The Magic of The #8 - Chanukah in The Worldview of The Maharal

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so today is the the last day of chanukah the last 24 hours of hanukkah completing the 192 hours of hanukkah today is the eighth day so we're gonna speak about the number eight in general we're gonna speak about the number seven we're gonna speak about the number eight in the world view of the morale of prague the morale of prague one of the great time one of the all-time great ballet machava in claudia israel it's interesting in the muslims the morale is not studied as much but in the sharia of ravitzla petterberg where he lists all the muslims farim among the susharim and charity he does list the suffrae morale however revolver writes with oba that even though many people think they understand the morale most most who who read the marau really don't understand what he truly um means but nevertheless one of his classic points of study are the significance of the number seven and the significance of the number eight which is going to be the focus of today's sheer the morale was born in poland in 1526 others say that he was born even earlier and he passed away in prague in 1609. he was the maraud was the son of rabbit sallow the grandson of revloy the elder of prague and he traced his lineage back to of hygoine and then ultimately all the way back to davra mella so his first rabbinic post was in nickelsburg in 1553 he served there for 20 years he wrote his first safer the gorarier which is a commentary on rashi and one of the things that maral stressed was maral said that whatever hazal say you should take at face value especially today some like to maintain that whatever scientific information that's in the gemaras was based on the scientific information that was available in the times at the time the gemara was codified and maral um felt that that was incorrect that whatever is in the gemara the attabad had a tradition going back to har sinai not only that but about the physical world as well and it should be taken at face value and everything in the torah should be taken at face value so if the torah says you need to learn mishnis at age uh five then you need to learn or ten you need to learn at age ten and not earlier if you start learning it earlier you're ruining your child's if you start later so you haven't hit the the proper date and if the if hazal say to start learning gemara at a certain age that's the age you start learning gomorrah why burden little kids who have no clue what you're talking about you can start teaching a little kid gemara marcus they have no clue what adam zoyam are okay fine yes that you know these very difficult concept of the morale in general was a very big from supporter of the lima hamas and in fact one of his great talmudim was the taisus yamtif he writes that what inspired him to write a commentary on mishnais was the fact that his rebbe the marau was such a proponent of limud hamishna so in 15 no everything is taken literally there is an idea of nistana teva means khazawa right we're the ones who changed you know our nature changed but not that not that hazard writing based on the scientific uh inaccurate information that was available in the times so in 1573 he settled and he opened ishiba in prague and he reassumed his post and posed in 1598. one of his other great talmudim was rav david ganz um we have david gonza's very interesting personality rav david ganz lived in germany and one day he heard there was a great man by the name of ramosh israelis who lived in krakow so he decided to take a walk from germany to krakow sometimes people say you know i would love to come to the chair but the walk is a little bit too long so the barometer is if it's longer than from germany to krakow then taka it's the the walk is too long but if it's going to take you more than say six months to walk or less than six months then it's still within human reach now the uh the abdomen gans i had the privilege to be at his cover in prague and so what happened was in prague they were refurbishing the uh the basic forest they didn't let us in so that's where torah anytime comes in so we said we're with an international organization called torahanytime.com they have no idea what we're talking about so we said we we you know we said we have cameras and people are going to watch it so they don't even know what to do with us they let us in and we went to the cover of david gans and oppenheim and the maraud was available but we got rav david gans but david ganz was a great historian he wrote a word called the tsamach david and in fact rama encouraged him to write the samachtavir this is also a great astronomer and there is correspondence between braha johan braha and tyler kemperner and uh and the tsa of david so he was also a student at the morale so today we're going to be uh analyzing the morales worldview on the number seven and the number eight so if you thought until today seven was your lucky number we may have to change that today okay comes the morale and the morale says that we know the yvonne entered the evanim went where and did what they went into the hecal and they did what they were now how did the evannam we don't find that the bavaloyam went into the hechalu or the parseem went into the where the adoim went specifically into the hecal what is it about yavan that yavana is able to be nikhnas into so the morale famously says the numerical value of it is 65. hey anurag is 15. 50 65. well with heihal 65 yavon is 66. so yavan is able to one up the hecha they're able to overcome the heka the hecal is 65 yavan is 66. but says maral let us let's analyze this for a moment 65. the yavana is 66 and they want to be matami now if you want to be metame there's only what represents kedusha that would be something culpable and liable to become nitma shemen whenever you want to be mekade something you're makadisha with the shaman hamishka so the yvonne in 66 went into the hecal 65 and they're matami their matame their matami but says maral the heihal has another name the hecal is called kaidesh but even though the ivanim are able to overcome kaidesh they cannot overcome kadesh kadashem so even though their mitame all the shemen but there's one shem and they can't be metame which sheman can't even be matami the sheman that was sealed with the signature of the kaiheim goddall because the kind god was not quite ash kangado is kaijus kadashim so the ibadan can only overcome kaidos they can overcome kaidesh kardashian now in the word hecal there is a little bit of a remez that even though he means kaidash but there is one flask in the hecal that's kodesh kadasham where do we see in the word hecha that there's one flask that's kailash kadashim the yud say what the is in the word it's not hidden no there is besides the yod there's a hidden yud in the word what what are you talking about how is there a hidden unit in the word so now we're going to learn something some people like it not everybody does we're going to learn a little dick talk okay i was at his career in worms he was a descendant of the marau the mojave says about it's like mustard a little bit is good okay so the javascript the the morale says like this he quotes the radak the radak is found in the safer mikhail the radar of david wrote a safer called the sephirah mikhail and he says you know in hebrew and los angeles we have two types of nakudais we have tenuous godois and tenoy's katanas what's the mnemonic to help remember that malay what's the difference between a comet's gondola and it's a comet's cotton the good news is you don't need to know for today's share okay but they're pituke on the other hand a sag oil are tenuous katanas what's the difference between a tuna and throw katana one difference would be if a shiva is preceded by its nuage the becomes is so an example would be there are many examples well we'll have to find an example ishmael that's what a uh schwa that's preceded by its becomes a fine now you could write a seirei two ways you could put it seire you could put put two dots under a letter and you could have that seirei followed by ayud for example pitu in the word hey you have two dots under the hess followed by a yod sometimes that yid will be there sometimes it won't not every time you have it seirei is it followed by ayodh so for example shish bays raish with that seirei there's no yurt after the raish but it could be there it doesn't have to be there so says the maral even in an instance where there is a yud after it say ray since it doesn't have to be there there's also a hidden yud listen carefully there doesn't have to be a unit after it's array which means that after every say ray there's a hidden node and even if there's not when there's not when there's not it's a hidden there's a hidden every seirei has a hidden yard now you could have the hidden yod plus an actual revealed yut so in the word heihal hey yoda you have the revealed yud but you also have a hidden yard that hidden yud represents the hidden flask of the kayin godot that was not koidesh but was called the shakudashim so you got it rabbi sai the ivanim are 66. they could one-up the 65. they can't they only have shlita over kaidash they don't have sleet over quite as kadasham kadus kadasham is the hidden urine the word now we have something called heihal but we also have something called kahen what is the numerical value of kaihin 75 says the marawi number six cayenne could go into the koi dash and the koi shakudashim he has a unique ability to go into both places why because he's 75. now what's that going to do for us what's the meaning of that what does the number 75 have to do with the ability to traverse back and forth between the kaidesh and the kaido chakras so let us begin this uh very wondrous journey the morale writes in the safer neri mitzvah and today we're going to be quoting from at least nine different swarm of morale wrote many swarm he wrote the say for nara mitzvah which is about hanukkah first he speaks about the dreams of daniel and bukhanetza and then he speaks about the mitzvah hanukkah he wrote a saver to pharah israel which is about the giving of the kabbalah torah he wrote a safer netshachi israel about he wrote gora arie which is a super commentary which is a parish parashan rashi he wrote a drushas for shabba shubha he wrote hidushayagado is on all of the agathas of shas he wrote something called gevuris hashem which is on the haggadah and the exodus the bear hagola okay so let's begin at number seven in naira mitzvah says the marael there was only enough oil to last for one days and miraculously it lasted for eight days says amaral we know the famous kasha why is hanukkah it days says marau you know what the real answer is the oil lasted eight days because this world teva is seven seven is the natural world god created the world in seven days the the the forces of nature the the phenomenon of nature are governed by the powers of seven if seven represents then how do we refer and reflect is what number the number eight so teva is seven teva is kodesh but and therefore since a miracle happened that the ivanian who had shlita over the kaidesh did not have shlita over koi de shakadashim therefore chanukah is eight days now the morale elaborates on this in the pharah israel by the way let's just go um briefly to number 12 and 13. why does the number seven reflect the physical world like we just spoke out the morale says in the goddess the number seven corresponds to the seven days of creation or he writes in his life so the number seven denotes connotes the physical world i'll just share with you something very interesting i saw in the writings of ravner and number 40 that why is it that the number seven is represented represents the physical world and the number eight represents the word sheva also comes from the root of surveya satiety being satisfied having enough having but of finite capacity savaya satisfied so the number seven represents the physical world the finite world the world of satisfaction the world of boundary as opposed to shmaina which is a lesson of shaming fat excess lamala min the number eight we met represents above and beyond the natural process says of hunter okay coming back to the regular order of things says the morale another principle in numerical value and that is how many nations of the world are there 70 nations in the world so you say what's that going to do for us says morale because they are of the numeral seven there's no difference between seven seventy seven hundred seven thousand and that is because masha baklao who shall be pratt whatever is in the general is what is in the specific and since the nations of the world are natural umass natural nations now they go through the natural world they are subject to natural phenomenon therefore there are 70 nations of the world and that's why god gave them how many myths voice says the morale in the pharisee israel because they are shivan umais and they are part of the the teva god gave them shava mitzvos that's what the morale in that pharas israel the morale in nets number eleven the morale says based on the gemara and erichen that the harp anyone here play the harp so don't be ashamed yeah the harp of the this world uh the harp of the basa mikdash had seven strings however the harp of mashiach will have eight strings you know some say there are seven notes so therefore the heart has seven strings what's an eighth string going to do they're only seven notes but that's why um a lot of musicians and music groups they like to call themselves you know eighth day eighth note eight this because they want to sound like you know they're the the messianic music or something like that but um the the nets ah israel says that the harp of the bay of the basement just was seven strings and the harp of immigration was eight strings to indicate that in this world we live under the guidelines and the limitations of nature but when meshiach comes then we will be expanded to go above and beyond the natural processes that's why the harp of the mikdash was seven strings and the harp of yamashiach are eight strings now if that's the case marvel rabbis i fasten your seat belts we're going to learn something the physical world is seven the natural processes are seven that the supernatural the world of not have as eight we know there's a beautiful perique in tehillim that first speaks about the creation of heaven and earth and then goes on to speak about the torah that is peric utas yeah that is paraguay test speaks about the heavens the earth yeah just happened the the the parachute test of tehillim speaks about the first the creation of the world and then the torah and it starts like this number fifteen about the natural processes of the world about the natural order of the world about the physical phenomenon of the world you have seven succumb in parakeet test says my rounds first is still number 14. that is because in discussion of the physical phenomenon of the world it is most relevant to the number seven number seven captures the essence of what physical phenomenon are but when we start to talk about what's what's the torah dosha what number passage begins tairas hashem tamima because the physical world are under the limitations of number seven and the torah dosha is the number eight that is why says the morale we know that the longest pericantilum right if anybody ever asks does anybody know what perkins tell them this is so you should first guest should be kofi or tess right because you have a pretty good shot that it's in there right pericophiotes this is a paragraph all about the torah what does the gemara and brachas refer to this paragraph as shemaina alphabeta every letter is represented by ib sukim y because this is not about the physical world this is about the torah the torah is so since it's therefore each letter is represented by eight sukim shmina alpha beta the morale says in the gorarier that's why billam built seven misbehaves bilum was the royce of the shiva mumma salam and he was the head of those under the forces of teva and therefore he built seven altars now the physical world is the number seven and the world above physicality is the number eight and therefore we take a child who is a physical being and he was formed in his mother's womb and we'd say that even though he has a physical goof he's going to rise above the limitations of gash me and and goofy and we give him a milla on the eighth day to indicate he's the jews guf is in fact the morale writes the number 17. that the zami penae kiteva nitin shia or el he says what's above nature is eight eight comes after the seven days of nature therefore mila which is is on the eighth day because a person is not betteva aurel and then he says teva requires that a person have a foreskin now what does the morale mean that teva requires that president have a foreskin teva also requires that a person have a nose so what does maharao mean teva requires that a person have a foreskin so i want to share with you you know one of the great who really opened up the writings of the morale to claude israel was somebody by the name of rabbishua hartman who lives in london had a privilege to to give a class in his in one of his yeshivas and in hasmonean yeshiva in eduare and he he wrote many many many maybe a dozen or two dozens farm on the morale you ever see the blue swarm on the morale so you have let's say the pharisee sorel in the old editions and then he wrote four volumes pharisees so with like three lines in my round the rest footnotes footnotes footnotes footnotes he really opened up the writings of the morality clause he has the blue editions on tv sorel on netsachi sorel on the gorarier on um on many many of the volumes um so he wants to understand that what maraud means that teva requires that a person is born rl is the marau writes in guras hashem that what does an arla why is it so important that we suffer the allah that we cut off you know there's something called a phone i know nobody knows what it is because the the phones are off during this year but let's say after the share let's say like 10 minutes after the share when you turn on the phone again let's get this clear during the shear the phone is off with two f's right but after the share when you turn on the phone sometimes you could go into a building and you don't have good service so people are going like this they go like that you know they're trying to they're putting it they're trying to get service and sometimes they're concrete walls you can't get service in the building is a concrete wall so has an arla they kadab they don't feel it they could learn they don't connect it's that severs their connection with god the earlos severs their connection now the marau writes in pharisees royal that by nate teva is math deal between hashem is barack and and the brios and until avraham avinu came and he he pulled away the veil and he opened up the heavens and he allowed the the earthly beings to connect to the supreme being but teva disconnects man and god what else disconnects man and god the arla therefore retirement explains that's why the morale says teva dictates that we have in our law because since deva's role is to be mafdal between asana and that's what the function of the allah therefore the tawa requires we have an arla now let's explain let's continue again this is really a tapestry of from at least nine different swarms of morale marau writes in one of his jerushim on shabbos chuva he quotes a madrish bisous that arroyo went into the kosher in the khus of mila what does meelo got to do with going into the code of very simple a person is limited by the natural world there is nature and then there is we can only enter the kardashian through the merit of mila mila is eight which is lamalam and ateva now another interesting thing the mahara writes in the guru sasha that meewa is what do you sing at amila the sea split in the merit of mila what see you have water here water you think this water cares less the guy has a mila the eye doesn't have the last thing on the water's mind if the water wants to split it's going to it's not going to split because you have a mila what what good does it do the water that you have a mila also very simply the water the darakateva is going to remain stagnant in order to split it has to we have to access something in what what represents is a great wonderful mitzvah but shabbis is under the limitations of the physical seven day work week it's still in the confines of teva but mila is above and beyond the world of shabbos mila's eight is and therefore says it's a davar pasha damilah is greater than its and that's why was it that mush was leaving the sram and he didn't do mila so they didn't even give him a split second why didn't they give him a split second give him a half hour cut him some slack they didn't cut him even a slack of a second you know why because lumila is lamalam and azman so since me islam they didn't even give him a zaman to recover from that infraction so this is all from the morales understanding of the number seven and the number eight so we come to yom kippur the holiest day of the year and the kaiyan goddess who represents qaeda shakudoshim goes into the kaido shakira and how many spritzes does he make obviously what eight schmitz's achas hanukkah that a phone that could be off could still go off in the sheer it's amazing wow nissan in the flights how a phone that's off could ring wow okay so no matter what when they happen miracles happen all the time right so it's okay don't worry it's happened to me also so so the the the morale says obviously obviously says obviously on the holiest day of the year obviously on the holiest day of the year the kangado is going to spritz eight times the listen to how he explains it i think he explains it this way teva which is the force of seven pulls us down down down down down it's making us forget hashem it's making us ignore hashem it's making us not see it's pulls us down but the akasamala the one above teva that is what is pulling us up and therefore marv the forces of nature are seven la mala menateva is eight what's in the kaido shack doshim the orion the torah because the torah is after seven after how many weeks was the torah given shaiva after seven sevens after the epitome of teva after the the encamps encapsulation of tawa into the very essence of teva revolution we're going to give you the torah and that's where the torah is in the kardashian and who goes into the darshan the kaine goddamn and you know what if you had to pick how many pairs of clothing do you think the kayan god would wear when he goes and he does his avodah how many huh huh eight begotten served in the times of the bay of shini 80. now even though there's a hazard let's say 308 and the rem is to this is in the passage there's a yudzy era and yudzi eras gamacha 308 but the maraud brings the sephirah and xiaomi xiaomi there were 80 kaihanem gadolim because the concept of godot is the concept of lamalam and ateva above eight therefore there are eighty kahanam gadolim how many how many begot them eight begotten four so you ever wonder and you ever wonder why whenever we met we do a mitzvah uh um in number 28 in his commentaries to the commentary to the safer never mitzvah because when we're dealing with kohanim they have extra conducion and kadusha samitsu mitzvos mitzvoids are the kayak of seven so that's why but kahanim are above and beyond they have extra kadusa so uh now here's the problem the problem is the yvonne went into the hechala 65 ivanova 66 and they have dominion over the hecha but they don't have dominion over the hidden yud the hidden uranus quite the sakurasim where did the kedusa of the menorah then come from in other words this miracle of hanukkah that they were not able to imatame this little flask of oil that was signed with the signal of the kangada that came from the torah which laid in the kaidashakidashim where is the torah in the orion orange of light but here's the problem this is value shaney there was no array in the by shiny so one problem this whole toilet is very good only it's the only thing is it's not true besides it not being true it's beautiful but we have one problem there was no aaron we're saying the miracle of hanukkah is where is what's the torah where's the torah and the kardashian the problem was there was no orion but where was though right the governor you must says on the position what does the positive say in the in the word is missing says this represents the five things that we're not in the kardashian so there's no iron there's no urine what was the kayak of a miracle of malama natava now by the way i'll tell you another morale the maraudi says why was there no arrowin all of these things have one thing in common light or orange all these things emanate from light it's because the morale says the bias his eyesight was diminished so therefore anything relevant to our was diminished in by ishaini so we didn't have an orion so how did this work how does this how does this uh fit in so the apartment explains that the urine was not removed it was nignaz negan as rafner says does not mean it's in some unknown place and it's deep under the ground we don't know where exactly it is nignaz means that its blatant function has been hidden from our purview but it's still functioning in full force otherwise you wouldn't have a basal much dash because the only thing that makes the basal mitosis is the urine without a narrowing you don't have a miktus in the first place by the way the morale takes this even further the morale says if you look at number 34 the gemara and sanhedrin says when will mashiach come in what year of the shemitah cycle comes in the eighth year why do you think meshech comes the eighth year because and therefore it will not come in year seven it comes specifically in year eight which is lamala min okay fasten your seat belts so we have the heihal the represent is represented by the number seven you have the question that's represented by the number eight the menorah has seven branches the menorah is still under the dictates of tava and therefore the evanum had shlita over it but there was one flask of oil the hidden yud of the word hekau that the vanim could not overcome kaidashak dashin so if you're a cayenne you sort of have to be able to straddle two sides of the fence you have to be able to walk freely between the number seven and the number eight so if you're a cayenne i don't know what numerical value should you have i guess seven point five but there are no decimals in washington so therefore the madrid says something very interesting how old was esther when she was the savior of the jewish people when she brought the supernatural salvation from the upstairs to the downstairs the matter says she was 75 communion hadassah and how old was avraham aveeno when he taught the world about god he was 75 why because abraham said you people who have your feet on this world you don't believe in god in the heavens no ado and then he's the master of the earth amravinu brought together two worlds amravino is what 7.5 he's 75 years old and that's why armavinu was considered a cayenne because kain is gematria 75 the kind has to be able to walk freely between two ilamas the world of seven and the world of eight so but there is no decimal so that's the closest we have says maral the concept of koiin when esther needed to connect the shamayim when abraham veena was able to connect the shamayim he's kayen le um mikhail elion avraham avinu um actually avraham veena wasn't a cayenne to begin with malkit sadik was the kind but because market sadek first thanked i bless avraham and then bless god god took away kahuna and he gave it to abraham abraham came became mr 7.5 he was able to bridge the gap between shamayi and varets and therefore the cayenne is gemacho 75 he's able to go into the helicopter and he's able to go into the kardashian therefore the torah is lamalaminateva the torah is eight what perique in tehillim speaks about the torah kofio tess for every letter of the allah phase now this is all the writings of the marau let's add one humble addition and that is we look at the menorah and to us the manari in the mikdash looks very much under the dominion of kaikateva it's seven there's seven branches of the menorah but just like the torah was given after seven weeks on what day of the oymer the fiftieth day marv mosh rabbenu had a hard time understanding the menara hashem had to say vizamasa why did moshe have such a hard time understanding the menorah says the gurah because we know there's one thing maisha didn't know he didn't know the shah nun it says 49 levels of torah he didn't know the 50th level the menorah friends represents the idea satire what do you do if you want to become smart where do you face you face the south the semanach menorah shabadaram if you want to become wealthy you face the north that's why jews go to miami beach right haroitze yadrim right if you want to become smart you go south avraham avinu is always going you don't find any sadik ever going uh north you know people go to canada and then no people go to florida right so sorry no offense anyone out there okay so hollow the matter says that atom had asked the good kasha so raftarfan said kaftarov i used to have a rebbe if you said a good kasha you would say kaftarov what what is kaftar because the torah came to the world through the influence of the intricacies of the monarch so the growth says let's make a judgment the menorah has 22 goblets the menorah has 11 flowers the menorah bulbs knobs 11 knobs the manure has nine flowers that's 42 and seven branches 49. so moisture got everything but moshe didn't know one thing the menorah itself is the 50th shahar so when we say moisha was naskasha by menorah he mean might say i know 49 levels of torah but i don't know the shah meeshem because the shah misham is lamalam but hashem taught martial because we read today in this week's in today's laning give me a matana today's laning we read did we read this morning 50 sukkam this morning why do we read 50 because when hashem is teaching moshe the menorah he's teaching him the charnon the 50th now in the third aliyah today how many sukum did we read in the final allianz hanukkah 44 negative hanukkah how many men from forty-four psukim and the final aliyah of zlatan eighty-nine sukim in paris is not so elaine on chanukah the monaro even though you look at it it looks like it's under the guise of teva but the menorah itself is the charnon the menorah itself could never be conquered by the evannam the minority itself had the hidden yute in it the kaidoshakadoshim that the the yvonne were able to defile every flask of oil but there was one flask which was not seven which was eight the menorah itself is the number eight and therefore it's suggested in the safe era therefore one moment in the karakamach of he says most things in the mikdash were connected to the number eight you have eight big day kahuna you have eight instruments of the livium naginois machalas alamos masa you have shashanim nikhilis gitas shminus you have eight fragrances in the mikdash foreign you have how many all badam and two in the right two in the shokhan two and the tomb is very close you have a badam eight ingredients in the car eight when did they inaugurate the mishka and by ebay and therefore says when we thank hakadosh baruch for the nisim of hanukkah we say banish him you performed how many miracles raft is 8. and what happened to the jelly donut from last night you ate it okay so there you go and yeah so here we have the concept and the worldview of the morale that the number seven is the darakateva and shemaina is 75 are able to traverse through all these worlds so we should be zakha on the eighth and final day of chanukah the ibanez should bring us esri mayam hashem should show us says is the inauguration wait a second there's an inauguration of the third base which you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com