Preparing For Chanukah: - He’s Right There With You - Rabbi Yisrael Majeski

say good to be back on this part two of khizuk with kazakh as we get ready for hanukkah and to touch a little bit on some of the ideas that um gordon mentioned something which i feel we can all use right now let's start off with a question on the parsha yoshi about sadiq is on his way down to missouri and he's getting passed around he's being sold from one to another the ishmael and they pass them down to the other caravans and finally in the middle of this journey it says that they were carrying these different spices in the tree below says rashi why do we care what they were carrying on their way down to missouri why is that relevant to us said rashi lama pierced somehow why does the torah tell us what they were carrying the hodea to teach you the reward of asadik usually these people will go ahead and carry bad smelling spices nafe the itrans type of tart ulla zen is summoned but hashem now had them carrying down this summit on the way down to matriarch in order that you say shouldn't go ahead and smell this bad this bad smell the following question he said let's picture the scene yo just got sold by his brothers he just got turned on by his own family flesh and blood imagine that feeling of the spear that yoshi was going through now and they're about to kill him should they kill him should they not they finally agree to go ahead and sell him and what happens he's traveling and he says wow oh that smells nice is that mint what is that what is is is is that is that a cumin spice is that cinnamon is that what yoseph is thinking on his way down to the triumph what exactly is this smell gonna go ahead and make a difference on his journey down to mitsura and the state that he's in that's his question of shiva of the mir question number two we're told that when jose finally gets to mitzrayim he meets his boss who he's going to be working for and he finds favor in his eyes there's a certain chain that potiphar finds in yosef's eyes and potiphar he's a man of success is it that kev that gave jose the success that we see followed him wherever he went in both house he was successful in jail he was successful with pyro he was successful as a king he was successful there are very few people who the torah calls that ishmael someone who is successful we all want hatslacha we all want success so we can learn from yosef how do you get the success that the torah is mayor testifies on him that he was a successful person we will go ahead and tap into that slack on our own lives question number three we know that there's a much locus in the gemara how we should light our menorahs do we go from one to eight one two three four five to seven eight the way we do it now which is what base hello says or no or should we go ahead and count and do the menorah from eight to one eight seven six five four three two one which is what bishamai says now the igmara asks i don't understand face hello makes a lot of sense my limb kodesh vamo reading we always want to go up in judaism we always want to be higher go higher in levels but what is the reason for rev for hilla why does hill why does the reason for xiaomi why does shaman say we start at eight and then we go down can you imagine kids are all excited for hanukkah eight yeah that but the last one iconic was like oh wow what a bummer who wants to go down we want to go up more presents right here we go when i was in yeshiva we had a minute that every night the amount of candles that we lit that's how many donuts we ate it was one two three we went to uri's donuts and by the time i came my gosh was that uh was that at night yeah so thus mate they said let's maybe we go from eight down to one tomorrow gives two reasons one reason is we want to tell you how many days are left there are eight days left hanukkah seven days left six days left but another reason niger says a little cryptic whomever says it's kaneki just like by the cows that we brought on sukis the sacrifices they went down we started with 70 carvano's and then we went down each day went down 13 12 11 10 until we all we got we equal 70 and we got down to the last carbon in which we only brought one carbon that was not so just like by the parish we go down so too we go down from eight to one and once again the question is what is that connection between chanukah and sukkis and the cows what's going on over there and one final question of the necessa which much of this year is based on tonight he asks he says you know we always try doing the mitzvos when we remember a miracle we try doing it the best we could that resembles the nace that we're trying to remember matzah how much did we go after that matzah to try to get that exact matzah that he left masray with no hummus i don't think was it so expensive back then but we try to go ahead and get you know a top over here you know there's a special mitzvah when it came to oil that you're supposed to use the first squeeze oil the custis the strength that desires up that first pure oil that got squeezed we don't find it by chanukah you can really use any oil and matter of fact you don't even have to use oil you can even use a candle you can use a wick just a regular what is it about hanukkah that we didn't go ahead and see the show and make the the lighting more of a similar way that they did to the mishka okay so i think the secret to understanding this is to really get a better look at yesterday my favorite who am i to have a favorite but it's good to have someone who you you connect a little bit with in the torah and joseph sadik whenever i get to these powersheets i get so excited rob you get excited and hear about yourself no it's just just about there's something about yosef that that speaks to me that speaks to all of us we have to really get a vision of who yosef was he's sitting and learning torah with his father now keep in mind yosef was an orphan his mother died she died in childbirth and there's a reason why the torah tells us very sternly be careful how you treat a yasu shall you talk to an orphan the wrong way hashem says i will have their back they will call out to me and i will listen to them and you will get punished we're very very careful how we treat how we treated yasso he was an orphan and yaakov gave him that extra love and attention that he needed and we know they had a very special connection a special bond they learned special torah together and unfortunately there was a little bit of jealousy underneath all the way underneath the brothers were these great great people but the jealousy was coming from a good place they wanted that connection to their father and then yosef starts having these dreams maybe he was the first person yeshiva that the rebbe had to say stop daydreaming and he has these dreams of people bowing down to him the stars the stalks and he's excited he's saying hey guys listen what i dreamt about and the brothers don't like it they don't like none of it they say he's a murray democracy he's rebelling against the king against yehuda and yosef starts walking towards his brothers yaakov sends him on his journey to go see where they are and there he comes and the brothers look at one another right when he come by his brothers the ones the day before he was playing monopoly with yeah was probably worth you know like boardwalk they were playing games this is what they did this was they were brothers yeah i'm sure they had a little a little riffraff but they turn on him tell us there's no water but there are snakes and scorpions in there and what do they do they sit down to eat they go out they go out to la gondola they order a steak by yes coming like we said and yehuda says we shouldn't kill him let's sell him they pick him up and they sell their own brother as a slave what's going through yosef's mind maybe at this point he's saying okay i'll be able to make an escape where's hashem sending me he finds himself ending up in egypt where ghazal you went in and you didn't come out the slaves that went in there got stuck there he goes to the marketplace he's extremely good looking against somebody and yosef can relate to and he gets sold to the house of potiphar and becomes again very successful in the house everything is running well except his wife had a crush on him his wife saw through because i'll say she was the shame shamayim but they were supposed to have a child together and she said she was going to go ahead and live with yosef and every day that gemara tells us every day she would get dressed up she wouldn't wear the same thing that she wore the day before and mama's like a hotel pesach program every day coming down in a new outfit one day stacks one day banana republic one day gucci she is dressing up for him and trying to be mfat him and seduce him and he's struggling and struggling but he's fighting his yates this is going on for a year until he basically can't take it anymore and one day he comes in the tourist says there was no one in the house and she says today i'm gonna make my move and she throws herself on to yosef and joseph like a gibber again remember he was alone 17 year old boy alone away from everyone in this foreign lands feels deserted he's probably saying hashem what are you doing to me but okay i just heard a good shirt any time i'm going to be myself and he said he says no and what did he do he gets off and he leaves go of his shirt the gemara uses this acting amaris he uses this act as a proof and yuma that no one could say he was too busy with his yates sahara you didn't have time to learn look at yo say look what he was able to do and knowing how to strongly eat so harder than jose that's how strong this desire this urge was but he says no i have to be loyal which is amazing he tells her i have to be loyal to your husband i work for his house that's the way he's thinking i have to be a loyal worker how can i do this he doesn't just have to be loyal to hashem and she uses that to frame him now can you imagine yosef said hashem okay i passed the test can i go home now i just have a different home for you welcome to jail go to jail free card this is not stomach jail this is a pit invest ryan a dark pit you can imagine who went there what type of people in egypt ended up in jail he's sitting over there my friends let's think of it how long what did you do the past year of your life think about the last year of your life that was a long year this past year and don't be too long we don't want you to get sad yeah how many masks do you throw out this past year okay think about it that way the blue ones the ones that rip the white ones with the stains yet how many how many masks do you go through if you live in maybe flat there's not too many but us out of towns we wear a lot of masks what type of year was it what about the past two years of your life can you go you take a moment think about the last two years of your life keep on going three four five look back in the past five five years a long time keep on going six seven yosef is sitting in this pit day after day night after night year after year seven years eight years nine years ten years what's what's going through his mind how many times did he give money to coupon to ear and say please help me he he's stuck you can imagine what was going what does what he was thinking picture it finally these two guys end up sar hamash and sarah open they end up in there and he has this i'm like yo this hashem's gonna get me out he interprets their dreams and he says these little two words on your way out please just don't forget me you know maybe give me a little mention a little mention hashem says oh you put your uh trust in these two people not of me i'm smacking on another two years everybody's july what again day after day he's waiting 11 years 12 years he finally comes out being up next week's power show comes out he gets rushed but you were two minute bar they throw him out of the bar they rush him out they bring in front of pyro and then the whole story begins but my friends when yosef meets paro in next week's parasha i think we understand exactly what was going through his mind paro tells him over his dreams and pyro says please i need your help no one can interpret them and then jose has a chance he's about to tell power what his dreams mean but listen to what yosef says first but yeah and yo safe as paralyzed [Music] i'll try but it's not me hashem is going to tell me what to say says rashi throughout all this time throughout the entire journey say didn't you lose that clarity that hashem is with me he had a chance to say sure i'll interpret the dream no no no everything is from hashem and the truth is that it was exactly the hat that rashi tells us when potiphar sees him that was the exact hat slaka that he sees because he says i see that you are a man who hashem is with ki hashem ito what does that mean by yara says rashi yosef didn't do anything without saying hashem it's like one of those seminary girls who just came back from from israel that's what hashem bark hashem right what's two plus two martian says that when he would bring a coffee to botify hashem please have the water stay hot hashem please let my master enjoy the coffee hashem please let him make up everything was with the tv everything was with shame hashem sugar fib says in the sea of shalom you want to know the key to yosemite and he says you could have the same hot sloth in your business or anything you want he says make hashem involved in your life make him your partner before you start hashir hashem please help the words come out help me express myself before you send the email shall please help the email do what it's supposed to do the person i should find pain in his eyes he should accept my bid my offer i said please give my children a good day in school should please help them enjoy my food hashem please help me with my shalom bias give me the wisdom to have what to say but not just to say it to realize that we are just upon hashem's hands and that is what was carrying yossi throughout the time throughout his journey because the truth is that you only feel alone if no one's with you i know it doesn't sound very deep you only feel alone if no one's with you when someone's always with you you're never alone yosef realized hashem was with him the entire time he says when he's going on that on those on those caravans on the way down to bitshrine he knows hashem is with him he's just looking for a sign he's just trying to feel it and then he gives a smell ah okay yeah they usually carry tar hashem and i know you put the smell here for me he was looking for hashem he was searching for ways to find hashem in his life we find this by another person in tanakh also you find some similarities some similar concepts between their lives as dub hamela you know this is oh did he have a tough one the beginning of his life his brothers didn't even talk to him he was one of seven when shmuel he tries to anoint each one of his kids and the oil doesn't come out the karen doesn't even come out doesn't let it spill he says you have any other kids like ah one we have one guy some redhead yeah read it he's out there in the field playing some harp you know they thought he was like he was hippie he says bring him in and he start laughing and then comes double hammer and schmuel pours the oil on his head and they realize that he's the one hashem anointed the one who everyone forgot about the kid in the back of the class maybe he's on this third yeshiva it wasn't meant for him go take care of the sheep it was over there in those fields it was right there maybe in woodburn or an ocean parkway where david hambella was alone but he wasn't alone it was there where he found hashem and you look at david hamelech's life being chased around the country by his own father-in-law maybe that part sounds normal father while chasing his son-in-law but he actually wanted to kill him shells trying to kill dubbed he's running in caves out of caves meeting with people on the side he finally becomes king and just the greatness of david when shuttle dies in the war with the pushed him allah sits and cries he mourns for shuttle the man tried to kill him he was so above revenge or so above personal agenda he finally becomes king he has a whole story with batsheva he falls to an avira wasn't an avira was a nano never not for now but he's talking about what he could have done and doing chuba the whole and then he has a story with a shalom his own son starts a rebellion against him dove and hamela has a tough but yet throughout the hill and what is dubba doing throughout the hill and dubbed his singing he is constantly singing malaya is because he understood that throughout the journey throughout every challenge through all the dark times i'm not afraid why amister because you're with me you're standing with me right by my side elite my enemies don't be happy when you see me down kina faulty yeah you see me down now i'm gonna get up you know why think about those words in our own lives times of darkness when when is that gonna come when when is that partner gonna just be a little bit easier what am i going to see not ask for my children when am i going to overcome that battle that yates sahara when can i really go ahead and sit and learn and understand my own hoshek that i'm going through where maybe even the people sitting right next to you and she'll have no clue what's really going on underneath and you could feel so alone you could feel so dark you could be sitting in that caravan like yo say that sadik in that bar in that jail says he doesn't say you the art to the world hashem hashem our lead is a personal r that hashem is shining for me for you that he says i'm here for you on an individual level my friends that is the message of hanukkah the ivan and morehoshe there are dark darkness is when you feel like hashem is not with you that's darkness not when the lights go out darkness is when you feel stuck right the ultimate darkness of its triumphs they couldn't move you know what happened on circus sucks is the greatest time of silha because it represents that yes we bring karbanas for all the other nations seventy karbanas but we go all the way down to serest says to just me and you that personal relationship says bashamah you know what happened on chanukah the same way that there were 70 nations there are seven lights of the menorah represents that each one of those lights will get distinguished but there's one near my rugby that doesn't go out we go down because everyone else is going to go ahead and be washed aside but the last night says the shama is just me and you hashem it's me and you hashem early and march says the hail against evil shalom he says you're right really you need this the purest oil should be like in the mesa mcdusk that's fresh drop you're right we should light in the same way like they did in the mesa mcdush but he says hanukkah represents that even when you're not that pure ghana goes beyond the minnow of the beast you're right but now we're in gullis i don't know about you i'm sitting here in california i walk outside i don't see the goggle dressed you can see many people not dressed you don't see the little dress you don't see the kohanim and the lavium we're in gullis hashem says take any what you have just give me what you got you know usually we say that the kedusha the sheena doesn't go down beneath tense fahren that's why a sukkah has to be at least tenth high but hanukkah specifically says in the siva show when we put the menorah lower than tantra because comes to you comes into your house comes into your world the light comes into your darkness i want to take it one step deeper and then end above it says on last week's powershot oh so this is unbelievable he says i'm loving garciatic mr marti he says that just bragging rights hey asap yo i live with love on huh taiwanese don't mess with me yaakov just fragginged him who he really was he says what yaakov was really saying is you know how i was able to keep the target mitzvos because i was with loved one in love on guardi through living with love on in that situation i was able to become who i am only when he cheated me hundreds of times did i have the opportunity to go ahead and remain emmistic and yasras and airless and straight he gave me that opportunity only the place of all this come what was i able to go ahead and remain strong and bring out the level of my kedusha it was through that situation through that hardship that was able to go ahead in love and guard over there over there retiring it was through yosef's traveling they became yoshi but sonic says the zohar it's not a coincidence that yosef gets thrown into a bar and he gets rushed out of a bar to become a king explains the zoar through that bar he went in that's where he fell but through that bar is where he came out david on top of a of a hilltop with a bunch of people sitting behind him yes everything is great everything is beautiful davao malek's beauty and and unbelievable greatness was that he was singing hashem while he was running away in a cave he was finding hashem in this hosha of course we all want light in our lives we'll be able to go nice moved out to florida with the rest of the world sit by the beach and get a lot of light the from see this part of the beach r is great but sometimes the way the only way to get there is through the hosha but don't be afraid says hashem you're not alone i'm right here with you i'm holding your hand you just have to look for me just have to realize that i'm there because the truth is i speak to people you know so many times someone comes to you with a problem like you think of all these eights as an advice you should do this you should do that then go maybe put your kid out of this yeshiva move here and it's not really what they want to hear they want to hear you listen to them for a half hour and say oh yeah yeah you must be going through such a hard time that's it they want to be understood they want to know that you feel them now if you have an issue for them that's great also mend is a secret for marriage next time your wife complains to you if she ever does after 10 minutes just say oh wow you must be going through such a hard time should we okay fine bye we have to be and the same thing for us we need to be understood the secret to simha the secret to simcha in your life is knowing that hashem understands you go talk to him i want to start a new campaign now hopefully i'll be starting this soon a minute a day of talking to hashem victor miller talks about this he says take one minute 60 seconds of your day and find a spot maybe put a bluetooth in your mouth one of those pieces no one thinks you're crazy and just talk to him in the beginning introduce yourself hi my name is just troll i got a weird tie today i know i couldn't find my other one i have a state talk about you're having a conversation management yesterday now i think hashem maybe helped me don't say a hebrew name talk to him talk to hashem mello was speaking to hashem the whole day he was close to him he was real he was tangible and therefore it was hashem the dubbed hashem you're everywhere and look look how we look how he overcame all struggles that's like as we as we as we light those menorah maneuvers in our homes there's it's dark outside and you get a light the first time think about this concept the hashem is my hashem hashem is with me i want to end over the story it took place in bergen-belsen chronicle was approaching and getting to the camps the mysterious netflix that they did to do a mitzvah was beyond every time i hear a story about how they kept mitsubis and torah in the camps it gives you the shivers i discussed to go there on the trip in poland you actually see the conditions that they were living in how were even able to think of such a thing as beyond but that's who they were how you enlightenment never in the camps they had to be creative they got someone's wooden shoe to you wooden shoe to use for the hanukiah the base of the menorah they took some wicks which they got from the straps of their prisoner garments and they got some polish some shoe polish which was flammable which had some oil in there and they used for a mineral it was the first night of hanukkah and the blue shivered the visceral shapiro was going to light this mandara to make the brothers and everyone the barracks are standing around and he makes the first bracha [Music] and then he makes the second bra buzzer you're all hoping for a miracle and before he makes the last bracha he stops and he looks around almost like he's waiting for permission and then he turns behind him he goes ahead and he makes the brachus he was a socialist and he went over to the rebbe his name was i can't pronounce it a lot of letters sharp way he calls him by his last name he says spear up the first two brachas i understand that you made but how can you make the last one you're thanking hashem for bringing you for this time for this place look around you look how many dead bodies are outside look where you are how can you make that bracha and the ruler of the rebel looks back at zesha he says you're right i had the same question and if you saw i was pausing i was looking to see if there's someone here maybe one of their abundant who would tell me if i should make it or not but then i turned around i saw hundreds of you then behind me waiting to say amen i said to myself if i was able to see this sight of hundreds of jews waiting to say amen to brahman they say that's who we are with all the darkness and all the kosher and everything that's going on we have that that reservoir ramuna that's deep inside of us that keeps us going that pushes us up when we're down our lead which we understand that there's no despair there's no such thing as because we have hashem with us at all times hashem we should be able to go ahead and take this message into hanukkah and into our own lives and to be able to behave others you have to message other people there's nothing greater than you could do them another year whatever you could give them a big fat smile buy some extra chocolate coins and give them out to the kids because we're all in this together the environment against all of us not against some of us but through our muna through ramuna merch hashem we can go ahead and just take on the world and mentorship should be give us all those the kais to accomplish everything that we want to accomplish we should only have our in our life we should only have light that should shine upon us the light but we should realize that even when we don't see it even if we're in that board for a little bit we should know hashem is with us he's going to take us out real soon thank you thank you anytime for hosting this amazing event