Lighting Up the Night - Part 5: The Secret of the Dreidel - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

you know I must admit I always thought dreidel was a baby game you know I couldn't imagine why playing dreidel like I could you play dreidel but then I saw something so amazing that I want all of you if you just would take a pencil on paper you write down four things you'll go crazy from what I'm about to tell you and you'll be able to tell it over either tonight or Hanukkah or tell it over tomorrow if anybody's going to a party tell it to your children grandchildren you got to spread it around because it's unbelievable the holiness of the dreidel and the blade sauce God then I'll simply share every the dinner for Rebbe says this thing he says what are the four letters of the dreidel known gimel shin and hay right no one get mo shin and hay he says you know what that is that's the history of the Jewish people the history of all the various gulleson all the difficult times that the Jews had now watch what he says at the first place I made us one the first place that macness was destroyed we could not bring a Korriban we could not bring it's called a sacrifice it doesn't mean sacrifice as you'll see in a second how does the Torah as anybody know how does the Torah say when a person wants to bring a sacrifice it says vanish she's active the soul of a person wants to become close a kind of bond doesn't mean sacrificing means coming close so nephesh when the soul of a you of a Jewish person wants to come close that Shem he brings a quarter bond but if tur the first place I meet gosh that known that nefesh was flawed so write down if you can noon is nefesh okay that's the first letter what happened by hang on hang on your mouth Shamal just like Hitler wanted to kill out every Jewish body he didn't care if somebody would convert he wanted to kill the Gulf's what does goof mean the body he wanted to kill the body of every single Jewish man woman and child so what is the gimel on dig on the dreidel goof what is known let's hear nephesh what is gimel goof watch this what happened by the upon him what did they want they didn't want to kill the Jews they wanted to change the Jews and what did it change our mindset Alice a cell that's what the shin or sinner say so they wanted to show us not Torah hostage Allah was important not that means what are important culture the human body literature art science math that's what the Greeks were into so they're trying to change our cycle that was the girlís of psycho so what is known nephesh what is gimel growth what is shin Se fell says the banana sauce called look around today today ha coil we have every type of godhood hamas is trying to kill us of course in the time of the blade yourself why he wasn't talking about Hamas he was talking about those in his generation but we look around Hamas right they're trying to get rid of us ok and you have never we still cannot bring the carbon so the net fish is flawed and the sake of look at America trying to poison us the poison our minds intermarriage is worse in America than it ever was more than 60% rock monoliths long so today ha coil we have all the type of gulleson so what's known nefesh gimel goof shin is say ho hey here's a quorum rights the Blair you saw Skaar know dreidel can spend forever they're all going to fall and when they all fall down now watch what he says you got a flashing your seatbelts to listen to this who knows bug of Maitreya how much those letters equal knowing is how much 50 no altogether gimel is 3 Shin is 300 and hay is 5 how much is that 358 get ready you know it's come on three on three 58 mushiya exactly ma'am chin your that's you who go crazy that's what the Rene yourselves was telling us these girls and they're gonna fall what remains 3:58 and what rises from that 358 that's mashiac and what the rubberized you tell us might weaken shamora you miss Annika how lucky and how fortunate we are to come here the night of Hanukkah the night of New Year's Eve when we're not out watching the ball fall we're here watching Torah rise because we're different we're the Shemin we're we ln of e here we go i'm every tells us the Jews are like olives why because they're always fresh we're always vibrant and we keep separate and we rise to the top so tomorrow make a party or gather all your kids around take some juice and orange juice of water and oil don't worry about Bob touch because it's not all ties with us you're teaching them something special and you watch the oil rise to the top and tell them my dear children and grandchildren that's what we're all about we rise to the top and no matter what the nations of the world think eventually that dreidels gonna stop spinning it's gonna fall and from that falling the goal is simple fall but the 3:58 mushiya more remained it should happen in our time let's all become waste for hire less people we should reach our potential and preserve that to see mashiac on our time thank you for inviting me and thank you for listening