Chanukah and Chinuch - The Power of the Beginning

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay grieving Raab uh tonight we want to speak about a very important subject we're going to speak about a question that I'm sure we're all familiar with it's probably the second most famous question regarding Kaneka aside from the the well-known question of the B this is probably the most well-known question and that's the Kasha the Yeshua by the way it happens to be the he wasn't the first to ask the question it was preceded by and uh there's also the Kasha of muger and um the question goes as follows we know the doesn't like to change nature unless he has to likes he likes the world to sort of run on a autopilot without people realizing that the is stepping in and changing the laws of nature that's how the likes it he doesn't want to change things he doesn't want to reveal himself openly and uh therefore the question is if anytime the performs The Miracle it's because he has to there's no alternative you know we're running out of MIT and the MIT on one side and the on the other side we have nowhere to go so what's going to do he has to split the yamu you know there's no alternative but if there's no need to make a miracle then will not do so and therefore the P Yeshua asks live from 1680 to 1756 why did we need the whole bother of the miracle that they searched and they searched for tahar oil and they found one flask and there was only enough to last for one night and miraculously lasted for eight nights why did the have to do that what would have happened if he went have found tahar oil you know what have happened so people oh you know we would have been stuck we would we wouldn't have been able to light the it's not true we would have been able to light the man there's a concept which means there's a if an is is he can't do the but it's that's is allowed to do the why did have to make a miracle we didn't need the miracle we could have done the says so you'll say well it's probably better to do the right maybe the miracle was needed because it was it's preferable to do the means like this that you have right that means you have a you have a Prohibition of you have a Prohibition of T so the MIT pushes away the is of T that means the is of T is present it's a force to reckon with but we have something that supersedes if you look at it that way it's better to do the so we don't have have to push anything away but according to the means that when the is is it's not that we push away the is of doing there is no is of doing it's not even better it's not even a hi but Rabbi is it an inion you know that's the the most common question Rabbi gets is I know I don't have to do but is it an inion there no either says the there's no hi to do that there's no then there's no need to make a miracle that's the why was the miracle necessary then the next thing I want to bring to your attention is an incredible um every morning we say in we say the the now twice in the T the par the T appears the carbon T you have in Para that's what we read in the morning in the and then you have so um if you if you're analyze the nuances of the wording between and P you'll notice there's a slight discrepancy it says that's why right it's a big probably your whole life you never slept well because this was troubling you you never you know you never got a real good night's sleep tonight for the first time you're going to sleep well we have to understand why the first time is and the second time is you say who who would ask such a question none other than the bris the gz this the the gz he wants to know why in and the second time it's so what we're going to present tonight is the approach of angle they just came out my dear is the head of the M of publishing the Su of Angel he just came out a few weeks ago with the Dr ofel revised fully edited annotated and so this comes from in not to be confused with the theel was a in CAU in um the end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century and one of the alltime Great Minds he was a Bucky in not only in and in and his style is to blend it all together to to get the L out of the and the out of the L A very unique uh style angel is buried in Vienna and I had the privilege um this past summer to be at his Kev and check it out in Tor anytime we have a 10-minute incredible clip professional videography of the of the cemetery in Vienna at the Kev okay be it as May what Torah anytime.com by the way Tor anytime is an excellent uh website if you happen to have a computer there's an excellent website and there are a lot of speakers on it so if you're um you should try to watch ouram you know that's what I would recommend but uh where I'll tell you after it was in July I I I'll send you the send you the link okay so anyway sole says like this angle presents the following idea there's a we know that on the day that the the mishon was inaugurated so who passed away passed away and now their bodies lay in the mikdash in the Mish and now we have to get them out so who did who did tole out the dead bodies was not a so the quotes the and the says why couldn't they send to out excuse me why couldn't they send out to out why they need to send out who a non why couldn't they send the brothers to out why couldn't them out says we see from here that's what the T says the fact that they sent M and they didn't send is that are not allowed to become I need a I don't need and secondly there's a bomb over here why couldn't after all they're brothers and is allowed to be so number one why do I need a in the is number five and number two why ansers then when we say we know it means to on the day that they're inaugurated and anointed to be for the first time on the day that a is Anointed he has the status of a God and if he has a status of he's now to be what the means is not this is a that a is is not to beame it's a that a on the day of his inauguration is not to beame to C cuz a on the day of his inauguration has a status of a in fact T quotes another the that normally a is not to let his hair grow long but a is allowed to let his hair grow long for one of but nevertheless these nevertheless these um was not allowed were not allowed to let their hair grow long at that time because since it was at the time of their inauguration they had to be extra careful they had the status of a they could not let their hair grow long so what's T saying T is saying very interesting principle that even though are allowed to be Mame to relatives on the day they're inaugurated on the day they're initiated they have a higher status we're more we're more M with them and therefore they would not be on the day of their inauguration okay that's what we see from tus so so says we learned the following that even when something might be ordinarily M and something might ordinarily be okay but in the beginning you have to be more strict in the initiation stage in the inauguration stage you have to be more yes is yeah are only okay once you got going you can't rely on the first time I'll give you another example the rash says when the Jews came into is they wanted to eat they wanted to eat the grain the only thing is you can't eat the grain until you bring the carbon so the asks how did they bring a carbon says what do you mean there was stuff growing in is when they came in says it has to be stuff that grew in your land land and this stuff grew under the of they just got there so they couldn't use that grain for the carbon so that's what the ask what did they use yeah what did they use for the carbon and the ask the ran excuse me the ran asked the following KAS what do you mean what they use maybe they use the stuff that grows in God in God's territory in the territory of Ruan after all the is that you use produce that it'ser for the carbon so what's asking what did they use when they came to they use the produce answers the r yes if you bring the carbon from produce that it'ser but it's a mitvah to use things that grow in proper and it's not say that the first time CL ever brought the carbon they relied on something that's not mahaj meaning if they would have used theu it would have been good but since there's a special mitvah in general to use the stuff that grows in yud therefore it's not the first time they relied on the produce says what we see from here is that even if something is M but you don't rely on you don't rely on you don't rely on it's okay it's good enough the first time when you're something when you initiate something when you inaugurate something the reason is says the first time something is done that's the shes of the future history of that particular Mitzvah and since everything follows suit after that first time the first time you do something you got to do it perfectly it has to be in other words the first time you do a Mitzvah you want to do it perfectly the first thing you do in the morning you want it to be mitzah you want to start things off in the proper way brings a very interesting says refers Tob as the and the asks why do we refer Tob as the of because the first carbon ever brought was a carbon of so what so Rashi says look at number seven the root of the first carbon Brad is the root of all carbon therefore says since the first time something is done as the root of all its future history and therefore we have to be so careful that the first time we do something it has to be ideal has to be perfect it has to be yes if it would have been a different occasion and most of Cl would have been T they could have lit the Min with t oil but this wasn't any old occasion we know the were they defile the you know why you know there's a very important Mitzvah a very important very important Mitzvah where the doctors here would know that every to eat things that jeopardize their health and really raise the uric acid levels of their bodies and raise the cholesterol levels of their bodies and Spike Up the sugar levels and that's they eat donuts which is that people eat these things that jeopardize their health the answer is writes about this says the reason for eating jelly donuts is because if you just make so then you can't D in for the restoration of the but when you say therefore the only way we could be to restore the is by eating jelly because obviously the only that anyone could ever eat is a jelly donut and therefore um that's the reason for the say so what do we learn from here we see that the m shut down and the the shut down the say and they had it re inaugurated if you look in the mar the mar says that the word he disagrees it was a re inauguration of the mikdash in fact that's why we Lan of Theon so therefore the lighting of the is the first inaugural service of the Mana after it sort of shut down therefore since this is the first lighting of the Mana in general but not the first time not the first time that you inaugurate the lighting of AO you can rely on you have to be you have to be you can't rely on you can't rely on and that's why they needed the miracle because does not work for likewise he brings down the and about five lines from the end he says that's for the and therefore they could not rely on the CL of so the same answer as last8 days what does that assume that last eight days the oil lasted for8 days and after that they got new oil what do you mean the reason Oh you mean why did it have to last for 8 days right I understand it had to be t for the first day for the for the but I mean according to this that the only reason they needed a miracle was because they needed to do it the first time the tar why did the miracle have to make it last for eight days it should have only lasted for one day and then after that used T it's a nice Kasha good Kasha I here good Kasha you're right but once you live once you're the first night the second night you could do B doesn't work like that how long does the last for I'm saying you could I'm saying uh why how long is the mean say it ended on the first I mean is a one day thing no found I mean the CL is the first time you know I'll give you an example I'll show you the example the bris the brisar says like this so the r says what's if I don't if I'm not M the in the morning we know by it starts goes by the day right goes right there let's say I'm not M theb am I allowed to be M of the say that if they if you're not don't be but that's only if this is the you're and you're not don't be once is already in full force and you're not you're allowed to be so that would that would presume that it only takes one a or one day to inaugurate something but be it as it may the bris like this the is talking about this was the must be if it's not you can't do therefore the first one it must be the first one if you don't do it first you can't do talking about the in general in general you're supposed to do but it's not it's not it doesn't have to be that way it could be that if you're not then you could be so it's a beautiful answer that's why the first time in and it's just first byah they inaugurated the the the Mana at night right so that right before the man was the no they couldn't have done that no they so they so they didn't so they didn't yeah they couldn't have right that's what the is saying that they didn't have him as yeah so so but not the right we don't know I mean inate see the truth is when they inaugurated the miss it took 12 days so you see that uh inauguration takes time you see that and I'm remembering now that in the the second bikash was inaugurated from gim until 21 days so could be that there is a process of inauguration maybe it's not just one time okay I once heard from Rabbi Weinfeld in flush you know he has a show on Ellen 22nd he says based on this brisar he get there's a very interesting G in says that one time R went over to I always had an itch to do this and was a very old man and he asked you know tell me why were you to live so long you know I I would love to ask that question you know why now imagine if like some some sleer off the street comes over to the god Rabbi why did you live so long you know the bouncer is going to you know knock him out you not going to he asking why he lived so long because uh we didn't let people like you bother him that's why he lives so long you know but so that's why the rusa came and they they started whacking Raba and he had to run up to the top of a tree because they didn't know he was Raba they thought he was you know so needed to show that he's a so how did he show why does it say I mean like what was the big that was showing by asking if it says why does it say so this you know he's asking theis why the first time in and in okay so be it as it may this is the it's based on um for number one it's based on in other words why did the Miracle why was it needed just use T oil it must be the first time around you don't rely on number two why couldn't because on the day of their they God and therefore on the beginning of something it's more number three the that why couldn't cl bring the from aard and the answer is the first time you got to do it right and number four the L of Rashi that we call a carb the of because that sets the tone for all future what what do they do so look over there why don't you say what did they do Thea I don't remember something in four days what was something that planted in gr four days yeah the garus says that in the times of yel yeah yeah for the carbon o they planted on uh four days before they planted on gimmel and then it it grew on yal and Y usually takes six months it's gar in Tinus and that usually would take six months it took them 11 days right that's the gamar but you know this is something else how did what did Kao used for the when they came into okay comes with Frank and he says that a certain God asked him the following sh he said why can't we be you ever wonder about that the ra we said this in on Sunday you're allowed to be M of all the even though there's no base M so why are we not M today because we're all that's not a reason so there's God that wanted to say yeah but since it stopped for so many years once we want to start that's and for you don't say and that's in the miracle of that's why we don't bring carbon today because does not apply when you're something and comes Frank and he says I vehemently disagree this is not correct there is no such that the first time you do something you don't say and he says I bring you two it's a andus any here any aspiring I remember that so Ezra is a so the says that if you're a and you know what day what week your family served in the bash and you know what day of the week your family served you how to drink wine on that day so if you know your family serve the 17th week of the year on a Tuesday Tuesday the 17th week of the year you're now how to drink wine cuz maybe M will come B will be built and they'll come to you and you'll be so therefore don't drink wine on the day that you know that you're family served what's the problem Mia comes the won't be able to serve because he's a shiker and even if he's not a sh he can't do the Ava because we're all tummy so what are we worried about oh don't drink wine there's a bigger problem answers no the fact that is not a problem what do you mean but if comes that will be the of the we don't say is the is not correct now he doesn't quote by name but you see clearly in to that to is asking why are we worried about Kim drinking wine even if they don't drink wine they still can't do the because they're and the answer of doesn't apply to remes okay yeah but but you're still going to need and that's alternative though the other cases yeah right with with iron son right he could ask somebody else to do it over here there's not one person that's going to be T so here there's because there's no other alternative ah but saying does not apply by that means it's to do it but so you want to say it's not other choice then what's the other choice meaning we wait for the par with the choice is drink as much wine as you want cuz if Mah comes you can't do that void anyway for seven days so I think no so as he saying good that maybe a way to answer up would be to say like this doesn't mean that iser to rely on the first time he doesn't mean that it'ser to do the it's to do the the concept is it's better not to it's better not the first time to rely on you're allowed to it's not user so in the time of the miracle of had hasem not made a miracle we would have done ITA but since it's better not to because it's since the it's the first time the miracle had a benefit what do you want to tell a don't drink wine why might come so K says even if Mia comes I still have problem because I'm t so the answer to that is what do you mean the first time it's you know you're not supposed to rely on that it's only better not to but at the end of the day if Mia would come and you're going to do the a we're not going to not do the a because since it's the first time we don't say it's more like thean said thean said it's not no that the first time they didn't do it proper it's only not proper to do it buta the first time it's not that categorically we don't utilize the principle of Tom the first time however um the Frank brings another R against the concept ofel and theer from another in by the and that is we know on that day they had a saw and the saw became T and uh they burnt it why did they burn it number 14 so the the they burnt because it became remember M wanted to know why they burn it and T says they burnt it because it became T So T asked why do they have to burn it they should have been so ask the Frank what do you mean they that was the carbon that was the Mish the as the first ever we don't say the first carbon that this is not correct that even on say we could say what we just said for the other R from tus that all you see from here is that it would have been M to be mo of it but it could be it still would have been better it's still better not to rely on that and therefore the times of made a miracle so it's not to have to rely on the first time around okay but what we're bringing out from here is that the first time something is done is different than every other time every other time maybe could rely on you could you could be from you could you could like we had in um you could be m a carbon T if you're not but the first time something's done you always have to do it right cuz if you don't set the tone in the beginning then everything will be imputed everything will be um everything will be a BAL from the first time that it wasn't done properly so everything will be tainted so what I want to bring to your attention now is a that everyone's familiar with and it's a mishna the mishna says like this number if somebody learns as a kid what does he like she's like ink written on new paper someone who learns as an old man it's like writing on on erased paper so we know when you write on Fresh paper the ink holds well to the paper when you write on Old Paper the ink Fades fast Alisha said when you learn when you're a kid it's it's fast it holds when you learn when you're older in one ear and out the other comes AA yeah ask an obvious question on the mishna Alisha anybody know how many times Alisha is quoted in MN and sh this is it zero Justice you know why cuz he was not he wasn't a good guy he went off the he was the re mayor and said you're not how to say his name we call him he was he became an so why in the world was re when he redacted why would he quote Alish it's the only place in the whole that Alish quoted re should have done what he did in dozens of places in and not quote anybody he should just say like many why do I need to know furthermore as there's a the says says the same so re could have quot has to so he says an incredible answer let's get some of the history of thear says many challenges he faced that he failed heab he read he Alisha hadim in his pocket right so you know sometimes people go to shear and they're looking at something under the table right so the gumar says that Alish he had something under the table during sh it's not good thing to do it's not a good thing to do things don't end up well and we're going to come back to that Alish But ultimately what was the cause of el to go off the so there's a lit literally it means the end of something is better than the beginning you know when you finish something it's good to start a m it's better to finish it it's good to start something is better to finish it but to quotes a story that one t said that's what it means the end of something is better than the beginning and said that's not what Raba taught Raba taught a different shot something is only good in the end if it was good in the beginning nothing is ever good in the end if it didn't start out good something's good in the end because it was good in the beginning if something doesn't start good it doesn't end well says you know how I know my father Aya who's the father of alusa B Aya a little trivia question who is the father of Alisha B AVU you knowu his father um had a baby boy and by the way at the bris they didn't name him a they named him Alisha he was destined for greatness and he called all the is into one bias and re Rua were there and people at a bris what are you going to do at a bris so people started to eat and drink and clap and dance and Rua said while they're busy wasting their time let's learn something let's learn so they started learning from Tyra to to a fire came down surrounding them and Aya said what are you doing you came to destroy my bris no we're learning Tyra when we learn Tyra it's exactly the same way as when it was given on and was given to me we've reenacted say such is the power of T if my son lives I want him to be a like you and that's why Alisha became an apiar cuz his father wanted covet for him and his Origins were tainted and when your Origins are tainted then you don't end up well says something's only good in the end May if it's good in the beginning and I wasn't good in the beginning my father ruined me cuz he wanted me to be a not but for covered I what oh so someone's asking what do you mean the says every father should want their kid to be we should want our children to be yeah but you have to start off good you the beginning has to be good and then you know you don't have a good education after that but if the beginning is not good it ain't the same so the ask what do you mean like this is great but says we know T protects you T protects you from the protects you from only protects you doesn't protect you it will bring you to but it won't protect you had many challenges in life many many that he would have been able to overcome had his father had but because his father's was he was never protected and he succumbed to everything people could always do chuva and and they could go higher higher higher but it's fr with danger nothing it's Frau with danger he says he says it's going to be very hard now this is not his opinion this is what says that said if you want to know what it means is something will end up good when it's started off good and therefore samur says something incredible what did the life of Alisha benu demonstrate that if you don't start young and you don't do the beginning properly and your Origins are tainted then you could try later it doesn't stay the same way as if your but if your the reason why rebi chose to put in the name of Alisha is not because he forgot his name is a it's because the life of Alisha was a living embodiment of this teaching that you got to get it right in the beginning now I'll tell you the Bal musers say this is not to make anyone feel guilty but it's to understand the critical nature of the beginning of something you could always it's you could always have a new beginning every rash is a new beginning every day is a new beginning the says every morning infuses you with a new and you could start over again but the point is that it's critical to take advantage of the because sets the tone and if you want to know who demonstrated to us that when the is corrupt its problems in the end that's but we're not to say his name but we have to say his name over here because it teaches us the lesson the whole lesson is based on the living embodiment of what he's the one who used to the yeah yeah look everyone has free choice you could overcome any and ultimately failed his but if you want to know what would why he was not protected it's because his Origins were off in other words nobody could blame this is not a cop out it's not can't cop out and say it's my father's fault but if his father would have done what the proper thing he could have protected as good doesn't mean a is not accountable cuz he could overcome anything a person could overcome anything so I want to bring to your attention to tonight just two practical lessons and from this of the concept that you can't use for you can't use in the beginning the beginning has to be perfect the beginning has to be ideal and the first one is how we start our day every morning writes in the he says like this in number 22 when a person gets at bed do not get involved in anything don't read don't look at don't type you cannot do anything immediately your first words should be your first should be preparation to your thought your first thoughts should be it's critical that the first moments of the day set the tone for the day don't allow oneself to get involved in other Pursuits because once you start the day with something else that will set the tone for the rest of the day and therefore thees look at number 23 you have to be careful the first thing you get you say in the morning is hey why' you leave the window open last night what you know the first thing you have to say is the first word you have to capitalize you have to make sure to take advantage of the first debore of the morning in fact in the safer he brings that the true test of a person's madrea is what's the first thought that comes to your mind when you wake up in the morning that from that you could tell what kind of person you are he said if the first thought is all right the stock market was closed today forgot so then he says you know you know you're on a very low madga he says if the first thought is you're on a high MGA you know where you're holding so to speak by what grips your mind when you open your eyes in the morning wrote many interesting he wrote he wrote he says a very interesting on the he writes this in he writes this the the says a person has to be every first he says should be to go to prepare yourself for he says the first thing that enters your mind should be the Godless of hasm is in the whole world how hasem rules over the whole world that gave us back our your first thought your first words your first actions I even saw in a the pis Chas brings down the first thing you look at in the morning she look at the Maza what's the no it makes a big difference it sets the tone for the whole the whole day is Niger after the way you start the day your first thought will train your mind for the day as soon as you wake up in the morning your thought should be the returned my soul to me rules over the world has showered me with kindness for another that's the first thing you have to train yourself that should be the first thought the first words the first so therefore I want to tell everybody should be Ma on yourself not to look at your phone until after you want to look at it for your time get a watch or look at it for the time don't check your emails don't check your whatsapps don't check anything till after you D then I give you a I spoke to a pedman he said if you don't check your phone to after ding you'll be sure you'll see good things on your phone you'll see good things look if you don't have a choice sometimes people uh they have whatever they have emergencies they have to tend to it's a good it's a very good do not take care of your this way you set the tone for the whole day your first thoughts your first the first the first is this will set the tone this is a of you know your there there's a whole organism of in of and if you're careful to set the tone to start the day properly it will take it will be and therefore wres in the something so an amazing school he says when you wake up in the morning if you're on yourself if when you wake up you're lying in your bed you say today I accept upon myself the Yoke of tah with a whole heart I'm I I decide I accept I take upon myself I'm not going to listen to anyone no it does have to finish the statement I'm not going to listen to anyone to deters me from the observance of the T I'm not going to allow anything to interfere with my observance to the extent of your Caba every morning to that extent you'll be successful that day in t the stronger the the stronger the the more you'll have that day because that will set the tone for the whole day it's that moment that you wake up the the thoughts the ideas the mood the attitude the the set the tone for the whole day as I was coming to the sh I remembered one more thing I remember when I was in many years ago this goes back 19 years ago my first my first it was and they invited the Mas of theeler to Thea and he was talking about a very similar he said over from that the says you have to teach your kid to speak that as soon as a child knows how to speak the G says what do you teach him and what and the says we learned from here that when a baby begins to speak the father should speak to Himes and if he doesn't speak to Himes it's as if you buried the child the says very powerful very strong what's the message of the sa I mean it's scary thing why why is it so important that the first words of the kid why not ring around the rosie why not um Jack and Jill went up the hill why somebody would teach their kid about two young people who go up a hill and then smash their heads open you know I don't think that's age appropriate you know anyway why is it so important that the child begins to speak with so said again this is side the point is not to feel guilty I remember he said the point is not to feel guilty if you didn't do it the point is capitalizing on the beginning and the kid begins to speak and realize that you might think it's an innocuous moment you might think what's the I teach them sh is or I teach them uh some ridiculous nursery rhyme no it's the beginning the beginning sets the tone for the whole life whether it's the beginning of our children's lives when it comes to we can't rely on K you can't rely on you can't rely well you know it's good it's good enough they're no good enough when it comes to the beginning of something we don't rely on we don't rely on K that sets the tone for our whole lives and the the initial moment of the day sets the tone for the rest of the day so we which was the of the second and the says represents the of the should give us 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