Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Mystical Insights into Chanukah

[Music] welcome everyone to the Gibbon and Bateman Josh welcome home to Tora and I want to welcome everybody who's here in the room and everyone here is who's on skype and whoever's watching this after it's been recorded and uploaded onto YouTube we have a fascinating evening I have to admit there's a lot of information we covered only half of it last year and I want to go a little bit more in depth so I will put in the description box below last year's video a link that's number one number two we're also doing a campaign as fundraising or fundraising campaign here in Jerusalem for year by now so I invite everyone to also look in the description box below for the link and you can contribute however much or however little just we would appreciate just knowing you're there and if you appreciate what you hear not just from this speaker but other speakers that we do get and you want a sponsor or partake in sponsorship for anything that we're doing here in Jerusalem feel free to donate okay without any further ado one of the questions that was asked this week by one of our loyal students and I didn't realize because she asked me about a prayer when we talked about seven shepherds and to me it's more of a song but the truth is when you really examine it there is there is hope in the end in terms of in other words I always thought of it as a song that has to do with Hashem praising ash-sham for saving us from our foes our enemies and the different mouths - you think of that word mouth you means the kingships we're going to talk about it tonight the different kingdoms who subjugate the Jewish people subjugate Israel so the different stanzas are relating to whether it's Egypt or whether it's Persia or whether it's Babylon and the Greeks and the last one actually was a later edition the last stands that has to do with Rome and in that stanza we mentioned that Hashem should set up for us the seven chef's so on circus we know there are seven shepherds and apparently there's another set of seven shepherds okay more 52b I'm not going to go into too much but the the seven shepherds are very different than the ones we invite on Sukkot okay so if the Gomorrah explains who these seven shepherds it's David King David is in the middle and then you have three on each side so you have Adam the first man Seth his son and move to who is a righteous person are on his right on the right of David and you have Abraham Jacob and Moses on his left so the seven shepherds we normally normally think about as seasoned as guests in the sukkah however over here we're talking about seven different guests altogether so this is about Redemption and over there we're talking about the past right Redemption in his future and here were thinking with him at the past okay so what's the what's the connection between Hanukkah and circus the very first Hanukkah ever that ever happened that they decided to take eight days and celebrate was immediately after not having experienced suka because of the war they were so busy fighting for their survival in their war they didn't even celebrate circus and it's told that we actually lifted lulav extra we took the floor meaning our but the meaning in the middle of the winter not during Tishrei not fifteen days after Rosh Hashanah and you know ten five days after young people or um you know a lot of days later you know what I mean many days later which doesn't really make a lot of sense however why eight days so some of the opinions even though the miracle was only with seven days which they were celebrating an eight day festival because circus is seven days plus 1 plus leash meaning it's eros so there's a really deep connection on the very first Hanukkah that's one level what other connections can we think of I'll tell you even though we don't pass get like they shot my in this case when there was a discussion how do we like the candles do we start on the first night lighting one and the second night - all the way up to eight on the eighth night that space hello there they shine light says no we start with eight the first night and then we go down to seven and then the last night we only like one now I'm bringing this up for a reason I'm glad you asked the connection between circus and an Chanukah so even though we don't passed him like they shall I what was going through baisha eyes mind well he tells us just like Hillel tells us we go up we go up in holiness so since we like one and then two and then three and then four it's going up in holiness and we have certain household that are always using that principle what's the principle that's that Shama gives over it's incredible because this is really what the song is about Shanghai says it's about the downfall of the Gentiles that's strange what does it mean the downfall and we're going to deal with this as well tonight Yaakov and a sob are never even either a sob is up and Yaakov is down or vice versa okay either Yaakov is up in a sob is down there's no way they can both be on the same level so we just got done talking about men and males sore this is dealing with the the song about our exiles so it's appropriate to bring in sucrose actually why because the whole thing the idea of the 7d or offerings it's very nice the Jewish people are the priests in the temple right did you the mom let it go honey we are a priestly nation a priestly class but nevertheless these nations and we don't mean just these nations god forbid as individuals we're talking about it's powerful nations okay that nothing compares when Israel is up there down and so therefore the idea of Shammai sing start with eight go down down down because the he says these are his words not mine that they should reflect the downfall of the nations okay so even though we are bringing more forensic rubber notes and helping secure atonement for the nation's they are these ending in respect to Israel's ascension okay so nobody take this too personally okay but this is the way it is okay it's just the way it is that's according to Shen we don't pass skin like shine light however in the future there's very good possibility according to most opinions that we will be passing like Shia in many of his arguments okay so there are a few really interesting ideas and I want to bring out the certain concepts we spoke last year about the idea that the oil and the wicks you use on Shabbat are supposed to be very quality oriented high quality and why is that because on Shabbat you're not allowed to ignite a fly a fire nor can you tilt the oil to help the wick draw up oil that's Shabbat so therefore there are many things you cannot use on Shabbat as we read every Friday night the ashkenazi what you can use to light candles on Shabbat whereas Chanukah even if Hanukkah falls out on Shabbat which is bound to do at least once and some years twice right because it's eight days on your Hanukkah left on your Hanukkah menorah you don't need I'm use word need you don't need you're not required to use the highest level of oils or wicks the the min hug and it's preferred to use the better wicks as well as olive oil however why is it that the inferior inferior wicks and oil is okay well from a more practical point of view since you know a lot of benefit from it okay you're not allowed a benefit the oil from the light of I'm talking about a physical benefit spiritual benefit only so since you're not a lot of physically benefit we're not afraid that you're going to come and tilt the that we call lamp the lamp of oil to suck up the those so the wick would suck up the oil we forbid on Shabbat we're not wearing at all because you're not using it you can't use it to count your money you can't even use it to read you can't use it for any personal benefit that's why we like the shamash we light an additional candle so that you could enjoy it and you will enjoy it and in case you end up using the lights of the menorah you're really using the Shama SH for that purpose now with that in mind I want to speak about the no K I'm not really finished this point because it's a really fantastic point so not only we are we using inferior wicks and oil we're also placing the menorah if you place it in your doorway to the left the mezuzahs on the right and the no what's the difference we'd right and left right there's always more preferable it's more holy it has to do with the acid and the left is less preferable and more to do with din or we call judgment constricting the opposite of tested so that's strange that the hana kia is gonna be placed on the left side using inferior material and where should it be placed lift cap Gila out right at the 10th or lower mark okay it should not be higher than 10 hand breaths from the ground although it cannot be less than three three - from the ground is forbidden between three and ten those 7th seven hand breaths are most preferable and if it's above 10 it's also okay but preferred why is that that's a very strange idea so we're going to learn I thought we'll come back come across you tonight that the scheana the divine presence does not go below tenth so now we're really in a quandary we're using the least quality material we're using a putting it on the left side which is again in the theory ER place placement we're putting it less than 10 mm whereas Shannon himself doesn't seem to locate himself so to speak so to speak so what's going on here so one of the ideas is we're going to see is that this is all about what I'm gonna call tinu you heard tea milk that's where the word Chanukah also comes from right there's many dress shot there's many ways to explain Chanukah is when we rested the word condo they rested on the cuff hey on the 25th of Kislev it's true that's one way that they Darsh in the name we're gonna see a few others but one of them and is T look there's a whole idea here brought down by the Venegas sauce car one of the greatest and and one of the greatest kabbalists and Hasidic masters so the first thing he mentions is the word kiss love is like this this is on page two in Hebrew [Music] so the word let's just go out so let's talk about outside the word key sled cough sonic la mid love what's the word costs me not in here not in anger but cos as in to cover he say look I soaked cos la made love there's hidden 36 by the way how many candles do we actually light I know when you buy your your candles your box of candles will say 44 right if you don't have 44 you're gonna be short but not really you only need 36 so why did it give you eight additional candles that's the shamash so the box comes with how many forty-four but there's only 36 Mitzvah candles so 36 so you have casa la casa lucas lift right Kislev is the name of the month now how many lights how many hours of supernal experience of we'll call the supernal light did Adam the first man get to experience 12 hours on Friday and another 24 hours on Shabbos until he was booted out Raghu ruch deported that the word expelled thank you from the Garden of Eden and he lost out what did he experience 36 hours 24 12 plus 12 he experienced 36 hours of sleep rental light now that light was hidden away as I'll talk about this and we're gonna see it as well how many tractates of the talmud are there actual track dates I'm not talking about the Mishnah smushed Isis in the 60s but there's only 36 track dates of Talmud this is where the hidden light this is where the light is hidden in the in the actual written Torah and as well in the oral torah the word ner or or or ma wrote appear altogether only 36 times so in other words the words for candle the word for light or the word for as in luminaries all together appear 36 times in the Torah okay so the banana sauce car pretty much said what I okay that's the Benes Oscar fine now he goes on he says very something very very interesting alkane Carly omae Luca Luca show he know the hair girl Allah seen this whole experience that we go through every year lighting these candles is for what is for educational purposes the word Hanukkah means he knows he knows means education to teach and not only that's the hair girl allotted to get us accustomed to something to do with the future I'm gonna give you another thing this is crazy because you know who's the real Messianics the earth the Dutch Jews all the other guys that called in Messianics they're they're not even they're not even close they don't even come close right just think about it so when someone buys a yacht what do they do they buy I don't know an expensive bottle of champagne and they knock the bottle against the stern against a portion a part of the boat what happens what do they call that christening what is it what does that word sound like to you a Latin word that really means Messiah in other words anointing there well that's one word or inaugurating you're in your initiating you're taking and that's exactly what we're gonna talk about tonight as well that ha new Hanukkah was the rien or duration of the temple it had been inaugurated and had to go through another dedication another inauguration it was a rededication okay that's what Hanukkah is about the word honey news is not just education but it's dedication it's me it's dedicating something with those two ideas in mind he's talking here about this is called Hanukkah because of Tino's applaud education but / think of it as inaugurating something and something to do with the future this is what the Jews are constantly right one of the thirteen principles of our faith is that we believe in the coming of the Messiah with all of our gusto that's why we're really the Messianics right we will believe in the coming of Messiah Gulati Dasha as you tell Alanna Oregon especially mode and you know what's gonna happen in that future time period which we call the Messianic era then the in that redemption in the future God will reveal to us the hidden for the hidden life in its completion just as it's talked about that the light this 36 hours it's 36 a blue lights that utter a renown experienced was hidden away for the tsadikim in the world to come look at Isaiah chapter 60 verse 19 the Sun will no longer be for you the light of day and brightness and the moon will not illuminate for you Hashem will be your eternal light Hashem is our light Hashem will be your and eternal life for you and your God will be your splendour let's just read it in Hebrew l'oréal aha ona shemesh law or your mom no no gah hiya ray ah Claudia you look ha oh ha ha ha Shem or Allah God will be our eternal light our olam behold they yet after sh t sh l'm a godless cause their mouth was release he goes on to talk about the the Greek exile as well so the third and the fourth exile the third exiles the greek exile which is where the story of Hanukkah took place so it was this whole he know of this education and the custom towards reaching out for a future redemption God's teaching us now then at the Exile of Greece but when are we gonna really need it because Greece was short-lived Green was the Greece was not a long exile what exile we in now we're still in a very long almost 2,000 year exile of Rome so this light this lesson was given over to us so that we would be able to survive the darkness of this evil empire called Rome and not only that also to get us through the drips and drabs of the Greek exile who diminish the light when was the like the minute began to become diminished think about it when prophecy ended prophecy ended approximately 100 150 years before the story of Hanukkah today Shyam Mulan aha alluro the galoot this was all in order that we should be able to have the light with us to help us survive okay that it should the light would stand with us in his dark exile in place of prophecy instead of prophecy you're Adama beat min sofa alam ad sofa just think about it it's very hard for us to imagine it but the Chanukah lights which represent the original 36 hours that adam he was able to see from one end of the universe to the other whatever that means that's beyond price like a higher that's like the highest level of prophecy okay that's beyond prophecy so these lights these 36 lights are going to carry us through so that we should be able to receive the 36 lights we would be able to see let's say clearly our mission right the Jews have a mission right so our mission is should become clear clear klore through looking at these lights and knowing they exist okay Nick Grenier Hanukkah that's why it's called Nair Hanukkah and there he look the hair go it's an educational tool it's a candle for education again to inaugurate Lauro lon again it's talking about who's the or alarm Hashem it's that eternal light the Gulati de that will in the future will be totally revealed to us but right now it's hidden now I know this is going to sound absolutely crazy there are four letters in God's name correct you'd hey and above and Hank not every yurt is spelled the same and not every vow is spelled the same not every hey still the same there are four different ways to spell the Malloy the fullness of God's name and there is a 72 letter way in other words your love Dollard hey hey or hey Val hey or right there's different computations so the words when God says you heat or there will be light there shall be light and there was light he or is 232 that's the Gemara and it's the exact same thing as the four different ways to compute hashem four letter name that's hidden the exact same Komachi is 232 which means the shame her voya the you cave of k in the formula wad the hamachi is the same and it's good news but aura it's hidden in the Turner hidden does not mean you cannot find it it means that it is concealed but accessible you know you understand what I mean it's not accessible to everyone but it can be revealed with hardwork he says he night near Hanukkah he know of her golden aura whoo so this whole Hanukkah experience is for us to become accustomed to this light which is musubi Latura this is the only way that you'll be able to really fit and understand the Torah therefore hair go bun and there's that therefore that's why we like these candles and the most craziest thing he says right now we all know that if you like Hanukkah candles with olive oil even Shabbos candles for that matter you'll be zoca you'll marry it to have two children who are Tom Leykis on you right you list Shabbos candles with the best of the oil even for Hanukkah to use the best oil it says that you'll have Tom with a humming sages rabbis as children this is what it means that we're talking about someone who's looking towards the future this really is an amazing idea when I think about it between the Jewish people many other nations I don't want to mention them by name but there's certain nations that don't care about the future they only care about right now okay and they never invented a thing in this world how can you ever come that you know what I mean why would you invent anything there's no like every Jew I know is like I want to have a better future for my kids right the whole idea of looking towards the future and using the best oils that you'll have children or etomidate how coming and I think because of the exercise of at home lighting the candles and sharing our past our present and our future what we're aspiring for will instill the children I'm just talking about a practical level it could be much more mystical that if people go out of their way to make sure to use these candles and we do we like these candles that they should have Tama dekha humming - children the oil is called the salt so chemin and neshama have the same letters and the wick which is the patil is the same as we call the body now if the oil is not drawn up after the wick meaning that the light of the soul that illuminates within the body is not drawn up then you're not going to light up and use it this is not going to benefit for Shabbat because what is Shabbat Shabbat is a soul day it's all about the holiness of the spirit I know that we do a lot of eating challenge and drinking whiskey right we do all these physical things we schlurf we take naps it seems like a very physical thing but it's not it's all the cover Chaves kodesh everything that we eat we have delicacies right nice drinks wine whatever it is and nice clothes everything is for the sake of Shabbat it's not for our sake it's for God it's all for the sake of the Spirit so it's not it's not physical now he makes a comparison that Shabbos is actually higher than yom kippur yeah first of all it's true how many Ali Oaks are on Shabbat seven how many Ali altar on Yom Kippur Rosh Hashana six how many are on the earth festival five Hamelin Rosh Chodesh for Hanukkah gets three so anyway he's just comparing Shabbos to yom kippur for the moment he says Shabbos is higher than yom kippur now you have no eating or drinking on Yom Kippur when you win sconces show them someone violates Shabbat it's see ela ela is stoning it's the highest of the four levels of death whereas on Yom Kippur you only you only get chorus only you only get cars which is a step down from sila yom kippur doesn't carry any physical attributes right there's nothing physical right we're not gonna bathe we're not gonna have sexual relations we're not gonna wear our shoes right we're not going to eat we're not gonna drink so if Yom Kippur doesn't have any physical attributes and we say that Shabbos is holy so how much more it's not about a physical thing Shabbos is not about a physical thing so Shabbos therefore is greater because it has advantage it has advantages from all the types of physicality and you can perform all the things you do on Shabbat you should be saying the covered Shabbos kodesh it's all for the sake of Shabbos but if the soul is not illuminating within the physical and everything is only for physical pleasure then the Shabbos does not elevate anything this is the secret of Shabbos I just want you to know all the laws of Chanukah anything we know that Chanukah is all in gomorrah Shabbos [Music] and now Chanukah however we already mentioned you can light the most inferior of mix and oils whether it falls out on a Shabbos or a weekday which we know that there's at least one Shabbos on on Hanukkah and what is that because God Himself it's God Himself is illuminating we're in in these 36 candles it's the light of a Shem and now we understand when we said before I walked in that it's placed on the left side of the door less than 10,000 between three and ten thousand I just want to show you so what we're talking about here but the tenth thing if you'd look at page eight the holy ark how high was the holy ark what was the height you know sat on the ground okay it was ninth it was a AMA of the pet see it was one-and-a-half cubits each qubit is six six and breaths and there was a cover on top and God said I will speak to you from the top of the ark so that's as low as God went however when it comes to Hanukkah God is coming all the way down to the most inferior and broken one of us you listen to this Malka you have to be chef elderoy humble and meek I heard that word meat before right you heard that word meek you have to be meek humble and this is where Hashem will come and why to carry us through he doesn't leave anyone behind right what did they say about the captain of the ship right you heard about this idea captain of the ship the ship's going down he's the last one to leave right he's if he's the first one off the boat he's a coward he's not living up to what it means to be a captain right he's the last one they know no leave no one behind okay so this last point is that even those who are the most lowly and far Mithra Hakadosh barukh oh listen to what it says in Song of Songs chapter 8 verse 1 if in the streets I found your profits I would kiss and embrace you think about the second we're talking about hanukkah's at the time when prophecy is no longer and yet this is like a certain level of kahlúa ha'qodesh there's this idea that Hashem is giving us in place of prophecy the ability to see or illuminate the what can news what's hidden in the Torah all right this is all part of what we're going to call an introduction we have we said near Hashem knishmas Sodom look in proverbs chapter 20 verse 27 the ner of a Shem the so that the lamp of God is the soul of man okay we we us in God we're really like this give a kiss Hashem Hashem wants that relationship with us okay now why about why are we putting on the left side of the door I mentioned here on page six judgment and might we're going to call that den Agora they're associated with a contraction some kind of diminishing of a godly life in order to create a limited world God judges the degree of divine revelation appropriate for the particular created being and then using the attribute of might he'll restrain or limit and he'll conceal his light this is what he did so that the given created being could come into existence otherwise it would be way too much for us to have any right if that super light was available at all moments I don't think we could survive so he's going to talk about what we call the left and the right now a shin for example a shin is three-pronged and has a dot on one side or the other what's the difference if it's on the right it's a shin if it's on the left it's a sin the difference between verse okay he says it's brought down [Music] cashier Hanna kudus marul action when you have the dot by the letter sir shin on the left side it's NIM Tubbataha mean he Nick rush in just like the word in Bray sheet write the letter Shin embracing it sounds like I'm making ish Sam whereas when it's on the left side it sounds like a sonic sounds like a Samus like in the word Israel yes Rael it's a shin it's sin it's the same three let three pronged letter but the dots on the left side and he gives us an example like yes around we're gonna talk about you a lot tonight so he explains like this the shin you mean eat the the shin with the dot on the right he shall record bug I gotta it's more like a odd screaming sound it's like Shh right it's louder and it's it's that that's where it's for screaming whereas the one on the left is much softer right the Somnath the sin has a much softer sound the fee should sadhya mean hagatha yes it because the right side is called passive oh it should start small shoe huh gasp agura whereas the left side is considered mite or justice I got acid Bo boots mama took possession libera so this idea of acid is coming to strengthen it's coming within the strength of the kindness of Hashem towards his creatures and therefore you have the shin with the dot on the right which is a stronger sound so yes it is stronger has it is stronger whereas haggis guevara the holy so even though we call it strength then is judgment that's weaker then casts it therefore the reduce tefillin when you have your tefillin there straps to come out from the back did you know one of them are longer than the other so it's supposed to be the right one is gonna be longer it's supposed to go down to the Britta Mila and the one on your left goes to your public the belly button so the one on your right goes much longer cuz he says so it's doing yummy meat a root Leo tear murder to a small any so the right one is longer why because it's a scene or Scheffer that scene or Schieffelin means it's a pipe that draws down heavenly radiance and prosperity which has to do with passive kindness and not let me just read the words Leo sinner Sheva Rocio tear Luca Sydney Mahara beam it's talking about many S's abundant amount of tested to the one who's putting on the tefillin and this your sowed is hinted in in the natural world by the the right hand now I'm left handed so I'm unnatural but the natural world is that the right handed people a majority I think it's at least ninety percent if the right is much stronger than the left clear as mud so far and that's what cuz I'll teach us when it says it's Roy being other Labine cavero whenever someone is dealing with another human being you always try to bring him in with the right and you need to give him rebuke you do it with the left okay however what about that shin that's really a sin right it's the dots on the left we said that's the stats decided Guevara and Demian and that is all going to hint to the city opera the Citra opera means the dark side literally means the other side ok Citra aqua in aramaic and that is the secret of the letter summit summit what does the sound look look like to you it's closed it's the it looks like it's strangling like a one of those things called a noose it's a closed circle it's so Garrett the hung neck it it's not only closed but it chokes you and the summer ain't I shall of them it actually blinds the eye of man from seeing the truth and he says that's why the name of the angel we lead the coop the angel the city opera we called Massa Tom here's another name besides the Satan is the sonic mem Sonic's men are Laflamme it ok that's what he says right now the peacock Camilla sat on even the word sat time begins with the shin with the dot on the left which means a cos sin writes a tongue it opens with a saw a sin with the dot on the left so to what about a woman who has been suspected by her husband right she was secluded what does she called salta because she was secluded this idea seclusion means you know locked away okay if gal Gayle had Dumber sharad me Midna frien therefore the Camorra tells us there was a certain group of people remember the tribes were all divided into different areas there were certain tribes that couldn't pronounce words correctly the meaning that couldn't pronounce the words the way all other jews all other israelites pronounce them and they couldn't pronounce their shins [Music] no so the sorry it goes like this they could not pronounce the the shin that's right listen to it okay a goggle darwish arab you may have not frying the children of frying they were not a group darker cashier Zoey Ali a dish you could you can identify them you know who they were because logically vataj in Yemen eat they couldn't pronounce a shin they would say see bolas instead of she bolus okay now the fun part about the name Israel so the shin on the left is also mafia it's it's reflecting the word tsurara shuara means what not just royalty not just Dominion but also we're gonna find out to fight but one second sir ara that's what Yeshua el gets really like the ambassador of God right SAR el okay so we're the ambassadors of God but he's bringing down another idea like the words of the mala that set T set Ayako after Yakko beat him in that wrestling match right Yakko says oh I want your name will you bless me so he says lo Yokoyama Road simcha no longer will your name be Yaakov team yes Rael only from now on your name is gonna be Israel Israel why key Serita mlo him cuz you straw with God because you babbled with God the a mana Sheen and with men the two ha and you were victorious with each Allah Adam Ito has costed Girish above shin should smoly since what man should do man is this is our obligation in the world we're supposed to take that which is on the left side and use it for good it sounds crazy we're supposed to take all the powers that God put in the world even that which is on the left side and below 10 to 14 right as long as we were talking about and take it over and transfer it to good Lobby kuroi and to battle with it properly against all those forces that would prevent us or bother us from serving a shim properly between Assam or how they'll scan them are right what is house the shocking aren't begin and what is parabolas say you should be courageous like a panther D Bukhari and strong like a lion to do the will of your Lord in heaven your father in heaven we have to take all the powers that exist in the world and use them for good straight our shame to Hoonah segura that through the attribute of dim judgment cavora we're supposed to use it to serve Hashem and to sink to sink with them meaning to really embed with them NIC Rocco the Zurich rubbish in Israel and once we are able to take them that are embedded already in us and uplift them then we are to be called you sir ahem right Yaakov is base Yaakov is the foot it's the bottom and we're supposed to pick that up and become use rail in the Zohar he mentions that what we call the summit men it's name completely name is Sonic mem Aleph lammott which actually sounds like the word left right but it's a summit smooth smooth Sammael as you rush Koko's it's rocker it's the lead it's the head of this other side and guess who he is he's the sorrow shell a south he is the ministering angel of Asaph and you know what his job is his job is to blind the eyes a man from knowing and remembering and knowing about the Macias of God the essence of God and that's why he's called Sonic Mohammed to to prevent you from seeing to blind you from seeing I will Ahmed okay and he is that my luck that fought with Yaakov in the end he's the one who granted him it's the same one it's the same mala that granted in the name Israel because Yaka was able to take the Cocos those dark side okay now in contrast or opposite of this this is a South who is not judged any grades this whole idea of the purpose of life he sold the birthright he was not interested in ruining it he was not interested in in in their relationship with God where is Yaakov and his seed they're gonna be called yes Rael your char L straight to God and what I'm going to lead into we heard last year but it's amazing because they are you Shari M jaquel and Lodato their intent their mindset is to fulfill the mitzvahs bhava with lots of love okay now this is really interesting what I want to show you now that can find it okay turn to page 12 so this idea in chapter 28 in Deuteronomy verse 1 and it will be if you obey the Lord your God to observe to fulfill all his commandments which I command you this day Lord Lord your God will place you supremo above all the nations of the earth we're gonna be supreme above all the nations it says in Hebrew the God is gonna unit uncut Hashem la caja le on God's gonna place you el yong le on is al your Vaughn over the Greeks but that doesn't end there I'll call Goya Eretz now there are actually 71 nations 70 non-jewish nations that are divided to two groups 35 under or nourished from Ishmael and 35 nourished through ASA so there are really only two groups two main groups but that's what it means by alcohol glory Haaretz but it's al al Yvan you have on at the moment of this time now think about like this when we say the Shema we put our hands over our eyes correct what is the hand the hand is made of five fingers correct swore like this and one go in the opposite direction in Hebrew what's this called the thumb [Music] godo what does it sound like the great one correct the big one the great one I just mentioned there are really only two main paradigm nations but we always talk about four exiles because these four nations are basically the paradigm nations on another level so these four nations are represented by the four fingers these four kingdoms of four exiles and not we're not counting Egypt we're talking about the Babylonian the Persian the Greek and the Roman these four fingers go in one direction if you look in numbers 23 9 now this is the prophecy of Balaam that the Jewish people would be a nation that dwells alone so the thumb the godel the great one is off to the side where is the floor for nations like this now these four fingers all have three bones or if you want to say three joints one two and then three okay there's three bones three bones three bones and this has two bones what is the point here is gonna say that you have by the Nations guys they have a natural tendency to need an intermediary whereas the Jewish nation is Yashar straight to a Shem we don't use intermediaries we don't have an administering angel all these nations have administering angels and for them to get to the highest of highs it's natural I'm not saying it's preferred but it's natural for them to use an intermediary to get to a chef let's read this is the Benny sky and he says based on the verse we read above in Deuteronomy 28 1 that God's gonna place you supreme over all the nations he says that it's well known that your forefingers sorry we have four fingers of the hand that hint to the Four Nations that within within those four nations all the rest of the 70 nations with other 60-66 nation all the 70 nations are included in the 4 the 4 nations 4 kingdoms whereas the godel is Levada the thumb is all by itself and that hints to Israel that's why it's separated from all the other fingers as the verse says in nude numbers 23 9 you will be a nation that dwells alone so the so the Benesch Kai goes on and he says Tom not home with over this is a very proper thing that's why you find by all four of these fingers slow chic Shari three joints or three members and it's only the only the thumb that has two right you have three bones in each one of the fingers but the go though the thumb has only two why because Israel receives the chef's ax the chef's is the divine providence the the flow from hashem without any intermediary and therefore God what is what's the name of God the God of Israel everyone knows him right the God of Israel the God of Israel but the nations Ummah Salaam they're not able to receive except through an intermediary who are there who are their intermediaries they're admitted they're ministering angels digital doesn't have a ministering angel we go straight to a sham he took us out of Egypt personally we don't have a ministering angels but they do and they have administrators above them so regarding these hands we say I'm sorry regarding them the we say a Shem is God of all gods hello hey eloheem he's the the Most High which means there there are other not gods but other powers that God created in this universe so they all used these as like stepping stones that's why I'm as well mention it here there's a major mock locusts everyone agrees that if you this idea of let's say Christianity if they call Jesus God that's idol worship but if they use an intermediary to get to God so then there's a mock locusts it's not it's not necessary idol worship for Gentile because it's in the nature of them where is a Jew who falls for a intermediary that's either worship for a Jew that's 100 percent forbidden and I just wanted magicals we do have a lot of righteous Gentiles I want to mention that if you I'm not using the word graft I don't like that word but if you recognize that there's one god of the God of Israel we call him the God of Israel okay he created the universe and he made a revelation he gave the Torah he gave what we called the Torah to the Jewish people as their inheritance it's theirs then you can learn it with them it's not stealing the whole idea is that if you read it on your own you're bound to make a mistake and that's called stealing one of the seven Noahide laws is against stealing think about it when you make a bra huh right we already discussed this idea the whole world belongs to yeah and there's another verse says the whole world belongs to man God gave the will to man and what are we saying helpless broke loose that when you make it rough and you say okay it's yours Hashem you're the source then he grants you permission to use it correct otherwise you're stealing so when you recognize that God has a special relationship with the Jewish people whatever that means they have more responsibility that's what means they have the special responsibility to be teachers and servants of God they were given this to transmit when you acknowledge that then you as a non Jew are not stealing because you're saying Shabbos is yours I just want to share it with you it's yours I want to share with you the Torah is yours I always keep seven but I'm allowed to keep more right the Rambam says long as you do it what kill ha ha ha but it's yours I'm willing to do it I'm not obligated to do it I'm talking as a non Jew as non Jew could say I'm willing to do it I'm I want to connect to a Shem to I want to connect to a sham so I'm willing to take one more I have to start with the base but he recognizes that number one the transmission came through the Jews that the understanding of every detail of every Mitzvah comes through the Jews because we were there at the revelation we were there if we were there so why would you go somewhere else to find out what it means right you go to the people that were there and then it's not stealing because I know it belongs to you it says it's a heritage it's an inheritance to the children of Yaakov and you have a certain occult sea otter the Shanaya you have a certain promise that it would never leave you than with all the tribulations and all the persecutions that it would never leave you your prophetic people why would I go somewhere else I want to know the truth I'm gonna come to the Jews okay so let's go back into the text of the Bennish hein so he says that it's by the Gentiles they're not able to receive accept through an intermediary and who are the intermediaries they're administering angels who are above them and that's why it says regarding even them they have to call Hashem the God of all gods therefore what about these four fingers the four fingers that have the three knots or the three joints or three bones that hints to the idea that they actually need some type of intermediary and Beschloss eh MCE and by having anytime you have the number three you always have something as an intermediary between them but the guide though but that thumb does not have it hints to Israel it doesn't have any anything that holds it back I'm Nia it doesn't have anything preventing it therefore I want you to go back again to the beginning of 28 one where it says show ma'am it's right basically it's following about God says guard my mitzvahs and Mike Tora actually you know what this is from Proverbs look at proverbs chapter 7 verses 2 & 3 [Music] and chapters two and three heed my Commandments and live and he'd like Torah as the apple of your eyes buying them on your fingers inscribe them on the tablet of your heart okay now we're talking about this is when we say the Sh'ma we're putting our hands over eyes what is this idea of binding something on your hand on your fingers no that's when your arm the tefillin is on your arm you want to say it's your fingers over there this is what he's when we say SH MA it means to say that the fingers where would you even come up with this idea I understand heart right that it the whole heart is like somehow dependent you have to guard your heart but what is this idea of gardening your fingers what what is this idea of binding your fingers by them when your fingers hand arm it's totally different thing fingers are here arm is here you bind them when your arm on the strength of your arm and it reminds us of the strength that a God took us out of Egypt here it says bind them on your fingers what are we binding on the fingers so he says shop your lower it's proper to say the charm shallots booty huh that these knots when your fingers right the where that's what he's calling them not that's Charlene right the the bones that the three the three parts of your of your of your fingers min hats bachata been tugging hi fresh have their she Asia they Nikola Batum uh so long you have to understand there's a huge difference between you and the non-jews this is what you're supposed to be thinking about shut charlotta yesh lach ha de vegas on this rock you have a special relationship with god i want you to go to Deuteronomy 4 verse 4 where it's in verse at page 13 attempt at making about no uhm Shyam cook am I am you cleave to the Lord your God are alive all of you this day this is it you have you have you go straight to God your vague the word the date the book David epic is glue it's like mom-ish connected and that's what the plastic is saying you go straight to a sham so over here he's saying the same thing that you're not like the fingers you like the thumb you're cheb you you have nothing aim Bain 8mm to e you have nothing in between you and God maash Inc equals hola which is not true by the nations that's why it's fitting for you to cling to the Torah as the verse we just read [Music] okay I want to go to something very interesting what is the Torah portion we've been reading no the Torah portion we've been reading every day during Hanukkah Vanessa naso so the parsha has to do with the Hanukkah summons bear write we were on Hanukkah and we're reading a new customers bed when did them when did the dedication of the altar take place in Nice on correctly son now what happens when the Jews left Egypt and we left a lot of gold and a lot of other material we weren't necessarily needed to build a Michigan according to certain opinions it came as the result of our sin with the golden calf okay other opinions are that it was always God's intent it was always part of the plan so let's go with the opinion that it was to atone for the golden calf in the meanwhile what takes place in terms of time because it helps us with the timeframe so we leave Egypt at 450 days later we're standing at har c9 okay we accept the Torah verbally then 40 days later Moses comes down and we're with the Golden Calf big no-no 20 days later he comes down he says you've been forgiven so he begs our forgiveness for 40 days that's the first of ello the 10th of Tishrei which is young people he comes down as as y'all forgiven clear as mud the next day he says now you have to collect items to donate for the Michigan that's right after Yom Kippur so what happens takes a few days they start making things when was everything ready on the 25th of Kislev the 25th this particular day Hanukkah but God says no we're not gonna make the dedication now I'm gonna make a future dedication in the meantime I want you to hold off to the first of Nisan on the fruit okay so now we already talked about Hanukkah we're going to put that aside first of Nisan what are we doing we're bringing crab uh knows who's we the heads of each of the twelve tribes how many tribes are there thirteen depends how you count if we count lady so then we have to count Yosef and we don't count the nosh in the fryer but if we're already gonna count lady so then we're just gonna carry Ossa right okay yo so if you count lady you can't count minashi no frying and anyway you counted there's always twelve but how many do we have with thirteen okay so during the first 12 days of Nisan the leaders of the tribes were bringing gifts as we read we've been reading it's called Han Lukas in his bath so every day we read one of the princes what happens on the eighth day I think that's where they got I think it's you wrote the song 12 days of Christmas anyway have you ever heard that song before maybe only in America really anyway we talked about the word Crist Christ being the word for Messiah or the word anointing or inaugurating as we talked about a yacht christening you missed that part okay so the idea when you buy a yacht if you have to body off you would take a nice bottle of champagne and crack it against the stern you never heard such a thing what's it called its christening with what's the word means to inaugurate the word team of Konnor it's all it's all messianic we're talking about with the beginning we spoke about this God is preparing us for those dark times that we're always looking forward to something greater Greek translation of right that's what I said we're the real machine we're the real messianic they're all you know they think he came gone it's all fake news they don't even know what he's fulfilled what he didn't fulfill what it was all human that's supposed to be about it certainly ain't it doesn't fulfill any of what we're looking forward to I mean we have real big hopes so then I guess they came up with an idea of a second coming right consume as soon as they couldn't get the Jews because the Jews are saying are you kidding me that's like not even Sabet it's like doesn't even fall out as anything quality right your son of God died I mean come on right hoping doesn't make sense but anyway so in the parsha of it's right before bullosa huh we read on the on the eighth day the 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th and we go right into bellows aha but Llosa cuz we'll be finished off last week the last hour of my sheer last week was about errands lighting the candle right it was all about Hanukkah so now we have how new custom is back connecting to Chanukah how so listen to this this is so universal even though each member of the tribe each leader of a tribe brought exactly the same thing it's like so repetitive the only thing difference is their names in the day guess what happens Rashi here on verse 7 throughout I'm sorry chapter 7 verse 16 through 20 describes in detail what these offerings that were brought for the Miz Barack do know them his bath belongs to we got talking we're talking about the Torah belongs to the Jews meaning the instructions but this house of God is the house raw people any anybody can join anybody can join the Jewish people right so this is a house but it's also over toilet all of history you don't have to be a convert to join the Jewish people okay you don't to me you can be a righteous Gentile but you join up cuz you're joining up with the God of Israel so it's this is Rashi I'm gonna read Rashi he mentions in the treatise Ruby Moshe darshan he found that Rev Pincus Pena year he was a Tana he said 'not on of been Zora gave the princes this idea to bring the offerings what was it the silver ball was a karateka so from our number page number 17 a silver ball Rashi what is he doing here he's telling us the letters the Komachi is 930 anybody knows anything about history what is 930 it's the age of Adam the first man he lived 930 years and then what about how much it weighed a hundred and thirty shekel what is 130 we thing about world history that's how old Adam was when he gave birth to Seth what's going on here somehow we're relating the MS BAE och to world history because this is where the Rob mom says the very place the man was created that's where man will find his atonement over there 100 thousand meters away from us okay so it weighed 130 shekel because when Adam established offspring he was 130 years old and would it mean one baseness over the gamma tree is 520 what happened to 520 that because no ox were established offspring when he was 500 years old because of the 20 years that the flood had been decreed before the birth of his offspring as he explained his day shall be 120 years this is where why it says once so one basin of silver and it doesn't say one silver basin okay we're not going to go deep into this right now but it was 70 shekels they weighed 70 Shaco what 70 the 70 nations and then it goes on into a coal more modern and Jewish history with Abraham Isaac and Jacob all the way down to Moses and Aaron okay so this is a very I think instrumental piece to understand that we're talking about the dedication of the altar if the message is and it was hijacked the message of Hanukkah is love and brotherhood for all mankind that you'll find atonement and who's taking that message on right that's what they that's what the Christians claim to the messages this is our message to the wrong you hear it so I want to enter back to partially a shave last week's parsha chapter 39 verse 11 when yo Sethe was more than just seduced right this woman really wanted him so bad Potiphar's wife she concocted a whole thing that she would be alone with him in the house it was on that day that he entered the house to do his work not one of the men of the household were there in the house and she caught hold of him by his garment so look at Rashi it says on that day what day in the Hebrew sky yo mozzie it's a very awkward statement she said by Yamahas and what does it mean kaha mozzie it was a day of frivolity it was a special day a day of their idolatrous festival do you know what festival we're talking about this is Adam the first man when he when he was right we talked about this in the beginning a little bit when he noticed the day was getting shorter and shorter and shorter so he made this festival so what the Gentiles did the everyone was gentle at the time saying the pagans at the time they made a pagan holiday okay so in we spoke about this so lose Christmas it was the 25th it was they they already had way before the Year Zero hey we're talking about a thousand years before already pagans had hijacked that that holiday that day though even though it was holy when Adam Rishon when the first man created that holiday it was holy he was praising a sham I got life but they they turned it around and made something horrible so she said oh it's Church day everyone's gonna go to church I can be along with him listen to the words it was on that day when he entered the house to do his work not one of the members of the household were with him in the house and that's when she grabbed him Rashi says they all went to the pagan temple she said I have no day as fitting to become intimate with Yosef as this day that's why it says komuz ed has this day she said to the members of her household I'm sick I can't go to church today I can't go to the temple she was alone with him now I want you to go to the prayer that we do all Anissa in the days of Matisyahu the son of Jochen on the high priest the Hasmonean and his sons when the wicked Greek Kingdom rose up against your people Israel to make them forget your Torah and compel them to stray from the statutes of your will you can already tell we're talking about our Hanukkah is penal it's to get us reveal hair girl accustomed to the light in the darkness these people wanted to rip the Torah out from underneath us you and your great mercy stood up for them in the time of their distress right when you're down God's there with you you took up their garments you took up their grievance judge their claim avenge they're wrong you delivered the strong into the hands of the week we were considered weak did many into the hands of the few we were few the impure into the hands of the pure the wicked into the hands of the righteous and the wanton into the hands of the diligent students of guitarra so far it's everything we talked about we if we want to be we used to conquer ry8 Sahara we're gonna have to take from the other side as well so we were on the weak side and yet we were able to overcome because of Hashem and then it says and for your people Israel you worked a great victory and salvation as this very day in Hebrew it's exactly from this verse in 39 of Genesis Khayyam has that that's the strangest thing to have the same language that by Yosef right having to overcome on that particular day as over here in our prayer that we also need to overcome Kaiama zet just like that particular day you hear this amazing so we really need I'm telling you for myself that we need to focus we need to really like beg Hashem for all the strength we can come to muster up to overcome whether it's addictions whether it's character traits right we have to figure out and scheme I'm using that word loosely how to use the y8 Sahara for good how to use all those evil powers that exist in this world only for good only to serve a shed because we were created with freewill right we have all kinds of abilities and we should use every single one of our abilities to serve Hashem properly so we should learn as much Torah and mercy our selves in Torah right and love it as hard as we can and I'm sure that we can bring Messiah I'm sure that we can change the world first of all we change ourselves and if we change ourselves we're certainly changing the entire universe right the energy that's that's coming out from our neshama right through the wick through the goof right how we're going to experience Shabbos from now on the coverage Shabbos kodesh and when the light movement when we light the Chanukah it's only the lighting that's the Mitzvah that's all if they blow out oh well right you got to make the initiative you got to like the light I'm begging you all ignite the light that's within you that's all you have to do and Shem will raise you higher and higher and with that shabbat shalom and Chanukah Sameach [Music]