Rabbi Ahron Walkin - Chanukah: The Light & Warmth of Torah

[Music] so Malaysian and Brooklyn my bunion as we approach Chanukah let us talk about Hanukkah the essence of Hanukkah what is Hanukkah the Rambam tells us mitzvahs near Chanukah meets for have evil he added my eyes the midst of near chronic is very common have Eva Adamantite random doesn't speak by all mixes this way specifically my panic at the ramen goes out of his way to tell us how Robin Robin added the midst of Newark Chanukah when we say her name is hallelu you'll notice something interesting the wording by Arthur Cabo Vanessa Vanessa with veer basica Italy arrow is Boccaccio is kochava bone fo love a child you see the car Evo's it's a mitzvah Kanaka the yontiff is about religious as if the curvy verse of a father to a child the Africa bow Bonica let verb a circle it's a mitzvah it's a yontiff that has a lot of love javi vez y what is so unique about Hanukkah and their conga then it's so covered that it's so dear and Deering and warm so there's a lot of shot Tim there's a lot of tire on this Tanika part of toy are on chronic is revolved around this question why is Hanukkah and the Nair curriculum it's alkaviva I would like to tell the island to share with you a portion shot simple the menorah represents Tyrell that's the whole idea of the Menards hahaha Massa Tyra Toros about pet the Gomorrah tells us Bubba bathroom the mayor says that the menorah represents Tyra that if moisture a bingo had a question about something in learning when white Rubino had a something that he didn't understand he went to the monoi world and he would gaze at the menorah and the menorah would give him the light the shot to understand what he needed to know and learning because the monoi is about Tyra and it follows the whole story of Hanukkah what was the story of Hanukkah the venom wanted lash become tired a sec huh that cloudy stroll should forget Tyrell hashim's Tyrell Tyrell it's a hakama it's a knowledge but that it should be tell your loss that huh you were talking about you know there's terror should accept but title it's about pet what's the difference between tire ship excited perishable pet the written Tyra the game also accept scriptures the tyrus about path this is special unique Claudia strong that the Raboy - Whalum gave directly moysha - Claudia straw lash key from Torah cetera - forget the hashem story the tyra Shabab path and therefore we came back to the base hammock - and we lit him an IRA which represents its thus mo it represents Irish about path this is the essence of the yontiff when someone asks you what is Chronicle this is Hannukah Hannukah is the Iranian lash geek entire sefa klaudia strong fought for Tyron they fought for tigerish about pan and they were Zoya fed to a tremendous Ness the Hanukkah menorah which is tired the light of Tyra they want to bring darkness lash become tear yourself in return the Reverend gave us back the monoi or the light of Tyrell Tyrell is harvest Tyra is a hovel tire is warm tighter is Nemo's sweet I came here tonight to give you this message we have a tremendous gift tremendous Matano that Shem gave us and only we had it and not Salman no Shabaab andouille color harmony she chose us to give us a present that no other nation has and that is the tyro which is covered which is a have love it's deer it's warm it's sweet and this is what the rama meanings that the near colic is a mitzvah Aviva Aviva adenoid it's warm it's sweet because it's about I have a tire is all about love it's all about the emos the PASOK tells us you know what Tyra is Dara haha darling I am nikalna Seveso harshaali Toyo is Darlene I am it has to be the way of sweet many hella hot yeah boy say listen carefully which the halacha seems to be one way the Gemara and there is shine will tell us that's not the halacha because it has to be their affair darling I am it has to be sweet it has to be nigh even if it's not naive it can't be doctora toierate is sweet Tyra's happy it's warm I want to show you an interesting halakha in health is Hannukah interesting halakha honey of the fauna of their basa even air Chanukah a person has to make a choice he doesn't have money for both the Shabbos candles and the menorah today we don't have these issues Bar Hashem we're not poor but there was a time where person had to make a decision he didn't have enough for both says the Rambam it's the last halakhah in Hill cos Hanukkah their base our Vic either showering their base I carry them Michele Michele eBay say if it's a question of which candles are more important that they take preference over it's there of Shabbos which is cooled in their base light why we show mulling base a because of the peace in the house the Shabbos candles are about the showing the peace in the home between husband and wife says the realm of Shari ash-sham luminosity Sharlee manish leash thing hashem even erases his name to make peace in the home the sight of hashem races than his in the waters of the sight oh god Rachel I mean Karl I tell you on the last shuttle Ebru long because the whole lot point of why we have a tiger is to have show him in the world should be peace sheen mr know which posture does the ramen finishes his Hanukkah with Chanel marred the Rafael darkly know young we come to see my cell Shelley how did this come into the rambha Menaka Kannada problem is telling us how you upon them their base leaving their Hanukkah or in their base of the kiddush ie Shabbos candles paid breath precedence first come Shabbos candles because it's showing bias and it's the Rockefeller darkly know young the hunger see very cell showing because that's what the Chanukah which is about toilet that's trailer when we light the candles you know what we're lighting we're lighting drug paraphernalia we are kindling the love the showing then the Amos of Tyrone and that means showing showing bias comes first it's a beautiful random you know there's a whole question in Halawa you like candles that there's a time Misha Tishkoff Hamel what happens if the wife is not home today women work for whatever reason she's not home yet should you wait or should you say this man is as mine the time is a time it's a big discussion in the poisk Eamon and many pipes can say you must wait for your wife based on this random because you see clearly it's about showing it's about Holland bias is more important than their high and because that is near Hanukkah there Connick is about darkling I am tire it has to be showing and Dorothy million so we have a very nice shot MIT's listener Hannah commit Sahadeva their hanok is about Helios it's about warmth it's about love it's about darkly no yam and when you like the monoi euro you're tapping into your taking your Bettina henna from this player I tell you this beautiful warmth this beautiful Nemo's which is Tyrod Rafael don t know Yarmouth on the sea by cell showing I'll tell you where I learnt this from we did I learned this from how do I know this shot himself deciphered paid half a laughter hey the plastic says my office woman Abbott Ahava Bertolucci it's a parsec and she Reshiram my office how beautiful mana amped have sweet Ahava but eluding the love Hashem Claudius row says the Gemara my office zoo mezuzah referring to mezuzah a man armed sweet what is that referring to no Nair Hanukkah tumor myself decipher sweet the author mezuzah woman and their Chronicle in marmoset decipher you know the plastic buy a new hockey toy versa orit's Kino a mo it's a pasta can in Xena right I am a new hockey toy master are its key Naima so the coz I'll say the new huh is Tyra she looks off-key Naima is Tyra should bow patting him a listening suite you know when they said that they could give out sweets tonight I'm sure they met the shear miss Donna because the toy is the sweetest thing possible there's nothing sweeter it's a posse my office Amana aunt there's a plastic Messer are etske Naima what's my yarn in the world manuka is rest Taisha big sob does not even need our neighbors you read them suckin that's Manuka Tyra cheb our pet needs a nameless need to toil you need to work hard so not easy to learn a Gemara but yet it's called my a macaws it's sweet my yarn the new club Zoot Arabic sob this is a Zorica - Taylor Collins in the nourishment base here arrangement base desire says my yard Manuka the nucleus Tyrell shidduch south the sorority Naima it's Irish about pests weeds there's a custom brought down in the su Durham the eivin's brings it in his sitter what pulsing do you say right after you light the candles what pasa do you say mean I am a sham Elena oh my see add a new kind in Elena oh my see add a new kind of nail and many understood that why do you say this pause it because my see add a new cleaner which means we want liquor then that we should be Matt's Lea in our actions of mitzvot and I would say that the reason why we say this passing is because in the beginning the first few words in the puss ik and that is V nyam Hashem Elena the sweetness of Hashem the menorah when you light the menorah it's a Kavitha Mitzvah it's sweet it's a very warm Mitzvah you know the Madras has our they speak about the menorah keener Mitzvah the Tyra our that's the plastic that is used to describe Hadlock us on the naira he never made small the tire or tire is light the monoi is light now what does our name so R means it's light in darkness when it's dark you could see yes Tyra gives light in the darkness but there's another factor to art and that is warmth or fire fire gives warmth also the Minaya is light but then there is warmth it's mitzvah-kah Vivah blood it's very warm it's a lot of love when you light him in Europe Hashem - Claudia stroll to the point that as we pointed out before the haka Bobo neckla the rushman oh you felt like they were loved like children when they Hanneman around here a boy say when you say Henares a Louisville this year think of the words imagine this the times that they were living in they were living in a situation where it was dark and they were being persecuted yet when they were fighting and they came back to the base on McDuff they felt so much warmth but never as if they were children of Hashem like a father who loves a child and when you like them in oil you have that you're able to connect to that rock acabo Boehner Hall lit veer base AHA made lacunae Royce the factory sketch aha I see this farm say a nice shot very interesting palaka is as the Gomorrah States and is brought in children are of the midst of their Hanukkah is mr. Homma the Sun sets mr. Chia Siham oh I see this is fern for tide they explain tishka hama means when the warmth Mahama as the Sun Goes Down it becomes cold so the idea of the neighbors Hanukkah is when there's cold and this brings warmth mishit tishka we live in a cold world where boy sight you go outside and I don't mean physically I mean spiritually and emotionally there's so much problems wherever you turn it's cold tyrella and the manator which resembles the tyra infuses warmth tire is Javed tyre is Han I mean it's hot it's warm and it's Naima and it's sweet you know there was a great god--all a bleh-bleh a ger there was a grandson of Rabbi Akiva Eggert she wrote a safer cultura sadness that was the name of his safer and in it he has a fool I say ascending the whole discussion why is a Moloch Zakhar always read in parsha stood sada usually I mean I said say always but more or less most of the time they coincide parishes did solid McPherson Molly is there a connection yes the connection is the time of the year that's when parachuted Tsavo and it happens to me before portables he says no there's a connection much more than just the calendar specifically tits ah there does that what is good solvent it Sava talks about the maneuver and that moisture Boehner had to get the oil the equate laughs law shamans is Jacques to light the menorah it has a direct connection time Malik what is the connection on the lake tana cannot Molokai had I thought it's y'all one what's going on here smart and explains something very interesting something very unique what is a Malik you see I'm Malik of course is the guy that comes to kill us that's true but there's also something what they call a clip of a mullet which means the ideology of a Malik what is a Moloch I share her Habanera what is the word Karka simple it means that they fell on you they came and they attacked you by Derek on the way when you were leaving mitzrayim but being the first should explain Carl also means cold when it's cold you ever see Ike what is ice cold tara a chicago bad era i'm malik makes cold and what is the response to a Moloch the Eco elections I use the toy of Shemin the monoi Europe because that's warmth I could tell you that in cold days and I don't mean just because the temperature was cold I could say for myself and I could say for most people who learn they find warmth in the tire that's where they find as they say in English you're looking for a warm shoulder to lean on the Tyra is the warm shoulder and the menorah is the sama it represents this Tyra of warmth of light of Earth I see here there are those that are still in school and they learn Tanaka shwoo at the end of Shmuel we find that Scholl and unison were killed in war dovid hemella is broken that shawl and heinessen were killed yusin was David Hamels best friend they were so United and of it gives a husband David is eulogizing shallow and unison let's see the words let's listen to the words that dove it says when he tries to give it a picture of who shall in unison work honey Harvin Gahanna Eamon bhai a ham over my son line if Fran Ahava means they were loved and the II mean they were Naima sweet really that's that's how you talk about the two great giants of Claudius ro you continue to look and further it says now I'm truly a delayed God says you Yelena sin were so sweet now honestly you were sweet to me that's how you talk about a God lot door they were the Godoy latest role imagine someone would get up and speak about we have a diverse crowd speaking about revelry ashes and cathodic live Rocco or rather by the yourself as if inside the club rockin he would say well yeah I mean what are you talking about that's what it we are for the delay along they would they were giants you know what you say about a simple guys I mean that's what either the questions a Greek but here the Shiloh's L Zachary Holly Maggie dr. delays Chanda I've even a mean eyes ad virtual done welcomes that sound showed me a mounting that the malbim says yes to be a Nayeem is a tremendous attribute there are her darkly no young it means you're a been Tara and Amos with someone is sweet someone is kind he's gentle he's warm it's a sign that he was kind he has in himself the Tyrone and therefore Durham Hall Darlene oh yeah it's a sign that he's a real love about Tyra he's a real Thomas Holcomb because Tyra means Naima Pyrrha means their affair darkly no young the columnist see waste our showing you know the emote it's not something that people talked about I'm sure that someone's gonna come and say what did drablow can come from Queens what did he speak about he spoke about toy you're learning no he spoke about to be naive to be Naima leaflets that really that's what rabbi Balkan spoke about and the answer is if governor Miller could speak about it I could also speak about it what does it mean to be Naima Naima is not an external thing my name is Polly me it's something very internal something deep in a person and he radiates the emote he radiates it remember the plastic that we mentioned my office Humana amped my office is mezuzah man and is Newark Chanukah the bidet is ssassaror I see them say the Heil eliminate suspects face oscars classics worn for the Cypriot Kassadin what's the difference between Java and million my office mezuzah man amped their Chanukah he says something very very very beautiful very hot if he says the office is external it looks nice the mezuzah is external and armed is internal it's creamy it's something from within my office mezuzah and their Chanukah speaks to the inside of the beautiful shot their Chronicle brings out the inner and the emos the Khedive was the love that he has for a Kurdish Burkle and Fatah her my office external that's mezuzah emollient name is internal it's something that you convey it's not something that you could say it's not an external expression it's an internal thing and I want to show you where I believe this is clear that we say during vomiting it's very obvious Lacaille below the e mice utano lamella HIV Khayyam smear eyes email this is Buckeyes yes meiosis myris is young male Chris both eyes is Josh Leo but the email is what tango it should say about speaking now your Domini so it should be Nimoy's your nehru - me you now smear Isis young Meru tears bark ice is Josh Leo but the e mice is no you tan you give it because it's something that you're conveying it's not something that you're saying you cannot say names you can only convey it detainee to give it it's something that you are conveying and the emos a warmth could some would say warmth no he could convey what the Toyo changes a person a person has in himself a lot of quality a lot of time how does a person bring that out and the answer is tighter pyro I'd like to share with you a few stories I see by this point already the island listened to the DVAR Torah that I wanted to convey and that is Chanukah is about love it's about a Havel it's about a passion from within that every neshama every need has for the rabona salaam to the point that he's moisture nefesh you know person cannot be moisture nefesh unless he really really deep down has that fire of the Havel the Cashman oi'm had it and the menorah tries to convey it and that when you light the menorah you're getting this a hovel Hisato Europe he loves title he loves a consumer who I eat is able to love I have is not an easy thing it's talked about a lot but to really feel it Tyra Torre is the msie on how to reach that heritage how do you light how you Kindle Ahava brush em for Tyra the manator can help you with that Tyler Kindles a hyper session I want to tell you over I'll start with two stories and maybe I'll say even three depending on how much the crowd was interested when I was an air too strong I would say some twenty years ago the Shiva sent me to give Sherman different yeshivas and this was to a to recruit bokram I would give this year at the bottom would you know see the rest of Shiva and they would they would follow and try to you know like this daily America when they came back to America they would come to the issue the yeshiva arranged all the traveling to the different moist ice and yeshiva s-- by taxi which means from here they would call the taxi service there and say pick opera by walking from this and this and bring him to so-and-so you sheep one morning I was there for about a week week and a half one morning I come out the taxis waiting for me like we've done you know who we've set up I wasn't happy when I entered the taxi the taxi driver didn't look like he was I'm sorry I thought Jewish he looked like he was from the studying the territory of not ours okay he looked like an Arab our face you know the hair was I was there and there was a lot of terrorist attacks at that juncture at that time it was very uncomfortable we're traveling and the Shiva the particular Shiva we were going to was on the outskirts of your salon today usual aim is built up and the outskirts are full of houses but it was a remote area and as we're traveling the taxi driver turns to me and says to me were lost yeah you see it we're lost I don't know how to get to this place do you know how to go and I said no I don't I don't know how to go but I started taking out Mike tehilim already cuz I was a little bit and I'm walking around is there anyone that we there know headon around it was scary there was scary I also didn't understand why he couldn't radio in you know today we have ways we have all the you can't really get lost right even though today they're more lost than they weren't years ago but all right that's for a different conversation for a different time I could understand why he had you know this confusion of where to go and it bothered me I was a little nervous she asks me should I let forgive me now smaller everybody knows the question you mean or smaller so I said to appeal blindness demeanor because I always thought the cameras says and whenever you have a doubt a Jew always goes to the right so I told him you Mina he stopped the taxi abruptly and he turns around to me and he says my merit ah ma ma to me and he's raising his voice and I'm like okay now I'm really in trouble so I tell him you mean I know no mathmatically leaf nation mother Aminah so I tell him no no he says no no an item a show so I said can I be your happy you know testimony me that there that's how I talk that's how I talk and don't forget there was no sign of luck and of it anywhere and I really didn't believe he was Jewish all of a sudden he opens up his glove compartment and he takes out a yarmulke a white yarmulke fiamma cos that they give out by the kreisel and he puts it on and he says to me something that changed me forever he told me something that I've learned so much from and I realized the rabona shouldn't put me in that position and he put me in that cab and that taxi to learn this he says I'll say it first in Hebrew because he spoke Hebrew and then I'll repeat it in English I can't I could do it again it's also tell you if the crowd wants and okay hirato at OTR he only believed [Music] commercial Emily Hilaire Juliana Lakota Natraj Ashley has Lahaina NEMA sommet a keeper should be lovers Chanyeol F La Caixa you called me okay but only by live I'll translate it when you call me brother my heart jumped I got a big car which means a push shove and I feel that way when I go to the caisson that's what I feel so I told him I was NMR called the DD fake peacefully a Shem is knocking on your heart off it open up he took one word the word of a thief one word then ahaha darkanian become the Seaway Sarah shall we a good word a word of the in would we lost the the art of news tyrunt is Nemo's and Tyler you wanna Kindle on neshama it's through the emos and that is the manator I want to tell you what actually I see the crowd is listening I'll tell you you'll yeah it's a fair deal you'll listen to the beginning the tire you'll get the stories I could tell you and as you know I've been or Hashem I was I shouldn't gave me this list to teach Tyra for many years I had many stories over the years let me share with you another story Talmud of mine in the yeshiva got up at a Hanukkah party two years ago and he said I wasn't planned to speak I wasn't asked to be the speaker but I need to tell the crowd something that's that is on my heart that I want to say and I hope the rest of Shiva meaning me you won't be upset that I'm saying this I said speak speak your mind speak your heart I grew up as an atheist then I'm not ashamed to say it he said he said the rabbit he says I grew up as an atheist this Talmud and the yeshiva now I want to just tell you about this Talmud there's Talmud today gives shearer him he happens to be on the Torah anytime he's one of the Maggie the Sherman tour anytime so tour anytime Yasha kaya I will not tell you the name I could tell you the first name or not the second name let's do it that way or maybe you know what let's let's leave it nameless alright you'll go through all the list of all the people on tour anytime you see maybe it's that one mate maybe by the way there's a lot of my tummy them are on tour anytime Berkeley Shem house they ask em I thank a mister for that that was like her I was an atheist I grew up in a home that my grandparents were Holocaust survivors and because of that they had a lot of complaints you know unfortunately a lot of people came back from the Holocaust had a lot of pain and they didn't believe they lost their emunah and it's not just we lost our abouna that we weren't religious but we were anti we were atheist than believe in Hashem I got married then I had a child and something awoke in me and I realized I was wrong I was making a mistake I got in his all the woods to do chula but I knew nothing and I couldn't even read Hebrew which means I couldn't even damn it I couldn't say the words of the tequila because I never went to spy never learnt what do I do someone told him go speak to rabbi welcome he comes to me he walked in with jeans he walked in with a polo shirt a white yarmulke with stars on it and I believe teddy bears if I'm not mistaken we're on those death yarmulke as well okay and he says to me rabbi welcome this is my life story what do I do I said to him what do mean what do you do I have you Shiva I accept you Maya Shiva I told him I accept you Maya Sheila he says but rabbi Walken I'm already older and I know nothing is it too late for me to too late like he doesn't know what it's all about he doesn't even know what it is and he says to me but there's something in my heart that tells me I want to be a rough I want to be a rabbi is it too late I said no it's not and this is what he said because it's interesting I had a long conversation with him and this is what he remembered which changed his life he says mr. Shiva you took my hand and you told me I believe in you you could do it said that changed my life forwards forwards dr. Nam when you say a kind word taurah is there oh hey dr. Nam I want to tell you a third story as well I was just recently in her too strong and I was at a Bar Mitzvah a relative all the waiters I guess it's a rule there in that hole that they all have to wear yarmulke if they're religious they're not religious they make them all wear yarmulkes one of the meltzer him one of the waiters was a I mean he had dark skin he was him a few earrings and he had tattoos Chinese letters I guess it's must be a style of tattoos all the way up his neck and I'm looking at him I thought wow this is me how far could you know what is I mean maybe like Jewish I what do I know we are the minute they started dancing they advanced with the mom it's a boy the music he jumps in and he dances with everybody as if he was part of the simcha and I'm watching this and I'm moved by this neshama that's moved to be part of Kali Israel to be part of a simcha and Claudia stroke maybe it's the right time to point this out you know we have unfortunately a lot of tragedies every day we hear terrible events the neshamah beed needs to feel for those tragedies and in and meet saga and folk meet saga Shanee when there's sin cos you go to a semca you should be happy detailed it should be something that the neshamah should express love and a half oh and we're capable of it most Gayane can't do this one Gentile to another has no connection might be his friend but if he's not his friend okay what does it have to do with you right the Nizam of Leeds has a hovel his love and that's because we're the outlet iris the tire gave us something unique that were able to have feelings her Dacian and that means if we don't know the person we should still feel for him sad for his sorrow and happy for his simcha when I was a bunker and I'm gonna get back to the story of the waiter when I was above ground when I was near to stroll so I used to hang around called tyranny Shiva bite the gong my grandparents lived there so I he would stay in coal Tyrell learned there and I wasn't a talented the achievable I learned in the mirror but every you know time I would go to my grandparents I would come to co-pirate to hang out so to speak and learn there and once went down to get a coffee I was tired so I went to get a coffee and there happened to be a chef a breakfast going on in the lunchroom of the yeshiva in coal terrabyte vagon who is there a shiva of cult IRA at the time the blame is on the nor buck the famous going the famous double the police academies on the Norbeck and he was at a pendant and he was attending this simcha me I'm not part of the simcha I just came to get a coffee right so I get my coffee and I'm making it then I'm like ready to walk upstairs serve some zama calls me over the governor calls me over he says to me why are you not part of the simpler why are you not just because I'm not then I have nothing today I'm upstairs I just went came down for a coffee he says to me you think it just happened that you should get a coffee while there is a simcha going on over here how could this bar who put you here to see if you'll be happy for another year that has a simcha that has nothing to do with you near em story from a god ladder I shall is test you are you happy for someone you don't know you need to show simcha as if you knew and as if you were invited and he made me dance with the casa in the middle of the circle together with everybody else this is Tyra this is there alcohol directly no I'm not something people think about but it's an internal lave of a Claudia strong that loves and we had this from our Tyra so when I saw this stranger the waiter he had nothing to do with the simcha he jumps in and he starts to dance so I called him over I said I need over Edie I see she has to live UD debe Jewish heart why meet regatta he taught her alte when you saw they were dancing and they were happy for this Bar Mitzvah boy it moved you you have a Yiddish of hearts and I ain't Satan here is I told him in Hebrew Levy OD he hugged me then he kissed me and he said I have tada Neelam added T Beshear apparati yourself rocket in the hood he became very very eviction merit Ali I told him it is exotic that's really what I said that sad again I love you Dean that's right all he says when you told me I'm exotic and I have a label UD you don't know what you did for me the reason you gave me was unbelievable any action that would I will shine eat or a visa money at field to Lima so juvenile and he dived might need our admirers their affair huh darkly no tire is warm Paris avivit toy is Ahava in there Canada is veno yeah I'm Hashem Elena nice he add a new kind of nail when you light the menorah it's the boy huh Tyra the light but it's also the coming of the worth Chanukah is warm there's Tyra is warm and trubin a toy is honey Harvin there honey even if I am I wish you all Hanukkah naive okay people have different ways of saying cracks Americana pit I think tonight we're gonna rephrase a new phrase all right everybody is together with me on this Hanukkah naive have a sweet Chanukah because the neighbors of Chanukah is about avi Lewis it's about and remember where do I get as out tell us my office mezuzah man I'm in there Hanukkah as I already told us the emos been I am asha Molino whom I see Dana kinda Shamshad always the stove in sweetness and you should see me Takota Tala and remember kind words one word doesn't take much the letter life sweet word good word this Bishop is either Hanukkah she has calles listen liberalize the Claudia Schrom [Music]