Chanuka: Ness Gadol Haya SHAM

it's always wonderful to be recover the Samuels bring us out for this wonderful event which people come to participate which is in memory of mrs. Samuels grandparents in the past her mother mrs. Kahana was able to join us now uncle rabbi Isaac Berger is here well she just had a little extra pressure on me like I don't have enough and and it's in memory of the grandparents our two Malcolm thus outed on hope I get that right and who have nicoia been robbed of it and this shear in this whole evening and all the breakfast that you make on the delicious cookies and I can't testify to them but I could tell you the wonderful mushroom soup that has been prepared so every broker that you make should be a Malaysian samus for all the good that they have done you know when a yurt site comes around it's always an opportunity to reevaluate how much good we do in this world and you don't even realize it when you turn around every year and you take a look at what all the children and all the grandchildren and all the great grandchildren have done in your absence and every year the mitzvahs and and the goodness that they continue is all towards your all towards your husband and helps you to be even greater I always reflected on that imagine every year they dragged up Rashi yeah he's been he's been going for a thousand years how many people earn commission Rashi how many people learnt government Rashi how much that he's accomplished in this world even though he's going for so many years so we we think that the story ends when the person's life ends but it doesn't it continues on and so this tremendous event which again is in their scores should continue to bring them squeeze in Olam haba and I always you know try to find something that I hope will be meaningful when I speak especially here and tell stomp because it's one of the most fun groups of people that I get to speak to you know you wish a lime everyone's kind of uptight you know and when we move out and we got to go to tell stone and every now and then you see a tree this it's one of those things we got rid of in my neighborhood have her know of course they were crowding up the buildings anyway so I managed to get rid of them okay there was what beautiful anyway so so we should as always wonderful to come out so I figure I was just in America for two weeks I went for you know my for those who don't know mihaela is my producer of the of the Alaska show which is reaching thousands and thousands of people which is also a credit for this evening for for the lift arm who are up in Sherman is that that whole thing is then your credit to but when I was he just told me he was in America because his grandfather was having hip replacement I was in America because I took my daughter before she has a baby with my son-in-law who has never been to America to see America so what do you do what what did he see you know there we go to Disneyland no go to the Capitol building no Walmart Target Bed Bath and Beyond it I mean Burlington why else do you go to America now that's not all we did we also went out to eat but these are the things that has made America great yeah make America great again open up another restaurant but anyway this is the this is the the amazing you know experience that we had so in Bed Bath and Beyond they had a little Hanukah section there and I bought I just I couldn't resist it was this sign you write in chalk on it you know X days left til Hanukkah on the other side it says X day of Hanukkah now what home does not need that is that this is not serve an essential function in every Jewish home so so we're very close very close to Konica first night yeah Sunday night a week from tomorrow we'll be lighting our candles and starting on that process so I thought it's just a week away you know we really should we've never spoken about Hanukkah yeah so we should do it and like I say you know they they always say about the hug him you know they either early or late but they're never on time and this year is as close to on time shaking yet where Rhoda shellow with September 1st so everything winds up perfectly you know Jim I remember I had one year I used to do these trips to to Europe de siiva stores and we always want Thanksgiving weekend and one weekend Hanukkah came out on Thanksgiving weekend I was so early I said what we're gonna do he says we'll go to Greece but anyway go go see the story firsthand but anyway but it's a yeah yeah you know this year Bob we're more or less on schedule will fall behind it eventually but right now right now we're doing okay so really up Hanukkah right now if we want to really understand Hanukkah there are a few places to go and look that would give us insight one is of course the famous Gomorrah my Hanukkah which is in the second pair of Shabbos why is it there says of some safer if you who got Nazi left Konica out of the Mishnah because since he came from base dove it and the Maoist is supposed to stay with baised of it and the Cashman Oleum usurped the kingship so he was upset he left them out of the Mishnah and so it had to be a Bryson by memory leak humor they talked about lighting the shadow Shabbos candles throwing about my Hanukkah candles yeah but there are tolls the story a little bit of Konica and different dhinam that's one place and the other place is of course al haaj isom which you say when you Darvin and if you bench I've had to change that over the years I used to say when you Darvin and when you bench however I am working on my doctoral thesis on psychological problems that afflict the Orthodox community there are three major ones that I've been able to identify yeah the first one is called Fleischer phobia this is the fear of becoming fallacious I find that Jews of German origins suffer from this less but you know you can see people who have Fletcher phobia it's it's pretty dramatic you know it's like you're making the supersuit you want to taste this soup no I'll be flesh it what if I want a coffee or ice cream I just can't it's a six-hour commitment you know that then you wonder why there's a of crisis you know then a six-hour commitment gets people crazy and Iran you know well you see some things that you want to taste this and prison goes like this okay so the fear of becoming flakes is is really quite dramatic yet the second one is Benja phobia this is the fury of having to bench now this is a new phenomena this did not exist I think Felicia phobia was always around but this did not exist in my parish generations I know my father every time he sat down to eat yeah it's interesting you looking looking at mr. Breuer and he counts the hundred brothers it always includes to sue this will you wash and you have bread and you Benjen I mean and I was my father always have a piece of bread my father law wouldn't sit down to a meal without a piece of bread yeah Robert Peleg who's the revolutionary Cedric said many many years ago he asked will your ship what broker you make on a schnitzel now the reason this is a question yeah and I go to America I have to explain this because people confuse a schnitzel with a chicken cutlet a chicken color is where you take a piece of chicken you bread it you put you know bread crumbs of matzo meal on it and you lightly fry it on both sides take that same chicken cutlet beat it till it's four times its original size yeah soak it in oil until if you put in a wick you could recreate the Hanukkah miracle and that's a schnitzel nose n so back in the old days janessa was mostly bred there was a a little bit of chicken you know I mean it's like you know Sam used to make two types of soup mixes one was one was Parv and one was flashing and the flavored one they used to take a pokey and like dip it in like a tea bag you know I really like you know so this was that Flay Shack you know so I know somebody once had it and he says oh I added this something muggers don't worry about it there's that there's not enough chicken in there to do anything but anyway so that's a schnitzel so he says what bracha do you make on a schnitzel course it was mostly breading he says I don't know what's a schnitzel so he goes over the represent he says the rub never had a schnitzel he says tell him it's what he had for lunch yeah so he says schnitzel he says why would anyone just eat a schnitzel you wash and have a schnitzel nobody would just pick up a schnitzel and eat it I remember Lewis um you know I I grew up in my house we had the mimic of eating milk eggs juist night and kim carrots jo and everyone said no no of course that no you know ya play tricks it's yontiff you know in the morning get a piece of cheesecake you know yeah but of course not you know so okay I was bullied into changing my family's men like and then I dive in with cries worth minion and hornoff and his grandson told me says what do you mean he he always eats milk eggs first night so does the stipend it was like ah my dad was right again so we went back to our thing so we were making all these wonderful fish first night these wonderful treats you know lasagna and onion soup and you know all the good yummy milk agar things you know and it was gonna be it was a Friday night show so I was cooking the schnitzels for lunch already and you know when you cook those schnitzels they first come out so my daughter like yeah she couldn't help she just took what her popped it in her mouth so what are you doing we're having real fix tonight and she sat there my my son made her some eggs and she cried that's for was that's actually when she developed a flash of phobia if you wanna know yeah but a you know so this is just take a schnitzel you wash you sit down yeah that's how everyone used to have a soda today when a person sits down and I've seen this over again the first thing is do you want to wash I have rice cakes crackers bizarreness rolls was honest bread I will never bench again because we know how long it takes people especially if you have teenagers can I go you didn't bench I'll do it again can I go there's something about benching that just terrifies but I think it's because you've been traumatized because since kids are like four they've been using that unbelievably annoying tune oh it even make the reactive I know who come on oh come on oh come on oh no no no no no no no no no no no and by the end your teenage is to sing the benching it is just so horrible to see you know it's such a difficult to that's when we hit no dude we just gave up no there no no no no no no no no no no no no no no you know so I think that's the trauma but Benja phobia is a second wife yeah the third one which doesn't come in for today is Myshkin a phobia if anything to do with the Michigan everybody just their eyes glaze over just mention the Michigan pull out one of those little models or charts just whichever go you know like their eyes go out of focus you know so but venture phobia so if you when you bet when you dive in or if you bench you'll come to 'allah nice him and what is our neason yeah maim at this you open you're coming coming go the freshmen are you're gonna catch on the waffles you having a rush on grease every Mugaritz in Fr the Greeks came to destroy us the Atacama right anyways Rose ever afters we bombed on those in on the contents with some nostalgia Marie had collage around module 3 we at Irish over yet Siddiqui was enemies and we won well the FARC's agenda the vacarros rolling meta it was good for you we always Garcia Dola was spoken by Isaiah we could fast the africaine barber Network very self Athena was Henkel at her booty high res Victor shahe then we came into the basement we cleaned it up in legal news because was gentleman lit the candles recover long as you make Hanukkah a low dose I love Chicago though and we established these eight days to thank and praise Hashem I have read through Ellen Eason many many times and what is missing there is absolutely no reference to the dreidel the ubiquitous dreidel and it's so interesting and I do I do podcast as we mentioned you know and I before it's a shot I refers to the ubiquitous apple on honey you know Hashanah big words just read this all over the place it's a lot of it you know I got a an email from a English teacher who says that she shows my podcast to a class to teach them big words yeah that's that's called vocabulary anyway so the oldest dreidel everywhere you see there dreidels yeah a kid a kid comes back you know I asked people what they learned from the Jewish education secular Jews you know had like a Hebrew school what do you remember dreidel dreidel dreidel I made you out of clay that's it that's our entire Judaism yeah dreidel is it's every way you know you know the the I my my grandchildren are two years old and they were somehow if you could recognize all the words singing civilly vote yeah somehow it comes out yeah and I just want to take a moment to to speak about dreidel and if I can because there's a traumatic moment in my life I can't really afford therapy so I just talk about my problems and probably can work them out yeah I I went to the Hebrew Academy Mercer County and before Hanukkah it was always great because they would give us dreidels and we would get to play with them in class so what could be better than that you miss school you get something free it's like just the best yeah so I think it was about fourth grade they give me a dreidel and I said rebby the dreidel is defective because there's no shin for some reason there's a pay on it he says well this is a new and improved dreidel yeah because we always used to say nice Goodell ayash um but this consummates yeah nice Goodell hiya Poe I said that's ridiculous I want my old dreidel back you know I mean so he says no no no it makes a lot of sense because when you get on a shin what are you supposed to do hey this is one of the many ridiculous things that people say to try to prove a point that makes no sense somebody was explaining to me why you should celebrate Thanksgiving because after all you know turkey and Hebrew is Ho do you eat a turkey give thanks you see it's obvious yeah somebody pointed out if you make a Jamaa tree out of the ABC equals 1 B equals 2 seriously so the word g.o.d in geometry equals 26 the same as your cave of K means nothing it's totally means not it's ridiculous but people are like wow that's amazing no it's not anyway so I was always upset you know I go I have to go to America and find dreidels that still have a shin on him you know I mean bring him back I'm not giving my children pay what we did for thousands of years and I'm just upset that they felt like they had to change it but anyway so so there's no mention of draenor so of course people say what would he expect him to say and they play with dreidels you know it doesn't fit into the story but that's not what I mean of course I mean the concept of what the dreidel represented in the story so what does that mean I'm turning to review Isaac share and it's like a sequence muscle hillock base where he talks about this open parenthesis I spoke two or three times in the community and I mentioned where and the third time I came a guy said you know what I really enjoy your drush is but the best thing you ever did is you introduced me to it sir Isaac share I went out and bought the like it's a Christmas sir and I had said that every single piece that I ever read was meaningful to me he said me too so if you're looking for Cayla caliph is on the party owes failed based on yom tov him and he's got a you demand my social sharm and other things it's just just tremendous anyway so he says like this we're where did the dreidel fit into the story we all remember this when we were kids where's the dreidel film the story so the greeks come to eric's Trell originally under the leadership of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was conquering the entire world and he comes to its show now Sir Edward Creasy in his classic work the fifteen decisive battles of world history and it's a fascinating look were a book if you enjoy anything about military history it's interesting years later this was put out the 1850s I bought a book called the hundred decisive battles of world history and in his introduction he agrees that Edward Creasy had it right those are the 15 most important ones that changed the course of history says but some of them you know it was before the Battle of Waterloo is before other battles that were important you know but so in one of them he describes how Alexander the Great defeated Darius of Persia and he said Alexander's entire army wasn't even as big as Darius his right wing but they were so powerful they were able to just destroy the entire the entire Persian army that's how strong they were so they come into Eric's shell so okay what are supposed to do we're not gonna fight these people we don't stand a chance so shimon hatzadik Kohen Gadol puts on his coming got no clothes and he goes to Alexander the Great and I was to surrender and Alexander the great battles down to him and he says Alex that's not how it works okay you're supposed to you know I was supposed to bow down to you in the surrender he goes every time I went to fight a battle somebody dressed and your clothing came and told me what to do that's how it was victorious so he said you may rise and Alexander said okay I'm gonna conquer you we're going to take over Israel but we're gonna give you independence you guys can basically make your own decisions self-determination you know run run your own thing but we're gonna be in charge it awful let's fight the problem is that of course when the Greeks came in they brought with them Greek culture theater literature universities sports all the things that we associate today with what we call Western civilization the Greeks developed and they brought it in and this was amazingly attractive Josephus writes we Jews are not given to the writing of many books the you know and other forms of entertainment the Torah has always been our source of entertainment that's what we do for fun we want oh yeah the Greeks came in and offered something that was different and people were being pulled away from it yeah Jews underwent an operation some Jews because they used to wrestle naked in the gymnasiums and they were embarrassed that a bris Mila they would go through an operation to make it look like they were not majo this operation was so painful that they would kill themselves from the pain but they were willing to do it because they wanted desperately to fit in with the Greeks they wanted to become Greek they wanted to become part of the dominant culture and fit in with everything and so bit by bit the Jews were becoming assimilated they were becoming Ellen eyes yeah so as Destler writes when you show that you want to be direction of the road to Leila well then closer if you show you want to become Hellenized a Kurdish bar who will help you along and so the Greeks made a decree now you have to be Hellenized now you have to become Greek and no more learning Torah and no more keep you shopping and the majority of the Jews went along with this there was a small group of fanatics who refused and they right up into the mountains and they hid to learn Torah and when they saw the Greeks were coming they would hide their books and they would or their Scrolls I should say and they would take out dreidels and pretend that they were running an illegal casino and that was okay we were okay with that you know I mean yeah Greek soldier plays a couple of bets in I mean when they left they would take out this farm I once heard somebody say today it's the opposite you know boys are in their room playing whatever game it is and then when the receiver comes you know they hide them and take out this farm you know I rinse out makes me wonder who won but but this is what was happening and the Jews were hanging up in the mountains and they were hiding and trying to remain Jews did they do anything wrong of course not yeah Jews during the Holocaust there their goal was to stay alive all right on rare occasions they could join the partisans but the partisans were just as quick to kill him is that the Germans were you know so it wasn't much of an option so you hid you want to survive that was the goal you know we'll defeat them by surviving that's what we had to do so they stayed up there and they waited and they waited and the base of mikdash had pigs on them as bear and the menorah was dark and the base image was deserted what could you do one year two years three years after three years a group a small band from these fanatics asked a question they said can we go out and fight the Greeks they said I don't understand you think you're gonna defeat the Greeks no but we want to show the world that there are still Jews who care enough to die for what they believe it are we allowed to fight the Greeks on what is in essence a suicide mission and if we do is that just suicide that's just suicide and then we did the wrong thing where is it muta so they say this shiloh was asked before Kanani Michonne Azaria with three Jews who were selected three people from every country were from every people were selected to bow down to this giant statue the rule cut Knutson nine years in Mashhad of isaiah were chosen from the jews and that yes the same question what should we do and the advice they got was run away and hide and they said do we have to run away hide or could we stand up and refuse to bow down no one will be thrown into a kitchen age is that called dying as kiddush Hashem was that just called suicide so you're s : avi says I have a messiah from your yo as a masseur from Yishai yo that says when there is danger run away and hide but if you want to you can face it and so Michelle cannot even show as I stood up and said we will not bow down they were thrown into the kitchen aah and miraculously they survived so the hashman RM said we're under no such an illusion we don't expect to be able to get that kind of a miracle but nonetheless let the world see that there is still Jews who are willing to give up their life for what they believe in and so they prepared to do battle against the Greek Empire this small group they them Beatrice que sera sera they were Torah scholars they were not skilled in the art of warfare yeah there's no proof that they were in particularly good physical shape based on the Shiva guys that I have seen over the years I would say this is a Hozuki that they were not in particularly a good physical shape yeah and they get ready and you who do MacCabe gives them a Musa schmooze and they bit saw him because when you go to Muhammad suppose between and they go to attack their first good Greek platoon battalion whatever was and here they come running down the hill oh my disappears the other way like huh now if I was a Greek soldier and I see this rather unimpressive band coming towards me I don't think that I would be too frightened yeah and so they drew their swords and they engaged in battle and the Jews won and they killed anybody now here they were all psyched ready to die ask illustration and instead they won they were very disappointed I don't know if you understand the psychological underpinnings they took about a Briscoe who was captured never by terrorists they were gonna kill him I said you're gonna kill me he says yeah because I'm a Jew it's just I have to make a broth but is the brisket anyway this went on for a while hitomi was done now kiddush Hashem the terrorist is sitting in the whole time watching this is you had a view mind since there's no point in killing somebody who's crazy I'm not gonna kill you and he goes no see all the cuz what I am looking at you say says it's a terrible sight like all famous Jewish characters he spoke Yiddish this is Herto - it could be Ken zine that there is a concept called beginner's luck so tomorrow we'll find a bigger platoon well attack an emitter Shem you all get killed comes the next day again when they come out and they were in a second time they say you who that you're the worst general we've ever had here we go trying to get killed us gives us time you keep winning so he says you know ken zine it could be they were gonna win this is what a minute win nobody can beat the Greeks so not us this is look my mother shot yeah tomorrow we'll attack a very very large encampment either will defeat them and I'm right or we will get killed it's a win-win no samus there's no downside here so next day they get ready who they run on an attack an Italian caiman and they win who like wow that's unexpected yeah the Greeks are shocked is like you know 25 you shoot me guys over there with spears you know I mean I know wiping out heroic so they put a pig army together then boom they wipe it out they come with elephants probably right and they start winning one after another and they finally get to the base of McNish it's not even a menorah they have to make a temporary menorah get in they have to straighten the place up be able to start bringing kimonos and the first of all they're going into evening was to light the menorah and you the Maccabee says find me Taha oil and they said you who - look at this place there's no there's no Tahoe oil here he says find me Taha oil central hue song / - calm calm of Migdal I became o Kozma on him they were my timing on that this was part of their battle plan Spartacus erratic is hepatitis let's go yeah let me know they found oil tell me tell me tell me tell me no general my friend enjoy it Tommy there is no to oil it's gonna take us 8 days to get oil either because one day seven days to become Tahoe and then a day to make the oil or four days to get the goose call off to get the euro and come back but anyway you slice it there's no toil find me Tahoe oil listen there's a principle called tunnel Hood River a beam if everybody is Tommy you're allowed to do the other Potomac find me Taha oil ok this guy's crazy alright everyone find him to oil and they start searching and searching and one guy comes in and he says wow you're not gonna believe this but I found a jar and it's sealed with the seal of the Kohen Gadol he says no no the Kohen Gadol doesn't seal oil this is he this one take a look yeah my kid what's to talk yeah this is this is Tahoe oil how much is in there enough for one day so they sent him listen okay take us eight days so let's let's not be rash yeah just pour in a small amount you don't really have to put in the full amount put it in a small man then that's Kusha let's put it all in he said okay you want to burn all night no problem set the base of lady make thinner wicks I don't make thinner wicks and put in all the oil and put it in all the wicks this is what's gonna be tomorrow gonna be tomorrow says the girl or in Chaves what is the midsole Konica an AirAsia B so every house lights one candle every day that's it not everybody in the house not a candidate one Mehadrin if you want to do it my hydron everyone in the house lights one candle you want to do it my hydron nana Mehadrin oh that's already my ficus basil me something a shaman says first day right eight candles in seven six five four three two one Brazil says the first thing you're like one care than two three four five six seven eight search in vain through Halawa for anything that is similar to this we have but the evident last pillar we had hidden Mitzvah but I won't be able to make this joke much longer because they're gonna go to business but Sears yeah used to have what three sukhiya made good better and best yeah so this is Kasia this is more culture this is super duper Kasia do you ever find my Hydra Mira I didn't anyplace and I'll tell you find out in restaurants but but you never saw this my dream minima Hydra this is Kasia this is this is more culture this is best kosher you know not only that everybody does the myths from Agra Madrid never walk in somebody's house in the fourth night of Hanukkah see one candle burning so what's going on it's cross sure it's kosher it's kosher way I do my I didn't ride me yeah so boom cilia everybody the people in America who's the electric menorahs to run another lightbulb everyday then even they're doing imagine min imagine why is that they say to you the Maccabee we only have one pop Shemin enough for one day why do you want to throw it all away and he said to them oh now you're practical you told me you had a Titan on me I couldn't get you killed then you all wanted to die in battle the glories kiddush Hashem you defeated the Greek army you redeemed the base of mikdash now now when it comes in your versus gem suddenly your practical now you want to start cutting corners yeah peace tomorrow Game Boy Scouts over seven comes out as a champ now now is when you decided to be practical you're ready to kill yourself you just defeated the Greek army what's gonna be tomorrow I have no idea what's gonna be tomorrow you shouldn't even be here is your I'll be dead so somehow you got this miraculous thing and now when it comes to halakha suddenly you want to be practical they were not McCoy of to fight this war they fought a war my hydron minima hydron they didn't have to fight it there is no way to celebrate Hanukkah kosha the only way to celebrate is my admin minima hydron because of hanukkah's my dream manoj and it never should have happened we should have stayed up to the mountains and waited till a bigger army came along and defeated the Greeks or wait until there was a new king who changed the Cree or the way the Jews have survived for centuries there was no reason for us to go out and fight this warrior was a suicide mission and this truly was no reason we shouldn't won all of Chanukah is my Ackerman of Mehadrin and because of that the only way to celebrate is mahajan which means Chanukah is a holiday for fanatics you have to ask yourself the following question and that's what Chanukah is all about I always say you know when yeah you know when you when you light that menorah you have to be looking at in a new way I once said I said you can't light the same menorah every year someone said to me sure because those fireproof glasses explode so you have to buy a new one but I said yeah but that that's true but not exactly the point I was making what I mean is that as rudeness says time is a spiral you come back to the same points but Royce has been a higher level you have to have another understanding when we light those Konica candle and we look at Hanukkah we say to ourselves how much vide ever existence do I want to live is it good enough it's good enough it's good enough yeah it's okay yeah and it's absolutely amazing because in no area of our life are we content for good enough right I'm sure people here must have done some type of renovation in your house nobody is as crazy as people who do renovations you can see women in their purse carrying around you know those little cards with beige on it you know the paint store there's like five shades of beige and they have like 300 cards and they stop strangers on the street and they pull out a piece of carpeting Isis which one do you think goes best with this you know because you know and then they painted oh no no that's not the right shade you know we have to remix it we have to do it again you know we have to move everything around you know it's not like this oh no they didn't put this in right gets it there yeah and when they're all done you know I'm gonna finally have it yeah I have eight daughters thank you very much and in one daughter and war and a wife assembler in my house is a tragedy because there is no continent that has dresses for my entire family they have to go and search the world to find dresses and it's a very difficult process because you know first of all you have to be sewn into the dress because if you can exhale then it's no good you know I mean to get this on you know and you know there has to be just absolutely perfect you know so that you can take that picture with the Rose so they're searching and searching the final perfect dress now just equal opportunity I went into America into a hat store I bought two hats two suits three shirts and two pairs of shoes and this one guy just keeps trying on hats he couldn't find the right hat he had two friends with him advising him you know he was like can you shave it around like a little bitty here can you change the ribbon can you Lia and I said to the guy I said never say like this was really because he was here yesterday with two other people trying to find the perfect hat yeah people go out to eat they order a steak they say whatever it is medium is the medium is its to read it's to send it back okay no then we'll be told no no that's not how I take missed acknowledged it has to be just like the girl yeah oh yeah and they spend so much time and at the end you say so how did the living room come out perfect and how would you dress perfect and how is your hat perfect and how's your life okay how's your marriage not bad has a reginald with your kids it could be better but the steak was perfect nobody wants just okay I was in line look beat the store at America they haven't changed the menu since the Yom Kippur War yeah I mean letters are missing it's all covered with grease stains you know it's the same stuff and a guy walks in there he goes in this pizza place between three and five times a week and is staring do I want a calzone maybe a salad and people were like you know there's a line you goes hey this is lunch hello or just anything because everything in our life has to be perfect except our life itself and when it comes to life itself it's okay when it comes to our voters Hashem it's okay it's good enough Chanukah says no so let's go back to my dreidel we always said nice Goodell Hayashi um you know why because there's one thing about some you know where some is it's not PO it's over there it's Shum yeah Chum means it's not Pope by definition Heineken is Kadosh um what does that mean okay so Shum is the same osios in shame right so everybody knows this one it's in the article at the end of runners race first a puss ik with your name in it yeah why because otherwise when you get up to show maíam you'll forget your name that will be so awkward next what's your name I used to know this we're saying happy birthday to you happy I don't know and for the rest of eternity you're sitting on a little bench going Tom Phil let's seem right of course that's not what it means it means you know what your name is PO but you know what your shame is Chum parenthetically shamayim my skill set was brought down yes maíam is the plural shum all the shuns is shamayim when you get to the ultimate Shum Shum I am do you know what your shame is do you know that you're a can't a knock and if you don't say it then you don't know it a person can turn out your part of the essential fabric of the universe or you know no that's my name my name is this my name is the Aegean honor but I go I know what my name is poet I don't know my shame is shun up in shamayim and suddenly realized that shove words pop up a lot of places in Hanukah Shemin Shmona Cashman RM yeah near in this Shama miss Shamar goes up to shamayim nazca Delia Shum it wasn't nice Gedaliah PO because if we were PO we would have hidden down in the mountains and waited Mesa Kadosh um because we wanted to go someplace else we were gonna go beyond that in metemma cobbler cetera muta of in love Shum diac for us come not today I'm not gonna kill you with our scene ie but you're not gonna have a Shum because you have to live your life not PO you have to live your life Shum I'm going someplace I'm on a journey I have something that I'm trying to accomplish Shawn my M this is the this is the kya of Hanukkah and so what chemin so I always like to give healthy little tips to people yeah so the correct way to make a salad I happen to have studied this once and you first start with the greens which you were supposed to tear and not cut yeah and you tear the leaves and then you mix up your salad dressing but you mix up all the ingredients except for the oil you put the oil on the leaves first and toss them and then you mix up the other ingredients in the cruet and you pour it on top as so that it coats it and sticks to it because if you put it all together in the same cruet we all know oil will separate and rise to the top it doesn't mix the reason commercial salad dressings stay together is if you look at the ingredients you'll find xanthium gum which i really don't know what that is but somehow it holds everything together yeah and helps make your salad chewy blow bubbles with it but any event yeah it holds it all together because given all of your ingredients you shake it up you'll slowly watch the oil rise above you know why because the oil is Chum this world is six my ragout is a sham this world is six four directions up and down what fills this world with meaning is seven that's Shabbos yeah that's what it all comes together what's outside of this world is shmouna it's shum it's not PO eight is always more it's beyond yeah or if you like this better Sheva is Sava I'm full Shmi nur is more than fall because you're not here you are there whatever works for you but in any event all Konica is not about living here it's about living beyond dreaming your dreams dreaming your dreams many times parents used to say to me their kid would go after al learning yeshiva learn in seminary they come back and say oh my kids are fanatic now kids a fanatic I'd say nowhere it's just a phase they'll grow out of it and become apathetic not care about anything about Judaism just like you sometimes they say oh good because strip away dreams i I my misspent youth you know I grew up in a school in America we used to listen to music besides pure hey if you could imagine you know so this guy Cat Stevens had this song father and son with the father sings to the Sun in the Sun response but he says the end he says you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not and my generation I guess so upset I strip away you dreams yeah because no just be like everybody else dreams fantasies it's make-believe here and now focus what's important find a girl get a job if you want you may marry you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not I ran the Long Island region of NCS why when I started they had gone through five directors in two years it was deader than dead cuz you walk into a place say hi I'm from NCS my god we've had five new people already are you planning a chef at owner than you quit you know and the next guy comes along he plays a chef without he quits it's been going on for two years you know so I went around meeting with everybody to a general sense of hostility and everybody's playing to me why would never work and I remember a bullet ski was the rub of the young young Israel do I park and he says to me Booker you really think you're gonna do this and I said yesterday I think I will he says but you know you're out of your mind I said yes Rebbe I do he said good Chris nothing in this world has ever been accomplished by a sane person and I thought wow so I told the story over once and somebody told me a story which I did not check out on that Pesach crown I hear something I say yeah could be it's true could be not you know but the Punisher of was was speaking to you catskil let's go sarna it was braum spirit i thought was a physical siren but anyway he takes him to this desert that would one day be the city of Bnei Brak it was the Martian desert and he says see that hill over there that's why I'm gonna build the yeshiva and over here I'm gonna build the bridge Yaakov and him gonna build an orphanage and here I'm gonna you know and he was planning out this whole city in the middle of the desert and your husband Santa went back to you shall I'm and sent the psychiatrist to come and see him because he thought he must have lost his mind in the war that he just went crazy yeah because if you can't dream dreams if you can't look beyond the Po and see the shaman and who's gonna go ahead and try anything who's gonna go out and fight anything who's gonna who's gonna build in this world nothing's been accomplished by a sane person and that's right when I started and ceasefire and everyone told me it's never gonna work and he explained to me why it wouldn't work after two years everyone explained to me how they could have done it better cuz then you know but first they were it was clear it couldn't be done it just couldn't be done and that's how it works first it can't be done and then they could do it better you know but you have to dream dreams have some aspirations you have to be able to move beyond yourself and beyond this world anybody who's done anything good in this world it's only because they were able to dream the dreams they were able to move beyond yeah we're here tonight celebrating the fact that there were two people who built a Yiddish Makaha and a world where it was very hard and they planted in very hard soil yeah when the first Jewish settlers moved to pet that thick fur was a swamp and they were like what do you guys do any I said what we're gonna build it we're gonna build a farm since we have a tradition from our parents that nothing grows here he said we have a tradition from our it'll grow for us yeah so there have to be people to be a little crazy to go out to a swamp and build a farm they have to be people are willing to go out into our mid bar to be able to keep yudish card alive to be able to build it you have to be able to have dreams you have to not be PO you have to be Shum you has to be more than who you are that's what Konica is all about miss Hashem as we look at those candles and if you look at the flame hovering above the oil not quite here that Nana's Shama it's it's here and it's not there yeah and it's sitting on the oil that's floating above the water the whole had Lucas Narrows is shum now Hanukkah is Shum Nath Gadol hayah sham Amritsar sham all of us will be zarifa this year to be able to lift ourselves out of this world above beyond into the eight out of the confines of this world into the shmouna that is the mace of Chanukah and emits a sham all of us this year should be able to be safer to that Emma Salida Chanukah