"STOP, THINK & START!" R' Eli Stefansky on Mikeitz / Chanuka

foreign how's everybody doing like to talk about two very very important points which I believe have very practical ramifications in our life we know and we say all the time the Metro says open up an opening the size of a pinhole that's how the Metro says it or some say ulam all you need to do says who give me some effort start give me a little bit of an opening the opening of the hole of a needle and you know I'll give you I'll give you something that's millions and millions of times larger we say by the daughter of pirate Basia she stuck out of her hand and her short arm reached hundreds of feet away and grabbed my strawberry what's the shot the themes from 11th all you need to do is make an effort but a serious effort you reach out and you really want to reach that child because you borrow who will extend your arm until you reach that child it has to be a serious effort it has to be a hole through and through it can be a small hole that the threat can't go through it has to be a hole that at least a threat could go through it has to be a serious serious effort and once you do that the sky's the limit we see the same idea by matisio and his sons what were they thinking everybody asked the question what were they thinking a few Jews against a mighty nation a mighty Army and the answer is as long as you make a real effort you want to give up your nashama you want to be my Kardashian could give all sorts of brachas Anything Can Happen the sky is the limit it's not just a story that happened thousands of years ago Hanukkah this is true and tried it's real advice if you give 100 you put in that effort as small as it may seem it goes a very long way there's another very important point there the message tells us that the way maticio figured out that he has to fight the evonim was by the women the women they started committing suicide with the children they started jumping off the heima the wall of your shalai they're saying look you need to fight the guy now any sane person would say there's no way why would we fight the game Let's flee how are few going to beat the mighty the question is the same so logic dictates run but sometimes we learn from here they have to take a stop a hard stop and reevaluate we get into a routine we get into a rut we do the same thing every day we go to the same place we go to the same show say Mikvah the same the same that same learning and we're content sometimes we need to stop and say maybe we have to try something else maybe there's a better way to do it matiso he stopped and he thought he said maybe these women are right and then he said you know what they are right not maybe they are right we need to go fight and that's what they did they went and they fought and look at the outcome they were able to achieve a tremendous victory so to ourselves we have to take a very hard look at what we're doing on a day-to-day basis is this working perhaps is a better way yes it seems logical to do it this way but maybe there's a better way let's stop Focus think reevaluate you never know you might have that much better of a outcome or boy side let's take this Hanukkah the little spark the Little Nerd the pack sheman that little start laser Hashem will bring us the tremendous Heights foreign