Meet the Unsung Hero of Chanukah - ''Shimon Hatzadik''

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone so uh this year there's only one uh wednesday night on hanukkah so we have to uh take advantage as much as much as possible um we begin with an amazing comment of the mogan avram but let's just announce that tonight's learning should be leola nishmas yoshua ben sielima tonight is his yard site so learning on hanukkah is a specialist says that a person should be mekazek on hanukkah because some gave over to maishabeno satyra so okay so let's begin with a uh a very important comment in the magnet abram of all the most concise of all of them is the magen of ram and one of the reasons is because mugen abram was so poor that he could not even afford to buy paper in fact the commentary magana maganavram was written on the walls of his house that's how poor the mughal brahma was so every word was very measured in the in the language of the magnum and the magin of ram introduces that the young poor children have accustomed to go around to the doors and the homes to collect uh tsudaka to collect hanukkah gelt on hanukkah so the mugen room is reporting to us this ancient custom that the minogue is that uh the kids would go around collecting at the doors says the mug in abram that what's the reason for this custom uva safer if you want to know the reason for this look in the safe for hanukkah now probably did not have the biggest collection he was very poor and if the maggie navram is quoting from another saver he could be sure that that safer is quite authoritative and this was a say for that that i had a hard time coming by it exists on but i had never seen the safer so last night i had the privilege to speak in williamsburg and on my way back so i couldn't help myself i stopped off in this farm store and they have a swarm over there that you're not going to see anywhere else you know they don't have you know the the latest art school releases that have some pretty pretty good good stuff over there and the uh one of the storm i came across i i happened to randomly take it out it says i love square khasi then the last thing i need is cedar halakas ner i mean what i i happen to take it out and lo and behold it was a safer published in honor of the grandsons of a grandson of the square rebbe this wedding and lo and behold there are a few pages in the back of the seder hadlock how they do it in square and the rest of the safeware was they republished the safer hanukkah now the safer kangasabayas we're talking about a safer that the morgan of rome quotes so we're going back many hundreds of years several devices was written by rabbinus one of the earliest salahuenum in the generation of the marsha the entire safer is on that parikh and how all of hill chanukah is maroomas in that period that we sing when we light the menorah so the imaginaram refers us and he tells us like this the magnavrom says that if you want to know the reason for so to speak hanukkah girls why we give the children money when they come collecting while looking to say for kanuka so if you look in the safe hanukkah he gives some pretty astounding ramasim he says that the word shemen we know there's a system called atash at bash is where you take the last letter of the allah phase and you substitute it with the first so an aleph is substituted with tough a base is with shin a gimmo with a dalid with cuff right atbash it's a system by the way it's uh it's interesting there's a martial says let's say let's take the word mitzvah the word mitzvah at bash if you add bash the first two oceans of mitzvah see you at kevke and then you have the above okay so really the word mitzvah is really the shame of hashem and there are many such words in the mesh that if you at-bash certain parts of it or a classic example that gemara gives is that if you look in the navi yermia he talks about battling sheishach what's sheisha babel shin shin is islamid so he says if you take uh the word shemen the name of hashem but then he says if you at chanaka so for example the ques would become the eighth letter in the hebrew alphabet would become the eighth to last letters of samach the nun the nun would become a tess the vav would become a pay the khaf would become alamed the hay would become at sadhi gamachi gumatria 269 if you add bash the word hanukkah you get 269 the same gematria as soyd tsudaka so already we have some kind of connection between hanukkah and giving to dhaka and as the say for kanukah points out sadako should be given the seisaid secretly okay and then he uh points out that the words have an america value of 391 the same as shemen and based on all of this he says the minogue is to give chanukah gelt to these poor children to these chanaka and this according to magna brahma is the reason for sadaqa specifically on chanaka however if you look in the premagadam prima goddam gives a little bit of a different reason why of all the yamaha television of the year the yamtif of siddhaka is the yum tif of chanaka and the primogram says like this he says that the bach teaches us that we know in times of purim there was a threat against our lives but in times of hanukkah our lives were not on the line it was hashem was on the line they were closing up the base of mikdash they put a stop to the lighting of the menoira so it means they were trying to the korea to take away taru mitsubis the bach identifies well we know everything in this world works neither can i give me the quid pro quo what aveiro did claudius role do that warranted that the evonum should come away come and take away the available so the box says like this that there are patterns in this world and the patterns are that when claudius throws in this rash shell and avoid for example let's say claudia swirl says you know i want a diamond chakras but shadows are club for seven o'clock or nine o'clock i'll show up at a time that i think is the correct time maybe in a little bit of a later time or in a lackadaisical way or a low energy way so ibanesham says you're not interested in davening i won't give you the opportunity to dive in at all in other words there are patterns in this world the way this world works is that if a person is makhazik himself in him it's not remarkable gives greater opportunity to perform if a person is weak in the mitzvah ibm says don't do me any favors i don't need it in fact there's a famous comment of the bali musser when they talk they talk about if you see in a country they try to abolish bruce mila where they try to abolish shrita you have to know why it's happening it must be that claudiuso is not being zaheer but kadusa sabres or kaiser is not being sawyer but eating cashews so your bonus says if you're not careful in a minute i'll take it away from you so the back identifies that the reason why the ivanim were successful and basically closing down the mesa mintage is because claudius over nisra shall and so listen to what he says watch what he says he says then it comes out they wanted us to forget the torah so therefore on hanukkah we strengthen ourselves in torah they wanted to take away the avoida in the bay san mateos so they found chanaka we have them and of course there are three things that the world stands on what are they allah because this way where muslim the third ammo that the world stands on toro they try to take away is the third pillar says the prima goddamn that's the reason why the maganavram says that on hanukkah the minute is to distribute gelt so so then it comes out like the whole concept of hanukkah guilt you're basically giving your your own family your own kids extra money they're not the ones who need the money the concept is to give sadaka the concept is not to give you know holiday gifts okay but be it as it may this prima godim was somewhat um troubling to me so it comes out why do we give sadaqa on hanukkah yeah because you need the three pillars that hold up the world torah to me that's not a very compelling argument i should give tzedakah because i want to have the third pillar that holds up the world i mean we always need the three pillars that hold up the world torah is the mantra for any day of the year you know if a jew wants to ask themselves you know am i fulfilling the main objectives of being a jew so you know writes in many places and it's probably the most common theme in chance you know what makes a good jew so every day a person has to learn every day a person has to do every day a person has the dhavan those are the three pillars of hashem that we should do it more on hanukkah than any day of the year i mean what's gotta do with hanukkah that doesn't that's not a very compelling reason to give tsunaka on hanukkah because you want to fulfill the third pillar that the world stands on now you gotta do it every single day of the year i mean that one of the questions they ask a person did you set time to learn that's not occasionally it's consistently writes every single day a person has to ask himself did i do a hustle today that's a question everybody has to ask themselves it has nothing to do with hanukkah how are we stuffing this into hanukkah why is the prima godim all of a sudden connecting chanukah to the three pillars that the world stands on so um i think we have a very a wonderful explanation a bunch of them gave me a great matana that i want to share with you and really a new understanding of the history of hanukkah last week we began to touch a little bit about some of the misconceptions and we want to bring it out even further this week there is a pasukka in the takashika at the end of the taka look at number four that at the end of it says like this the afghan zois and even after all of this the oyster at soybeam when you'll be in the land of your enemy loya asked him i will not despise you vlog him i will not be disgusted with you some to destroy you saying that i won't be disgusted with you i won't despise you i won't destroy you i want to know my covenant with you this implies that there are different toku fights in history where the iranian says even though maybe i should have been disgusted with you or i could have allowed something to happen i didn't so the gemara then identifies what are these different periods in history where we were in danger and the emotion saved us so the gemara magilla and that field very important tomorrow look at number five says the gemara and this passage the afghan zoys says the gemara in number five on the third line we learned to nebrasa may ask them i didn't this i wasn't disgusted with you be make them in the times of the chalideans and the times of the babylonians why i made heroes for you i created for you i gave you four heroes who are they daniel who are the jewish heroes i gave you all kinds of heroes i didn't destroy you who were the heroes mordechai esther and i didn't know my covenant with you in the times of the persians i gave you rebbe and all the time so comes of brethren was a great who lived in our time he wrote many farms especially on the works of the vilnigan he one of his uh very famous forum is he wrote an annotated version of the gra on mcgill esther that's like the authoritative going on mcgillis esther and rebroft the ass you know it used to be a game one of these things don't belong here you know you have a group you have four different things and he said you know one of these things don't belong so if you look at the different periods in jewish history and the different heroes one of them is like a very strange siddha you know you know they all go together they're all living in the same time they were all there when buchanan wanted clarissa to bow down to the selem they were the ones who didn't bow down mordechai and esther you know they were the two heroes rebbe and the tanoam but shimon had saddek and i mean who in the world is shema not sadiq he what does he have to do with the yvonne sheminate did anybody even hear of him now if you know anything about history shimano had absolutely nothing to do with hanukkah sheminat lived about 150 years before hanukkah he had nothing to do with hanukkah and yet the gemara groups him together with with the matasyahu ubanav and what kind of incongruous why are we grouping together and and if not for them the torah would have been forgotten from israel but what exactly does sadiq do who is he what did he do what's he going to do with the evan him and certainly what does he have to do with hanukkah so in shaas there are three gemaras about sheminate two of them we're going to examine tonight the first gemara that we're going to examine is digmar tells us about uh an ancient calendar date that we no longer commemorate and that is the 25th day of tevace was the day that you were not allowed to give a eulogy says the gemara and what happened on the 25th day of te base by the way this story happened in the year 332 bce okay so just to give you perspective hanukkah is 165 bc and the same way to make this was destroyed 68 69 70 common era okay so we're talking now 332 bce basically very soon into the building of the first base i'm ignorant what's the myself the mice is like this on the 25th day of teves the kutiyum went to alexander the great right and who is alexander great alexander great was the first emperor of the greek empire he passed away at a very young age alexander gray died at 33 years old he had basically conquered the world by his 30th birthday very young guy he dies mysteriously at 33 years old and at that time his empire is broken up into four parts so talmai took egypt now i'm sure many of us heard about talmud i think gemara talks about tamai but it was a different talmai the gemara talks about tamai the second who's known as taomai philadelphus nothing to do with the city of philadelphia he's tamai the second was tamai the philadelphus under his reign was the septuagint when the the the targum shivan when when the home translated the torah into uh into greek but now we're talking about talmud the first was sort of the heir to alexander's empire of egypt then you have antignos antignos ruled asia minor and then you also had solutions solutions took syria and solutions took israel okay but now we're in times of alexander the great zeal 332 bce and the couthians the kutaits they come to alexander the great and they asked permission can we destroy the vasa magdesh alexander says no problem go ahead so the jews went ahead and they came to sadiq now why is he called chaminad sadiq was he a bigger tsaddik than hillel then shamai that's beyond the scope of tonight's shirt if you want to know it's a history lesson maybe we could talk about it privately they came to sheminate so what did he do shimon outside put on the big day kahuna now this is the middle of a sugi on the gemara that talks about whether kangado is allowed to wear a big day kahuna outside of the dos avoid in the basement so it's a gemara numa and he put on the big day kahuna and he put on the uh priestly vestments and he took with him the most prestigious jews and they're holding torches and they're heading toward the entourage of alexander the great and the kuteits alexander the great turns to his accompany those who are accompanying him and he says to them who who's this entourage heading toward us so they said these are the jews who are rebelling against you finally the sun shone it's natachama and alexander the great catches a glimpse of shema sadiq now if you want to know what chimney sadiq looked like there's uh yermia had a son i know he had a son his name was ben sira now was he the biological son of yerma yahoo yes was yumyohu his father that's a separate question we'll definitely have to talk about that sometime but um then cyril was the son of yermihan and ben sira wrote very interesting books which is not part of the torah and in chapter 54 or something like that then seera describes the saintly look of sannek anyway um alexander the great catches a glimpse of shimano sadiq and he falls off of his horse and he bows down on the floor and completes submission to shimna salek so the kutai say to alexander you're bowing down to a jew what's wrong with you he said no you don't understand every time i go to war the image of shimon azadek appears to me in battle and i'm always victorious so what happens the gemara says comes to alexander and he says alexander what's what are you doing don't you understand that the house that in which we pray every single day that you should be successful these guys are about to destroy you you're gonna allow them to destroy it so alexander said you know what do to them whatever you want so we took our spears we stuck it into their ankles we tied them to the the tails of the horses and we dragged them on the on the ground and we buried them in the ground and we planted vetch and what they wanted to do to the harabayas we did to them and that day is a young thing and we don't eulogize on the 25th day of teve's market on your count so this just makes the question worse what did shimanat sadik do already for hanukkah the answer is absolutely nothing he lived well well well before chanukah probably at least 100 years before hanukkah and what do we find that he did absolutely nothing he put on the big day kahuna he made a cameo appearance alexander the great alexander comes off of his horse he bows down to him the sholem al israel so what in the world are we doing what is the gemara doing grouping together shimanot sadiq with the kashman shimnatsa kulhara has absolutely nothing to do with the period of hanukkah and the period of the kashmir let's ask another question this is probably the most well-known question when it comes to hanukkah and that is the question of the pranayashua asks that in that period of time the majority of claudia swell were tami now the halaq is if the majority of claudius tame you're allowed to do the avoidance but the rule is called toma so we know the evangelism does not make miracles for none god doesn't just perform miracles there has to be a reason for it there is no halachic reason to make a miracle they could have easily used tame oil and it would have been motor i saw you say okay but it's nicer to do it but tara says i'm why was it necessary for the revenge them to make a miracle that the oil that was supposed to last for one day lasted eight days just use tummy oil one more story let's talk again about sadiq because shimanot sadik by he was also the afbesden never again after sheminat sadik was the kaying goddale ever the obvious and never happened again and the gemara massachusetts tells us that there were many phenomenon that occurred in the basal mitosis during the rain during the tenure of shemat's addict that never took place afterwards what were they take a look at number 11. very important sadiq the 40 years that shimano sadik served in the base made a raffle he made aguero he made a lottery there were two serum there were two goats one goat was going to be offered la shem one goat was going to be offered la zazel and he would pull out the two ballots and miraculously for 40 years every single time the kayengato stuck his right hand in the ballot the right hand said la shem and every single time i left said la zazo now i don't know about you if you flip a coin three times and you get a heads three times you got something going and you do it four times you know you need to quit your job 40 times to get the lashem on the right side it's not possible it's mathematically one out of over one trillion okay it's statistically impossible for forty years every time it happened on the right side ah however after shimano sadiq sometimes the kangaroo put in his right hand he got la zaza sometimes yeah sometimes until in the forty years of shinnataki every single time hashem during the times of sadiq out with the red string on his head it always turned white after shaving during the reign of sadiq the fire of the mizbayach was always strong was always strong they never had to add fuel to the fire except for the required two logs that was a key of every day after sheminate came out every day the kohanim had to add to the fire digimore says during the times of sadiq got a little kazias they were full for the day after shema tadak they could eat as much as they want they were starving amazing thing during the reign of shimla tadak all the miracles that took place in mesa mikdash consistently happened after sadiq they all stopped let me tell you another miracle that happened during the time of sadiq the near maravi never went out after shema tadic it went out it was no different than any other nervous so now we're talking a hundred and so years before hanukkah for forty years the nerma ravi never went out and comes the demise of shimano sadiq the nema ravi extinguished so the question then is what was she sad doing that he raised up the level of claude israel that there were all these open miracles taking place during his tenure and after his demise all of a sudden things downgraded what exactly was taking place in the times of sonic okay so i have to share with you the words of the rambam and the ramban writes similarly and this is one of the soy de hadas this is one of the fundamental tenets of emunah and that is you know you read the torah and the torah says that you know if you if you observe the torah if you do what this wants you serve hashem with all your heart and all your soul god says i'm gonna give you rain in its right time which means you know that's in the olden days but nowadays that would translate to mean you'll have money you'll have health you'll have peace you'll have peace from war you'll have peace in your home you'll have peace of mind there's a lot of kind of peace you know hashem we're not waging wars we don't have soldiers walking down the street you know we're not in mortal danger but everybody needs peace in their family and everybody needs peace of mind that type of uh war fear is more common in our time than in the olden days so ibane shalom says in the torah that a person does what they need to do they'll live a long happy healthy successful life and the torah says and if you don't you have the parish of the torture so the random is very troubled is troubled but there's no reward in this world what's the torah saying if you keep the torah you'll have more money you'll be happier you'll have more knackers from your children you'll have more shalom bias why but i thought there's no reward in this world why if let's say i learn every day why will i have more peace in my my house why if i dive in properly why will i make a better living why will i have more peace of mind why would i be healthier i thought god doesn't reward in this world so the random comes along and he says one of the fundamental principles there is no reward in this world not even one penny all the mitzvos and all the school likes and all the things that people read you will not get one more penny in this world but the rambam says there's no reward but there's encouragement that means this follows the way the raman says it is that this world has one purpose this world is a means to get oil that's it that's all um now how do you get oil the rambam says there are two things it depends on your massim and it depends on your yadiya satyara those are the two ways of gaining now these are not my words don't take my word for it look at the word the ram writes in look at number 13 god gave us a torah zoo it's the tree of life and those who do what it says in it and know it completely dependent on knowledge of torah and observance of tara that's all that's it doing the mitzvos and knowing the torah says the rambam the more you observe and the better you know the torah the more islam abba you got so then it says the ramen so why does god tell us if we observe the torah he'll give us rain health happiness success but i thought it's all about says the rambam it's all about oil but god encourages a person and in this world they're patterns and the patterns go like this that if a person makes his best effort to utilize the time that god gave him which means a person of course has to go to work and make a living but there's a lot of time during the day or at least some time of the day to try to acquire oil if a person makes his best effort to learn and tadavan properly so god says oh i see you're making use of this world i'll give you greater opportunities to get oil i'll make your job easier i'll give you more peace in your house so you have peace of mind so you'll be able to learn a little bit more to be able to dive in with more kavanaugh to do more if a person puts his best foot forward and shows rebounds to him you know what you understand i understand what this world is all about i understand this world is about getting on them about god will say oh you get it you get the picture let me give you encouragement i'm going to make life easier for you now you're not going to you're not going to retire most people can't retire but god will say i'll take the edge off this world because the problem is the vicissitudes of life make it very difficult to be focused on getting oil it's very hard there's so many things that occupy a person's mind that sometimes the person says oh faith the week went by what did i do for my afterlife so says ribani that's those are the promises of the torah the promises of the torah are that if a person makes his best effort to use whatever available opportunities he has ibrahim says you know what i see you get the message i'll give you greater opportunity but says the rambam what if a person has forshawn is not really with the program in other words he he doesn't get it he doesn't understand that this world is not a destination it's just a station what if a person thinks this world is a destination and he gets caught up in what the rama says i'll read you the words of the rama what if a person gets caught up eating drinking loose behavior wasting time says you're not getting the point you're not fulfilling your objective in this world i'll take away opportunity from is it a punishment no it's not a punishment it's like a penalty there's no punishment in this world and there's no reward in this world in this world you get little you know revenge them says ah aziza go get him i'll give you more opportunity and sometimes something says you don't want to learn you want that i'll make you so busy you won't be able to and in a way this is a very exhilarating concept anyway it's a very frightening concept now you'll say but i know this guy i know that guy no there are always exceptions to the rule there's sadiq varala russia but one thing you should know is those are the exception but the way the world works in general is you look at ramosha feinstein you look at rebel yoshi look at them they lived long happy healthy lives oh but they don't have a lot of money it's not all about the money with their peace of mind and their satisfaction is priceless you could pay 10 million dollars you would never get it there's a certain encouragement that evolution gives people in this world and there's a certain impediments that a person could get in this world let's explain it the way the ramban explains it this is a common theme in the ramban the ramban in paris ramban says like this i don't understand i put on fill in so it's gonna imagine i'm a farmer in the times of hazal so i put on to fill in it's gonna rain more and if i don't put on filling it's not gonna rain what in the world does filling have to do with the ecosystem the answer is nothing you're telling me if i learn the stocks will go up and if i don't the stocks won't go up what is my learning got to do with with the stock prices says ramban that's because we don't realize this world is a miraculous world it doesn't look like my davening affects my parnassa it doesn't look like my diamond affects my shoulder bias it doesn't look like my dominant affects my knockouts or my children but not only does it affect it that's the only thing that affects it a person has to believe that that their massive in life is one thousand percent connected to their my sin but but how do my my sim affect you know i'm i don't have peace of mind because of a b c and d no it's because of your my sin my paranoia no it's because of your my sin but what does that got to do with my my sin the answer is it's a miracle it's an s it says ramban this world there is no teva there's no nature it's all nisimnistaram it's hidden miracles it's a hidden miracle that if i do avoid this hashem in the proper way then my life will be better you're saying i'll i'll have more knackers for my children if i if i more qualitaro or i'm more medactic but fila yeah but what does that have to do the answer is that's how the world works it's set up in a way where we don't see cause and effect basically what are we learning now that even though it looks like this world is a natural world really the world stands on three things while the rest of the world thinks what does the world stand on oh the more i work the more i exercise the more i eat the better my life will be shimano sadik says you're making a mistake this is a unnatural world it's a miraculous world this world stands only on three things and if you live in a world where you're making and you feel and it's coursing through your veins that the world stands on tara you'll walk into a base hamikdash and then ravi will never go out and you'll eat a kazaas of food and you'll be satiated and the fire will come down from heaven and the the the fire on the message will never diminish you'll see supernatural existence and you could be sure rabbi's side that the reason why shimon azadek is because he was counteracting the greek philosophy because everybody knows that alexander the great was the talmud movak of he was a student of aristotle and the aristotelian belief and it's mentioned in the chivas of the rush and it shows the reverse and the going talks about it is that they believe what you see i believe what i see that this is a natural existence that everything in this world has a mathematical formula and everything is could be reduced to equations and when when the weather gets colder then the air will rise and you'll have more condensation and will rain it has nothing to do with your fill-in and nothing to do with your tv and nothing to do with your fiance everything in this world is a natural process the belief of yavan is that if you can't feel something and you can't see something it does not exist the ramban writes in apache number 20. he writes the greeks believed if you can't see it and you can't touch it and you can't feel it then it doesn't exist they believed in the natural order of the world and to counteract that and successfully counteract that shimano sadiq he would go around saying that swaras the world stands on three things it's not logical you can't prove it there's no sacral to it the world stands on torah avoidance that was the philosophy of sadiq and if you live in a world like that that's a supernatural existence and if you go into it based on mikdash then ravi never extinguished and the fire never dwindled and allah upon him satiated anybody who even tasted a little bit from it by the way just to add a beautiful rames we know that the venom came into the heihal and they were metallica what is it about the hey that the evannam were so uh they had so so much ability to overcome and to take down the kadusa the morale says the numerical value of is what yavan on the other hand the kayak of yavan was to rule over the hecal yavan had was able to one-up the heihal haital is 65 yahoo a 66 but here's the point there was one flask of oil left and that flask of oil was sealed with the cygnet of kahengadong what's the gemachi of coin 75. so heihal is 65. yavan is 66. they have a rule over the hekal but kohein is 75. what's 75 the euvanim were able to conquer the hecal but there's one area the ivana never went into and that's the kaido shakirasha the kaiserdison was the one area that the kainegado was able to go into the dimensions of the kardashian and mishkan were 10 by 10. 65 plus 10 that's the karasaki darshan so you have one flask of oil that had the signet of the kayingadol the meaning is that even though the ivana had dominion over the hecal they had no dominion of the area where the kain gundo was able to go that's the koshin the little yud in addition to 65 is an extra yud to make kayen 75. the kayak of the cayenne gadol was the ability to override yavan yavan had kayak over the heihal but the kaidosh hakudashim is an area of la malaminateva la malamanateva is the which that's the symbolism and the fact that when alexander the great came to give permission to the kutim to destroy the base of mikdash who vanquished alexander the great now with the sword not with a gun now with a spear all shimano sadiq had to do is i'm the kyan goddamn you yvonne him you have shlita over hey because 65 and you're 66. but i'm calling god i'm 75 get lost and they ran away he didn't have to fight he didn't have to pick up a weapon his existence symbolized supernatural existence by the way if you look in pirkei and you know the history of chanaka you'll see that every progressive generation is addressing the beginning of yavan to assault israel so in the times of sadiq the euvonim couldn't do anything they try to come and attack just makes the guest appearance and they run away but then in the next generation what did the bach say the bach said the jews started to slack in off in their avoida slacking off and you're avoiding how could anybody slacking off in their avoida like if you believe seriously if you believe that the way you dive in will affect your panasonic your health your children your naka sushanbayas how could you slack it off i mean you know most people don't show up to work an hour and a half late because they know you know their life depends on it so how could you slack it off and avoid that because we don't really believe that you know diving is just something that we do but it doesn't really matter it doesn't really it's not gonna really make a difference in in the quality of my life but if you really believe that then you would never be misrational but in times of hanukkah the back says they started to slacking off so now the next generation of tanom have to say because he's dealing with a generation where they're serving god out of habit out of out of just that's what their fathers did but they don't understand that their avoidance hashem is the essence of what keeps their life going so now we're not addressing anymore now antigonoise has to come along and say you know what don't do your aveda sashem out of habit out of regilos do it out of love it's interesting the next pair of tanaan you always say if you look in the pirkei of ice let's see where we have it over here and number 17 in mishnah gimmel okay i'm sorry excuse me go to number 28. we have the next uh set of tanoam yoshi issues what what are they warning claudius they say hey basically you should open up your house for uh tamiya together and you should wallow in the dust of their feet and drink with thirst their words and then yo you should open up your house wide and there should be anime in your house it's very interesting why are they focused on the jewish home if you look in the rambam's letter he wrote a letter called hashmad this is not so well known one of the gezeros of evanim is they made every jew remove the doors of their house because he says ramen says any house that doesn't have a door has no has no dignity so that means the ivana were assaulting the home so to counteract the iranians assault of the jewish home the next generation of tanoam say you know what in order to upgrade the sanctity of your home bring tamika to your home bring anima into your home but each generation of tanoam we're addressing the specific downfall and pitfalls of their times in the times of shimanat sadiq there was a different level of existence it was chanukah every single day in the times of gemini every day the nerma ravi never went out because if you believe that the world stands on torah then all your needs are taken care of but we were nasras downgraded we forgot about the fact that you know what our lives our success our money our families our health our happiness is dependent on tara vadim and we slack and off and the base of mixers was put down but when they were moister ash to restore the avodah think about the miracle that god made for them why do you think god made a miracle on the menorah the plain yeshua says god was reminding them that if they revert back to life and the time the way life was in the times of sheminate you'll get back the same miracles that were in the times of shambhala zadek times of shrima salah it was kanika every single day every day the nemar ravi never went out so now that kalisto fell but they were able to catch themselves by the way it's the only jumped if we are who are the heroes the kaihanim you know usually murder esther whoever the heroes are what why are why is the the heroes of the chanukah story the kahanam gadolin they are trying to bring back the level of base amigos to the time of sadiq and what was the mantra in the time of so i believe that when the prima goddamn tells us that the reason for the minute of giving sadaqa is because you know we have to have the three pillars that hold up the world torah voting muslim we ask you know that's a great thing to do every day of the year what in the world does that got to do with hanukkah the answer has everything in the world to do with kanban the whole purpose of the miracle of hanukkah is after claudia's soul descended to a world without the goyal landing on the right side without the string turning white and without the nirmal ravi going out kaiser was able to raise themselves up to a level where they felt once again that their lives depended and that's why in hanukkah more than any other day of the year it's not just some random thing we're trying to fulfill a random mission on parque vice i mean you could go through periods there are a million things that you could do on hanukkah how do we come up with allah the answer is don't forget the unsung hero of chanukah everybody knows mata seo everybody knows nobody knows shaman shimano sadiq was the time of history when it was hanukkah every day of the year and he was the paragon of what life could be like in the vasamiktas if we're able to raise ourselves up to that level shimon at sadiq was what yo we're trying to raise the base amiktosh up to to a time where people felt like let's just end off with one historical point very interesting so you have shimnat sadik and his tamil was antignos that's the end of it if you look at obviously very interesting and here what's their rebbe's main teaching don't serve hashem for reward serve hashem just serve him so they said over the shirt to their tom even and they said over the shirt to their tummy then so everybody knows you know how it works with rabbis you have some people the rabbit gives a shirt about something he says you know you should really dive in so somebody says oh gevaltic yeah dabbing is important thing i should go down and some people say oh the rabbits you said that and what if i don't what's the rapper saying and if i don't die i'm nothing and then some people say the rabbi said if you're not getting non-profit it's better not you know how it goes that's always how it goes throughout history so now that people say you know rabbi you should be really careful how you say it no no you shouldn't the cloud is like this you say the truth and that sadiq won't take it the right way and the rashawn take it the wrong way and bishop israel not your problem says the mission on advice that here antigone think about what he said don't serve hashem to get reward so it got repeated to the sheer aleph and then sure allah said to there tell me them and then you know the riff raff who came they only heard you know they weren't at the sheer they heard what somebody said they said how is the food and what the rabbi saying the rabbi said you're not going to get reward so really there's no illama oh the rabbis say there's no islam and from there came the sudukim and the baitusin if you actually if you look in the lesson is a very interesting topic i suggest you get the safeware if you want to look into this it's called deuterostory shining was ruined by rabbit isaac levy rabinowitz he is the paragon jewish historian unfortunately most people prefer to read gretz and other secular works which are very critical of the jewish people this is the the historical account um okay when did the sudukum start like historically when did these sudukum start these these taomi they tell me them the riffraff who who misinterpreted the words of antignos this is where sudukim came from they basically said there's no alam and they blamed it on the rabbi so the secular historians say well you know in the times of khan you remember last week we learned about the messiah they were like you know the cohorts and the the conspirators with together with the messiah something very interesting he says no they weren't he says before the miracle of hanukkah you had jews yet yet very few from jews very few observant jews very few loyal jews muruba deruba of the people had hellenized now if you're a hellenist hellenist is not just a jew who's not so observant a hellenist is a koi fur be icker a hellenist would walk around the street completely urum go to the gymnasium and wrestle and compete and sport like a guy with every despicable act so says isaac rabinowitz if you didn't want to keep the torah before the miracle of hanukkah you didn't have to be at sadoki and say hey rabbi you made xeroshava i argue on you theresa you say ah sir because the cowboy hammer i argue on your kawabaki if you don't want to keep the torah ninety percent of the hidden were messiah they were worse than the gayam they were complete happy cars where did the tsudu kim come from he says a direct result of hanukkah why because all of a sudden when two weeks ago who ruled the streets of ushalayim who ruled eric's israel jews who were the most secular anti-semitic kai from the ikram all of a sudden the kharadim are ruling you shall i am all of a sudden the kharadam ruler israel gulp what do i do now i don't know you know if i don't want to keep the mitt's voice it can't be a messy avni is going to come you know take off my head that's what they did to them so yvonne came the kohanim came and they killed jews who were not loyal to the torah so what did you need to do in other words historically every movement it's not an ideological movement you think movements today you know deviant jewish movements are ideological movement they're rationalizing their behavior it's only it's only a pretext to you know i want to be free i want to do what i want i want to live it up so let me come up with some kind of explanation for my life chanukah now sort of made the gap between those jews who were faithful to the and now jews were forced to come up with the rationalization for their behavior until now they didn't need a rationalization until now they had the convenient cover of you could be a jew and you could do khal davar mathura and now the students of antignos is the students of the students who were now all of a sudden they were living in an israel that was secular and the next day all of a sudden the kharadim are ruling yerushalayim now they're forced to come up with a new type of judaism and that's where the sudeikim came from so really the the miracle of hanukkah was a re restoration of the great teaching of saddam hussein and if a person feels and recognizes and understands that really what keeps the world going and the source of our success and the source of our happiness and the source of our welcome is our avoidance hashem that a person then gets extra sea after the shrine you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com