Mikeitz - A Time of Light | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is damski and welcome to the paraa in five a little five minute thought on the paraa for us and it's para mik Kates par mik Kates starts off with um parro having a dream and he says he's standing by the yor what is the yor so Rashi says it's the nus talking about the Nile River yeah which makes sense because uh the Nile River represented Egypt that was the source of their sustenance it would um overflow and fill all the canals and and uh irrigation and and water the land so uh so he was the king he is in the Nile it makes sense the ramban says no your or is from a lusion of ore because all water has its source in light and that's why he says whenever sa IV refers to Water and Light they're the same idea they they overlap what is this relationship between Water and Light so you know it's a very interesting thing we're just coming out of Kaneka and uh you know that uh I guess if people listen to this in future years very often par mik is Kaneka so you can use this for that too yeah but uh you know what is the theme of suus it's water like quite little Al we take the water and pour it on the M yeah and um and then we uh D feels G I mean the the gar says that on with I mean it's it's it's a time when the when the whole uh whole theme is definitely water and then there's 70 days until Kaneka now you know 70 is a big number we brought 70 par on uh on sukus for the 70 nations of the world and the last day is just us anyway we count from the 15th of Tish to the 15th of kin more or less 30 days from the 15th of kesin to the 15th of klave is another 30 days 60 days from the 15th of klave to the 25th of klave is 10 days right so that's 70 days and what is Kaneka Kaneka is the holiday of light instead of one day we get gifts for Eight Crazy Nights it's all about light that's the Mitzvah is to light lights um the med says when they lit the minor the light Shone out all over Y which is a miracle that used to the only other time you see that happening is that the on when they lit theas it says that every was lit up from the light of the harabas and that's what happened when they lit the manur even though it was inside of the B mes it Shone out and lit up every and so we go out to the and we light the Manas to celebrate the light what's the difference between Water and Light water is in many ways the ultimate ofus of raw material because it has no form put it in a tall thin glass it'll be tall and thin put it in a low shallow bowl it'll be low and shallow it takes on whatever form it put it in because it has no it's only it's raw material and the goal is is to take that raw material and give it a purpose light is only T it has very little uh existence on its own Photon energy uh I'm repeating what I heard from uh Dr Gerald schroer because uh I don't really know that much about physics you know when they had offered physics I took the Earth uh science option instead learned how to read a weather map so this is above my P pay grade but he says it's the least physical thing that exists in this world it's the most esoteric and that's why the first thing Hashem created was or which is um is is the least physical thing that exists in this world Photon energy and uh uh and it's represents by us Sur the ultimate Sur the ultimate form clel is a nation the maharal says the beginning of gur is hasem that has Sur and no and that's why any if we're not living up to our can overwhelm us because we don't have a we don't have a we only have a light is that Sur it's that form and so we come out of sukus where we get the BR of all of the raw material and it is our job to turn it into something real raban is telling us that your aura when you talk about water water has its source and light and the goal is to take that water and turn it back into light soem now that we have completed the 70-day process of going from sukus to Kaneka to take all of that gmas and give it a Sur give it a purpose give it a form now at the darkest time of the year we're able to now light up the darkness with that light that we have created from what we have been given to be able to make it brighter and brighter that's what we say by Kish laana there will come a day when the moon will get brighter and brighter until it is bright as the sun and then there will be no more Darkness we should go into a time of light good shabas