to recall both the mikah the offering of grain and oil and then be itself during khan. Okay. It's we we eat donuts not only to recite the bra which recalls what the story of the rededication of the mis but also to remind us of one of those carbonos that we were not able to be brought was the carbon which was comprised of flour grain and oil which is basically I mean today we do a lot more than that in terms of our donuts but the basic recipe for a donut is you take flour and you make dough with it and you fry it in oil. And so the the idea of the donor is is is twofold says. Number one is to remind us that during that period for over a year they were not able to bring any carbonas including the carbon. And number two to remind us what why weren't they able to bring those carbonas? Because there was no misbeh. And therefore Kaneka is a celebration of a restoration not only of the manora but most specifically of the misbeak which took a year to happen that we were once a again able to bring the various carbonos including the carbon and all that says is represented by the m to eat donuts. Okay. So so far we talked about for those that have joined us as we as we progress. So far we talked about how the donuts appear already in the in in our marketplaces here in Israel. It seems like right after really it's really it's no coincidence as we discussed that the backstory of the is linked to the story of Noah and Noah's name is corresponds to the words or So really it's not so crazy that the donuts start to appear already before paras Noah we discussed and then we discussed the the backstory of the donuts themselves and the significance of eating donuts. I'm sorry for those of us that know Ashkenaz and that grew up eating lis. Okay lis potatoes do not factor into the equation of the carbonos. So, so donuts be donuts kind of trump lockas here our family were more lockas people but okay but we know it's the oil but I'm saying but we know it's the oil but I'm saying but but here says no it's not just the oil okay it's more than just the oil and that and that's an important message okay that we're not just commemorating the nashmen especially since we discussed in the introduction that maybe that nakashmen and we'll talk about in the end that maybe that was unnecessary we could have used any oil in such circumstanc es and we also said that that really nowhere in does it say that the kohanim were responsible to to to to to kind of seal that jar of oil. So what does it mean that there was a miracle jar of oil that appeared with the insignia? talked about the rabbi's answer in terms of it being from the sheman from from the the yona that the yona brings the the the the zet back to by the way any anyone who's ever watched a one of these cooking programs on like the food network you'll see I did a little bit of little bit of little bit of research here a little bit of R&D aged olive oil burns longer the older the oil is the longer its staying power So maybe it's not such a far-fetched idea that the Rebi that the Rebi Jacob introduces that this oil that was hundreds of years old, okay, was the oil that had the miraculous capacity. Okay. Um we're going to talk, by the way, we're also going to we're going to come back to this question of of whether the the the oil being insealed with the insignia coming was necessary or what the significance of it was. We're going to come back to that question in a little bit. But now I want to move on to another well-known custom associated with with Kaneka and that's the custom to spin a drreel. Okay. And we tend to think a dreo what if I were to ask most people there what's the significance of spinning a dreo it's the the famous story that we were told is that during the gazer against teaching children during the times that the the Assyrian Greeks had took control of of of Israel there was a gazer a decree against teaching children Torah. So groups would go out in groups with children and they would teach them in the forest and they would have these little toys [cough] that they would pull out of their pockets if they saw a a Greek soldier approaching. So it would appear that this was a play group and not a a group learning Torah. That's the story the apocryphal story of why we play dr that I I've learned since I was a kid. We're now going to learn from threeidic masters that are going to give us a very different understanding of the significance of PL why we spin the drrele on. So let's start with text number eight. We're going to start with says what this is the what is the idea of why we play with Dr. Khan. is all about what the mikdash we as alluded to earlier it's not just about the minor it's about the whole enterprise right the idea of the mikdash is the idea compared to a spinning wheel and he's going to explain this mdash what happened in the mikdash There was a miracle that happened in the B mikdash. The worlds blended together. The heavens came down to earth and the earthly was elevated to the heavens. That's the idea of carbonas, right? We're offering carbonas something earthly to to have impact in the in the heavens. So the idea of the ma mikdash says Rabbi Nakman is this blending together of worlds of realms. The heavenly coming down to earth and the earthly being elevated to the heavens. And he says this is what's what's what's being represented by the dreo. He says the ba mikdash represents this idea of blending the heavens and earth together. It's a beautiful idea. And he says that's what we're doing when we spin the drrele. The drrele is about what? Reminding us that just like the donuts remind us there was a bas mikdash. The drreel reminds us what we what's kanuka really all about. >> Sadly it's not about lacas. It's about what the BA mikdash. Okay. Now we're now going to Rashagar takes us an Rashagar quoting the Batana takes us an ex a stage further. Take a look at text number nine. He says now let's return to the words the inash heaven and earth spirituality physical physicality all so the balan says something you takes a step further it's not just about representing the b mikdash where heaven and earth blended together it represents are the reality of our human perspective. Our human perspective is what? that we exist in a realm of of Pirude where we see a differentiation between one another between us and the heavens but in the perspective of it's ultimate oneness everything is blended together as one and Kaneka therefore and the B mikdash was a place says says the balatana where Jews could experience that heightened consciousness of seeing that blending together of everything coming together in one Great oneness was what? A reality of paradoxes. Okay. A place where was lacking. Okay. Okay. The differentiation between physical and spiritual between a human and and an angel matala between between earth and heavens. Okay. If there are differentiations, if there's per if there's separation, okay, that's because of what? Our limited human perspective. They exist as a result of what? Our reality. The reality that we exist within perspective. But from the ultimate perspective, meaning what's perspective, there is no separation. And this is what we learn when we play with a drrele. The dr spins round and round and round that sometimes it falls on one side and represents one perspective and sometimes it falls on another side and shows us another perspective is about getting back to this headsp space of the experience of being the ba mikdash. Again everything is back to the bas mikdash. Khan is about getting back to the headsp space of experiencing the BA mikdash where that reality of the paradox of our existence became clear to us where we understood that in reality there's something beyond our human perspective and we could experience that through the miracles that took place in the B mikdash. Okay, we'll take questions at the end. Okay, just going to want to keep the flow. So, one of the early masters of the just look look what he says here in text number 10. He says he says the customs of the Jewish people are call it are likened to Torah. And just as we say there's 70 faces to the Torah, there are 70 faces to each of our minhagen each of our practices. And therefore, he's going to explain what are the pract the the 70 faces of the practice of playing. All the miracles that come into our lives, they all come from the same space in reality of what that the Messiah is going to emanate from. In other words, every miracle we experience is bringing us closer to Mashiach. Okay? And therefore he says and therefore the light of mashiach comes down and he says that's why the drreal has the letters it has on italia mashiach the four letters on the side of the drrele equal mashia by the way that's not true I'll tell you why it's not true and we're going to talk discuss this for a moment why isn't it true because if you look at the letters neshay shan It does not equal mashiach. If you look at the letter, it does equal mashia. Okay? Right? The drreals that we grew up with our drreles have a shin on instead of instead of a pay and it therefore if you do the calculation it doesn't correspond to the numerical value of mashia. So the but if you take the drs of Israel and have a put a pay sorry sorry auk I'm sorry it's the opposite the drreles we grew up with with the shin does equal mashiach if you put a pay here then what happens what it doesn't equal mashia so there's a famous story actually of the bells of rebi roach when he came on aliyah in 1951 I believe um he sent the shamish all around looking for a drrele that had shin instead of a pay because most of the drreidles here had a pay but because he understood that the significance of the drreal was that it had to correspond to the numerical value of msiach. Okay. And it's about reminding us that it's not just enough to want a bas mikdash. We want to have what? Mashiach. And therefore spinning the drreal is about reminding us about longing for mashiach. He wanted a drreal that specifically had a shin on it, not a pay. And he sent this guy by all over Israel to find an old school drrele from that still had a shin today. They're manufactured. You see them you see both here. But um but the significance of the shin is is is is not just it's a reference to mashiach. The gamach the gamatri has to add up to mashiach. Okay. Having said all that, Rabbi Mosha Wilson, not on your sheets, Rabbi Mosha Wolfson says that the very the very um the very word um um also corresponds to the gamatra of Mashia. I didn't do the gamatria myself. And he also says that Khan is eight days every single one of us becomes a Cohen. So why is that significant? What's the role of a cohane? The role of the kohhane is what? To bring light to light the minora to bring light into the world. And it's very interesting. We we talked about in the onset the the problematic question with the famous story of Kaneka. The problematic question famous story of Kaneka that seemingly nowhere in the annals of hak literature were the kanim told to seal the the the the jar of oil that was going to be used to light the lights. And we talked about how that was not not even necessary in the mitsus in the reality of the ba mik being complete completely impure that they sought search for it high and low. We also talked about how could it be that the who themselves are kanim didn't know where that jar was hidden that they had to go searching for it. So says Rafuk Rook suggests and we're going to learn another piece of R cook in a moment but Rook suggests that that that that could be seen as something being allegorical. And he says that he says the most beautiful idea. He says that every single Jew every single Jew has within them a pure a proverbial pre pure jar of oil. the pint the the nish he says that nish is what is sealed with the insignia of the ultimate calling god meaning whom and he says that's the jar of oil that the Greeks could never render impure and as a matter of fact the word the word hashem okay is the same letters as the word what nish nish saysuk so says that the whole idea that is about the restoration the rekindling if you will of the hearts of every single Jew to reconnect with the pint to reconnect with the spark of divinity innate within the heart of every single Jew that the story at face value doesn't make sense but it's all allegorical says Rkook and says that this story is meant to teach us what that theashim saw the assimilation around them they saw the darkness ness that was coming into the world as a result of the Jewish people turning away from Torah and sto stepped into that void and they did everything they could to restore the spark within every single Jew. When they searched high and low it was they searched high and low meaning they reached out to every single Jew to remind them what Jewish life is really all about. Let's restore the bas mikdash together. Let's bring back the the carbonas together. Let's rekindle the m the manora together. Let's rekindle the proverbial manura within each and every one of our hearts. And that saysuk is the idea of the nash. Hashem is okay. So why is all this important? We we mentioned a moment ago that that Khan is all about Mashiach and the vision for Mashiach of course is a time where there'll be not only a unity amongst Israel but what that there'll be shalom and aus within the entire world. So in this beautiful piece here the summary of a much longer piece is going to bring all this together. Okay, this is text number 12. The lights of Kaneka are a metaphor for the blessings of enlightenment that the Jewish people bestowed to the world. All the nations potential spiritual gifts are included in the dedication of Kaneka. Torah and wisdom, prophecy and morality, justice and compassion and so on. Like the basikash itself, these are qualities inherent in the people of Israel. So the word khaneka is appropriate to dedicate the proverbial temple within ourselves. The zawadesh tells us what that every single barach every single human being is a microcosmic world. Okay? Which means that everything that exists in the physical world exists metaphysically microcosmically within the hearts of every single human being. And therefore there's an idea of restoring the bas mikdash in the physical world in the world around us. There's also an idea of what? Of rededicating the proverbial bas mikdash that exists within every single one of our hearts. Sometimes divisions can lead to internal strength. Those who stress one particular idea may look upon those who promote other ideals as distra as detracting from a more important value. In truth, when each individual advances that light that corresponds to the inner makeup of his soul, the entire people of Israel is enriched. But these conflicts will not exist forever. As long as there is strife in dissension, holiness cannot be properly established. In the future, it will become clear that all the different lights share a common root and are really one single light. Therefore, the blessing of which encompasses the future potential speaks of a single light. We don't say we say because in his essence is about what? Returning to this idea, this essential idea represented by the B mikdash represented by Mashiahu. This idea of what? Of ultimate octas. Octus amongst a octus in terms of coming closer to the great octus what calls the octus aisles which is which is divinity which is hashen's presence in everything and as we discussed based on the reason why we spin the drrele and and and the and the and the okay why we spend the spin the drrele is to remind us of that experience that clarity that we felt when we were in the basa mikdash where we where those worlds collided where we experienced that paradox of of being elevated from our limited human perspective and consciousness to see what to see that great unity. So Khan is not just about a restoration of the light of the physical manora. It's not just about the restoration even of the of the misbeha that Zman shared with us and we all love our donuts but but um it's about what a restoration of a heightened consciousness of a desire a longing for Mashiach a longing for that aus that was represented by the mikdash and that that great octus to please God we'll experience once again as Rakook says so eloquently and so beautifully and we'll experience once again please God with the within mikdash and with greeting mash. Any questions? >> Yes. >> Beautiful to connect to it. >> Sure. >> So it's the four that we are spinning. And what does this spin the two from when you combined >> families coming together coming together when wanted to destroy our bodies that's Romy now and seal is uh the >> the Greeks I wrote it down >> s is Baba >> Baba. Yes, sir. Yes, brother. I um I heard many years ago a beautiful Russia by Rabbi Isaac Bernstein, the father Rabbi Bernstein about why um they needed uh uh Tahar oil and even though right uh because when you start something new again you have to it has to be that's why for instance when they died their brothers couldn't take them out the cousins had to take them out because The brothers had to stay. >> It's a whole thing. >> Beautiful thing to eat. >> Beautiful. >> Any other questions or comments? Yes. >> Why does a drreal shin symbolize Mashiach? [snorts] >> If you add together the numerical values of the of the of the letters nun, gimmel, shin, and a it comes out to what we say 358. 358 which corresponds to the word mashiach. >> Okay. >> I made a mistake. >> Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Our story. That's what I'm saying. >> Right. Yeah. That's saying [snorts] my wife suggested that maybe >> first of all in my house that doesn't happen because my wife is is is gluten-free. But um but it's a it's it's a cute idea. I I will tell you again none of none of these midash obviously are meant to be taken literally. Okay. Anyone I think we've discussed those of us have learned together in the past when we've looked at agato together. We've said we we said the name he's very clear about this that a not necessarily meant to be taken literally. When we see that famous message that a mavina was three years old. Okay. Yeah. I know that I'm going to tie this back to the Rambam because this is normally a Rambom class. Okay. The famous marriage that that Ara Ravinu started breaking down his father's idols when he's three years old. So the Ram says you have to take that with a grain of salt. The Rambam in in in the Rambam talks about au as being the first person to recognize okay the in his generation the one the one God. And he says what how old was Aram when that happened? He was 40 according to the rabb. Now there there many fresh say well where does the raom get that from? I'm people maybe we'll [clears throat] ask Rabbi Bredawitz this question next week when he's back if he knows where the raom gets it from last week. >> He said it last week again remember what he said but he said [laughter] >> I'll have to go watch his now from last week. Okay. But Kavanti um but uh Kitzer we a guy that they're not necessarily meant to be taken literally. So when we read these stories, we hear some of these stories, it's it's what is the take what is the take-h home message for us? And I think what we saw together today both from both from the rebu from is an attempt to take some of these midashim related to both the story of of Noah and the stories of Kaneka and take some of these mamari kazal and give us some food for thought for appreciate truly appreciating what it means the kaneka that we're going to look ahead to is really all about and to appreciate that opportunity that we're given as Wilson said as we mentioned khain that for eight days every single member of the Jewish people becomes what becomes a proverbial coing. We for those eight days it's as it says Rasha Wilson we're we're being transfor trans transported to the basa mikdash and we have the opportunity to feel that closeness that oneness to experience that light that beauty and everything we're longing for any other questions yes >> also yriarch has and y is really the symbol of kanuka because of his fight against assimilation >> against assimilation right >> prote have also with the purity the purity that >> Tara it's all about Tara right and the Tara is not to say only like as your husband said astutedly as we know in the in the story itself at least if we if we take that story at face value it was unnecessary but in terms if we take all these ideas that we've been sharing terms of the the kazal that give us the the spiritual you know perspective what were the trying to accomplish not just to restore more aly satisfactory reality but what to reignite that that within every single member of and that's why we see them go doing this and not just make her any other questions yeah >> you mean you mean that tell us that the uh the episode of Abraham uh breaking his idol and getting thrown into the furnace of king are not historical facts They may not be historical vexs. I didn't say they aren't. I said they may not be historical vex. Okay. Agata needs to be looked at and understood as a as a as a message for us la davka as as factual. There many other examples you could give of of out there aat. Okay. But uh we've actually learned some of them together here in this course when I when I when I've taught here uh over the summer. But it's not for today. Any other questions? Yeah. >> This what we're talking about now is that the Jewish people were able to >> able to take care of being against the conscience against us. >> War. >> Yeah. So I think that was something to do with uh >> well maybe I'll maybe I'll drop one last idea that's not on the sheets. So to answer our question about the the famous story of Kaneka and and the story of the of the apocryphal pashm okay this is this is you'll like this Rifka you'll like this Rifka >> you'll like this Rifka you will like this yeah so there's an alternate version of the story of the story of Kaneka that appears in the pika pika says that when theashim came into the ba mikdash and they were victorious over the Greeks what did they find there doesn't say anything about finding searching and looking for a a a pak she a a cruise of oil. It says they found their shimona ship ship barzel. They found eight iron spears there. They bound them together and they made a makeshift minora. That's why the minora that we light on Kaneka is as eight candles and not seven candles. Because they took this they took these spears that the manor had been destroyed and rendered impure and they took these spears that they found in the laying in the base of mikdash and they made a makeshift candalabra that had eight eight eight spears eight candlesticks instead of seven and says now what do we learn from this two things number one the idea we know that the one of the reasons why we when we light candles we light counting upwards is what mal in the kesh The aim of reading the idea of ascending in holiness and sanctity and not descending. So he says what better example could there be says of ascending in holiness where they come into the B mikdash they find the spoils of war okay weapons that were used for destructive purpose originally and they transform those vessels of destruction to what? to a temporary manora to become a cle for kadusha to become a a vehicle to bring holiness and light back into the world back into the base of mikdash and back into the world. So says the the story is not as [clears throat] it appears word for word in the in the cannon of the gumar but we have to look to this and it teaches us that what that theash demonstrate with when there's a will there's a way okay that when theash come into the mdash they see utter destruction and they see there's no manora and but they see laying there what swords and they could have just thrown up their hands and said it's finished we lost the whole enterprise But they didn't do that. They looked around. They saw the spoils of war. They put together a makeshift minora which now has eight candles which explains the idea of lighting eight candles in eight nights. Not that the oil burned miraculously for eight can because again in the pika the version of pika there's no mention of the miracle oil right it's just eight spears and says this teaches us another fundamental and important message of khan associated with khan and that is what the idea of raton when a Jew demonstrates the raton the desire to serve God even in the darkest of moments when we kind of make the first step forward our desire to serve him, he will fill us up with light says. My bra for every single one of us, but as we go to our coffee break is that as we start to think, look ahead and start to think about Khaneka, we take all these ideas, these beautiful ideas to heart and that we should indeed be blessed to show that we do have the rats to come close to him and that he will in turn bless us to be to fill us up with light.