Parshat Vayishlach: The Connection with Chanukah - Rabbi Yitzchak Binyamin Weiner

I welcome parshas via schlock so if you would like to put on turn to page 175 we're going to start with a plastic over here we're going to see the connection between the connection between this week's parsha and sonic sonic as a week and a half away but something is so vital so crucial to Hanukkah over here to understand what's going on with Hanukkah and the Greeks and their whole minds and they're all ideology and what they try to do the clients are it happens in this week's parsha everything we know is sourced in the commish and based on what happens in this week's parsha we can understand a lot about our history so the first thing that we have to mention is in Davenham we have something enigma in davines something that happens different in the shmona esra of Hanukkah right we have a short answer a regular throughout the year but what add one thing uh honey singh now we add this prayer of the miracles that I should have made for us what's unique about that nisam is that when we usually add an addition to the shamone yesterday for example on rosh chodesh or on pesach passover on circus we add that blessing in what's called root say ok let's say is the blessing we add it in right there we have this insertion but this blessing the insertion for Hanukkah is not there it's in a different place altogether it's in the blessing of modem the next blessing ok so it's close one blessing off but wyd our sages see fit to change and the deviate from the standard of putting the insertion over here in route say and to putting it over here in modem so what is modem modem is simply to give thanks voting is to give thanks to coach Bronco that's a blessing we think I sham for our lives our souls our spiritual being everything everything it gives us so the idea of ho da of giving thinks of getting praised and thanks to a cottage barraco this is where we put the blessing of Hanukkah and like we say in the prayers of Hanukkah that is a time a special time of giving thanks and getting praised wash em so it's fitting we put it in that prayer of the shamone answer kind of cut the time about thanks to hashem so put it in the in the blessing of thanks in shmona esra that's why we think in a simple level but what we have to understand is that this is what the Greeks wanted to uproot from us they wanted to uproot the idea of this connection to a Shem where I have a personal obligation to give thanks to hashem I have a personal relationship with a sham and therefore everything he does for me I have to give thanks and they tried to take that away from us which is indicated in our sages say that they told the Jewish people to write certain words on the horn of a of an axe they wanted us to write the words we have no portion in the God of Israel that's what they want us to write very interesting what were they trying to hint to us well Jewish people maybe you were picked once upon a time but you had a certain sin the sin of the golden calf right which is a baby cow and got he blew it he blew your chance so guy doesn't want you anymore so write those words on the horn of an ox you have no portion in the God of Israel yeah maybe there's a God maybe he is he is here somewhere but you have no portion you have nothing special with him that's what they tried to uproot from us so therefore specifically we go out of the way and say no Hanukkah is a time we put a blessing of our special thanks and granted wash em we have a special prayer for that and we insert it in the prayer of thanksgiving now this idea is also symbolized in the character trait of haute we know there is different supernal traits roccobarocco that a sham so to speak runs the world with we've all heard them Abraham is the pillar of tested of kindness he represents that paradigm of kindness gets clock is gaurav strict of strict justice an internal strength what is yaakov he's to Ferris he's perfection he's the perfect blend of kindness and inner strength he's a perfect combination of the two then we have net saw which is two ways to describe that one is net Socrates eternity and when his victory okay that's symbolized by so kindness is the right hand Gor as the left hand yeah it was the body he's the perfection he's the middle and net sucks is the right leg the left leg symbolizes hold the character trait of hood now hold like we've been saying is this idea of hodo of giving thanks to be modem to be admit that our colors borracho is on the run the world and to give thanks to him this is what the Varnum the Greeks wanted to uproot they want upper this idea which is interesting also the gamarra Broncos says there's a verse we say every morning in Gavin English em to you wash em haga doula acura of at Ferris the greatness the strength the perfection a whole net a net doc valid key coal ash am I inva arts everything is yours these represents these different Meadows these different character traits and the gamarra expounds on each one of these words each one these terms doula is represents one thing kindness what is hold in this verse represent so Tamar says it represents the base Semak touch so we also see another thing right now that hold this place of HO the left leg somehow symbolizes the hip symbolizes the base emic touch what's the connection and this is what the you volume the greats wanted to uproot interesting enough they didn't destroy the temple they said no no keep it up it's beautiful we'll make it into our you know you know a historical edifice that you once we're here and there's such a thing the Jewish people and I Bianca a historical fact that you had this nice cultural piece in your near society that's what it but connection to God no that's too far already that we want to uproot we want to take that away so hold the base of Mick Dodge they wanted to uproot they wanted to say stop saying thanks to hashem stop admitting to a sham this is what they wanted to do this is background information to what we want to talk about now so this verse that we're looking at on page 175 is after yaku aveeno we know he has this dialogue through emissaries through angels to a safari oasis coming to see him he sends a gift a big tribute he sends angels say I'm coming to greet you hold dialogue through no texting back then so they had through the the angels are sending the messages finally the night before they're gonna meet each other Yaakov has two camps he has his wife and his children and he picks them across the VOC this river passes over and he realized I forgot something on the other side goes back to get it what happens Tara tells us he had an encounter with an angel the angel of a sub the star shall Asaph we know I say to say not just a regular angel this is a very bad one the monocle novice the attire its consists it's described in different things the Angel of Death d8 Sahara this is what we're talking about he had a physical war with this angel they wanted to kill him and the angel could not overcome him and yahoo fought until daybreak until the angel said let me go enough I gotta go and Jakub say I'm not letting you go until you give me a bracha this whole dialogue has a lot of deep things to talk about but what he says with a simple level the verse says he says let me go he couldn't he saw he could not win so the angel hit him on his hip socket and dislocated his hip dislocated is like look in verse 25 26 when he perceived he could not overcome him he struck the socket of his hip which the words in Hebrew are if I take cough yarra Yaakov he dislocated the thigh of Yaakov when he was wrestling with him then he said let me go and finally that end of the story what's this idea he hit the hip right if we can start putting a little together just very on the surface we see we just mentioned the hip is the place where where a person wants a bow down to a Shem let's say in the Brock of modem the blessing and sherman astray you want to bow down to a Shem where do you bow down at your waist where your thighs are that's where you connect your upper and lower after your body you want to be subservient to a chemin recognize there's a master of the world he is my master and I have to thank him and bound him where do I bow from my hip what if your hip was something very hard very inflexible let's see I was made out of metal could you bend down no you couldn't bend down there's no flexibility there there's no subservience so we see that's what he wanted to do he was striking him on that place the place where you specifically bow down and sure gratefulness to Hashem where you can be missed document you can bow down in the hip patched him right there no more bowing down no more not bowing down to Hashem no more giving thanks that's what the angel was starting to do now let's look at this and a little more depth and with some background that we find a verse in the Neil the Book of Daniel now the Book of Daniel is profound and he had a lot of visions of the different exiles and even the redemption Daniel Daneel says the following he had a vision of a when he was in Babylon he was taken from Nebuchadnezzar they were taken to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar had a dream I had a dream of certain beast and it was a very very scary dream and he had no one could interpret from and he get crazy because of it he couldn't do anything and he got all his advisors all his fortune powers everyone to start saying what's this dream about no one could say a time said if you don't start telling me I'm gonna start killing people I'm gonna start making this crazy said you know he got even gonna take out his theory on the Jewish people on the sages it sounds like he actually started carrying out that anger the night before he actually started carrying out that decree though dan at the meal Davin very hard God she gave me inspiration divine inspiration to understand the dream to be able to give a good interpretation to save the sages save the Joe's that night God came to him a dream gave him the interpretation of the dream he shows up the next day stop don't know kill any more people I'll tell you exactly what an O king this is what the dream is and he talks about the dream and he says the following he says King behold your I was watching but you were watching me all the huge statue the statue is immense brightness was extraordinary stood opposite of you and its appearance was fearsome the head was a fine gold its chest and arms are made of silver its belly and thighs or made of nicosia seeeeee copper its legs of iron and its feet partly of iron and partly partly of earthenware you watch the stone was soon from without them and they crumbled the iron ore the copper the silver the gold became like just nothing like chaff on the summer threshing room floor and all got blown away no trace was left of them and then the the stone that struck the statute became a great mountain and filled the entire Earth this is the dream and will tell its interpretation fourth King okay we see our something over here very interesting the verse that talks about its thighs who Salome ray should dissolve it says over here the y Arcas Sadie knock hush its thighs are made out of copper interesting what were we saying before if you want to bow down and you had a you know a cop earth I could you do it you had a bad prosthetic limb alright they put copper in there huh couldn't bow down anymore so what is this copper thigh what are these different things over here so these four different types of materials represent in the head the body the legs and the feet represent the four different exiles okay the thigh our sages tell us represents the Exile of Greece of Yavin they're represented by the thigh so we see that the main flaw over here the main thing that the they wanted to impose upon us how to do something with a flaw with with the side the Greeks if that's if they're represented by the copper pneus of the and was put in the thigh so something represents a thighs what they wanted to do and number two they wanted to stop the bowing down the giving thanks to wash em these are the two things that we see is what the Greeks wanted to do now why specifically copper though why is it no sh asst why is this represented by copper over here everything we see gold silver why are the Greeks represented by the copper of the thigh so there's different ways to explain this to the pirkei avos review who have been tame om everybody who didn't Amos says four things what are they person has to be bold like a leopard how they he says how the odds kannamma be bold like a leopard oohs aahs oohs is boldness it be bold like a leopard if the Swift like a cow like a ne'er be light like a ganesh share a ego Swift rats could Steve the run fast like a gazelle keyboard key re strong like a lion last I searched under vehicles much time to do the will of your father in heaven so this idea of oz dose is brazenness alice is the word for what we call they are say to do the houses for copper for there's a verse that says midst haha nakusha your forehead is like its copper your brazen you do things that are totally totally like how could you dare do such a thing such brazen hutzpah so its brazen indignation how would you dare do such a thing for example someone gives you a gift and you don't say thank you that's brazen this right someone says here I want to give you something special you don't say thank you in fact you just like take it like you know you kicked them who will heck are you that's cook spa right that's good spot that's called ozs and that's what özkan Emery's leave old like a leopard this adds this is what Yellen wanted to do their boldness was such that you know what you can keep the temple up you can have this up but don't serve God you can you can you want to practice Jewish custom very nice connect to God absolutely not you're not connected at all as a certain brazenness a certain whoops but that they had a certain copper like mentality do not bend down do not have the subservience to a cottage burrow hole this is always kannamma this is the brazenness of what the yvonne and wanted to do so this was you have been taken saying we have to have this others against that it's called authorship of kedusha we to have brazenness to go against the tide go to go against society against what the world tells you to do throat says you gotta do this no I have to do that that could be a Jew I can live like a Jew filed Torah mitzvahs and I don't have to listen what the world says I have to go with popular culture and ideologies of the world and do what they say absolutely not that's the ousters that robe you haven't Amos telling us perky avos now we find another idea that in the turret says that Moshe Rabbeinu at a certain point the Jewish people complained and God brought about them snakes that are biting them and killing them is causing a lot of problem and parshas cook us what was the snake called and what is a snake it's a mac hush just think right mosher baton what did he do what was the antidote to healing this problem snake on a staff what's that called na cash han delicious he made a copper snake and put it on a stick with a copper snake saying why you're being very brazen right now you're being brazen by complaining and asking questions on God you know you heal that look at this snake in immediately look at a snake and I'll be healed no realize look up to heaven put your eyes upwards and realize there's a god he takes care of you he does only good to you maybe you don't understand the good and maybe that's why you don't understand why things are happening and that's why you're complaining but realizing the source is from a good source and you have your having brazenness to go against that right now you must take that and fight those feelings you have inside view fight the 8th zara and look at that so therefore look at that na hoshi ni closures that braising that copper snake and start fighting the hor but we see it's made out of copper once again this idea of copper and brazenness so the rashi says why did motion remain to make it out of copper the copper snake God didn't tell nikka of copper he does it make a snake put on a stick to look at it'll become healed I mean look at the ideas they look up to heaven they'll realize that they're doing wrong they'll connect back to me and they'll be healed from the snakes why did make it out of copper so Rashi says no cuz Lushin no I fell I'll wash and rushes it's a similar word now half snake is similar to Nicosia to copper so I made it out of copper very good that's why most raveena did it I mean it was the smartest person who ever lived he's gonna you know he's gonna just do something simple istic like that is I was he depth to it so we have to go back we look at the story of the snake let's go back and look at the story of the nosh the notch in Java what did the na caixa do what did he do he total brazen hutzpah total absolute brazenness why God told Adam and kava don't eat from this tree I don't want to do it you can eat whatever else you want don't have this what he say huh let me tell you hava God doesn't want you to eat this this from his tree because we like it gonna be like him and he's gonna be jealous she's talking bad about guys Nikki stalking loshon Hara that's pretty that's pretty much that's a lot of brazenness I would say so have a listen unfortunately and she ate from it right and when she ate from it they got a punishment autumn got a punishment what did Adam say though and God confronted him God said Adam where are you messed up buddy what happened he should have just said you know I ate from the tree you told me not to eat from but what did he say the woman you gave me it was her foot you gave her to me your fault what is Rosh you say cough sweet ova he was he he was blasting the kindness the goodness of a goddess borracho he denied Hashem's goodness what I mean you gave me this woman and she made it your fault God God made her an easier connect though I made you a helpmate I made you your spouse your soulmate your perfection your completion I gave you the best thing possible for you and you go and throw it back a means it's my fault that you ate you're blaming me that cuts / the National Isis the nakash we see had this accurate of malicious of copper a brazen like not refusing to bow down refusing to admit there's a God refusing to take responsibility and to go totally against the grain and when Adam sinned he took that quality and unfortunately he incorporated into his being he denied the goodness of God that is what the snake does that is what the yates ahora does that is what Yavin does they say forget about the goodness of a Shem deny the goodness of God and you know what you only have to bow down to yourself basically don't pout on anyone else be brazen have a cop earth i like it symbolized don't bow down and stand up be it i'll be your own person don't recognize there's someone above that's what Yavin does that's what they try to put into us and that was what they want to do on konica but it's not the end of the story over here because why we something over here from our parsha very interesting yakowa native are born a few partials ago and when Yaakov is when a sub is born what does it call the Torah says they grew up a sieve I he a civ your daett's ayad he was a person that knew how to hunt ish Sodhi a man of the field Yaakov was East Tom Yoshi Valen antara asa was out there in the field doing he supposed to work in the world and be a partner with Yakko but he didn't want it you want to know what the targum you know targum is the targum when you opened the commish so you have the hebrew on the right side and you have the Aramaic on the left side there's two types of Aramaic or three types of Aramaic commentaries they're all giving a Mount Sinai one is on the pages called uncle asst one if you open up nikris godoy loss the comp was in all the commentaries there's a commentary in in aramaic from the Tana River yonatan been UCL I mean only somebody was ill he of the time and time the gamarra it was a student of hillo a very great person he also wrote a commentary in aramaic you want to know how he translates those words very interesting what does it mean yeah a sub was a man that knew how to hunt a man of the field listen to these words he translates it by saying the hava a civ guevara nikasha aircon not sure con not let's look at the world let's spell it out none hess shin you'd raise cough none not sure hun nach shera-khan what is not sure hun so if you look at the word look at those firstly letters nah sheer hun none yet shin now hush sounds like a little bit know so we have a couple commentary saying what is this translation that he's doing one commentary says you know it means the asa was like he was a bottle on he SAT around did nothing it just like a lazy guy you know they says he was like a quiet guy there's only thing he didn't want to learn Torah you just like kind of stayed out of that's two commentaries but then he brings a commentary based on the Zohar cut dish and you know what it says over there in the name of the Zohar it says this is half little fella it's unbelievable listen what it says about asaph what does it mean not sure hun he was this person nach shera-khan it's simin Natasha heretical show asaph he had like a tattoo of a snake on his thigh as the Zohar says a tattoo of a snake was on the thigh of asaph to hint the ace of was so to speak from the same brand the same brand same breed of the snake that's poisonous or accomplish this is unbelie-- is incredible if we think what we've been saying till now what did the of one what did the greeks represent brazenness where does that brazen this take hold based on the niveau of the prophecy of the Neil the thigh that bridge spent especially on the thigh they brazenness what did the snake do and want to deny the kindness of a sham to have brazenness to not to give thanks to hashem what do we see ace of the same exact thing he had a tattoo of a snake on his thigh to tell you ASA does the exact same he's like Yvonne he's like the na hoshi the exact same same blend as them is that he says there's no cut his bro don't do if thanks to hashem the look of thanks be brazen go against the tie go against the grain that's what a sub did he'd a tattoo of a thought of a snake on his thigh half live a fella and now we could understand what happened with this fight of Yaakov an ace of what did he try to do well hail fight and he runs I can't win I can't overcome Yaakov he's too strong he's to put together we know what I can do I can hit him I can hit him on his thigh hit him on his thigh we understand exactly because that's where his strength lies the strength evasive the strength of Yvonne the strength of the gnosh the snake where is it all lie daska dykey in the thigh so that's why he hits him on the thigh to try to uproot this idea from Clairol you have to give thanks to have a relationship but I got it America this is what we find going on and this is what all konica is about Hanukkah is about the fight between yes I believe in Hashem and yes I talked to him and yes I have a relationship with him or no i don't oh no I'm cut off from him I don't have to bow down this is exactly why this comes up right now in this week's parsha in exocrine f konica it's telling you this is the precursor to understanding the depth to what grid the Greeks wanted to do they got it from yacht from asa they got it from the nosh and this is what the neo prophesied about this is what we find we find on the other verses in the Torah that actually talk about such an idea I'd like to just read it a couple things that we can see more of this idea we find later in the homage in devar him in chapter 8 verses 17 through 19 the Torah tells us if you say in your heart that Kofi void simusi my own strength my own hands my own now my own money everything it's me me I did all this I made all this greatness y'all there's goodness in the world I did it see this great sophisticated society buildings culture everything out on me I did it God doesn't oh god baby I did it didn't you see me doing it not there's no God did it is me God says if you have that attitude if you do if you do that this is a heart thought and you and you fail to remember that God is the one that does it the halacha accurately mock him and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down to them God says I promise you you're going to be it's going to be very bad i'll destroy you so God says because you're not bowing down to me you're bowing down to yourself you're bowing down to your own the work your own hands that's the worst type of mentality God says that's what the orihime of color says on this first I'll read it now translated he says a person or maybe I'll just trying to translate without reading the Hebrew he says a person needs the place on his heart and remember always the goodness of a Shem because whatever he has everything in the world it only comes from Hashem when a person realizes this that everything he has in his life whether it's his knowledge his intellect whether it's his partner so whether it's his closed the food he eats the place he lives his family every single everything I'll thing up singing up every single thing he's got that's good in his whole life here as it's from God debris the area breathing right now he realized it's from God he said that can always arouse you to recognize him and his divine providence with you and the beginning of the strategies of the yate sahara is to make a person forget this this is where the ATR starts you wonder where the HR comes into play he immediately starts making you forget about the goodness of a sham that's where he comes in so for personally constantly remembering the goodness of a sham he would never forget about a sham this is what he says and from this is where he enters in to destroy a person hallam arata we have therefore it teaches us this verse that remembering Hashem is a tremendous fan that you can put up so he can survive Shem properly and if a person is lacking in this there's no lacking like this and this is the entrance where the lake tahara the Sultan can come and push him until I push him down one level next next next until he's totally gone that's it that's what the oral camel color says and he says further on he ends his statement by saying the entire success in a person's life the life of a Jew is all depend upon't remembering God that's it you want to be successful in life remember a Shem remember the meter can walk on become a millionaire no but it means you're gonna be an upstanding upright Jew because I don't remember it's not for me oh yeah I worked hard but God made me successful is not because of me cuz of him all for my sham so this is where the HR comes in starts to creep when we start to think it's me it's me it's me it's me it's me no i'm nothing exactly i do i just i just i'm like the spokes i decide his turn the wheels i'm just like but whatever happens from him alright so that's what he says we have one other interesting thing over here amazing concept that there's a commentary his name of the show the shelter gebe or him and he's the one if we looking flip in the back of these thick tomorrow's with a lot of commentators so one of the commentators his name is the Mordecai he lived seven eight hundred years ago and there's a commentary at wrote on his commentary okay he says an amazing thing though this is really it's half live a fella it's really incredible if you look actually page turn to burr a shish chapter 43 verse 16 two weeks from now this will be shabbos Hanukkah every year Chavez konica this parsha is always on conical no matter what every year at San konica so listen we're gonna have an undergrad an incredible hint the konica there's gonna teach us we look in verse 16 this is in the midst of the story of the brothers they went to Egypt they went back home to Yaakov actresses go back again and they come back with a tribute to yo sis they don't know is Joseph do you think he's the second in command of Egypt but they bring a gift and they're brought to us I said you're gonna today you have a great merit you're going to eat with him you're gonna eat in his house today and Yosef saw them coming and he told the person that's commanded on his house it was really his son a Jew menasha but the Jew but the brothers didn't know that the shot thing to know that and he tells his son who is an Egyptian he says prepare for them food because they're gonna today they're going to eat with me in the Hebrew it says the words are its let's say it's the it's the fourth and fifth Hebrew line he says bring them to my house oh oh ah Keva slaughter an animal so how can you prepare it eetu luhan know about time because they're gonna eat with me today at noontime yeah slaughter an animal and bring it to me ember and bring it and prepare it and they're gonna eat with me now let me ask you a question everyone here keeps kosher and you're busy looking at your bottle if your your food if it has a good actually go into restaurant does it have the kosher sign right we're pretty careful on what we eat I'll just ask the 11 sons the Tencent the 11 sons of Yaakov who come down right to Egypt right now they're going to a non Jews house right and he's gonna bring out a nice roast right do you think they're gonna I say um you know I'm just I just wondering like is that kosher like is that a but that's texture on it mr. Egyptian like you think they're gonna care you they want to know what they're eating right they're not going to eat his food no way people don't even have been talking a pizza shop without looking one that's the shot them the tribes of course they're gonna want to see it's kosher how could they eat this Joseph who's that playing Egyptian tells his son who's playing Egyptian prepare food slaughtered animal and then prepared for them make a nice steak for everyone them they're not gonna want to know the heck sure of course they're going on to know so what are these words mean so the Gomorrah and hoolan gamarra tells us says yeah actually they wanted to know the kasha they're actually very concerned and these words that we just said is when they were Europe was telling them show them the conscious why it says Oh tvoya tabaq slaughter and animal means what I want you to do is I want you to slaughter it in front them so they should know that it's kosher okay the hulking and prepare it the camara says what does it mean the first word via shaft it and show them the place where you schecter that they should know his kosher checked it by them the Hawking and prepare it to get hanashi take out the GUID kenosha take out thee what does it get an usher called the the sciatic nerve take out the static nerve from the animal take it out because Jews can eat the sciatic nerve take it out in front of them the shielding ebrahim says here we have a hint of Hanukkah water than a hint of Hanukkah so let's first see the hint and understand something so amazing that the Torah puts in action put in the term look at those words in Hebrew vagyok teva the Hawking slaughter it and on the word vaha clean the guard said that word vaha claim prepare means take out the sciatic nerve take out to get inertia those words look at those letters love hey Soph none yeah look at the letter right before it it's a hess what did that spell konica the word ten bucks the last letter is a has the word right after is the Hawking spells Hanukkah on the words show them that show them the schita and then take out the gettin asha take out the sciatic nerve we see Anto Hanukkah all very interesting oh is it just happens dance it every year this exposure comes out Knight Anakin happens to be konica what is it teaching us though what is it teaching us nope so let's understand something incredible the zora cuddler says why is it called the gideon osha what do we call to get hunter sure this is where nauseous interesting or give me and sinew what is not sure the ZOA our color says kill Mr what is the what is that Gideon asha do it to a person do you menasha it makes to forget liban a no-show to a person me pull hana demarion and makes a person to get inertia if you would eat it god forbid you know don't make a person what happened to person those forget about serving a sham the guid I'm not is the PERT the thing in a person that if a person would eat it they would forget about a college bar who wears the get an usher in an animal it's in the thigh right where do we learn out this midst of given us and was curious this week's parsha from what incident the angel hitting Yaakov on the thigh right there BAM so what do we learn from that what is this to hint what does it's telling us it's telling us an unbelievable thing was the angel trying to do once again the thigh is the place where it's copper you been down to a Shem if it's off to coming down if it's copper you can't bend down what does Greece who are they represented by in that prophecy they represented by the copper thigh don't bend down what does the snake say not international Asia's don't bother denying sham don't bow down to a sham what is a civ do he hits Yaakov on the thigh don't bow down Jewish people don't have relation with a college bar hoe and therefore as a remembrance what don't we eat we don't eat the gear i'm not sure we don't need to get an usher because that is what makes you forget it that is the lotion of getting us and where we find a hint to that right here to save you say Hanukkah Hanukkah to avoid alcohol thing take out to get enough and show them you're not gonna eat it because I'm konica we learn don't go near to get a notion and therefore what do we where do we put the blessing of the special blessing of Hanukkah Thank is specifically right in the blessing of modem where you bow down we will bow down we will not succumb to Yavin we want us to come to you a civil or not to come to you now hush we're not succumb to the HR well bow down to a sham we'll have a relationship will realize everything is good it's for my chemin everything we don't understand it's for my chemin it's good because that's what conic was about connect us about that recognition and that's what a civ wanted to uproot from the Jewish people and that's why I'm konica we specifically have this hint and we bow down in modal another idea to end with we see in a mission in in Tommy there's a mission that attracted called tamid talked about the measurements of the absurd me toast me toast we talk about the measurements of the base of Mick dodge and over there it says an interesting thing that when the venom came to the basin mcdouche they tried to they tried to you know they want to impurifier the base mixture in pure one of the things they did was there's a special demarcation line place that Jews could go past and non-jews could not go and and you know was based on a relation about sham we can go a little farther they can't go that far so with one of the first things they did was they took away that line st. no no no I'm mixing between there's no separation be to join 9 jun it's all probably saying we're all one humanity we're all one part of the human race and we all have to be this great idea right you're not special you're not special juice we can go anywhere you can go okay so one of the first things the sages what did was it fix this up they are one of the first things that Greeks did when they came they made 13 holes in this fence 13 holes Sokka nega that the mission that says what are the sages do the sage it enacted that we have to do 13 things to correspond to 13 holes they made that line know what other things we do 13 times we bow down when you go to this place we bow down 13 times why bow down why can they say you give to doc oh yeah doom it's what no because we see right now bowing down to a Shem separates between Jew and non-jew between Jew and Greek Jewish mentality and Greek mentality is you don't have to have a residence em you don't have to bow down you got to be subservient our mentalities know specifically you have to bow down you have to be subservient realized he's the boss he's the master so that's the first thing that's what our sages reenacted now entered that very good a couple other things that we can understand this was we may be with our connection to us that having this asus this you know specialty in pirkei avos it says people that have haces go to ghanem so it seems like the bad thing right oz pawn em la gana matt says but it says oz punim also to gunaydin how could i be how could he do brazenness you go to GaN Eden or you go to Gangnam how could it be because simply if person has brazenness to go against a sham we see how could leave the game right away like they like the Greeks wanted to do but if a person has brazenness to fight the trends of whatever the modern society says and fight the trend fight the eight Sahara you have raisins to stand up for yourself in to stand up for what's right that leads it to gunaydin because I want transgress I won't do in a very right and what do we say the pasta qui se all the time at the end of Davin e hashem oz lam o ye 10 I shamu give as so give that brazenness to the Jewish people Hashemi evora s mo ba shalom if you have haces if you use as it's for the right thing i shall give a wreck i'll give us a special blessing some gave us a blessing we can be hard-headed we can have that for headed like copper why because you have to be able to fight the world because i just channel the right way but if you use that oz it's a shame all is liam oily tenish am gives you the houses and then what do you get from that hashem you've arrived at some of our Shalom Ashima bless us with peace very interesting towards Shalom peace and good matches the word asaph because a civ it says no don't use that you don't have peace don't be with that Shem and you get to today's society tells you that if the stand up with a you have to have ads us if you have it adds us right you'll get Shalom instead of a so if you get shot long you have the peace another thing if we take the word ohs I in Zion I ensign and we add that to you struck because we said Hashem you verify so much bless his people with peace so we take your peoples people Israel and you add the word owes to it 541 plus 77 is 6 18 equals hot arriaga the 613 mitzvot because that is our greatest source of odds of braising where we can act we can brazenly defy the eight sahara by performing the 613 Mitsos you do these 630 mitzvahs you stand up against da sahara and you fight him and you knock him down he had no strength against you and that's what we learn over here in this week's parsha and we can apply to ourselves from our sameach why cuz if what Greek the Greek mentality and Greek life wanted to tear it to tear us away from Judaism terrace away from our Jewish identity and staying saying like you know individuals to a college borracho and a unique nation and I'm sekula and I'm like us can enjoy car donation of priests a holy people to wash em to stay away from the Hellenistic culture lifestyle it still permeates the world today if we want to do that we have to fight Yavin with the fight Greek mentality right so we can do that here in our samara number one learning torah the midst of Davin Inge we see we can do that but especially why we have the cost to do it because if you take the word Alice brazenness valve on and grease because that's what they stood for elders and Greek in Greek the equals 555 which also equals exactly or some ass because or Samia gives the being in a place like this to stand up against the Greek mentality stand up for what's right suricata chebarkul with authorship of kedusha mr. shell musica the base of neck dash was tampered over here with Shepherd with was knocked down musica this year Tufts and I involves big macho be Osama Shia and many other game matches like that please enter this year the camshaft coming in a cottage broccoli bring the base of neck dash you