Maximizing My Connection - Part 4 - Rabbi Menachem Nissel

at the last two times that we were together we spoke about Britta cetera and how it applies to us in the real world and I wanted to speak today about the rooster about the first of the 15 morning Broncos instead I'm going to continue the theme about a woman's be serious nefesh vitara and connected to Hanukkah so I hope that's okay and you probably think no not Hanukkah again but I really do think that there's a lot of new material that you're going to be getting right now and it's not just inspiration will hopefully practical as well just to begin so we were children we learned about the Hanukkah story is basically the good guys and the bad guys you had the the Greeks and you had the cash mean I'm who are fighting over the menorah in the basin mcdouche basically it's a story of a voter when I when I teach tequila which some of you I think it had me to tell a teacher and teach fila so Hanukkah is exciting because there's a lot to talk about Sheila and konica when you get to yeshiva so every Russia sheaven every much gear this time of the year is speaking about mysterious nefesh vitara that the War of the Russian I'm was the war of terror versus anti-terror the anti-terror forces the menorah symbolizes tersh welfare etc etc etc what I want to say today is that we know that Judaism is built on three imodium the almond of terror the armed of a voter and there's a third one of which ladies are the guardians which is the omelet of mosca sodium which bases ramp the Jewish home and if you want to write down the title for today's class it's called the the battle for the Jewish home when the Hanukkah story and I want to focus on the the Greeks had a very definite understanding of what a Jewish home was all about and their goal was to fight and destroy it and to battle against it and this is your story this is the story why the midst of Hanukkah is near ish obey so you don't light the Hanukkah candles side the synagogue you don't like the kind of candles outside the base medisch outside the Shiva you lie to outside the Jewish home because at the end of the day the centerpiece of the centerpiece of the Jewish experience is the Jewish home there's no question that the basin medisch and the basic nurses are vital components without that we cannot survive but the action we're actually happens it's a shame we talk about the braha show sunny coroner sir revolver speaks about this sunny Kirtsaeng night the rotten of the kurdish borrow who is that the action of building happens around the Jewish home and on that the women are the guardians so that's what I want to focus about today are we all pumped up is that ok can we do this Leah and her to get the Jewish home the Jewish kinder luck is fantastic so I want to begin with a med rush this mattress is not so well known it should be well known it should be spoken about a lot when we had the party yesterday practice for Yeshua and it's the story of what Nicole's the mice are very similar bottom of the konica story so backtracking we all know that every single story in history has its roots in the book of Genesis and safe aberrations somewhere in safe aberrations we have the roots the rambam talks about this in several places the question is where does the Hanukkah story have its roots in the book of braces there's three answers and one is the story of Joseph atopic Joseph's Beauty versus the beauty of the Greeks the other which we're going to go back to in a few minutes is a stirrup Dina this is the arg Adagio has an essay that the story of Dina Dina which is the Jewish woman she is the centerpiece of the story that comes out against what the Iranian were trying to destroy there's a third one which is report nur obviously based on earlier earlier sources that says the following the struggle between Yaakov and the angel of a sub not ace of himself the angel of a self that is the Hanukkah story in microcosm in other words and those hear that follow the partial yesterday and so there's two battles going on there's the battle between good and evil between Yakov and ASA ASA is a value system and Yaakov is a value system asos value system is all about the physical earthly animalistic world he's cool Adam Adam means instant pleasure and said Oh means I want to have my fun now the consequences don't interest me he nay I know the Holy l'amour la Malia Blair I'm going to die anyhow I might as well have party time now enjoy myself it's a Vulcan Sean that's a world outlook it's the fulfilling of the bucket list on the physical earthly animalistic pleasures of this world and Yaakov you and I we stand against this we when we're young we plant seeds is what you're doing now you're planting seeds for a future and the harbor a clubby maybe Horace aqua is a very anti ace of very anti your Vong concept when you're young you think about realness and then oh you knew them to savor the Shane ear anatomy when you get older than you reap the benefits that's the way we look at the world that's one battle that's the battle between Yaakov and a sub in general but the battle between what's called the really oven and the real Yakoub is symbolized with the battle against the Sarah shall I serve and that says her partner is not a battle against type against rah it's not a value of the album of value systems it's a battle between kedusha and Tamar kedusha and tumor can never ever be explained in the sociology class it's not to value systems it's something beyond the world that can be explained logically rationally the idea that we believe that kedusha is real and kedusha is worth fighting for and the idea the Greeks was so smart and they were so deep and they so understood it that they understood that they had to pump the world with tumor and Tamar should be what destroys kedusha and it's another world league battle and it symbolized in the battle between Sarah shall a sub and Yaakov himself so let's remind ourselves of the story and see what's got to do with Hanukkah and what's going to do with her so I'm renting out from a Madras coma douche ner mitzvah it's not a well-known Madras and these are the words and i quote utter misar tanasha saw al parke cotton visually so the preamble of the battle between Yakov and the Sasha lays off is a Yaakov is most or nefesh mean he goes out on his own in the move the night without his little army of protectors he goes out he makes herself vulnerable so that he can get pocket on him those little jobs so a sham says you were Mesa nefesh a puff cotton for a park cotton a little jug so this medicine was just one pack in Qatar name is really pocket um wishfully Domini brought me a shelling the Vanessa I will pay your children the park cotton whippany hush money Shania neighs aliud a pocket on that a miracle was done with the pocket on this is very exciting because here we have it over here me to connect Amira you're prepared to give up your life for one little jug I will reward you with one little jug and that will be the miracle of the Hanukkah story beautiful so am I know what you're thinking yeah because I need a matter for sheriff sheriff no hun and a famous everyone else's man same as the Hasidim they took about this what was the park cotton the park cotton was filled with chemin and this is dino the chemin versus chemin and if you're if you're a fan of the issue it is rates is the cities of issue it's so that's like a gypsy rabbit was famous for for ideas that were like well they knock your socks off week is hard to deal with and he says that park cotton is the same park cotton as the Hanukkah story so some are rather from generation to generation like a like lahav till the ring if you know what I'm talking about in the lord of the rings that goes from place to place from generation raishin right until eventually it finds its final final fruition lahav will come to know Tara you have the little jug that was filled with oil which was belonging to Yakima vena it wasn't just a little jog it was a joke as the sperm bring down d was mostly nefesh for it was his hard-earned were it was his co-op in other words we had a little bit of himself inside a little pot calm and that goes from generation to generation from year to year until eventually it ends up with the seal of the Kohen Gadol in the base of my gosh and that is the connection konica story to the story of Yaakov either being mosa nefesh for the problem beautiful beautiful beautiful that's not what I want to talk about today sorry okay it's not what I want to talk about I want to talk about her baina bahia and baina bahia you guys are going to go home y'all's was going to say so what did this we'll talk about csam the pocket all the space dammit no robaina Bahia I beta Bahia no one knows I don't know if no one knows but for me was a discovery and its first time I'm the only person that says what I'm about to say either it's incredibly amazing or it's probably shakur but I'm gonna say in any out he says the pocket on him were not um small drugs they were not small jobs rather they were pop him lookit on him they were jugs for little people so perfect timing because we're just getting into the getting to the exciting part of the class quick summary of everything we said so far so the story of Hanukkah is a battle between kedusha and Toma as report no exclaims and the source and the book of Genesis is the stir of the struggle between Yakub and thus our shoelace of what happens says rapini bahia Yaakov was most inefficient to Jewish children which means that he's making a statement about his value system above all is the Jewish home this by the way is consistent with the alcove because al Behrman you talk were very much involved with the outside world you suck I'm not explaining that properly but a brownie I talk and you can see it that they're at Phyllis was was chakras and mincha so they're involved with the world of Clary the role that you can see the outside world and they're trying to change the world for everyone Yaakov is a one-dimensional up everything about him is focused on building a nation if passions by 8a which we read we can offer though just over a week ago is the foundation of the Jewish home everything is yaku's vision how to build a nation that's what matters to him and when it comes to building a nation he's prepared to give up his life for what he thinks is important what is important for Yaakov these little things these cuties over here right it's Jewish children and to the point where he's prepared to give up his life and then the sorrel a sock says okay I see the battle lines have been drawn if he's prepared to give up his life for little cops for little children out of their little the cops for little children so I've got to go in and fight I need to fight to the end this is something huge do something that matters there's something special and unique about Jewish children which the satchel a sub understood you have to fight against and Yaakov understood you have to fight for now let's go and take this a few hundred years later into the konica story and there we all know there's a story called the steer a few Hutus and the stir of you Horace has different versions of how it how it happens and I have a home a collection of Madras new Hanukkah the Madras even konica by definition are not organized because Hanukkah is the beginning of the story of tur shovel pad so the Madras ama unorganized they're here they're there some were more authentic than others there's one version which is called and I quote medric my so Hanukkah how did the Hanukkah story begin different version from the way that you were taught when you were little girls difference there is a different version and just to introduce it we all know that the yvonne team came in and made all kinds of terrible decrees that would ask you which was the worst to career vol so you could well argue this idea of call an essayist anyone that gets married novella the head mine killer would go and be taken to the head mount first now the word head mom is a Greek word for a commander which made into the English language hegemony the idea of idea of somebody controlling so he had local Greek commanders and the Jews will out to make weddings and have a wedding day and a wedding night but that night she would not go to a husband she would go to the local Greek commander then afterwards she could go to her husband's I'm asking a question tongue-in-cheek because you will instantly know the answer the question is is if you're a great commander you can do what you want just study history and look what did male conquers due to the female population when they wanted and it's really uncomfortable um cuz rakesh engage and have another man in this room rather would that be here completely on my own and to say to you that that the world history is a Busia for the male gender because this what happens somebody told me a crazy statistic I don't remember the exact statistic but South South America which was conquered by the Portuguese in the Spanish today something like forty percent of people that live in Spain live in South America have inside of them the blood of a woman that was taken advantage of by a portuguese or spanish invader the word forty percent is a huge number because it keeps them getting bigger and bigger every generation because people marry but that's the way they said the idea is something horrific you can do whatever you want so a greek commander could do whatever he wants with any Jewish woman he wants what is this big deal about dr. the wedding night if you if you wanted a girl you could just take it whenever you want if you didn't want her he would ignore her what was the thing about the wedding night the answer is that the Greek commanders did not just want to take advantage of the female population they wanted very specifically to dilute the kedusha off the Jewish home so that eventually the Jews would assimilate into the Greek Empire and there'd be no difference between them and us that was their goal their goal was not just to be to be to be disgusting their goal was to be was a very very focused idea they understood that Clara is obsessed with the word coleus I never even thought about the world couriers you will never be able to explain knickers in a secular in a secular environment why do sir we will obsessed with us think about what you went through when you got married right there the the sinner what's here yes okay where will you come from everyone checking your papers last night I was speaking to neighborhood girl who liked you she moved to a different community and from a marble community to more yeshivish community and the first thing they asked those where our papers is that Williams you know give me let me Diane let me breathe first they prove you're Jewish true of your efforts so she's right and she's also wrong all right she's right she's a hundred percent right the very first thing you do is that you you do not ghost army because I've knuckles are him it's not it's not you have to first prove you're Jewish to receive Jewish hospitality but the second thing you do is that you got if you want to marry our sons so we've got to figure out what we have what does yes mean yes means that here on this world you have different types of people that are different types of cocos and different abilities to fix things in this world so the idea of vehicles means that i'm born different from the baby next to me because of where my parents and grandparents and great-grandparents came from it's a very anti Greek concept the Greek say prove yourself Allah shut up you know go out you want to be strong become strong are we smart become small you want to be artistic or poetic or architects go and study and do it and make a difference we say you come into this world a ready difference because you're a bus coming you're a bus lady and you're from the tribe you saw car and you're from the tribe is Valen so all these things are Jewish concepts I'd like to inject at this point now none of this stuff will help you in Olam haba just for the record your yellows only helps you here in this world and if you really think about it's more of a responsibility than the privilege it's the responsibility as my sister always likes to say you know your kiss is two zeros you got to put that one in front to get the hundred percent my father was showing me to say you could lie kappa teh go the best part is under the ground anyhow ash okay I tell ya so the sound of Chancellor neither said joke but the point is is that that needs that Kleiser is built on routes that are hidden and they define us and the Greeks wanted to dilute that and they wanted to destroy that and therefore they said you got to destroy the kaduche of the Jewish home said nine months later we don't know the fathers and not just that so I can't talk about this now but you can remember from your from your collar classes as some of you probably call it teaches already that at the very beginning at the very beginning just like Rosh Hashanah is sort of speaking microcosm of the whole of the whole year the very beginning of your marriage is a microcosm of your whole marriage and if you haven't have a collar that needs physic so I have a letter to an open letter to a collar that I sent to my tomatoes full of ideas about about the day of the marriage especially the questions I used to get I used to get connotation about to feel on this and this basically showing them the power the extreme power that you have during those awesome minutes under the chuppah are you beginning the beginning at the beginning of the beginning and the Greeks knew this and the the Kohanim nudists so this was a huge battle of kedusha versus two MA the kedusha finds its natural residents in the Jewish home and the tumor has to fight it and has to destroy it and has to water it down okay with that we can go over and this version of the steerer view hood is it's a crazy version it's a little bit is a reason why this story is not told in our schools we don't teach us generally and that you probably think that the centerpiece of the jewish home is the coffee station but yeah and but the point is is that his the story the story goes it was the wedding of the century what's the wedding of the century the most eligible young lady in all of Kaiser was the daughter of the Kohen Gadol and she's marrying the top off in lakewood or whatever is the politically correct place to say this mom and wherever your husband's learn but she's marrying like the top guy and this is the wedding where all the beautiful people have to be all the paparazzi's they're everyone who who's anybody is invited to that wedding this is it this is the wedding of the year and in those days they used to make big public weddings and everyone used to come we will see a look today with the rebbes when the rebbes Mariappa daughter so here you had this big big public warning everyone's there and they're going to party they're going to have fun there's the music there's the wine is the everything this is teeny weeny little secret that no one's going to talk about obviously that the the color hmoo hula is not going that night to her husband she's going to the local Greek war load which is what everyone else is doing at that point then so you don't talk about it and it's important to realize right up front that you hood is it that we seem that was her name you hooda's was a big today kiss because what she's about to do now is like shocking but she was a big Sudeikis and this is what I think she was thinking she was thinking of the following thing the Nazis perfected the idea that you can get used to anything those who that study the nuremberg laws you know that they didn't introduce everything right up front and this the way it goes the the world can get used to anything today no newspaper is going to cover what just happened now and even though the exact details but every day to day in israel two or three things are happening and every time the two of the things are happening there's another 10 things that could have happened but I xem took care of us it doesn't get to the papers anymore because it's boring nothing's really changed between that crazy week after Shana raba when you and I would not go to the Kotel we were scared of our shadows we just got used to it you get used to anything you get use the fact that it's normal for a thirteen-year-old arab kid here in a one mile from where you live to put a knife into his lunch bag ok just assume that's like yeah i guess it's the way things are and they know they may get killed and they don't care they don't care you get used to anything the nuremberg laws were based on that by the way that's what hammam did his little trick is that he waited a year before he would kill the Jews he didn't realize it was charged vantage so we could doll him and get her act together but he waited for you because he knew and I heard this from my regular Moshe Shapiro's moshe ben Rocco you should have a foolish Lena I heard it from him he said that time is the greatest healer of sensitivity so at the beginning was oh my gosh you're gonna destroy a whole nation they're such nice people my neighbors are Jewish how bad after year you get used to everything and that's just the way it is I'm I think you ladies are old enough to remember when the idea of one small team rocket coming from Gaza and the Land of Israel was considered a sewer how could such a thing happen you know the the word Palestinian was a word that was an hour's first came to Israel was like it was like it was like a swear word it was a forbidden word today we say ourselves without even thinking about it get used to everything you hooded snow that it was just a matter of time before it would just become okay that's the way it is you know wedding night you go to the local headphone you get it over with it's not pleasant but then everyone's happening to everybody it's like you know I mean I know it's like getting your shots you know I mean like you just it's a good thing that you have to do and then you get over with and you move on to your husband and you start your married like wrong wrong wrong wrong because this is allowed to happen within a generation there's no such thing as kedusha in the Jewish home that's what she understood and she understood the only way to fight it is to fire to the end and therefore she did something provocative of that wedding you can read the matter she did something provocative and publicly to the point that her brothers were wanted to kill her for what she just did so she did this crazy thing in front of everyone in front of absolutely everyone and they got up to kill her and she gave the following speech and it's recorded yesh doc I'm lil mite mishima on the lady ahi Dana hey Dina Dina hello hi other base makena laughs am the goo craw fish em I'm going to leave out the next six words for a moment you should learn from Shimon and navy the brothers of Dina there were just two people and they had the zealousness for their sister what was going on and they destroyed the whole city of shrimp and he has the following words omas through arts mom ow and they prepare to give their lives for what do you think next words are going to be give up the next lies for for their sister for a Jewish woman it's not what it says well you chill mark on the unity of God's name so Shania I'm latina Shem effort I never gave my class machine manhood here yet but we'll get to the schwa and we'll talk about the word I've heard the word a squad is the unity of God's name I love cast dollard's sham is Juan yes eight seven universities and down here download the four directions olive is also Yaakov and fast are the children of layer and Rocco and dollars are the children of Bella and Zilpah and this is the it was called the Yehuda the year hood downstairs is the condition of clyro and is a direct parallel between your home and the basin Midrash which reflects the base-emitter Shamala which is a coach borrow kushina upstairs and the sheena downstairs is basically encapsulated in microcosm in the jewish home I don't want to show up but I have our essay on this am i safe to Rick she laid which you should all have in your houses but their whole thing showing how the the the the mishkan was built round the house of avrum and Sarah not the other way around in other words the so to speak is not we say we build our Jewish home based on the mishkan well actually the reverse is also true the michigan was built on the house of avrum and sarah and physically the the Bria hottie Zayn Kane the wood was broken angels to the mid bar from the home of avrum and Sarah whatever it's all in that essay over there and my introduction to the sacred Rick she laid the bottom line is is that over here she knew exactly that the war against her was not just a war against her she being the the what do you see now at the it woman right she is the number one woman in all of Cairo was a microcosm of the whole war against the kedusha of the Jewish bias and she gave it to them and then she says and you people you're not to hear five people yehuda johanna shimon Alonsa yona some 200 / kahuna go out and show your zealousness for me and for my honor for the honor of claro this is what is how she pumps them up over here of course the men were all at this point I they will I can major major anger mode and you know guys get when they get angry it's like they're in heat we get like that thing is like you know whatever so since they're channeling against her they went out and the Hanukkah story began they open the next scene is every teenager she debacle loves the next seen because it's basically a like from the Godfather not that we know about these things you know Italian style they go in there and they kill thee they kill the Greek commander and that's how the world begins and that's how the Hanukkah story begins so now I want to bring this back to us what this means to us because we see over here Oh patent over here we see ya covino in the root story is mostly nefesh for the children and it's not just the children is the condition of the children and that many years later you Horace lit she was prepared to give up her life for the kedusha of the Jewish home once again and then we see the decrees of the Greeks was so focused against us there was another decree which you will know that they have to keep their front doors open the front door open is not just a symbolic thing it's not just it's nice breach it also means that your home is how you keep the outside world outside so you can nurture the inside wall on your terms it's how Woman builds a Jewish home is it ok this is also between us Yaakov Yaakov saw the base-emitter she called the bias Yitzhak coded asada I don't call it a higher but Yaakov aveeno who's the builder of the Jewish home he sees the base-emitter which is a place that you protect it from the outside and then you keep it strong from the inside so many many generations later we have our generation today we have we celebrate Hanukkah and we try and ask miles what is the hanukkah battle today so I want to point out something to you I know it's kind of obvious but if you go back all those generations and you look at the Battle routine Yakoub and the star shoelace of you'll see something very interesting and if you never heard this before this is incredibly powerful Yaakov fights all night long with the Sarah shoelace of what is all night long mean all history long Olga was long the Sun rises then he turns over and says to sorry shoelace of he asked him what's your name it's a funny thing by the way so you'll never understand this because your ladies but if you're a teenage boy I still remember when I first read the story it's like a funny thing you're fighting all night long and then afterwards you know you could guide when ladies fight no offense but when you guys fight when you fought as teenage girls right so you fight any whatever is most of its verbal and the rest is with your nails and then the whole thing is over with and then you never talk together another 50 years that's a your brother this has to be thing it's a whole social drama to get you guys that guys can fight and then they forgot what they fought about and then minutes later they're like hanging out you know I mean like sharing a cigarette is so what's your name you know me ok so what's your name I didn't even get your name right guy just we just had a fight it's your name of their soul ohonta Ellis of dollars Yaakov turns to a siren says okay I fought you all night long what's your name I just remember that he would give yaakov his new name yes sir i'll kiss Teresa Imel Oh Kim ok that you're able to fight with it with angelic powers the astrology elevated name of chirality angel gave us but we asked him what's his name what did he answer love is a tissue lish me why you asked my name for hello excuse me sir I mean I just that I just beat you in battle we just happy wheels had this huge massive fight over here and you're gonna say to me not telling your neck you better tell me your name as i'm going to give you another arm lock you know whatever you do when you fight angels it's insane well it just asked to his name tell me your name so can someone hit please tell me what did Yaakov really ask when he asks what's your name was he really asking what are you all about okay your name is your essence yeah Calvino knows that this angel is down but he's not out he's going to come back every single generation and he's going to haunt his children and grandchildren until the end of days and try and destroy them I want to be able to this victory I demand from you I want to know what's your essence what's your trick what's your power so i can warm my children and my grandchildren and great-grandchildren and they should know what you're all about so what does he answer why are you asking my name that's kind of rude telling your name when you tell me your name so what's the answer he did telling his name my name is why do you ask my name in other words in simple English you're completely missing the point of what I'm all about I don't have a name because a name fixes me with one mihalik I don't have one Mahalo I will change myself like a chameleon from generation to generation to generation so that I will be able to do whatever it takes to bring your children down and to dilute the kedusha in your Jewish home so basically yeah this is a crazy thing because if you want to know what the Hanukkah story is today you got to know the sorrow show a sub has a new name every generation so 100 years ago I would give a whole rampage about communism or whatever it was that was destroying our youth they were attracting them today it sounds like a joke but it's always a joke where he does is just how does the pasuk says leave us a Yaakov lavado Valley our vacation with us by your Vic mean so now she says he created a buck buck is this crazy crazy sandstone that when you go in there it looks huge when you're going when you go in that year oh there's nothing there it's just a mirage he doesn't have anything but he constantly changes it can't see changes it generation to generation so that he manages to drive out the katusha from the Jewish home sayonara because I'm not a Muslim a by and say you're not going to give anyone mostly in this room but if you ask me as an educator today the Sarah show ASA has recreated himself in probably the most scariest most powerful way then he has managed to pull off in all of history and that's the internet I don't want to sound like oh no here he goes I'm not going to do that to you ladies I'm not but just pointing out something very very simple until now more or less the Jewish home was protected because he had outside with the Communists or the socialist or whatever was out of the Bolsheviks whatever out there was sucking the universities and all the things that make us scared for to come to Jewish home that's it it's the smell of a fresh cool that's it and the sounds of your of your husband's learning whatever you're too hella whatever went out the Jewish home was always always protected was always a safe haven motivo ojala hiyaah Mishkin irsaffy israel bilham understood that he cannot penetrate the Jewish home they are safe they are a safe haven they have their doors clothes inside the Jewish home we cannot touch that's the way most of history looked like today if I could quote one of my ncsy kids in Toronto Canada he told me this two years ago and it just said rabbi don't you get it i asked them and i had a bunch of guys no girls in the room is it okay with just guys okay I just want to know the statistics how many of you access inappropriate sites on the internet so you'll athletes and one of them said to the words RAB way it's just three or four finger movements quote and you're good to go okay three or four finger movements so basically what i mean is today in your in the privacy of jewish home in your bedroom in your bathroom where it is you take out your little cell phone little thing over there okay a little out there and you then and then afterwards you can access an infinity of trash they can keep you going for the next couple of centuries there's no end to the stuff over here and this is not the purposes days class but that is the number one problem that Myra beim who are in boys kind of a dealing with today they don't really have a solution except for the little small teeny fact that we have one powerful antidote koperasi eight Sahara barosky tura Tomlin so the turret opera is the key to what we're trying to do in the ship is in the base image and it works it works bahasham you can ask your husband's it works with the power of terror but the bottom line is is that the Sarah a sub is incredibly powerful he does he has his trick and he brings it to the Jewish home and it's lychee vie avec ish emo it creates this smoke screen um and I don't know who's in this room now and if you've ever in your past you have access to the internet but it's incredibly much chef right and assuming you don't do anything wrong okay whatever your sister-in-law Sun giotto Hassan a clip on YouTube she started constant them in the end they give you you know as you can get a shwekey song as you go cash wacky song is great and after that you get like a Maccabeats song so then suddenly and then you don't know what happened but suddenly two hours later you're doing a tutorial about how to communicate with a giraffe right you have no idea how you're there and say I didn't do anything wrong it's just that something said oh my god i just wasted two hours of my life that's a little victory to the sarah schley so even if you do something completely innocuous kosher this is the this power that it has today I'm just use this as one example because then it's not just the internet is the whole world has become smaller and the Jewish home is more under threat than ever before so a little bit like the Purim story I always tell you the perma story ends and they all lived unhappily ever after how does the Purim story end esta still meritocracy to that creature to that disgusting lowly beasts Akash there here is a very lowly person so and cries are still in collis so this everyone is unhappy or the Hanukkah story which we're not going to talk about here in this class it spills into the month of today's to tell us that it's unfinished business the Greeks are sort of powerful and me and the war against kedusha is alive and well the war against kedusha has never beaten more frightening than it is today well thank God we have ramat eshkol and we have some hair emo have it and we have this whole we are we have 5,000 people living in mirrorland and this is it we are we are this is it if it's not us there's no one out there that's going to do it is to build our homes base impurity so now I want to get to something practical the show Canara and scimitar fresh I inallof based on the gomorian Chavez calf based on with Alice tells us how to like how to light your candles so in Europe we never did it this way and when you grow up you probably never saw this at home any of you managed to light candles when you're growing up outside your front door okay we're we're ready ready to live and it's just amazing look at first was nice and warm you could do it okay but I grew up in London I only saw windows everything was windows so I saw well no if you have these today you have these protective things all these different things yeah protect your thing the bottom line is you don't see it anymore um excuse me excuse me one way is here narrator throughout you can do it the way it's supposed to be there's how haha that is supposed to stand in front of your front door so you have your front door over here and your husband whoever it is is Karen tells a candle he has to his right a mezuzah and to his left by the front door the bottom is the is the is the menorah right he's wearing it's it's it's whatever that means but the bottom line is is that and he's surrounded by his family his wife and his children and his beloved ones in my case already grandchildren bahasham right it's exciting over here so what does it mean what does it mean a mezuzah you have Amazon your front door so the rambam says that the purpose of the mezuzah is a mezuzah is a wake-up call just like a chaffer on Rosh Hashanah wakes you up you look at the mezuzah as you into the home and you say oral oral mishna scan wake up wake up from your slumber you are about to enter a Jewish home so most people when they think of a home what's the home for relaxation so you go to the average home in America today I don't want to label you're gonna stand it home and that's it the the living room has new room there's that there's an RN Turkish a huge bigger indicators today's the article ish is the size of an iron okayish right and it's inside of that you have access to 250 TV stations whatever it is whatever there you have cable now Netflix everything okay so you don't just open up you open up like an earner can come over like it he opened up and there you have the screen and then you have then you have to fight with your spouse who gets to choose whatever is but there's enough stations from everyone everyone can watch what they want your grandpa watch The History Channel and Grandma porch the cookery channel and you know i mean the teenage girls can watch this the chick flicks and whatever's you can wear it is everything for everyone the whole time and it takes up it dominates the living room so what do we do so we come along and we have a mezuzah on the right hand side and the mezuzah says my house stands for something in my house we have bahasham the centerpiece is the jewish home we have the we have the table and at the table is my husband sings his shabbos murders you can sing as well but i always tells us to my seminary girls those of you who are struggling with non-jewish music do me a favor don't bring it into your home when you get married in other words you're starting with non-jewish music that's why you have zumba okay so I don't know somebody's but i understand you get to pretend that you're a latin latino dancer okay that's great okay fantastic okay that's why you have the gym that's why you have the car keep your living room Kadosh that's the one don't bring it into the Jewish home they're this way you're going to have your Seder table table your shabbos table your yomtov table this mirrors has to be there as the only the walls can only hit kedusha and nothing else I tell this also with my is my family's okumura it's exactly a camera but I don't know what is whether teenage girls you know they can wear is that pajama pant whatever is discussed this with your local also grab a but whatever you do you don't walk into the living room with anything except for dignified clothing your living room is that your that's your mission that's it that's what the your shabbos table is the shoe son and your shabbos candles is the menorah and whatever it is in the and the smell of the chance is the terrace you got everything going there you know is this this is all you have this is your place to your building so that you don't compromise the mezuzah tells you this is something that I'm not going to come from it's a wake-up call that my home stands for something and the key word is the one word that Yvonne would not accept and that word is kedusha kedusha cannot be explained logically you cannot Webster's or Oxford Dictionary cannot define the word kedusha it's not holiness it's something that cannot be explained it's time that we understand and the Greeks understand and we built our bias based on kedusha then you have on your left hand side you have the menorah and the little candles over there and the point is is that if the mezuzah means that my house stands for something the manure means and I'm prepared to fight for it that's what it means I'm prepared to go out and fight for it whatever it takes if it means that I'm going to be destroyed so be it but by dilute the kedusha I have nothing I have absolutely nothing my whole world is lost so you have to be able to say that I'm prepared to to fight for it now I want to add something because this is its fila class over here and if you want to fight for kedusha so in this room ladies over here says she won't answer every day think so that's what that's what we always talk about a defamation answer morning broca's you say the Shema and ashwin SH for an x-ray you say the words modem modem is an incredible to feel oh cuz modem you bow your head down like this and what's in front of you nothing your bounty heads to some that you cannot see and modem comes from the word who da a hold which is a Kabbalistic reference to Hanukkah and modem reminds you that we had heroes called Yehuda and you hood is both based on that word who da and they were both prepared to give up everything for some that you cannot see and the Greeks fight for only things that they can see in other words the whole idea of the what connects Greek wisdom and science to Greek art and Greek music in Greek sports is that the old base on acknowledging and giving credence and power to things that are visible in front of you so so a sports as the easiest to explain if you have in front of you you have you know the person could jump the highest which to us has a meaningless concept he stands on the top and the person who gets the silver medal he stands below him and they have to listen to his annoying national anthem and that's it that's the moment called the Haddam moments so when you go down and you say no Tim you are doing a political act you're doing acts defiance you're saying that I stand for something I'm going to bow down to some that you cannot see that thing you cannot see bowing down to some that you cannot see is the essential message of kedusha kedusha is always things that you cannot see what you can see kedusha you're seeing what makes what makes this cutter she's just would it's just water inside of it are Scrolls that are made out of animal skin what you're seeing is animal skin inside a wooden box what makes his Kurdish what makes us fast if the thing Falls because we say modem okay we believe in the power of things that you cannot see I wonder to myself about this woman yehudis we don't anything about her except for the story I just told you I wonder if she could have foreseen when she was prepared to start up the konica story that act of defines of mysterious nephesh if she could see that today in America most Jewish girls go to the head Mon willingly you stop and think about what that means it's it is Asura it's a frightening thing statistically speaking if you're Jewish in America today your grandchildren are not Jewish that's it is the last laugh goes to Yavin the last leg Yvonne has the last laugh unfortunately what a bitter enemy reclined below Gina said that if the ninth enemy is Germany the tenth will be America and cooley he did not mean America rakesh and we had that behind us the era of the concentration camps the gas chambers will never happen again the rebbe of the bells are ever guaranteed us that we have terrorism from the children of ishmael but we have another enemy and again with all that curse at Oak we have to America that it's a it's a nature a nation there's so much cast that at the end of the day the bottom line is is that they are doing on behalf of Yavin which you often never dreamed of diluting the jewish home so fast and so quickly than their own backyards and in the her ad world we don't even know what to do with ourselves I remember when I yeah a discussion why please don't laugh at me okay everybody 20 years ago when I've got married we said we had to move to America I remember telling wife I'm going to become consider Sh don't laugh again I come across it is why I just felt interested him in America managed to somehow keep the walls up there my kids are going to come out I see the children of the Concilium and the like the parents are like the grandparents they managed to keep they married the walls are much stronger it's not like that anymore the internet changed at all the internet managed to invade into babaev and summer and all the most beautiful communities that the rivers built after the walls are all crumbling because of the power of the internet and and and other social media that gets in I don't know where I'd move I know when we're movably here i'd say i would say lakewood but I spent half my time counseling kids from liquid I don't know I know what to tell you it's a scary well that we live in so what we have is is we have ourselves we have our own homes and we can't fix anything except for our own homes we can't change the walls but we can change what we have and do everything we can to say at least the bias at least my bias should be well you hurt us and her brothers were prepared to give up their lives for that it should be something that's in penetrable we spoke the last class and the class beforehand they spoke about burqa cetera and our definition of burqa cetera was a life where the study of terror is the centerpiece is no question about it and we spoke last week about Hawkins woolum and husband and wife and the parallels between them and terror is kedusha and his purity in your home basically has all the kedusha that we spoke about till now has in it that your home is a mahkum terror it's a place where terror is studied and it's a place where you you are building at our home to our family everything revolves around terror so you like in mineira similar has got this double meaning you'll be writing a menorah which symbolizes terrible pad but you're lighting it ask you come in to your Jewish home and hear men and women are equal to it it's interesting it's a time-bound mitzvah but women are obligated in the smiths of why says the Gomorrah octane hayabusa neighs and there's a mahoe cos they were in this miracle one is that they suffered like the man and the other that they created the miracle they're the ones that precipitated the whole the whole the whole Yeshua just like Esther created the miracle of Purim so you hood is created the miracle of hanukkah either way as the ones that are suffering are the ones that create a solution it shifts the konica story from the traditional male generated Judah the Maccabee fearless and bold behind him an army of young men and old that whole vision of the kind of you'll see you go look at the konica pictures of your children there's no women in there it's so wrong that if you want to do something on konica that's konica dick you ask yourself what can I do more to pump kedusha into my jewish home that's it and when you say modem and you go down you realize you are doing a defiant act against the cocos that believe in tomorrow that has its source in the oven in Malaysia of Yavin you are doing a defiant act by bowing down to something that you cannot see and that thing you cannot see is the kedusha that your life is all about so I just want to wish you all this is it gotta finish with something positive there's a beautiful beautiful medisch tahoma into tava that restrain relax the quote when they lit the candles where do they lit the candles the menara and the hot stories tkachev are you going to say it in allen ism hot sauce is plural it should be hot sarah could share her with me in the courtyard there's only one courtyard in the base of my gosh so the coach on so the matter says and this happens lit up in the base in mccosh and instantly that light which has its source in the oregon us and the hidden light from the beginning of creation lit up all the jewish homes so some are around is an amazing nace your home was lit up from that light a little teeny candle that was Yakka Levinas candle according to the edge pizza so from Yaakov to the base emitter to your home everything was lit up and now we're going to take that light and we're going to become the Cohen goggle once again and we're going to light it in their own Jewish homes and that's it so that's the concluding Bronco there are little candles altogether should join together and make a big candle that candles should be the owner of mushy aqua should be safer to it I'm here via mainly thank you so much for listening you