Parashat Vayeshev: Chanukah In the Words of Rav Schoor zt"l - Rabbi Yitzchok Bistritzky

was not ready he declined to be comforted so that kadush asks what happened would we find benoit what happened all of a sudden that the daughters of yaakov menu appeared on the scene we don't really talk about them too much so he says that the children of yaakov avinu want to show yaakovina what a large family has and to relay the message since you have such a large family don't take it to heart that one of your younger children was killed it's pretty natural it happens and be comforted by your mindless his message was joseph was not the ordinary child you could bring me a large family but no one really was like joseph as the pastor tells us and he was special he was special in his kadusa he was special in his level of purity and spirituality he declined when joseph went down to mitzrayim and he had in the soyunia the test of asia's potiphara the wife of potiphara and he came he was already on the way to do the threat to do he was on the way down the slope as we say and he saw the tsuru of yaakov avinu says the nisiva shalom seeing that surah meant that he remembered that the aquavino believed in him he remembered the love that yaakov avinu had he remembered the the binding and the kesha that he had with his father yakov and that kept him back from sinning so too we have to realize what a compact what an impact i'm sorry you had a parents have on children so through the the kesha that they have with their children that's what keeps them back from sinning therefore it says the same word as it says it says by your mind you are safe you are safe kept himself back from sinning he declined to sin because by your mind because the akavinu did not become comforted he was not misnaked on yahweh because of the the special qualities that he felt and the special question that he had with the i safe that special cashier captain joseph back from sinning his son the dark the he says usually when someone has a test he wants to come out clean he wants to keep his record clean but if his record is already not so clean he like takes it till the end meaning let's say he'll fall in a little someone starts let's say for example someone starts talking in some lotion and then he realizes the middle oh it's but you know i spoke already it's over and he finishes speaking the conversation but some of that means that hashem shamayim realizes that he's causing take the eye out of the picture it's not my record over here that has to be kept clean it's the tsar and the pain that i'm causing hashem by speaking los angeles so what happens is he just stops cold turkey he stops in the middle of the conversation because he realizes if i talk further then i'm talking i'm being massaged hashem yes it says he went in la says that's one shot that means he went in to start to do that but still why because he couldn't contain himself the type of him was too strong but he kept on fighting and fighting and fighting he didn't just give in because i if he would have just imagined where yaswata looked at himself he's the the the apple of the eye of yaakov avinu the holiest of the holies and he finds himself in such a situation in its rhyme a 17 year old boy and he looks at himself oh i'm finished already i'm already a mitzvah that's how he looks at himself i'm already part of these guys look what's happening to me so fast i'm already finished with my father's my father's death my father's kedusha but no josefa sadiq didn't do it for himself he was doing it for hashem and he told hashem i'm going to fight till the end as long as i have any caucus in me i'm going to fight till the end another thing he says we say that saw in astrology and the quran in the masala that will be descendants from her and joseph together joseph probably knew the same thing i'm sure she told him also and he probably had the same khakha that she had so yeah knew that it's going to be descendants here what would a regular person think to himself i'm i'm a doomed anyway i'm doomed i'm anyway i'm definitely going to have descendants somewhere this has to happen and he's already on the way in doing the sin but he keeps himself back why liz is not i don't want to be mitsaar hashem he's telling us i don't know what the astrology says i don't know what the masoli say i don't know what happened till now that i maybe fell in a little but i know one thing i'm not going to be matzah hashem more than more than i i have to and he stops cold turkey in the middle therefore even though we find in the gemara that there are other people that had the nissan is even greater than joshua sadik but yes he's the kids because of these uh these these amazing uh facts a fact that he had the back of his mind that i'm i'm doomed anyway the fact that he that he was already started on the downhill slope and he kept himself back that's the goddess of yosef sadiq islam we all know that was a a brilliant sadiq a brilliant going rash event when ramesh shapiro was in america he repgidalia was was he went together with him he helped him out he was a bakr and remain he gave me he became very close to ramesh appeared here was the one from the shiva and the the founder of in lublin in poland and maybelline was the one of the most brilliant people in the generation and he said that sure he he's in america he didn't meet anyone in his in his level of genius and in the whole world a few people with ayahuasca was an incredible person a very humble person very down to earth humble person i still remember him in toy vidas so we'll talk something about his uh chanukah and his words before we do that let me just say he he asks you know we have a lot of times he see israeli people that are here in america so what is let's say if someone is hanukkah i'm talking about if someone let's say a man has to go away on business or he's traveling overnight and his car so he could be the the question arises what happens when it's two different time zones let's say like here in there it's israel where when chanukah comes in today let's say now it's two o'clock in the in the afternoon i mean it's uh it's uh eight o'clock at night and a person at two o'clock in the afternoon became chanukah and ate this role i mean i don't mean exactly let's say 12 o'clock in the afternoon came hanukkah nate's israel so what happens is the the person that's in hutzler so she's lighting the candles at home and by him it's not even hanukkah yet let alone it's not yet night it's not even hanukkah yet so can he be oitsu with his wife's hanukkah gave to us on near issue basis on the house and once his house was yoitsa so he's yatsu with the house even though it's a different time zone the min of the ravish he disagrees so either you'd sinned without a bracha or maybe some say you have in mind not to be you it's with your wife another shot we know that when we have uh we have to we have let's say an uh someone comes to you and says listen i need somebody from you i need a different love put on this client any love in the torah a person is the person is obligated to give away all his anything that he owns all his possessions to in order to save himself from being over alive and mitchell's essay is not like that let's say someone comes to places they get stuck in japan and a guy wants a dalit meaning and someone has the dollar mean and then tells him listen if you want the adult me name you got to give me a hundred thousand dollars so then we see if the person is owns five hundred thousand dollars and a hundred thousand dollars is twenty percent of his possessions then he has to give the hundred thousand dollars because you have to give a person has to give hermes in order to but if let's say the person only owns three hundred thousand dollars and the and the seller of the dollar me and him is asking for a hundred thousand dollars he doesn't have to give it what about chanukah says the prima goddamn it's the same thing vegas says no we find that the oni has to sell his mal bush his coat or his his overcoat or is his suit he has to sell in order to be making hanukkah why because of pursuing now that coat for the poor person is more than a fifth of his possessions many times so we see from that that hanukkah even though it's only a mitzvah of our sages after rabona it's not minatora it's not a biblical commandment it's only a rabbinical commandment we still say that you have to give more than a biblical commandment because of because we want to tell everyone about the miracles that hashem does to us so that's why you have to give even more than a fifth of your possessions in order to make hanukkah that's what it says like that that a person has to give whatever he has in order to give him a qayam khan now we hope that it shouldn't it shouldn't be a practical halachic child it's such a question but it just shows how important the chanel collect is to say one more is like this we just those that are learning um it says we're learning now which is that pertains to the tahara's today we don't have that but uh we hope mashiach will come fast and we'll have these that means that anything you know anything that becomes tamiya now in the khmer that we're learning now it says that any tame only only rabbinically can become tummy so the question arises we know that in visa miktas we usually say that a liquid anything that's only a rabbinical obligation we a question arises what was the nest of hanukkah how was the shemin we all say we say every night ivana nicholas are alive there were matamo all the sheman and all the oils they were how would have been with oil the oil does not make according to this deya according to this man the omar it's not makable thomas he can't become tame so what was the nest of chanukah they looked for the oils they couldn't find their old tummy how did they become tummy so the chuva me ahava which is a student of the noida behuda he says that we must say that since it was winter i don't know if he says this point of winter but he said since it was winter it got frozen it got jellied it got gelled and anything that's gelled is not considered a liquid anymore and once it's not a liquid it could become tomai minatora so what we have to say is he says that the oils in the base are mikhtosh it was in kislev it was winter it became gelled and once it became gelled it doesn't have a dinner of a mask so once it doesn't have a dinner of a mask it could become tummy it doesn't have a den of a liquid it become tomato and toasted says that uh maska that becomes even it's gelled and ibuka and it liquefies it it's uh it becomes liquid again it's still not considered a masker so that's why it could be it was macabre it was it was macabre and even after it became liquid again it still had a tom on itself that's the vitimu called he says like this you had an opportunity to learn and you didn't learn because of your laziness you weren't making mitzvah because of your laziness so you got a problem when you're going to want to be making that mitzvah it's not going to be so easy and mashallah says that even if you learned but you didn't learn with all your effort you didn't put all your effort into it you just learned you know as a as a sidebar then it's still considered what do we see from this a person is blessed with certain potential with certain kaisen in his life and we have to see to utilize all the gifts that hashem gives us a person has a mind a heart to serve hashem with filler a mind to learn torah he has a body to be making mistress etc and he doesn't utilize the gifts that hashem gives him to serve hashem so when he wants to do it it's like someone got sick in bed and didn't get out of bed for a couple of weeks or a couple of days even when he has to start walking again he needs a rehab he needs therapy did he ever see anyone in therapy or in rehab it's not easy you gotta really work to stretch those bones again to get those bones to use again the same thing is in your nephew if you didn't learn if you didn't utilize this hashem so it gets a trophied it gets it goes to sleep and when you got to get it up you need a lot of work to use it to do it hanukkah the bach says that the reason why the yvonne and the greeks had a kayak to put all these harsh decrees on eden not to be able to make him miss vasmilo with shabbos hoydush was because the eden the jews in the basa mctosh weren't enthusiastic about the avoidance and since they didn't utilize their kaijus and their opportunity to serve us so that's why the team will call us the ivana were able to come into the basement because if you didn't utilize you were lazy then you're going to lose your opportunity and they lost their opportunity until the evonum came and went into rehab they went with all mysterious nephesh even though it was tough for them rashi says 13 people against the armies they went with a serious nephesh and if someone goes made me seize left you could get back yo not only that sometimes we know that there were people boys or girls that were very scholastically very weak but they kept on they were persistent they had the will to break it through and they were blessed from him from heaven with such a smile with such a like even unnatural in their learning in the in their avoidance hashem why because if we say that someone who has the kaikasa nephesh and doesn't do to use them out they go to sleep so someone who even that doesn't have the same and overextends himself for advaita's hashem so he gets extra koi sanefesh he gets a bonus a bonus that he wasn't blessed with at birth and that's what happened the the the overextended themselves and they were blessed with miracles of lamalami derek don't say that the earlier days were better than that that means a person finds himself in a certain situation and he says you know when i was younger things were much better things are much easier oh you know three generations ago things were much easier things were different you didn't ask this question out of wisdom a person is born with certain kaijus but as we spoke if a person doesn't utilize his kaijus he loses them so that's what the positive is saying i'll tell you that they were really better no it's just that you didn't use literalize it you didn't have these of your own wisdom your questions wasn't your own wisdom they were borrowed from hashem everything we have is borrowed from hashem and if we don't utilize the way we're supposed to and we're lazy and we have our priorities are not set straight and we choose other things above avoid this hashem then we lose the opportunity but we could always get it back by overextending ourselves by showing hashem that we really regret our ways the month of kisslife kislev it says in savitzira says that was made king over the sleep says means not a physical sleep it means like you should bottle kiyoshindami someone who's asleep and doesn't use out his coiches for avoiding this hashem he's not up he's in tardema he's in china he's in a deep slumber he doesn't realize that hashem is sitting and waiting for him so kiss slave is this man kiss life is the time that we can get you out of sleep is stands for hashem hashem is ready to pick you up you've fallen you've fallen on the floor asleep hashem is extending his hand to pick you up so he says like this rough sure blind says that every ice every letter if you want to know what this letter symbolizes look at the first time it says it in the torah the gemara says that someone's dreaming and he sees the letter tess it's good for him toys is good to them why does it sample toys makes sense for something else because if you look the first time it says in the toy the letter tests it says it by toys so that's how we know that that stands for toys if you look at the summer says rebzodik at the first time it says it in the torah what does it say he surrounds surrounding is a an indian of shmeera of watching it's a it's a market it's a surrounding hashem watches us he takes us around he surrounds us with protection he surrounds us with love he surrounds us with support from hashem supports the fallen people and that's what happens in kislev to the ones that are asleep in a vaidha to the ones that their priorities aren't straight hashem is ready to support you we just got to wake up hanukkah is also an indian it's starting out starting out the the base of mikta starting out a house starting out the life of a person cotton that's something that we need to have on a steady basis his hatches renewal and that's what happens on chanukah and that's our avoidant hanukkah the opposite of renewal is routine says literally a means that no one is outside the feet is not outside the feet of people is not outside says regaliza is grammatically means regilous the routine take away the regal the regulus we needed we need a ruggle boner ruggle boner means someone that's used to nail what's near nair is the light is the fire of chanukah let the fire of chanukah light you up let the chanukah a fire let you see the world in the correct way in the way that we're supposed to look at the world let the hanukkah the light of hanukkah make you happy when this light is happiness and when someone's sleeping and you turn on the lights he wakes up let the light of chanukah wake us up from our deep slumbers and that is what the kashmino did in the basa miktas they took away the routine they started new with the newness with their scratches yeshiva there was a great masjid there his name was a profound genius slave he says the mishkan was finished ready to be re and what did hashem say no don't open up the michigan we're going to wait till this nissan so the jews were all worked up their hearts were burning with a desire nadiv laive their hearts were open and ready to observe hashem and hashem says no not now we're going to wait a couple of months so what happened to that fire in the hearts says the casual cover of that when hashem kindles a fire and he doesn't let you put it into anything then it stays on for leneza the same thing happened by the queda abramovino had the fire of mysterious nephesh he had the fire of the of being withstanding the test of of shafting his son of killing his son he had a fire in him and hashem didn't let him do anything with the fire not even to make a move don't even touch them don't make them anything not a drop of blood what happened to the fire in abraham avinu's heart it stayed on eternally lanita so tonight slave that fire that was burning in clay israel's heart when the mishkan was finished burns on for all of us for each and every one of us and we have to realize that there's a fire in our hearts in the darkness of the nights there's the moon of this faith when he was on the way to auschwitz and he had jews around him asked him rebbe tell us something that can strengthen us we know where we're heading for give us a hazard at which he answered hashem has faith in jews he knows his nation he realizes what his nation is all about i trust you that in the hard times your withstanding his youness follow the light in the night of chanukah it's a light we light at night time to show that we can kindle up even when it's we can light up even when it's in the darkness and it's la mata maya sorry for him it's below sorry it's on the below it's in the even someone that's in that's not on a high level at a very low level hashem bends down to us to light us up and each one of us has a pacter we will have that the the the battle of oil the pure battle of oil a battle of pure oil that was found we all have that in our hearts the pureness and the fire that burns in each of everyone even though we don't feel it but we have to believe in it may hashem help us i'll just finish with a story i sort of see maya silverberg he related a story there was a boy a teenager that went off to derek an otd and he was like he fell real deep and he came to america and his all his friends were going and one night they were out it was the the holiday season and they went to a bar and they drank and they told the the jew hey you're a jew it's hanukkah today why don't you like your candles so he said no i gave that up long ago no no you're a jew and they were laughing go light your candles come on and he brought some candles and he took the candle he didn't have a choice they told him to beat him up if not and he took the candle and he lit the candle and he started crying and he couldn't stop crying and they were laughing at him as friends and he just couldn't stop crying and he was crying and crying and the damn let loose and then the got sick of it they said we don't want a jew boy that cries they picked him up his friends and they threw him at her bar and he picked himself up and went back to israel and today has a beautiful family and a religious family and a happy family so we see the kayak and the strength of the chanukah we should all become to miata to take over happy hanukkah