Bnei Yosef Pre-Chanukah Preparation - Parshas Vayeishev and the Eternity of the Menorah

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome everyone to um tonight's um event some of us have the have had the opportunity to hear Rabbi gladin in my house I don't know if my kids know RAB Gast looks like but they for sure know his voice because his shim are constantly on in my home and that's why I'm very familiar with the rav I know I'm not the only one who knows the secret of Rabbi gladin it's a secret because the rabbis like to keep it a secret because we get a lot of our information and a lot of our shim are based on the R's classes that he gives I think if I'm not mistaken the r has probably the most sh on Torah any time at this moment um the only danger is I believe is that anyone that's going to listen to the tonight is probably going to be a become a very big fan because you're going to hear the beauty of his Torah the clarity how he weaves everything together and most importantly how you going to feel extremely prepared for the upcoming hag of hag Hanukah and M we should all be inspired and we should uh take his words to heart and this should be a for everyone out there thank you fromma Pula I feel like uh maybe I'm a little bit too high to be ker for Kaneka but we're all we're all together in this thank you so much R for the very warm and generous introduction and I would like to share with you this evening a few thoughts that are meaningful to me regarding the upcoming y of and the hope to elevate and enhance our appreciation of some of the main ideals ideas and principles regarding the upcoming OFA there's a very important principle in the zad the Z tells us quoted by R angel that the Kad of an upcoming yam is always latent in the shabis that precedes that yam which means that if Kana is this coming Sunday evening then the Kad of Kana will be found in this coming chabas which behooves us to delve and probe into par VV looking fores to the upcoming yam of Kana and it does not seem to have any connection at all to Kana after all talks about the dreams of Y the bundles the sheaves bowing down to y's bundle and then the Sun the moon the stars bowing down to Y what's this guy do with Kana and then Y is sold down toim and then yehud Yehuda and then y's in jail I what's this got to do with Kaneka Ain I that actually the episode of y's dreams is very much connected to in fact I believe the entire y of is alluded to in the dreams of Y and in a dream that the T doesn't talk about because even though if we were to ask how many dreams did y have well look in the the says y had two dreams we were bundling bundles so the first Dream has is that all the bundles representing yosef's siblings yov and yakov's wives bow down to ysf and then the Sun the moon the stars they bow down to ysf and you would think that in total how many dreams does yosf have in total ysf has two dreams but here's the issue the says had a dream and he told his brothers he hat they hated him even more even more than what this is the first Dream what do you mean they hated him even more and he says listen up to the dream and then the says they hated him more for his dreams what do you mean for his dreams he only had one dream so far the wrote a it's called and in his commentary on Thea reveals that actually Ys had two dreams and and then the dream about the Sun the moon and the stars a total of three dreams three dreams but the PK only says two dreams no it's clear there's an unspoken dream obviously there's a dream that Yosef had that the Kish doesn't record that's an amazing Revelation he had a dream that the does not even record what is this dream so the ban says if you look later on in par the PK says that after the of Y after Yu passed away so the brothers were starting to get really nervous the brother said maybe so long as yov was alive so ysep didn't harm us he didn't want to upset dad but now that Dad is dead maybe ysf will imprison us maybe ysf will kill us so yosf comes to the brothers and he tells the brothers listen up he consoled them he spoke to their heart what exactly did Ys tell the brothers says the Rashi says look says y told the brothers the following image he illustrated The Following imagery that if 10 candles can't put out one candle then one candle can't put out 10 candles what was yoseph telling the brothers if you 10 guys you were surrounding me and you could have killed me and you could have harmed me and you tried to harm me you threw me in the pit and really you couldn't do anything to me you threw me in a pit with snakes and scorpions and you could not hurt me at all so if the 10 of you couldn't hurt me now that it's me on the offensive and you have to deal with me you think I could hurt you that's what ysf was telling the brothers if the 10 of you couldn't harm me how can I harm you guys but why does ysep use the analogy if 10 candles can put out one candle then how could one candle put out 10 what's he talking about candles for why didn't y say if 10 Lions couldn't harm one lion one lion can har 10 can harm 10 Lions why didn't ysf say if one I don't know one bulldozzer if 10 bulldozers can't knock over one one can knock out 10 what's he talking about candles where'd he get the analogy of candles from says abouta it must be y got this analogy from his dream y had a dream that's not recorded in the Kish you know what he saw in the dream he saw 10 candles tried to put out one candle and the 10 candles were not able to put out one candle that was the first Dream of Y in that's the dream the Torah alludes to and it says that's the dream that the T refers to it's not recorded as why is it recorded it's not recorded because it didn't get on the brother's nerves cuz what's YF telling them already YF is just saying hey you guys you can't harm me okay so we can't harm you it didn't get under their skin but when YF is telling him about his uh visions of grandor that he's going to be the M that's that that bothered them and therefore there's an unspoken dream that's not recorded in the namely sees candles so now we already start to see that there's a Remis to kanaka on this week's para because the first Dream in par VV that's not explicitly recorded is a dream about 11 candles so we're off to a good start yeah but 11 candles that seems like a random number what does that have to do with Hanukah so watch this that means y saw in the dream 10 candles could not put put out one candle so how many candles do we have so far 11 candles then ysf goes to the brothers and he says Hey guys 10 candles can't put out one candle that's another 11 candles we're up to 22 candles and then in when the brothers are getting nervous that YF is going to harm them what does YF tell the brothers that if 10 candles couldn't put out one another 11 33 then one candle can put out 10 candles another 11 44 these are the 44 n of Kaneka half the remes to the m khah are alluded to a first 11 in y's dream then another 11 ysf relating the dream then at the end of says if the 10 couldn't put out one another 11 then the one can't put out 10 these are the 44 Naros of Kaneka as we know there are two ways of counting Naros khaka you could count it 36 right without the shamash 36 by the way what's the significance of the 36 candles of kanaka because we know that when created the world the original light of creation the primordial light illuminated like the B writes how long Mr fuches 36 hours Mr fuches is revealing to us this great secret 36 hours the original light illuminated the world and when we light thehan we are bringing out the Aros of the original light of Creation in fact you know by Every Act of Creation Every Act of Creation it was so it was so it was so except for there should be light it doesn't say it just says cuz God wanted there to be this special original light but it couldn't exist so Hashem had to put it away for the but one time in our history this original light came out when Aon lit the Mana V says the Mal when Aon lit the man he brought out the the original light of creation the light that lasted for 36 hours says that is why which speaks about the lighting of the Mana is the 36th para in the T can I get the the hours that the original light lit up the world however there's another there's another way to count the N not 36 they're 44 n of Kaneka together with the shamish so for example there's a big discussion in parties onah or sud is it a fulfillment of a mitvah or is it merely discretionary so the Rutenberg writes that Kana was enacted only not for I saw just yesterday an amazing why was enacted not he says that you know the episode of what occurred in the city of sh was a precursor a pre enactment for the story of Kaneka story of Kaneka began when the Greek General said okay give me every Maiden The the Greek Governor violated every Jewish woman that's what started all the tragedies in the times of Kaneka likewise in the episode of violated Dina and how did we eradicate through shim and Le how did eradicate theim through the just like in the times of it Wasim the whole city in the hands of only two B so too in the times of it was 13 WHO eradicated the entire Syrian Greek army so it's a very big parallel now that means the city of sh was the city which created the miracle of Kaneka when shim and Le wiped out the city of that created the miracle of Kaneka so when the brothers later came to the city of sh in this week's para par vev they said hey this city we could we're going to be successful in this city in this city we're empowered and that's why they had the gumption and the audacity to sell y in the city of sh because they already knew in this city shim and Ley will be successful they already were earlier when they wiped out the city of Shem and therefore they sold but they made a big mistake when they sold they ate and they drank and because they ate and they drank in the city where they created the future Miracle of Kaneka therefore they did not want to enact only perhaps we could add that means the miracle of Kaneka began b b bish stands for how we doing good I'm on I'm on there good stands for says anybody know how many letters in the words 24 letters says when you finish the 24th day of kave then comes which is 25 letters that's another that the of is rooted after the number 24 now the opinion of mberg is parties on Kaneka are discretionary meaning you want to eat you want to have latkas eat latkas you want to eat donuts with 2,000 calories no problem you want to eat unhealthy food go for for it but there's no Mitzvah however other the says the sud of are sud mitvah I grew up here in Flatbush on Avenue M and he's 31st and when I came back from is has gave me a great gift he put into my head I should walk to the ofer where is it s in Ocean Parkway R in Ocean Parkway R so I used to walk there for 3 years every shabas R Miller said what's the inion of a family Kaneka party the main uh objective of Kana is to thank Hashem now there are two ways of thanking Hashem you could thank hasem as an individual you could thank Hashem as a seore but there's a third dimension of gratitude to hasem and that is is there's a there's a of as a family so since Kana is the day of H so we thank hasem as an individual you light your Mana we thank as a in the but how do we thank as that's the party so the mar is of the opinion sud of are sudas mitvah and the REM you ready for this that's the that prepared for the brothers if you take the at the end of and you connect it to the word it spells out so that's a remise to the of furthermore says the gria these are the 44 n of Kana so we see there's a g of 44 candles of Kana or the writes mismar what does Mas stand fores the three tried to abolish 44 again a rem to the 44 OFA so we see that 44 is a very signif significant number so you got the 44 candles 11 in y's dream 11 in the repetition of the dream 11 YF says the 10 of you couldn't put me out then I can't put you guys out so you'll ask why are the last 22 NYS alluded to all the way in what are they doing in I'll tell you a little secret when does he pass away I know in but what day of the year does y pass away so sayso passed away onot T that's why p is conned Abraham and is and is so he passed away on um they emomed him for 40 days they cried for him for 30 days how many days did they in total mourn for yobu 70 days from T let's count 70 days until says's a was over on the first night of Kana and then in they mourned him for seven more days and then on y tells the brothers the 10 of you couldn't put me out I can't put you out so now we understand the 44o span from the shabis before Kana until zoa and this remes is It's a beautiful remes and um I think it is uh a gift okay so that's the first inion I want to speak out the remz to the 44o beginning going to and then we move on in the paraa and don't think Yehuda goes down from his brothers and he makes meets this uh canani guy a merchant he does business with him and he has kids and his kids die and he ends up telling Tamar you know wait for my kid Shaya and Yehuda and T end up living together Yehuda didn't know it was her and T is about to be convicted and she's about to be taken out to be burned to death and she sends word to Yehuda recognize please so there was a great Rabbi a a the B whose yard site was this past week he was a great R and a very fiery speaker he came to the city ofas and you could go to his SCH today during the earthquake ofas there was a big dome over the uh the beima and the earthquake shook the sh and the entire Dome fell down and he gathered some of hisil next to him and those who are next to ra of aish were saved he wrote a safer an amazing safer Bas and the basan writes again in this episode of Yehuda and Tamar we have another remes to the story of kanaka how's that anybody know what is the first day of creation of the world so you say rash rash is the day Hashem created man so what's the first day of Bri 25th day of because it's a you know usually either or middle of the month here it is the 25th what's the 25th and the answer the says because Kana is three months into the year from the first day of creation so the first day of creation is three months later is Kana says the it was when three months passed from God yehud it was told to Yehuda who's Yehuda let's look at the name Yehuda yud it was told to the because the Bas you know there's a tradition from the AR that even though technically you know you're supposed to do Chu rash but for those who don't do cha rash you know you have tell yamer and for those who don't do cha by yamer we extend it until and if you don't do Chua by you have until but if you don't do chuv there's a tradition from the Aral you could do Chua up until my grandfather the 25th day of and they quote the AR that you allow to do Chua until Kan and yet you could look at all of the writings of the Aral nowhere does AR make any mention or insinuation that you could do Chua and yet the basan writes that this is a established tradition that there's an element of chuva you could continue to do until and it's alluded to in the in this week's was three months that you Godly Yehuda and it was told to Yehuda to God Z CL is was M they strayed away we are compared to a Tamar Duma listen not only have we strayed away from Hashem but we've been so accustomed to sin sin has become so connected to us that we can't extricate ourselves from it so what did God say God said kill him there's no hope he say we were about to be taken out to be executed we sent to the big father-in-law the big the big guy in heaven recognize God didn't you make the miracle of for us that was didn't you give us the miracle of that we light the and we light in the CLE of the we have and if you have Kana you could always do chuva because you could do Chua until Kana this says the B is the source that on some level there's still hope and you could repent until khaka so even though at first glance seems to have nothing to do with Kaneka nevertheless if you dig beneath the surface you'll uncover in each episode how it's teaching us secrets and the foundation of the of I want to share with you a very important question what is the story of Kaneka found in of course it's shabas why is it inab because shabas in talks about lighting shabas so in the par that talks about n shabas it talks abouta so presumably in the gar that tells us the story of The Narrative of Kan it would tell us we're supposed to light the Mana someone just read to you a gar you're already familiar with and sometimes it doesn't even dawn on us that the gar left out the main part of the story Mya what's kanah gar says on the 25th day of klave our eight days of Kaneka you can't eulogize you can't fast you can't do homework you can't no just joking that you could do but you can't fast and you can't eulogized the Syrian Greeks entered theal they contaminated all the oil in theal and the prevailed and they went into the heal and they searched and they searched for Pure oil they could not find they found one flask it was enough to light for one night lo and behold it lasted for eight nights you ready Here's the Clincher the next year they established the and they made these days drum roll please so what are we supposed to do on say Hal which we do eight nights of Kan we say Hal and we thank God Rashi says that means uh Alim really so the first thing we see is it doesn't say you have to eat donuts that the gamar doesn't say and the gamar also does and say you have to light the Mana did you know that the whole reason why the story of kanaka inab is to be in and the reason why it's in is because is talking about shab so that Kana is near kanah and the gar tells you and what happened on Kana they found the oil and what do you do on kanah what about the Mana who's what's the Mana nothing about the Mana the gamarra doesn't say one word about lighting the so there are two approaches to this one I'm not going to speak about I'm going to say very briefly if you want to know about that one listen to some Shir Manar anytime the today we're saying a new one somebody wanted to know if I'm repeating we don't repeat over here no recycling I don't believe in any liberal philosophies okay so but just the says you know the tells us anyone who lights the candle anyone who lights we'll have sons who are Torah Scholars question is yeah but everyone lights the candle on Kana and not everybody has pretty good question the says if you light your sons will be yeah every every household every Jewish household the kids are answer is like this you know the G does not say there's a Mitzvah if you look in the r the r says what's and lighting the Mana so the ramam doesn't say anything about H the ramam in instead talks about lighting the Mana the answer is the gamarra does talk about lighting the manira namely the purpose and the objective of lighting the Mana is that the lighting of the man is an expression of gratitude to instead of saying Lord I Thank you for the Miracles you brought we express it in action instead of with words we light the man the lighting of the man is an expression of gratitude and therefore if someone were to light the and he said and they lit the man and they forgot to think that lighting the man is an expression of gratitude says you didn't even get the Mitzvah because there's no mitvah to light the the Mitzvah is to Express gratitude by lighting the Mana so the gor says on you have to thank hasem and the raham says how by lighting the Mana and therefore yeah everybody lights the Mana but does everybody understand and appreciate that it's not just an act of Mitzvah like shaking L it's an expression of gratitude that is a topic in it of itself Tor anytime.com of today we're going to learn a different approach to this back to the question you ready for the question the gar says what do you do on what about lighting the Mana why doesn't the gamar talk about lighting the Mana back to the rambam says the rambam on the 25th day of klave what is the word Leos mean that you have to lightos no that's not what it means the ram doesn't say the ra says people do it people do a lot of things on Kana they spin a drll it's not a Mitzvah lein implies discretionary and then the Ram at the end says by the way these days are called kanaka you can't eulogize on these days you can't fast on these days lighting the candles is why is the ra talking about lighting the candles again he talked about it before first he said umin which sounds like it's discretionary and then the ram goes back to lighting the candles and he seems to say it's obligatory raise your hand if you have a son-in-law who you had to buy an expensive manur for yeah that's a very big Mitzvah yeah hear that gold silver what kind gold is there a Mitzvah to have a nice manur you know the Mish writes you should try to have a beautiful Mana so instinctively we think yeah that makes a lot of sense we should try to have a nice manura anybody here we think oh you know I us should have a nice manur mitvah do you buy a silver doorpost oh I have to have a silver doorpost for my mza anyone has a silver doorpost is out of their mind why you have a silver doorpost the doorpost is not the item of the Mitzvah the m is the item of the Mitzvah there's no concept of anyone here have a beautiful roof because since there's a Mitzvah to put a fence around your roof you should have a beautiful roof I mean that would be ridiculous you know um is there a Mitzvah to have a beautiful Talis bag you want to have a nice Talis bag have a nice Talis bag you want to have a Talis bag that looks like the par aduma and it's furry go ahead there's no Mitzvah there's no hi Mitzvah have a nice Talis Mitzvah to have a nice Talis not just nice strings a nice Talis you don't have to have a nice Talis bag so why should you have a nice manur you know the Mitzvah is not to light a manura the mitvah is to light a beautiful Wick and oil the manura is just what hous is it since why should you have a nice manur does anybody know do you even have to have a manura you know it's a very interesting let's say I want to take let's say an onion carve out The Onion put put oil in it and have eight onion shells so the the great grandfather says it's not good it's not good he he lists 15 levels of manur gold silver copper Platinum 15 different levels and the sh says it seems from the that you need to light in a CLE and if you light in something that will topple over but the say we don't hold like that you don't even need to have a manora if you take eight candles and you stick it onto the table so if you don't even need a man why in the world would you need to have a nice manur for what that's not hi Mitzvah H Mitzvah is to beautify the item of the Mitzvah not to beautify the case I mean you heard the new stick in the stores they have gold yamaka boxes hi Mitzvah where do you keep your yamaka at night it's a shame you just take it off and you put it on the dresser from now on I want everyone to go to the store for $500 buy a gold yamaka box with with pearls and rubies in it with your name spelled out y fival yam box you'll see soon you going have to buy that one for your son-in-law better buy a nice box to put your son-in-law in that's what you know why should you have a nice manora there's a mitah to light the in the B where do we light in the in the DAR in the South just like in the B mikdash why should the manur in the sh be just like the B mikdash here's the idea the idea is like this we know that in the beginning of was feeling very down he was feeling very despondent looks at Ru Ru brought carbon to inaugurate shim brought carbonate all the brought carbonate had no she in the God says don't sweat it what you have is greater than what you have what they have cuz you light the man why is God consoling Aon with the lighting of the manur why doesn't God console Aon hey you go into the you are M Theus every day why dka the lighting of the Mana the ran says what hasem was telling AR was you they're just inaugurating the m in the times that the temple stood but you will light the Mana forever and ever and ever how will Aon light the Mana forever and ever and ever when the B mikdash is destroyed there's no lighting of the Mana so I want to share with you an idea of one of the great alltime po rabu mikut my great great grandfather was a student of rabu mik he's one of the greatest go in Poland and his son has a sa for y and he has a a when the miracle of Kaneka took place anybody know what year did The Miracle of kanaka take place 200 years into the second temple and they came into the temple and they lit the Mana there's only enough oil to last for one night and it lasted for eight days so the next year they made a yum you know what the yump was say Hal say Alim but they never told the Jewish people they have to light the Mana for what what are you lighting a Mana for to remember the miracle in the Mana why would they do that there's a man in the B mikdash and they lit the man in the B mikdash for 200 years say son for 200 years there was no Mitzvah of lighting the Mana you know why the gar doesn't say that the next year they made a mitah li there was no mitzah to they never made such a mitzvah for what purpose they had something better why would they tell a Jew would they tell a Jew bring carbonis in your house you can't bring caranas in your house so they they didn't tell the Jew light them in to light them in that's something that's reserved for the bikash they never were Ming for 200 years the Mitzvah of lighting the manira then 200 years later when theik was destroyed the later enacted a new mitvah and they said that lighting of the man that you did in the bik from now on move it to your dining room table move it to your window and that lighting of the Mana will be a h a continuation of the lighting of the man in the mikdash but for 20 200 years the Jewish people did not like the man in their homes that's why the ra says it's discretionary you want to light light you don't want to light don't light and then the ramam says later that when the of 200 years later made aah it's just as important as laning the Milla don't think because that enactment came later in history it's lesser importance it's just as important which means as follows when we light the Mana in our home it's not like a new Mitzvah of what the rabbis are telling us is that the lighting of the Mana in the bik is now being transplanted into your living room even though you can never bring Carbono in your living room and you can never beus in in your living room and you never could bring any of the avoa in your living room however the lighting of the Mana is the one Ava that is a Remnant and a relic and a semblance of the ancient Ava of the bash in fact the Ron lights we know that one is not allowed to get Han from n you can't you know if if you need to do or you need to uh search for something or you're a little cold you're now to get Han from the N of kanah why not so Rashi says because otherwise it's not going to be recognizable that they were lit for Puma that they were lit for the miracle however the ran rights the reason why you're not to be n from Theos of Kana is because they enacted the lighting of the Mana similar to the lighting of the in the B mikash and just like you can't be n from the light of the bik because that would be you'd be misappropriating holy items you can't be from because Theos of Kan in your living room is the one a that's a remnant of the a the mikdash which is an incredible idea in other words we were to ask Once Upon a Time 2,000 years ago the and were brought is there any remnant of theik ever ever ever there's one thing Hashem tells you should know that the Ava that you do is much greater than bringing carbonis because bringing carbonis is only 400 years the lighting of the man in the bikash lasted which means you're going to go into your living room and for eight days your living room turns into the and you're there with and the same way in your living room you become like the and you literally bring the down into your home an ancient relic of theik that's what told lighting the is much greater than bringing caronus lighting the man lasts forever the reason why there's an inion to have a nice man it's notah it's your man is to the man the bikash that's the inion of the the beautiful Mana but let's just end let's just think for a moment why is it carbon OA we don't have anymore carbon schlaman we don't have anymore cus we don't have anymore washing from the K we don't have anymore we still have lighting the man what what what is it about lighting the man that it lasted for all time says the medish if a talid would ask a good Kasha would say what buttons and knobs I had a Reb you ask say what is the decorations the designs of the Mana what does that have to do with a good Kasha you see unbelievably we know how many gateways of are there 49 they're 50u 49 the gr says the 49 details of the Mana correspond to the 49 sh the 17 goblets and the 11 um buttons and the flowers and the Seven Kim a total of 49 the of the came to through the man the influence of came through the AR the influence of the T came to the Jewish people through the Mana the one goody the one Treasure of antiquity that we still have today we lost everything we have no NAA we have no we have nothing we don't even have even the have co-opted the there's only one ancient goodie that remains in its pristine form that nobody was able to rob from us nobody was able to co-op from us nobody was able to hijack and that is the oral law the oral law isus about that one treasure that we have today that is just as pristin as from yester year is the tarab and therefore the Mana which represents the light of the is the one theik that lasts forever and ever and ever in fact there's a hior on Arab shabas some people they try to D in Min before why because in theik the was brought the before the okay what's that got to do with my again we see the lighting of our Mana was enacted to be similar to the lighting of the Mana in the B mikdash so even though we've lost everything the light of the T continues to burn bright and from the lighting of the we're allal that from thisal says that is the inauguration of the building of the third bikash that our brings in ushers in the light of the may we through to bring in the great light of the coming you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com