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it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight rabbi megawatts welcome to this
week's Torah lesson since this one gets
Hanukkah we're going to share a thought
about konica and the question is what is
the message of Hanukkah so we find
interesting in the Talmud where it
speaks about the story of konica tasks
my Hanukkah what is konica and it speaks
about the tremendous miracle that when
the Jewish people came back into the
temple they were wanted a like the
candelabra and they found only one small
jug of oil that was not enough to last
more than one day there was a miracle
that lasted for eight days and because
of that we celebrate the miracle of
hanukkah for eight days so Debbie asked
a simple question true that's a
tremendous miracle but there was another
miracle as well there was a war they
want to destroy the Jewish people we
were physically saved why doesn't it
lists that as the major miracle and wise
only lists the miracle of the crew jug
of oil and Robbie explains a phenomenal
insight and a true insight that when a
person's physical life is being
threatened and when a person's spiritual
life is being threatened in other words
the story of chronic are there was two
threats one they want to destroy
physically to Jewish people but more
importantly they want to destroy the
spiritual faith in the Jewish people had
and it says lots ki hum Torah set hut
they didn't mind that we were studying
Torah it bother them that we had a
relationship with God they didn't mind
that we had oil but bother them that
there was holy oil and they contaminated
the oil and rubber explains what happens
is when a person's spirituality is being
threatened that is so powerful that a
materialistic threat and a materialistic
success has no comparison to a real
spiritual threat and a spiritual success
and that's why the Talmud is not
mentioned at all the miracle of the war
but specifically and only exclusively
the miracle of the defilement of the of
the oil and I think the message of
Hanukkah is a very simple lesson to each
and every one of us we all have physical
struggles but we all have spiritual
struggle
but we overcome a spiritual struggle
that is a real reason to celebrate and
then the materialistic struggles and
channels that we have don't really carry
that much weight because we focus on the
spiritual success and that is real
success this week's Torah lesson is a
memory of baroque and are you leave and
ben Yosef may their souls be
elevated to the Torah that we're
studying in their memory thanks so much
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