"3 Minutes to a Meaningful Chanukah" - Rabbi Mintz

happy khek everybody I want to give a uh message which I think is very relevant to everybody listening and seeing most people when they celebrate Kaneka they have the same thoughts that they had when they were kids driss monora and year after year have the same ideas and the same thoughts but I'd like to put forth to you something more than that most of you adults watching this and hearing this and uh I'd like to introduce a concept of an idea lighting the Kana lights should have a much higher meaning a much mature idea much more mature idea than most people have at the time those lights represent thousands of years of Torah learning Torah learning many years which through suffering and through different decrees of different nations who stopped us from studying Torah KHAK itself was one of those times when the Greeks disallow Jews to practice the religion not to study Torah down to the time of the Russians the Communists that they made also the same laws they said allow freedom of religion that's that's allowed but you're not to teach anybody you can't teach your children you can't teach any of your students that's forbidden if they found somebody teaching Torah they send them to Siberia and Jews underground study Torah and they against all threats and all threats of of of uh of of for the life the all generations uh and this is something when we like the lights we should think of the light represents a light of Torah Torah is a light to the world to the Jews to everybody every person to think to ourselves are we putting into Judaism what these lights represent should we be a little bit more should we study Torah are we studying Torah like we should are we keeping the laws like we should these lights represent Judaism the the the basics and the idea is and the and the all the mes and that what the Jews gave over all the years of since the Torah was given to Mount Sinai of keeping Torah studying Torah and teaching our children to studing our children to sending them to Jewish schools of learning studying ourselves Ur represents the Torah study through Torah Partners Torah mates that we could join up with let's get a higher level of thought when we light ites think about what can we do to be better Jews higher level studying practicing doing teaching our children that'll be a real Kana that God will be God will enjoy we we want to enjoy Kana eating lkas and doing all the nice things God should enjoy us that we're having the right thoughts the right uh uh taking upon ourselves to do what God would like us to do happy everybody and enjoy the lus and enjoy T learning