Lighting Up the Night - Part 1: Olives, Chanukah & Mashiach - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

[Music] the prophet yemiya navi he was talking about the jewish people and in the 11th chapter of pasik tazhayan he tells us that the jewish people zayas ranan they are like a beautiful olive tree hashem called jewish people like an olive why an olive why defca that which produces oil what is so special about an olive and the midrash in shemos tells us why did yemiyah tell us that the jewish people are like olives and he says something and try it out with your children and grandchildren try it tomorrow while chanukah is still with us they will never forget it and you won't forget it either take a glass tomorrow and put in some water and put in some orange juice and of course the orange juice and the water are going to mix but then put in some oil and you'll see an amazing thing that will happen this oil with the water and the orange juice is not going to mix with the water and the orange juice the oil will rise to the top and when the children see it and you see it you won't forget it you could hear it in the medrage but when you see it actually happen you will understand why yeah miaow said the jewish people are like olives and oil you know why because we separate we're different than the nations of the world tonight which is the night of new year's eve all over the world people are drinking celebrating and doing anything but learning torah look at us people said to me nobody's coming here tonight everybody's going to new year's parties i said it's not true the bid gavriel people are holy they're coming to learn tonight you can deserve a round of applause give yourselves a round of applause and that's what it means that you rise to the top that's what yeah meow is saying and how special it is tonight the final night of chanukah that jewish people should come together to learn torah to be able to be inspired and to rise and to be different in the whole world especially tonight hashem has made it that we should feel good about ourselves and feel pride and be proud that we are jewish people that on a night when the whole world is partying we are partying with the torah and we are learning what it means to be so special and so before we start the whole lecture i want to give every one of us everyone including myself you know what david says in tehilim in the 128th chapter he says your children should be sim like olive plants around your table and of course many of the commentaries says why are jewish children why did david hamelach bless them that they should be like olives and he says you know why because olives are always fresh and vibrant and they're always in season and that's what we wanted our children should be fresh and vibrant and levitic and alive and excited and always in season not every fruit is in season but we want our children always to be at the top of their game so to speak and that's what olives are and that's the braha that we give each other tonight when we lit the final candle the eighth candle and i want to tell you something really i was thinking of ending with this but i am so excited about this that i can't wait to the end do you know what rabbi vadiya yosef says it's unbelievable only he could think of it he says you know what mashiach stands for hanukkah isn't that it's wow it's amazing right hanukkah has been around since you know a thousand years at least right and he thought about it tonight's tonight who knows maybe michelle's getting ready to come tomorrow morning right mashiach on this holy day of zoys hanukkah that's what we read in the torah tomorrow that's what is telling us that when jews celebrate hanukkah in the proper way and they light the candles and they see the light what is the true light of jewish people we know kinet mitzvah the torah or every mitzvah is a candle but you know something i once heard something amazing what happens when you have a terrible wind it's going to blow out a candle right so no matter what mitzvah you do sometimes outside influences the outside winds could have an effect materialism immorality secularism but what happens when the winds come against a big fire rahman al-atsan we saw it last night those of you who know in kew garden hills there was a terrible terrible fire and why were they fighting the fire for hours because of the winds when the winds come and there's a fire it spreads even more and when there is the fire of torah mitzvah torah or and the winds come from the outside world the torah spreads even more because we become determined and when all of you come here tonight on a night that every one of you could have gone to parties and every one of you could have found an excuse not to come to this holy basement and you came that's how we're spreading torah that's what ramaphadya yosef would be so happy and that's what he would say that's the beginning of mashiach because madhlik and shimonat hanukkah