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Is Today the 9th Day of Chanukah? Why Not??

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okay dear friends we have a lot to do today aab you know what let's start we're gonna turn things uh in a different order today I want to wish everyone what what am I going to wish you AR we'll start with Arab shabas shabas a gim I guess what about is today kanah well you say If Today Was Kaneka a maybe maybe it should be a 2025 for everyone is today kanah well if today was kanah then we should have lit the Mana last night I I actually went into a show last night and the Mana was burning and there was a whole controversy is it BTO but it wasn't about Toph because it was still burning from the morning so it's not like they lit it last night but is today the nth day of Kaneka well we know they're only eight days of Kaneka is it a question why they're only eight days why don't we say so you say when do we say why would we say isn't well did you know that the in his on the smug asks why don't we have so if one answer is well we don't have for well if the reason we don't have for is because per is that would be a good reason for kekah but the morai says on Esther it said the mor writes the reason there's no is because it says you're not to go past the legislative dates that implies that for draan you really would have SP it's just we have by not to have an added day because it doesn't say by it doesn't say then according to the there should be for so answer number one why there's no is because it's answer but that's not going to work in the mor because according to the mor we would have for if not for and this is the uh the question of the REI I would humbly answer that the fact that the mor doesn't just say that by P we don't have because it's a would not necessarily mean we would not uh would not NE would not necessarily imply that the ranan have let me explain what's the if you're not sure if you read M do we say we do not for the nighttime reading I'm sorry for the daytime reading the day reading of the m is is like says we do not say ah so if we don't say why because it's so the can't say the reason we don't have is because it's a because regarding it does not have a status of a has a status of but would not necess would not have a status of would be M so in other words like this the asks why is there no according to the mor who says there would be I would argue just because there would be by does not necessarily mean there be by there because it's but there no in the times of so would not have so so far we have two answers answer number one is we don't have by anything which is not answer number two is we might have by if not for but that would not indicate that we would have answer number three is from the the in the David when at my sister's wedding to Aron li My brother-in-law's father decided to give out a safer at the wedding called myah why what is my Kaneka it's all the of the on now he didn't know that I would collect all of them and take them back home and I actually use this safer so he didn't know he was getting it for me but obviously it was a good if my brother-in-law's father gave out the at the wedding you know you could imagine what a Simmon that is but the brings a very beautiful reason why were there no nine days of Kaneka we said this over a few times the famous why are there eight days of kanah there should be seven there should be seven days of kanah so comes and says he quotes the of which I showed you the other day that every Kaneka has a shabas in it because they try to take away shabas so we have to have a chabas in Kaneka to celebrate shabas every Kan hases in it we have to celebrate the fact they couldn't take awayes but what REM is there to what REM is there to so says quoting we have eight days of kanaka to commemorate that they try to take away from us bris ah so says that's also why we don't have we don't have nine days of because the same way we we want to have an added day an eighth day so to commemorate Mila we also don't want to have a ninth day otherwise it would lose the commem that's what the brings down in the that is answer number four so I'm sorry that is answer number three so one answer is we don't say it for any d one answer is even if we would say it for p we still maybe wouldn't say it for Kan one is we don't have because to commemorate mil answer number four is from the to interestingly says we do have says there should be seven days of Kana he's right there are seven days of Kana the eighth day is now you want to have another the is the miracle is only seven days exactly that's why Kan is seven days oh why is there eight days there eight days for the only thing is the to doesn't like that answer because then Kan should begin on kave because the first day wasn't a miracle and it should continue until today meaning you can't say says the E day is because then you're starting on the wrong day then you're starting on the wrong day yeah unless you say like the Mei that they really they did didn't rest on the 25th they rested on the 24th you know the Mii has a different Gea according to the Mii maybe this would re re uh retir the offering of the to that really there seven days of the eth day is is why don't we begin the answer is because we according to the they rested on the 24th not the 25th it wasn't it was so we start on the 25th the 24th tackle wasn't a miracle we don't celebrate the 24th we celebrate seven days from the 25th and then an eth day and now the answer that I've been waiting to tell you and I'm happy my friend rillo Goldstein is on for this answer okay there's a famous aam that I've been working on for many years and I still can't crack it and every year I want to say a she on it I still can't figure it out that eight candles and is like presumably that means that we're and we're not my reading yeah so someone to answer the BHA that the reason why um there seven days the reason why they're eight days of Kaneka but only seven days were a miracle you're right only seven days or a miracle but we have to have eight days of Kaneka because if we only have seven days of Kaneka we need every day to be recognizable that the is like B so if there's seven days of Kana day one according to H you light one and B says seven day two two and six day three three and five day four it's even are both going to light four and it won't be recognizable and the meaning of is you know by the way otherwise it would have been called zanaka that's another problem you know but besides that the there are those who suggest in the sh he brings that the reason why they're eight days of Kana is because otherwise it would not be recognizable on the um would not be recognized on the fourth day that the is like B well this is another reason why there can't be nine days of kanah because if they're nine days of kanah then on the fifth day everybody would light five and it wouldn't be recognizable that is like B so since the whole essence of kanah is that the is like B therefore we have to have eight days and not a but you see we had to give a whole sheer why today's not so that means that today really has a lot of potential it just you know there many there are many different reasons why why we have to we're not able to celebrate it but it still has some of the flavor of Kaneka in it and you know I've been thinking for many years why is it that at and like why why is the being like B connected to Kan maybe because ra says that kanah is the inauguration of the so maybe you would think you know if it's inaugurating the Gul it's like the Gul has come already so maybe when it comes to Kaneka you could already go like B maybe there would be one area in that you would follow B so we say no don't worry it's not B's time yet it's still we're still in the regular realm of History the is still like b h okay that's first offering for today the ninth day of what would have been the ninth day of Kaneka