Chanukah: How the Record of the Torah Creates the Reality of Existence and History

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone i appreciate that you chose me this evening over monday night football over the shaital sale whatever else holy endeavors are transpiring here in riverdale so fasten your seatbelts we're going to take you through a ride and try to plummet really the depths of the umpif of chanukah how about and try to understand uh we have two yamamoto that are dairisa you have a hanukkah coming up and then you have purim actually the suffrae kabbalah teach us that chanukah and purim are like two heads and the days in between are somewhat like khal hamoid so similar to what we have the first days of pesach on the last days with the intermediary days and you have the first and last days of sukis with the days of halamite in between and purimoso form two rabbinic with somewhat of a quasi stage of in between so i'd like to share with you a few questions i hope you tell me you never thought of these questions i hope you said you know what i really should have thought of these questions the um text for the alhanisim that we say on hanukkah and the first couple of sources are not going to be on your sheet we say alanis and then we say it's just by a side point who composes yahoo if you count the number of words and be mata they're actually 125 words in this fila and our tradition is that it was composed by none other the numerical value of yochanan is 124 and because of his humility he composed that filo with one more word than the numerical value of his name okay be it as an a i want to bring to your attention one specific stanza in the mountains yeah we say like this oh god when you made this miracle you made for yourself a great and sanctified name in your world israel and for your people israel you created a great salvation upor khan and redemption as of today which means what what does that mean as as of today that has absolutely no meaning what does that mean god performed the salvation and uh rescue for the jewish people as of today what is that supposed to be saying what does that mean obviously whenever it happened it happened today what does that phrase mean are you familiar with the gemara the gemaran khulan the gemara asks regarding the yamthaf of purim the kamar wants to know where are the main characters of purim alluded to in the hamesh so the gemara asks you ever hear that gemara hamon koflametas where is there an allusion to haman and natara and the gemara says of course hamid hates you know when god told adam what happened to you how'd you realize what kind of state you're in did you eat from that tree that i told you not to eat [Music] when god says i'm going to hide my face from you so we have an allusion to esther because the period of the miracle of esther was at a time in history when god's face was hidden mordechai minator minayan right we're getting in all the main characters come on where is an illusion tomorrow okay so the gemara says which is one of the ingredients of the basamine from the shemenham the anointing oil and the targoman pure oil so we have an allusion to haman we have an illusion to esther we have an allusion to mordechai so friends i ask you a question why is there no gomorrah that asks antiochus where is an illusion why is there no gemara that asks why is there no gomorrah that asks why would the gomorrah only search seems only to be interested to find an allusion to the heroes of purim nowhere does the gemara discuss where are there where is there a remiss to the main characters of hanukkah why doesn't the gemara discuss that subject we're not interested in trying to find where the heroes of chanukah are alluded to in the hamish why not that's question number two question number three question number three is like this if you remember in psalms and safer to hillary there's one particular psalm chapter 22 which is all about the purim story allah by the morning star miss marla david the gemara says that this is the only chapter in tehillim that begins ala yella by the morning star the gemara says that esther is referred to as the morning star why why is esther compared to the morning star says the gemara just like the morning star comes at the end of the night esther is the last miracle in the biblical narrative esther is the last miracle esther is the last nace esther is soyve kalanissam so esther is like the morning star just like the morning star is the end of the night esther is the last miracle in the torah no it's not what came first purim or hanukkah purim very good you only have two choices right purim or hanukkah purim perham came in the 70 years between the first and second base summit this hanukkah came about 200 years into the second temple so purim came before hanukkah so the gemara asks what do you mean esther is the last miracle hanukkah is the last miracle to which the gomorrah answers no nitna lichtov esther is the last recorded miracle in the hamish chanaka is not recorded in the tanach so the last recorded miracle in the tanakh is esthar chanukah is not recorded in the tanakh yes it's recorded in something called book of the maccabees they read book of the maccabees which is apocryphal which is not canonized as part of the tanakh actually according to the it's in the part of the new testament it's interesting it's part of the new testament but the christians don't celebrate hanukkah for us it's not part of the old testament and we do celebrate now there's a very just a side historical point there's a very important reason why the new testament includes the book of the maccabees and that's because they have they're bothered by a very important question that is the last communication between god and the prophet was the navi malachi remember the torah of moshe then hundreds of years later they claimed that god spoke to uh yashka sakasha why did god take a break for 500 years for 400 years hakam hashem wasn't speaking to anyone the answer is take the book of the maccabees and inject it into the new testament so god was corresponding throughout the period but we believe the book of there's no divine communication during the time of hanukkah therefore it's very important that the book of mockery is not part of the tanakh so we remove it from the time because god's last communication was to the navi malachi root be resume that's not the point of tonight's sheer the point is the gemara says the last recorded miracle of tanach was purim and not hanukkah for some reason hanukkah may not be recorded in tanaf why not why is hanukkah not allowed to be recorded in tanakh so we have three questions on the table and we're gonna answer these three questions with another six questions okay let's start with this so question number one what does it mean in the al-anisim we say israel and to your nation israel you made a teshua gadola great salvation upor khan as of today what is that expression as of today what does it mean the hanukkah miracle was miraculous as of today that's question number one question number two why does the gemara go speak at length about where the purim heroes are alluded to in the hamish and does not tell you where antiochus is alluded in the hamish where yahudah is alluded in the word and question number three why is it that only the purim story is allowed to be recorded in the tanakh and not the hanukkah story okay so now we're ready for your handouts okay now if you if you want more source material i have more source material for you that's optional okay you can get if you reque it's available upon request this is the mandatory source material that's what we get now okay we're going to come to last week's parasha pasay with me so far so far so good okay so yaakov avinu is running away from his brother asov excellent okay great so far running away from his brother asap and ace of the chasing after him and where does yaakov run away where is he going yeshiva and after that he's going to kharan now after he finishes his 14-year stint in the shiva shema he runs and he goes to the hahabias and he actually passes by the harabayas and he doesn't realize it so he figures you know what how could i have passed by the harabays and even stop off and davin at the western wall so hiyakov comes back to the harabayas and it says he sleeps there by ishkav he slept in that place look at the words of rashi number one rashi says a language of exclusion it says he slept in that place ah now let me tell you something wherever you sleep it's that place you can't sleep somewhere and it's not that place by the way wherever you are you're in that place you can't be in one place as opposed to you're always in that place why would the torah have to say he slept in that place so that's a rash is bothered by and rashi says lashon miya the language of exclusion he slept in that place abu yadali shone him but for the fourteen years shashim's but they say there that he served in the yeshiva he did not sleep at night why not he was learning so think about it does the torah say that yaakov lavina learned for 14 years no all the torah says is he slept in that place and we could figure out well if he slept in that place he didn't sleep in a different place where's the different place that yaakov did in sleep in the yeshiva so it doesn't actually say that he did learn but we could figure out he learned from the fact that it says he slept in that place which implies not elsewhere okay let me share with you a second rashi rashi in the end of comments on the fact that it says that ishmael lived 137 years so as she's bothered who cares what do i care how long you should live for says rashi from the years of the lifespan of yeshmael i could figure out that there are 14 years in the lifetime of yaakov avinu that are unaccounted for meaning if you make a calculation based on ishmael's lifetime we have 14 years of the life of yaakov that are not accounted for from here we could figure out that what did yaakov avinu do for 14 years he must have been learning in the yeshiva shema again does the torah say that yaakov learned 14 years in the shiva shema ibrahim no it says how long ishmael lived and from the lifetime of yeshuma we could calculate and figure out that since there's a 14 years that are unaccounted for yaakov must have been learning for 14 years let me share with you a third rashi okay rashi says and pasha's told us again there are 14 years that are are unaccounted for and therefore we are forced to say was in the yeshiva for 14 years something very strange here every time that we have a reference to yaakov aveeno and yeshiva it's like the torah is tiptoeing around the fact that yaakov spent 14 years learning nowhere does it say why can't we have a verse that says i mean that would be just straight why do i need to say oh he slept there so where did he sleep oh the fourteen years in yeshiva i have a passage of the lifespan of yeshmael i don't really care how long yeshua lived why does the torah say he lived 137 years to be able to figure out that yaakovino learned 14 years in israel so if why is the torah jumping through hoops to avoid making the blatant and explicit statement that yaakov avinu spent 14 years learning in the shiva's team it's almost as if the torah is avoiding making that explicit statement why why is it avoiding why every time is it conspicuously absent next question is looking for yaakov what's yaakov doing so it's interesting if you look at the third rashi rashi says he didn't just he wasn't just learning in the shiva he was hiding in the yeshiva wow what an ingenious hiding place for yaakov avinu if yaakov alina would have went to the theater then maybe asap would not have known where he was if yaakov went to the pool hall maybe asa wouldn't have known where he was but it's not like yaakov came up with this very exotic place to hide guess where he was his entire life yaakov was ishtam yoshi he spent his whole life in the yeshiva so now he's running away from asaf and he's trying to think where will aesop never find me you know we're in the same seat that i've spent the last 63 years of my life he'll never find me in the yeshiva what kind of ridiculous hiding spot is that rashi says he was what he doesn't say he dug a hole in the floor and he hid in the ship he says he was hiding in the yeshiva but what kind of hiding place is that isn't that a silly hiding that's the most obvious spot in the world maybe you know sometimes you want to hide something you go to the obvious spot so the person doesn't even think that you would ever you would think that if asa was looking for yaakov one time he would actually go to his base medicine in his chair and say you know where he would have figured it out another interesting point pasha's valley say last week it enjoys a phenomena that almost no other person enjoys and that is it's a partial suzuma it's a sealed in powershell which means it's different than vaishiva if he is completely sealed by which means the end of a yigas one letter space as if it would be one long passage but vayid say usually a parasite starts on the next line say and the parasha before told ice there's just four letters of space between the end of tall dice and it's closed it's closed why is it closed so if you look at number five the das akanem says because yaakov went out in hiding that is alluded to in the fact that the passage is closed meaning the the parsha is closed the fact that the two parachutes are closed off is symbolic of the fact that yaakov was hiding from his brother it's very small letters it's actually good for your eyes when you have to strain your eyes it makes your eyes stronger probably after tonight you'll be able to throw away your glasses and you'll owe me big time okay so that's what twice this says it says this parsha is sealed shut to indicate that yaakov aveeno ran away from his brother in hiding as if the way the parsha is formatted is connected to yaakov running away from his brother what would the connection be between the the open space or lack thereof of the parshios and yaakov running away from his brother okay so we had three introductory questions and now so far we've done three questions on the parashios this is a question which after you hear you're gonna you're gonna kick it i can't believe i never thought of this question look at number 10 the end of parsons who was avraham avinu's father what is the first thing hashem tells abraham leave leave your father leave your birthplace leave the place that you come from what was the hadith died what comes in the immediate aftermath so if you're reading the uh innocently you would think that what transpired tarakh died and uh after tarak died god was very kind he waited until he passed away and hashem comes to avon you know your father died you have nothing here anyway leave your father's house that's what you would think reading the narrative barashi points out that that can't be true how old was terah when abraham was born 70. how old was abraham when hashem told abraham abraham was then invisible abraham was 75. so how old was terah when hashem told abraham that well if tarah was 70 when alvin was born and abram was 75 when he left kharan that means tarakh was 145 years old how old was tarak when tarak died says 205. so why did the torah kill him 60 years before he died right well think about it tarah was 70 when abraham was born avraham was 75 when he left kharan that means tara was 145 when when abram left kharan that means tarak still has another 60 years to live why'd the torah knock him off and say tarak died he didn't die until 60 years after abram went here to israel so rash is bothered by that question suraj says the whole report is false didn't die was alive and kicking for another 60 years so why did the torah write that tarak died so that you should think that he died why did tara want you to think that he died because people are going to say avraham left an aged father an ailing father what kind of son is that to leave his father so the torah wrote that tarakh died so that nobody should criticize avraham that abraham left an aged uh ailing father so the tarot died but he the truth is he didn't die he didn't die until 60 years later but so as not to for anybody to criticize abraham the talk wrote the torah wrote he died i have a question who's going to criticize avraham when avraham left his aged ailing father and people said hey abraham what are you doing you're your father is old your father needs you so whatever i'm going to say don't worry my father's not alive so he said could have fooled me he's he's standing next to you he's breathing he's looking no avraham says look in the home it says he died you think people back then in mesopotamia got their daily news from reading the stone hamish and right they see taraki is going to the store taraka is walking the streets taraka is talking to them so everybody's going to be bothered abraham why are you leaving your agent father so what's the answer because the torah wrote that died it's very nice that i wrote that he died but he's alive so who are we addressing by writing by yamas tarak bakaran don't we see tarakh alive don't we know tarakh is alive why would the torah write that how does it help to write that he died he's alive he's breathing he's kicking we see him with our own eyes another question take a look at number 12. this is another rashi the pasuk says in this week's parasha what do you know there was a woman by the name of divira who's the vaira dewar is the wet nurse of so it says that when yaakov was coming back from lavan's house he came to a place it says that thomas de vira de vira died may necessary the wetness of rifka vatica basel she was better buried beneath basel under the tree and yaakov called the place that devorah died the plane of weeping so bachus implies two weepings rashi says so rashi says that's the truth there is another woman who died there as well besides the vira who is the wet nurse of rifka who else died at that time the one woman who the terror doesn't talk about that she passed away who's that rifka rivka died at the same time that the davara died and this week's passion so to ask rashi why didn't the taira say that rifka died you ever wonder about that here you have one of the mice and she passes away and the khumash alludes to it but it doesn't say explicitly that rifka died why wouldn't the torah right the rift could die says rashi the torah hid the fact that rifka died why because we don't want people to know that she died then they're going to say rifka died oh what a nice lady she had a nice kid yaakov and then somebody's gonna say but she had a kid ace of a people are gonna curse her so therefore we don't want anyone to know that rifka died the ramban says so that nobody goes to her funeral so that nobody should speak badly about her that she brought a7 to the world so tara doesn't say that she died right it's a famous rashi the torah hides the death of rifka so that nobody should know that she died so nobody should curse the womb that produced aesop you ever think about the fact that when people knocked on her door that night and they said rifka how are you you haven't been feeling well lately and they and they said uh oh sorry she passed away and the people said no she didn't because in my hamish it doesn't say that she died and when they're carrying her coffin to the funeral nobody knows she died because it doesn't say it in the hamish and nobody showed up to the funeral because nobody knows she died i'm saying it's reported in the newspaper rifka passed away nah we don't pay attention to that we're going to open up the stone hummish and see it doesn't say that she died so nobody's going to the funeral that day as if people got their news from hamish which by the way had not been written yet what's going on here the torah consistently you see from rashi doesn't write certain things so that people should not be aware of certain information which was blatant to people whether it's written in the torah or not and if you're following the train of thought this is all getting back to the the what is written in the torah and what is not written in the torah we had a few questions to start with right what does it mean the miracle of chanukah is as of today why are the the heroes of hanukkah not alluded to only the heroes of purim why is the story of hanukkah not allowed to be written why is the torah not writing about the fact that yaakov spent 14 years learning in the shiva shaiba eva how was asav not able to find yaakov avinu why are the parashils closed up when yaakov is hiding from asav why does the torah not report that that why is the torah right that tarak is passed away if he's still alive yeah it's very bothersome so here's the clue you ready here's the clue that's good a question should hurt you when you when you have you have to understand the hummish the ramban in paris the ramban says you ever look in pajamas if you look in the safety you'll notice that there are two sukim that are surrounded by upside down nuns the partial upside down nuns why are there upside down nuns in the safer torah so the gemara says because these two sukim are out of place to indicate that these two silken were removed from elsewhere and placed strategically over here because we need them to be here we need them actually to interrupt between a certain storyline and the gemara explains as follows you see in parishes bahaloishka it's talking about various uh infractions and sins the jewish people committed the first one being they ran away from harshinai right you know how in yeshiva what happens when the bell rings right so the students sit there and they wait they say revi even though the bell rang we can't leave we're enjoying the class so much could you please stay longer right that usually doesn't happen the moment the bell rings you slam the door i mean don't tell me what i had i was giving a shirt and the shirt's supposed to be over at seven o'clock at like 6 59 and 40 seconds like the safe air was closing so that exactly at seven o'clock they could be slam and now it's over it's good it's always good to be a child right so that's we ran away from harsina the first critique of claudius was we ran away from hasina because we're afraid you know this mitzvah 6 10 mitzvah 6 11 6 12. this is exactly what the longer we stay you know how many myths are going to be so we ran away from harshinai that's in the beginning of allah and then we complained we didn't have enough to eat and then there was a third uh critique of kali israel that we wanted meet and the gemara says we cannot have three back to back to back criticisms of the jewish people so in order to interpose between these three the torah injects the hebrew and saya oran because heaven forbid for the torah to record for posterity that three critiques of the jewish people back to back to back okay now historically it did happen back to back to back there were three aveiros that we did we first ran away from harsinai then we complained about the food and then we wanted meat but heaven forbid to write in the document that we committed three sins back to back to back and therefore the torah interjects it and interrupts it with this these two inside all right so that it's not recorded this way in the mesh but who cares how it's written if in fact we send back to back to back right what happens when something is repeated three times what is that called in halacha when something is repeated so we don't want to have a hazaka we don't want to have a halachic presumption of being sinful so therefore the torah does not record it that we sin back to back to back we sin twice then by even say all right and then a third time but i don't understand but we did send back to back to back so who cares how it's recorded in the document what you could rewrite history as if if it's not written that way it didn't happen that way that's how it happened so these questions that we have on uh this booklet that i gave you these are the questions of of simcha zee sobriety who is the shiva of chevron he was passed away about 20 years ago he was one of the tamidam of slabotka and these are all of his questions on the hummish and on the rashes and on the rambans in other words all of these questions point us in one specific direction and that is there seems to be great significance into how something's written in the torah and the way it's written will actually affect reality for some reason that we haven't come to yet the torah cannot write explicitly that yaakov learned 14 years in the issue of for some reason asap couldn't find yaakov avino for some reason if we don't write if we write that terah died nobody's going to know he's alive for some reason if we don't write that rifka died people are not going to know that she passed away for some reason the way the sins of the jewish people are recorded in the torah will create the reality of the essence of the jewish people so let's explore this idea the torah was given in which generation in history so we have 10 generations from adam 10 generations from nayak to avraham and abraham to maisha was six generations so torah was given in the 26th generation that's what we would have thought but we say every morning in chakras that the torah was commanded in the one thousandth generation what does that mean but it was given in the 26th generation so there's a concept that in heaven the torah as a document existed 974 generations even before the world was created and that torah is what we call the blueprint of creation the architectural plans of creation that this document had it was a reality even before the world was created in fact in the nephilim number 22 on your sheet writes that the manner in which god created the world it's not that hashem we we think i should create the world but god said let there be light you're like that's not what happened god said you can't build a building if you don't have architectural plans so god says give me the plan so he took out of that you know that tube he took out the document he unraveled it and he said read the puzzle and by reading that verse the light came into existence and when he read the verse man came to existence meaning the torah is the blueprint of reality whatever is in the document will be in reality whatever is not in the document will not be in reality give you an example you build a new house and you come to the contractor why didn't you make me a kitchen why because guess what your dumb architect forgot to put a kitchen in the architecture look look for yourself you can't have tightness on me it's not in the plan whatever's in the plan what happened to my closet i don't know the architect didn't draw it if it's in the architectural plans it will be in the building if it's not in the architectural plans it won't be in the middle that's the way the world works the same thing with this world whatever is in the torah will be in the world whatever is not in the torah will be removed from the open reality of the world case in point very profound okay one of the most fundamental concepts in the torah is the concept of the world to come this world is like a corridor before the world to come that's what mosquito sushiram tells us that our objective in this world is to prepare for it's a very fundamental concept it's one of the animans how many times does the torah speak about never it's not mentioned in hamas it's alluded to but it doesn't there's no parasha mashallah to allah oh it's in the oral law why is it in the room the answer is sister of aaron cutler there's one thing in this world that says god doesn't want us ever to see in this world ayan laira no i ever saw the goodness god has stored away from the tsadikim god doesn't want us to see it so if god doesn't want us to see it guess which document it cannot be in can't be in hamas because if it's going to be in the hamish then it's going to be in the open reality and we'll be able to see it so god had to remove it from the architectural plans of the open reality so that it would not be apparent to us in the open reality it can't be mentioned in the hamish if it's going to be mentioned in the we would be able to see it and know what it is god doesn't want us in this world to know what it is so from here we see that the torah is the architectural plans of creation which means like this if something that's supposed to be hidden is revealed it's like the world will be self-destruct it's like the atom imagine if you moved a proton of the atom a neutron i'm just tampering with an electron of the atom so you just remove one of the seven continents in the world you cannot tamper with the building blocks of the world so too it's very interesting the uh we know we have targum unclass on and there's a targum on navi who taught the targama navi yana san benozia the gemara says incredible thing it's on your sheet it's number 20 that the targum of the naviem was taught by yonah san benozial and when yonasa menuzial revealed the tagoma navi like it was going to self-destruct it shook 400 parasol by 400 pounds it was like so was quivering shaking hashem said who revealed this this is not supposed to be revealed because when the torah when torah is supposed to be hidden is revealed it's changes the whole reality of creation it offsets the whole reality that's why when about korea makes a mistake in the torah we have to strangle him right we have to jump on him right which we do because heaven forbid heaven forbid that you tamper with even one detailed that that letter may correspond to the sun imagine if the sun was moved like a foot closer to the earth so the world would self-destruct so if the torah if a letter is mispronounced or misread that you can't misread the architectural plans so let's come back and try to explain how does this answer some of the questions yaakov avinu needs to hide from asap where is he hiding in the yeshiva every single day asa was his first stop where is yakka where's jacob you know where his first stop was the yeshika shema eva and you know where yaakov was yaakov was in his seat but here's the thing asap had no idea where he was because asap couldn't see him how's that possible the answer is the fact that the torah should have said that yaakov was learning but the torah dances around it and omits it from the text that means it's omitted from the open reality asap with his eyes of flesh and blood is not able to see the reality of yaakov because yaakov has been removed from the architectural plans he's been removed from the reality of creation asap could go every day tishimashima abraham he could sit next to him in a seat yaakov is learning there like every other day and asap cannot tell the same way has been removed from the document so we don't see it yaakov has been removed from the document so we don't see him that's why the torah can't say that yaakov was learning in the issue of shame because if the torah would write that he was learning guess who would find yaakov that's how yaakov had so god is taking the building blocks of reality namely parshas toldoy simbayetse and he fuses the two partios together closing it up which creates a an aura of hiddenness to yaakov avinu by moving the parshiots and fusing them together that literally hides the reality of yankovino yaakovino leaves his avraham leaves his father tarakh tarakh is 145 years old and technically speaking everyone should start chirping and and talking about avraham avinu how could you leave your father your father's old your father's ailing how do you just leave him and nobody says a word why not because to their minds tax not alive but what do you mean he's in his house he's reading the newspaper they don't detect it they don't see it it's not within their consciousness why because the torah writes that means in the open reality it is not detectable it's not discernible it's like removed from the consciousness of the human mind that has reality rifko yameno passes away and nobody come to her came to her funeral that's what the ramban said ramban says nobody knew that's the homage why because the torah didn't report it it's not written it's removed from the text the same way has been removed from the text so it's not discernible it's not detectable it's not experienced it's removed from consciousness rifka imenu at that point of time the torah protected her dignity by not reporting it had the torah recorded that the banay israel ran away from her sinai and then complained about the food and then wanted meat and the tar would have written in the document back to back to back critiques on the jewish people and that would have been recorded in the blueprint of creation that would have created a hazaka that the jewish people have a presumption of being sinners but because the torah didn't write it that way it doesn't matter how it happened if it's recorded in the document three consecutive sins that will create a certain presumption a certain reality that the jewish people are muslims therefore the torah omitted it torah omitted it from the text so that the reality of creation is not effectuated by the record of the hamesh but it hurts me so much when i hear that rifka died no mention was made of it nobody sat shiva nobody prayed to god to me this is an insult for a great woman i i can't i can't accept this yeah yeah so it's um it's a very painful thing that the tarot would not write it but but what we're learning is that the torah did this way to to protect her dignity because on the other hand she did have she she did bring a7 to the world and asa was a notorious uh russia so the thing is the torah protected river the truth is not related to rifka because hashem told abraham um that only yaakov is considered your heir and asa is not your heir asap is considered this detached from the family but to protect her dignity at that moment the torah sort of covers it over for her honor only to protect her honor i'll tell you one interesting thing it comes out then that the reality of existence is affected by the manner in which the torah records how things transpired so now let's try to contrast the difference between the miracle of hanukkah and the miracle of pearl if something is going to be alluded to in the torah that means per force it will have to happen because the torah is the blueprint of creation now the truth is purim had to happen why did purim have to happen because there's a decree against us for us to be annihilated and the jewish people could never be annihilated so therefore without a doubt there was going to be a holiday of purim there was going to be a yamtha param and if there was going to be unto purim it has to be recorded in the torah because it is not recorded in the torah it can happen truth is remember what does it say after hashem sput the yamsaf it says the sea returned to its former strength and rashi brings down the statement of khazal harishan to its original stipulation that in order for the sea to split god stipulated with the sea when he created the sea then when the jewish people come to the sea the sea is going to split why did god have to make a stipulation with the sea because hashem doesn't like to perform miracles hashem doesn't like to change nature shem created in nature he created a system he created created laws of the universe and he wants those laws to continue on their natural course he doesn't like to change nature so how does hashem make miracles the way he makes miracles is when he created the laws of nature to begin with he stipulated with the laws of nature that even though you have a normal course of action there will be certain intervals of history where miracles are going to have to happen that's how even though the ubanisham doesn't like to perform miracles he does it by stipulating with the laws of nature from beforehand that being the case there had to be a partner because on purim our lives were in danger there was a decree against the entirety of the jewish people and in order to ensure that there would be this holiday god had to write in the torah or rem as tahaman a ramesta esther aramis to mordechai because there had to be a yamtha for purim but guess which yamtif did not have to be is the only day on our calendar that did not have to exist not only did it not have to exist it could not be written in the torah what happened in times of hanukkah the greeks made a decree that they're going to close down the temple they can close down the base of mikdash and they were not going to let us do the avoida but let's think for a moment why did they make such a decree why did the greeks decree that we should not be allowed to go into the temple so the bach commentary on the torah explains that the way the rebound operates when it comes to our torah and it's voice is that if we are interested into our mitzvahs and if we strengthen our self-enthusiasts and if we sacrifice for torah missiles god says i will make them available to you and give you the opportunity to perform them but if you're lackadaisical in torah if you're lazy if you're not interested so you're lazy so i won't give you the opportunity the bach writes in the times of chanukah the reason why hashem allowed the greeks to come and close up shop and close down the temple because the jewish people were were lacks in their service of hashem so hashem says you're going to come to the base of canelo says late i'll close it down you're not going to be you're not going to do the abode in the base something just with energy i won't let you come into the into basically that don't do me any favors this is just the path that you're directing me in and the way we overcame that so so what happened the jewish people were lackadaisical in their service of hashem says you're not interested i'm going to close down the temple so what did we have to do to get the service in the temple back we had to sacrifice our life to show the rebellion we are interested in the avodah of the basa mikdash you're interested i'll give it back to you that's the pattern that when we take one step away from hashem hashem says i won't give you the opportunity we show interest we show sacrifice hashem says i give it back what would have happened yeah i'm sorry yeah oh it had to happen because it was not to the jews it was perm had to happen because there always have to be a jewish people so now i'm excited okay so you're saying it wasn't response it was in response to a sin in other words purim seems to have been predetermined both the decree and the salvation okay okay so you're like two steps ahead you're two steps ahead of me already okay that was good yeah yeah everything else was pre-ordained in other words because the non-jews opposed it purim had to happen because it always has to be jewish people let me let me flesh that right hanukkah in order for us to get the service in the temple back we had to go ahead and show sacrifice for avodah and risk our lives to regain the temple so so if hashem would have wrote hanukkah on the torah then that would have created that there had to be a hanukkah and we had to be most serene efforts for the avodah and that would have eliminated free choice so hashem could not write hanukkah in the then we would have had no choice but to be moist or never for the avoider then because it was pre-programmed it's already alluded to in the document if it's alluded to the document we have no choice other than to rededicate ourselves to hashem and if we have no choice then uh there's no point god will not interfere with our free choice so it comes out that purim was alluded to in the torah was written in the torah because there had to be a purim so it was really pre-programmed it was part of the creation of the world when god created the world he created the world there will be a purim we i will save you from haman's diabolical decree now why did there have to be a haman's decree that seems to have been patterned after the it's hadas because that's where haman has alluded to but the purim was pre-programmed in the document and in the fabric of creation but god could not write anti-aliasing you heard required our sacrifice and our dedication had it been written in the hamish it would have had to be and god could not put us in a situation where there would have to be a hanukkah god wanted there to be a possibility that there wouldn't be a hanukkah maybe we wouldn't have a base of mikdash like we don't have one today the same way we don't have a temple today maybe there would have been a possibility that we would not have regained the temple back then so you'll ask so then how did the miracle of hanukkah happen if it's not written in the document the same way no one could see yaakov because the torah doesn't say he was learning and no one could see ulam abba because it's not written in the document so then how did the miracle of hanukkah happen it's not alluded to in the document that's why for the first and only time in history god had to override the system and god had to make a miracle that was never pre-programmed and was never created from beforehand and did not exist in the blueprint and what do you call that miracle teshua gadolo or forgone happened today it wasn't you can't trace it back to the original architectural plans of creation that was the greatness of the miracle of hanukkah the uniqueness of chanukah was there didn't have to be a hanukkah the uniqueness of hanukkah is we created hashem didn't create the hanukkah the uniqueness of hanukkah is while every other miracle in history is already alluded to in the blueprint it had to be it was pre-programmed hanukkah is the one day a year that we're going to say it was a toshua kadaila or for con as of today it was a brand new revolutionary miracle that was innovated on the spot therefore the heroes of hanukkah are not alluded to in the hamesh and therefore the gemara says is not allowed to be recorded in the tanakh now truth is you're asking a very good question which is beyond the scope of the shir and that is purim also it would seem we had to do a certain element of chuva to merit the salvation and in that case now that purim is written doesn't that mean it's predetermined that we will do what we need to what it takes to merit that salvation but nevertheless for now the the distinction between hanukkah and purim is that purim is alluded to in the document because purim had to be therefore all the characters are mentioned in the in the tanakh and purim is nitinly koseif and if you notice in the alanis manpower we don't use the expression as of today it wasn't as of today it was traced back to the times of creation of the world as opposed to the miracle of chanukah so in a way chanukah is is a unique yomtif because it's it's the only day on the jewish calendar that that day didn't have to be on the jewish calendar it's the only day on the jewish calendar hashem so to speak uh says this is this is not my day i didn't do this you did it you created it this was a new uh overriding of a system that was had not been pre-programmed from the creation of the world so this should give us um a unique perspective of the umph of hanukkah that this is something that khal israel created on their own through our own efforts where hashem so to speak let it be hashem says let's see how this is this will play out maybe there will be a hanukkah maybe there won't be a hanukkah we're certainly happy there was first of all this way i was able to come and give a share tonight and even besides that um it shows the the strength that kaiser all had that the ribanus you know it's the umptif of the activation of where hashem didn't pull us he didn't guide us we took the choice and we were able to create something even we could say lamalla than the torah itself above and beyond the torah itself that's why hanukkah is so to speak the beginning of the future redemption because it activated a new a new type of salvation from if we could say even above and beyond what was already programmed from the torah so i thank you very much for having hosting me and having me this evening and i wish you all thank you so much you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com