Rebbi Meir Ba'al Ha'nes Teaches How To Tap Into The Eternal Light Of Chanukah

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning to the here inar Hills New York um today we're going to speak about Kaneka and we begin with an incredible gamarra the gamar gives us an account about the wife of one of the great T the wife of Rabbi mayor and fact take the opportunity actually I'm working now on a saer on the tan RAB mayor so uh trying to connect R mayor to all the time periods of the Year beginning with p the three weeks and a lot of Mitzvah if anybody out there wants to be a patron of the saer then um please let us know okay so thear tells us that brur the wife of raor was the daughter of r and we we know various insights about the life of and her sister her sister was taken to a bad place her sister was taken to a base Z in English you call it AAL good nobody knows what that is okay so uh and bua her sister was very embarrassed it was demeaning that her sister was taken to this bad place and rer wanted to rescue his sister-in-law now don't try this at home okay and certainly if you're a rabbi this is not a good place to be caught but R took a sack of cash which is also not a good thing to be caught with in a brothel and rer goes into the B and he says to himself if she's clean and she never didn't havea then I could be confident that a miracle will happen and if she did have era a miracle won't happen happen so he uh R wanted to see if he could rescue his sister-in-law so he takes the basket of uh the bag of cash and he goes over to her sort of masquerading as somebody else and he says to her hash you know uh listen to me he he made an attempt so so she push pushed him off she says to him no I'm menstruating I'm is not a good time bad time so mayor says no problem just let me know when you're ready give me a buzz and uh I'll wait for you so she said come on check out the around there there's much better than me maybe choose somebody else I mean you have a a very large assortment to choose from and I don't think I'm the bester over here so figures this is her common refrain she probably tells us to everybody she must be clean and for sure a miracle would happen so R goes to the guardian and he says to the guardian give me this lady so the guardian says you crazy I'm afraid of the of the government so raor hands the guy a bag of cash but the guy's still afraid so mayor says no problem I'm going to give you the magic formula you say the magic formula and it will work every time just say de an he says come on you got to be kidding me who says it works so r says watch this check this out there were two dogs that every day there were a bunch of dogs that would eat people and R took a cloud of Earth threw it at the dogs all of a sudden these dogs you know as they say let sleeping dogs lie and they started jumping toward r r said he had that little magnet on the on the pushka and he said and uh he was spared so what happened what happened so they wanted to know you know you know where'd the lady go so the guard said uh well actually this guy you know he said that guy so they they drew they engraved R mayor on the gates of Rome and they said anyone who sees this man he's a wanted man bring him to us anyway now R has nowhere to run where's R going to go so he went to the Bayo where else is a rabbi going to hang out if if they're looking for him so R went to the B and some say he did something else some say he stuck his finger in Bish and he quickly licked the other finger so that they shouldn't catch on that this is R be it as a way um R figured this is not good for his reputation he's first in one B so ra decided he's going to flee to B and then the gamar concludes maybe another version is he didn't flee to B because of this episode but rather he fled to B because of another episode without getting too graphic the gumar is making reference to a different episode where um I'm not going to translate right now I can't get into this for certain reasons but the gar says that um there's a concept that women okay whatever it means whatever and um there was a certain individual that did not like this teaching and her name was B she did not think she was a very intelligent woman she was a very smart woman she did not accept so R wanted to demonstrate yes in fact no died in so one of R's basically tried to seduce her and she fell for it and he said you see and she was so upset that she basically committed suicide and R did not it was not good for r r had a scad so the gamar gives one of two reasons why ra had to run to Babel either because of his Rescue of his sister-in-law or because of what happened to his wife okay so there are a lot of things we could possibly discuss here what we just said was loaded but we're going to focus on one particular line in this gar and that is the of RA what was Ra's comes and the asks how could designate name of God upon him while he was still alive how could raor say mayor the god of Mayor we all know God does not designate his name on even a sadic while they're still alive you will never find in the whole anybody like because go the rule is you could be a big sad you could be an old s you could be over 150 years old sitting in an apartment with no and says we cannot be confident in you that you will remain a sadic the only time we know that somebody is a true sadic is once they're in the next world but so long as you still have there no guarantees so um the wants to know how could so so was like Rashi says was already already did not really have but God said said right so okay so this is the even says says the mar mayor in his in the first answer the mar R mayor did not mean the god of Mayor what meant [Music] was when he said he didn't mean me he didn't mean his name he meant The God Who illuminates the Earth not him The God Who illuminates but he would never say because God does not associate his name with that is the first answer of the mar the second answer of the mar is may God who illuminated our lives in the earlier Miracle with the NEOS of Kana like the pon redacted mayor meaning we know that in the times of kanah God illuminated Our Lives God was mayor for USU so R is being God you just illuminated our lives in the times of the Syrian Greeks so too in this evil empire ire under the Dominion and sovereignty of the Romans in this in this gas that we're in today please illuminate our lives and give us a miracle as well so again in the second answer of the mar the the mar explains that of Ra was not a reference to his own name but rather he was invoking and he was referring to the miracle of Kaneka God who illuminated Our Lives during the times of the miracle of kanah he should illuminate Our Lives now as well so RAB the question is raor would go around saying this he told the Roman general if they're looking for you say the if the dogs are after you say the whatever you need say the you lose your car keys for the 19th time in one day you can't find your left sock it's Tish morning you don't know where your Croc is because you haven't seen it since Kipper whatever you need you lost your mind right whatever you're whatever you're missing what and what does mean means God who illuminated our lives in the times of Kaneka why do we specifically reference why did RoR always reference the miracle of Kaneka what is Ra's connection to the miracle of Kaneka certainly the re illuminated illuminated Our Lives Many Times in our history but we know specifically in the times of Kaneka the Syrian Greeks darkened our eyes as we know the med says on the if you look at number eight and we're going to come back to this decree the Syrian Greeks made us right on the Horn of an ox that we have no in the god of Israel by the way the raan writes in the that this Gaz lasted for 52 years that so the Syrian Greeks darkened our eyes so God illuminated our eyes in the times of kekah but what is r specific connection to the of Kan that he was always invoking the salvation of the of we encounter another interesting thing the writes in Sim that the is that the the young poor men are customarily they go around the doors collecting on in other words the is bringing that there's a minog to give out Saka to the poor on Kana now why why should you give Saka to the the says the look in the so I always wondered theuk it must be a really early saer if the m is quoting it I don't have the saer kanuk so two years ago I was at a wedding in Williamsburg on Kaneka and I passed by a farm store and I couldn't help myself and I see over there there was a safer they were selling that was printed in honor of the grandson of the and who was it theas written byav who's aad Someone who lived in the generation of the who wrote A saer on that's the whole saer is on hanal and he brings that hanas Halal either has 44 words or 36 words can now in our version of you don't have not 44 and not 36 that's because we don't have the correct version but if if you look at the correct version brought in the TOA it's either 44 words or 36 words and there's a whole P there and in this p on Han halalu he writes that the word sh inash we know there's a numerical formula a gamat a formula of gamat called atbash where you substitute the first letter for the last letter and if you take the word sh the shin comes a b the men becomes a y theadi becomes a Tess you get bit nothing to do with Bitcoins you get bit bit is gatria 21 okay what are you going to do with that says the tusas there's a great secret here is which is turns into a hey um excuse me L equals 269 that's the in other words if you want to know what Kana is Kana is the secret ofak now I'm not sure how many people have heard about the mitzah of giving T many people you know they send with their kids to the rebi they give them Kana G but that the whole definition of Kana should be Saka the brings it but writes The Secret of is the secret of I don't think many even have heard that there's an inion of giving Saka on Kana let alone that the entire secret of kanaka should be the secret of Saka okay what is the meaning of this what is the connection between and in after we say we say and afterwards your children came to your holy so there seems to be an extra word the word why does it have to say could say is or just Bo we know who we're talking about we're talking about the robin about us it didn't say in the beginning why the emphasis by the way in context of the miracle of kanah thei zakar refers to the Jewish people as Bim if you look in par Yehuda was and your children I arouse them on your children y so we see also this description of the Jewish people as buim in the context of Kan even the med the says why do we light n when the the of defeated and the to cites this P okay now we're going to ask some very important questions these questions are raised in a well-known piece in the the reason why it's welln and it's about to become welln in one minute the in one of his great the he says that although theim tried to abolish T MIT in general they were after three Mitzvah in particular what were theyes and shabas why daes and shabas okay okay shabas I know is the Cornerstone of Judaism but why da why daes and the other question is this is a very serious question is if you look in the medish Raba all the medish Raba says that the try to do is that they made us right on the Horn of an ax that we have no share in doesn't say they try to abolishes the medish doesn't say they try to abolish the medish doesn't say they try to abolish shabas and yet us how do you reconcile that which say that they try to abolish with the words of the that they try to they enforce that we Rite on the Horn of an ax now why do they make us write this on the Horn of an axe why da in an ax so the pup shot is you know they didn't have uh Vehicles back then if they would have had automobiles we' had to put a bumper sticker on that's their mode of transportation but on a deeper level what is the significance of the ax the continues that there was a great man by the name of y y and he becomes second in command so turns to and the say that wasn't just saying prepare but was instituting three those threez arees and shabes and chabus what was y getting at by instituting and shab what's the meaning of this but perhaps we already begin to see that when the wanted us to ride on the Horn of the ax that we have no we know who is called an ax in the so institutes and are trying to be the institution of well says the amazing thing a wonderful thing the writes elsewhere that the foundation principle of from the day God took us out of Egypt until today the foundation principle of it all is that we are the children of God we are not just God's handiwork we're not just God's creations but we are his children we are his beloved children in a almost in if we could say in almost a literal sense we are literally the children of God and we're going to explain this now y knew that we needed to be MIT for 430 years that's what God Said is you're going to stay there 430 years but how many years did we actually work in intense labor 86 years so basically we uh we didn't really fulfill the full the full time we did 1th we only did one5 of 430 1 of 430 is 86 so says how are how can this be justified that God says 4:30 and we're going to get at after 86 years well yes the MIM abused us and they harassed us and we so to speak did over time but if our relationship with the is that of a servant to a Master then who cares a little bit more labor a little bit less labor if at the end of the day God says 4:30 4:30 is 4:30 you can't start cutting corners but YF says but if our relationship with God is that of a of a son and loves us like a father then if the MIT oversteep their their rights to uh work us then perhaps will construe it and consider it as if we did overtime and let us out early and therefore y's role y wanted to make sure that it was established that the's relationship with us is that of a father to a son it's interesting there's a ready for this it's not on the sheet it's it's in the it's quoted in the in number 26 asks when died who buried M fine so that means became T so I have now here's the problem hasem a how could bury he's a that's so that's not a come on nobody knew where he was buried so he's aah so but that's not is if God is a and God was what mik did he go in after the that's now they big mik in the world Bells has a big mikah but as big as they are they're not big enough for the rebish God doesn't fit in the ocean so what Mikvah did he go on That's toha So says he was but so even that's so even if he's a he didn't that's but what do we learn from here that God is so to speak subject to laws of and we have to navigate what the does with laws of so the wants to know so how did God take it was the night of how did God take us out God was Mame himself to us why to demonstrate that we are B and to you know why says God wanted to demonstrate that he's our father because otherwise we can't get out in the first place because we still have to do another 344 years the only way we could get out after 86 years is if if we're hashem's children so hasm had to establish he's that he's our father how does he establish he's our father Hashem goes down into MIT and he's Mame himself to CL is demonstrating he's our father if he's our father then how did the M have a right to abuse us so much that's how we got out if he wouldn't have shown he's our father we couldn't have gotten out that's the so continues who instituted and who established for all time that in fact our relationship with God is the relationship of a father to a child instituted three what are the threez and well says shabas demonstrates very clearly that we are B Because shabas is God's scepter because after all God rests on chabas what is the what would be the status of somebody who uses the scepter of the king he that's the reason why why if a gentile keeps shabas are they liable to Capital Punishment cuz they are not the children of hasem as much as every you know you like to hear after all all mankind are the the children of God it's a bunch bunch of rubbish it's not true not all of mankind are the children of God all of mankind are the creations of God only the Jewish people are the children of God therefore instituted to demonstrate we are B and there's only one person in the palace if he's walking around with the scepter the king's going to say the kid maybe the king won't like it but the kid could get away with it continues what about also KES demonstrates that we are the children of hem after all um demonstrates that humbles himself and follows along our legislation demonstrates that we are the children of hem we're that's were God's children says what do we say in the of that what are we called that God carried us in his womb could you have said that on your own that would have been AIC carus if you would have said that but allow us to use this allegory that carried us in his womb that's what we learned from and what do we learn from the writes from the Z says gives us the status of B so y knew the only way we're getting out of early is if God considers us children and therefore y was the but the there's one thing the wanted us to feel theim said I don't want you to consider yourself who do you think you are what makes you more bunim than we that's why the PK Zar says that theim also consider themselves bunim the said you look back at number six so theim wanted to feel that they're not him so they said now listen carefully and they said we don't want you to reckon yourself as Bim so we asked the S but that's not what the med says the med says they wanted us to write on the car they have no how does that reconcile with listen carefully what does it mean that we what's a what's a Ben Ben the father contributes the genetic code of the child that means you could look in the child's DNA and you will see in the child's DNA the DNA of his father so in what way can we consider ourselves what does this concept mean so the's great-grandfather even though the always calls him my grandfather but it was his great-grandfather so somebody once asked the why do you call called the your grandfather was your great-grandfather so the wrote a cha to answer that question okay but we'll call him the grandfather that's what he calls them if you look at number 17 why are we called Bim because just like a Ben is a a of the father he came out of the loins of the father therefore a son is naturally inclined to be interested in that which his father is interested in a son is naturally inclined to act and Accord himself and follow the practices and Customs the way the father acts meaning because the child is literally a piece of his father a child will naturally act like his father so to CLA Isel our genetic makeup our soul our our composition our personality is made of the same material which is Zak D and noi therefore it is the nature of of a Jew to be just like the because we're made out of the same material where it's it's the nature of a Jew to want to do to want to follow the MIT because we are literally a what does that mean no yes our soul is literally a how do we know our soul is a cuz the says says the concept of emanates from the the concept that we are B emanates from the according to the we have a beautiful way to reconcile the two try to abish shabis because they wanted us to feel we're not B but that's not what the med says the med says we had a write on the shore same thing it's the same Gaz they wanted to abish because they wanted us to feel that why do you Jews consider yourself more a a piece of the Divine more than us why do you consider your composition Holier greater more elevated more spiritual than us in other words the concept of emanates from the concept of so the med is basically encapsulating what does it mean the wanted to what it means in a nutshell is we had a write on the K meaning the lesson of instituted he instituted and wanted to be the concept that now I want to say something I never said this before the says on the we're like a rope says so beautiful what does it mean we're like a if you take a rope a rope consists of thousands of little strands but on the top of the Rope it's it's tied as one entity but it really consists of so every Jew has a the Nish is like one of the very thin strands of the main rope butala lalala it's all one big which Nish is that nishma the Nish of God himself that's why what it's similar to is a wick which is which is spun well in other words the wick is really the analogy of the concept that y are a of God a of God because the wick consists of individual strands which come together to be one entity the wick represents the concept of when we say we're B him that means literally our souls every Jew's soul is one Thin strand of the soul of All Souls which is God Almighty that's what we mean that we're created there is some remote and had the Torah not said this we probably would not even be allowed to say this but there's some remote similarity and Deion between our spiritual makeup and that of the almighty so this was the goal of Y to teach to Institute to legislate we are because that's the only way we're getting out of andm confirmed that when he was to us the even though he's a but to show that we're B now just to give a little bit more elucidation the G writes in his commentary to basus yah number 23 that what does it me and are called Bim we have something called nishas which means the spiritual quality of the Soul all mankind all human beings have a soul but our spir the spiritual quality of our soul comes from the highest Source the ah so now we could add one added nuda if theim really even though they wanted to abolish but what they were getting at was they were trying to be the concept that we are therefore they made us write where did they make us write this on the Horn of ax right so on the first level we said because they picked an ax because y was the one who instituted but there's another idea that the yanim triy to um instigate against us and that is there was another time in our history where the ax brought us trouble and the ax lowered our madrea and the axe um dramatically and drastically altered the the very essence of the personality of a Jew and that of course is the where at it says the says the writes that were downrated from ailos and they were no longer considered to have the same DNA of God and we were downgraded and relegated to the same status of the that's what the girl right look number 23 the Splendor flew away we're not C children we don't have the same Soul so theim said we're going to and we're going to remind you that you're not B you know how you can remember ride on the Horn of an ax remember the at the you lost your status of B by the way this is confirmed by the fact that in when God gave us the said to you have domain over all the nations of the world is number 25 but not the Jewish people CU they're but when the Jews sin at theel says they were no longer meaning we lost according to is the where the the idea of comes from so way were right they were correct they told the Jews yes Once Upon a Time the God was himself to you because he reckoned you B and instituted cuz you were God's bunim but then you SN at the AEL and you no longer re reserved you no longer deserved the status of bam you lost the status ofam your was not similar to he's not of anymore and therefore we're going to abolish and we're going to make you right they're like hey is so when we went back into the he and we when we lit the sh and the was restored and we able to bring back what actually was written by none other than himself because there are 124 words in which is 12 other say there are 125 words in because wrote one more word in the than the of his name therefore when when the Jews returned into the they returned with the full glory of the status of wanted us to feel that we lost it they were they were trying to be they were trying to remind us of what happened in the time of and therefore the reminded us that when when we returned into the we returned with the full status of by the way you know there's a Kasha you thought we were going to go a whole Shear without asking the question you thought you thought we're going to have a Shear on Kaneka and we're not going to ask the question I'm going to ask you the exact opposite question everybody wants to know why there 8 days of there should be seven days of Kan I have a different way of looking at things I think I'm going to ask you a different KAS there should be nine days of they eight days and say you don't have really the mor asks why don't we have and the only answer Mor gives is because it says you can't go beyond the 15th but it doesn't say so why don't we have so now I'm going to ask the asks why do we have eight days of there should only be seven so if you look at number 14es the that you know why we have eight days of Kaneka really you're right there should be seven days you know why we have eight because has has shabus but we need eight days can I get mil the eighth day is can I get Mila says according to that that's why we don't have day because then you lose the that we we restored KES we restored shabas and we restored mil you're going to have nine you lost the whole you lost the whole Eighth Day another words the answer why we don't have of the answer to the B Kasha of why we have an eth day can is the answer why we don't have a nth day because we have to have a remes to mil okay so we see Kana as a Time that our status of Bim was restored we were able to revert ourselves back to the Tak of which is what we do have a maybe then they were M to light with a as the the represents the concept of but let's come back to Mayor CU after all we know that one of the very well-known um is and that is what is our relationship withes reab HUD says it depends how you act if you're a good yinga then you're God's kid if you're a bad yinga then you're adopted then you're a you're a right don't you wish you could say that you know your kids misbehave and then people say who are these kids you say I don't know I found them I took them in you know took them in off the street you can't do that your biological kid is your kid is your kid it doesn't matter how they act your kid is your kid this is not us and God With Us and God we do what we need to do we're children we don't need we don't we're not doing what we what we need to do then we're called a and mayor Marshalls for that doesn't matter what we do we could be foolish we could be we could be not only are we called Bim we're called We're called and famously the Raj writes in that even though when there's we always P like RAB Huda and there are no exceptions zero exceptions there's one exception what's the exception this when it comes to the are we or are we we like that what why do we pass like the like we've said many reasons over the Earth first of all the Raj says because invokes for to Def to prove his point that's a we passing like R the of and the says the same thing is what's the reason we never passing like R because R was so deep nobody ever understood what he's talking about so that's when it's is relevant to this world but if it's is relevant to how God looks at us God was able to understand and when it comes to if the looks at us just like a yes understood ra and then we said another why are we passing like ra this is brought by quoting a and a rush that typically is always quoted first in a mishna except for here here first then why to show that on this has the last word comes Y and RI says I'm going to give you two more reasons why when it comes to this like you ready because the truth is there's somebody who supports Rome who supports R there's a famous story there's famous narrative between Raba and Tes Rufus tus ruus asked Raba Raba does God love the poor says yeah he loves the says so why doesn't he give them food so so T says that people who give Sak are going to go to gam because a king uh decrees that somebody should go to jail so what's going to happen if somebody sneaks in and Fe feeds the guy he a so says bad M I'll give you another M the king puts his kid in jail and someone comes and feeds the kid what's the king going to do he's going to reward him question tus seems to be passing like Ruda that when we're not doing the will of God we're called however rabika seems to be pasing that even when we're poor and we're oppressed nevertheless were considered the children of hem that means holds r no matter what we call B so you know why weing like ra because is a against R HUD it's tag team now may and and against HUD plus that's why the r writes by the way in the par Bas on that mhia will first appear inaria why because he can't appear anywhere else cuz appears anywhere else the go were going to say uh who who you coming for exactly these people what do you have with these people there's only one person who can give a good reason why God's going to save us r r is the he and if anyone's going to say no we don't P like R is GNA stand up he's also buried in Taria and he's going to say we're right for the that's why mhia can only come in Taria that's says what mitvah demonstrates that the is like Saka Saka because according to Ruda in the gas we don't even understand how you're allowed to give the the mitvah is because according to that we're not when when we're not you're not allowed to give the demonstrates so comes the of and the of demonstrates that as much as the would like us to feel we are not and they could take away and they could take away and they could take away shabas and they could say you're not a of and you could ride on the Horn of the ax and you could remember the as much as you want the light of is the light the brightest light the Eternal Light the Eternal Light of we are always the children of who is able to tap into that light who Credo whose life embodies the message of this is's teaching was therefore would go around saying de an he wasn't talking about himself as the says he was talking about God you who illuminated our lives in the times of Kaneka when theim wanted us us to feel that we are not the children of hem you illuminated you demonstrated you proclaimed we are always the children of hasem you who are mayor a and that gus please continue to be mayor a in the current Galos as we said mhia will reveal himself inaria this was the of R this is why R is connected to the of he didn't mean me R didn't mean me when he said he didn't mean himself he meant in the times ofah who in this current and therefore we know we don't give any other we don't say you know giving anybody it's writes the reason why R is specifically associated with Seda is because we could only give [Music] Seda only works according to and that's why which is the Y of the light of is specifically associated with the mitvah of that's why thees and that's why the because this is the of the light ofite have a great day you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime .c