Balancing Priorities - Rabbi Shimon Isaacson

so I'm alaikum everyone I wanted to wish everyone a beautiful beautiful Hanukkah I wanted to share with everyone a beautiful gamara the gumara is shares with us the plight of a banani has no money whatsoever and all he can afford it's Friday night of Hanukkah all he can afford is one candle of course he cannot use the same candle for near Shabbos and their Hanukkah new Shabbos you must benefit from this shop is near Hanukkah Australia and he only has enough money for one what does he do so I'm gonna tell us on the one hand wow near Hanukkah there's a mix of presumenisa it's such a valuable mix of the same Ani could not afford wine for kitties or a candle wine for kids would take a back seat to the candle but when it comes to a candle for Shabbos a candle for near Hanukkah the Quran tells us as valuable as personisa is the nearest Shabbos wins out Shalom bias adif the peace and Tranquility that is represented by Shabbos and the neros winds up and this Camaro could be understood not just as a technical gumar about what an ani does push comes to shove but more of a philosophical message that it identifies that we as Jews we as human beings we play two roles we have a public role we have a role in the community in this school on the street at work the presumably a role of being makade a role of influencing the worlds around us a world and a role of prisminisa and we also have that which goes on in our homes the Shalom bias the peace and shrinks will it be the light that we illuminate in our homes and ideally we have enough time energy space emotion to accomplish everything to accomplish our Public Works and our private works but sometimes push comes to shove is a class we can't achieve both our needs are pulled in so many directions and there's a clash between the workplace a community and the home and here the Kumar is unequivocal the camera says Crystal Clear shalom the energy is when it's when there is that Clash the energy and the focus has to be on shown bias that must be our Focus this message I think we share with young hassanim the day of their wedding at the hopa they stand under the hope of the Hassan kala and their home the Chupa is open for everyone to see but right away afterwards perhaps in the climactic moment of the wedding ceremony they go into ihood everyone is shut down and shut out and we experience that sense of Champy's close ranks and they are together this is The Duality that their Shabbos represents near Hanukkah represents ideally we have time energy space to achieve it all push comes to shove some guys that they work first from the inside out we make sure the bias is secure happy and with Sullen and then we permeate that joy and that light to the street outside have a beautiful Shabbos and a listener [Music]