The 4th Leg - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

is a special time of the year everyone is just seemingly happy you walked on the streets of yerushalam you see adults and kids alike lighting their menorah kids playing with dreidel and adults sitting around sharing beautiful different toy eating superganio it's a beautiful beautiful sight to be seen and the random writes himself that it's near mitsuha the candle the lighting of the candles it's a mitzvah it's a special special mitzvah as a matter of fact it's the only time in all hills rambam that he that it's precious what is so precious about the midsole of chanukah in a perfect world the world stands on three things torah avodah and kamil as the missionary famously says we have another set of three in judaism that's very big and that's the shalom we have and if you look closely those two sets of three actually correspond to each other the torah is absolutely when we receive showing us his closeness to us and the last but certainly not least is pesach which i performed tremendous qassadin in a perfect world the world stands on those three things and those three things alone but we have a yitzahara we live in a world where sometimes there's outside influences just like there were at the time of the greeks trying to darken our torah trying to create doubt in our lives and our belief and our convictions in nikolas baruch and that's when chanukah came in hanukkah is the mitzvah is the holiday that we get to light that fire that's burning inside of us it's the only holiday that shows up in the winter in a time that is cold and sometimes things aren't as clear as easy to be seen we light our menorah we're saying that this is what is burning inside of us the belief in our college brother in a perfect world we only need the three shallow gulen a chair can stance you can sit on a chair on three legs but you gotta be perfect once things start to wobble and shake in your life a little bit you need that fourth chair and that fourth chair that fourth or regal which also means leg that is hanako and we have a beautiful hint of this nikimara the kumara says what is the proper time to light your hanukkah candle until the people are coming home from the shook is a place that in itself you might not find so much holiness but that's where you find the mitsun that's what hanukkah is all about hanukkah is the idea that in your life maybe there's darkness like the greeks are trying to do don't forget your ability to light that flame you have the ability to show that that is what your inside is all about the way i like to envision it's like a shabbos lamp you know when you turn the shabbos lamp it gets dark in the room the light's not off you just can't see it now on top we return that lamp and we let that light shine through now there's a lot of hanukkah that you should put the menorah on the left side of the door on the right side of the mesozoic so you're surrounded by mitzvos when you walk into outside the museum on the right and the middle on the left but if you think about it when you walk out of the house your menorah is now on the right side the strong side because that that message of what the nor represents that you're staying true to what you are that you're going to bring that fire with you it's what you need to bring when you leave the house when you go into the world and now the world's values are the same values as ours we need to stay true to ourselves to be that fourth leg to make us stand comfortably in the ground even when things aren't as dark and it's in the winter everyone have an amazing hanukkah and should it be the fourth leg that makes us stand strong the rest of the year [Music] you