Chanukah Candles: The Power to Lighten up the Darkness. A Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on this we're going to be learning today a beautiful hasidic discourse about hanukkah the name of the sydney discourse is called tanura bonnon mitzvah hanukkah the rebels said this qasilic discourse shabbos pasha's me cates it was a shabbos of hanukkah in the year tough shin la medhas 44 years ago there ever went on to certify and edit this hasidic discourse in the year tough shane and zayn 35 years ago and it came out as a booklet for chanukah so again the civic discourse is based on the talmud that says tanner abundant the rabbis learned mitzvah it describes how you observe the mitzvah of hanukkah so they bring an argument basharmai says that on the first day of hanukkah you light eight candles and there after every single day you take one candle off so the first day is eight the second day is seven until you get to the last day you're lighting one one hanukkah candle base hill says just the opposite on the first day you light one candle and every single day you add a candle until you reach the eighth day hanukkah and you light all eight candles what is the reason what's the base of the argument between basal mahi bishol so the gemara explains the reason why bishamai says that you start off with eight and you go down every single day because you look on the holiday sukkot we know that we bring bulls 70 bulls in the holiday sukkot the first day 13 and from there we go down every day so just like the holiday sukkot in the service of the bulls we went down every day so the same thing also with hanukkah we start with eight and we go down every day base hillel says good point but we know in judaism in holy things you have to go up in life my limbic dish so since you have to go up in life you start the first date with one and every day you add until you get to the eighth thing you have eight on the eighth day trevor says it's known the the the point that the altar brings out and he asks a very simple question what's the connection between the holiday of hanukkah and bulls that are brought in circles and especially like the tsarnak sadiq the third rabbi explains that also base hillel holds in theory that you should follow the pattern of sukkot the bulls and therefore the first they should have been eight and you should have gone then every every day just like bashar might however since we have the quality of my lima koidesh in holiness you want to go up in life so therefore we go up in life so in other words back to the original question like that someone said they asked what what's the what's the connection between hanukkah and sukkot and specifically the bulls that are brought on the holiday sukkot now it's brought down in many many places that the connection between hanukkah and sukkot is that both of them are eight days hanukkah we know is eight days and circus is also eight days what's the idea of eight because we know eight represents above nature above estral solus so and that and they're both connected to above australia's above nature sure ever asked that's exactly so this also we need to understand what's the connection with circus and hanukkah that they're both above nature and because of that they're eight days you know yeah it says circus and chanukah is connected above nature but what what is it about it that it's above nature also we know that why do we like the hanukkah candles because of the miracle that happened in the temple with what with with the candelabra of the temple now if you give a look at the candelabra in the temple how many candles there were seven candles so if that's the case we should have a candelabra on chronic of seven candles why do we specifically have it of eight candles another question in other words the question is what's the connection between the candles that we light in hanukkah not only in general to the holiday of sukkot but specifically to the bulls that we bring on sukkot in other words because we know that the hanukkahs connect more to the maneuver there was the miracle with the with the candelabra in other words we like hanukkah candles because of the miracle that happened in the temple with the oil on the menorah so the hanukkah is more connected to that to which part of the temple the monaro the bulls that are brought in the temple where they bring up the bulls like all the other sacrifice they brought it up on the altar which is connected to the mizbayach the altar now we know that the candelabra and the altar it's two different two different vessels in the temple not only are they two different vessels but actually the whole service is different in other words candles and sacrifices is told different two different types of spiritual work up to the point we know that hashem told aaron aaron acclaimed the high priest that yours your service which you know iron was in charge of lighting the candles in the menorah is greater than the sacrifices also we know that the candles the menorah is not going to be when the shia comes we're still going to have we're going to have the candles so if that's the case what's the connection between the two it's two seemingly different different ideas in the temple also we have to understand that we know when we light the candles on hanukkah the mitzvah lighting the candles when when it when when it starts getting dark outside you light the candles when it starts getting dark now why do we not why do we like the candles when it starts getting dark in other words what's the question because we know if you're burning the candle because the way it was done in the temple in the temple they burnt the candles they let the menorah when not when it got dark they burnt they they lit the cat the menorah something in hebrew it's called plague what is plague it's an hour and a quarter before this year an hour and a quarter earlier now since we're lighting the hanukkah menorah because of the miracle that happened with the candelabra in the temple and we know that when you establish something you establish words similar so seemingly we should have lit we should like be lining the candles earlier and but nevertheless the midsoles went to light it was specifically delighted when it gets dark so you see there's a lot of things we need to clarify in relation to what to lighting in the hanukkah minor sherman explains as follows and he says the point of the explanation is being based on the foundation and the essence of what is the what is that purpose and what is the essence of the hanukkah manure what is the essence of the candles that we light in hanukkah and we know that in a spiritual level the reason why we light the chanukah manure the reason why we take the candles we light it it's one reason one reason only and that is to bring light into darkness so hanukkah and lighting the menorah represents bringing light into darkness that's the essence of hanukkah the essence of hanukkah is to take places that are dark and bring light into it brighten up a dark situation physically spiritually emotionally mentally and all levels chanuk is about brightening the darkness bringing light to a dark place why is that because what was the miracle of chanukah the miracle chanukah happened after the greeks went into the temple and they defiled all the oil in the temple in other words what does that represent it's not only a physical representation they came in they filed it but we're talking about the fact that the greeks had tremendous power the darkness so to speak of the of the greeks up to the point that not only did they go into the temple in the final temple but they even defile the oil in the temple what so what so what's our alarming about defiling the oil in the temple because we know that oil is on the level of kudus oils are very very high spiritual levels a level of holiness like the verse says shemen nishkas koidesh the oil that was used for anointing holiness or like the exact clay deschamel bergami not it's infused with something else oil in itself is holy like for example we see that the oil if you put oil with any other liquids oil is always going to rise to the top why because oil is something which is physically powerful more importantly it's spiritually powerful the greeks came not only to defile the temple they defile the oil in the temple in other words distally defiled the oil in the temple it's more and worse than they actually defile the temple itself even though we know that the the holiness of the temple is a very very high level of holiness we because we know the talmud speaks at different levels of holiness they list 10 different levels so the the temples one of the highest levels of in the 10 levels and so so we're dealing with something very very high but the oil is even higher how do we know the oil is even higher because you ever looked at what happened after we came back into the temple after the miracle we were able to come back into the temple and we were purified the temple so life should be good no no we purified the temple but in order to light the menorah you needed a separate miracle starting from the beginning the first miracle was that they found the little jug of oil which was sealed by the seal of the high priest which represents on a spiritual level the infinite light of hashem which is totally above nature in other words why were they able to find that little jug of oil it wasn't just they only found a little jug of oil the little jug of oil represents the infinite light above the solstice you know when you're dealing with such a powerful light darkness can't can't defile that and that's why even after they defile the temple and all the oil there's one place the infinite light which is above established represented by that jug of all they they weren't able to defile that on the country not only they can't defile it but that light the light of the infinite light which is above establishments actually brightens up the darkness or like the the torah brings the verse but from the prophet the utke buff referring to the infinite will bring light into the darkness and that's why the mitzvah of lighting the chanukah mirror specifically when it gets dark why because the purpose of hanukkah minor is to take a dark space and bring light into it and that's also why the candles of hanukkah they're eight why eight and also the days of hanukkah are eight why because we know that eight represents above nature and when you're dealing with above nature you're not only the above nature doesn't get dark but on the contrary from the power of above nature we're able to bring light into the darkness so again so up until here which is an important point whatever saying is the purpose of the chanukah is to bring light into the darkness and like we saw in the miracle of the temple the goal was to defy the oil but guess what they can defile an up until a certain level but the essence of the oil which is represented by the the infinite light of hashem above the stars that you can't defile and because they had that they were able to go ahead and bring back light into the darkness and that's when we like the maneuver we light it specifically in the dark and we light it for eight days because that represents connecting to above establishments above nature now that i was gonna explain this on a very very practical level and the term we always use is when we deal with spiritual transformation and refinement of character it's called the spiritual work that we do to transform ourselves so everyone's going to explain this based on an introduction of an idea that's brought down in different kabbalistic hasidic teachings of the rebels problem of the previous rubber and he says like this why did the greeks go ahead and defile the temple and more specifically the oil in the temple and the preserve explains because their whole purpose their whole war was it wasn't a physical war it was a spiritual war you know they weren't looking to hurt people they weren't looking to torture people their whole war was one war they wanted as it says in the prayers that we should forget the torah of hashem and we should transgress from and we should not observe the statues of god because their goal was a spiritual destruction our connection to god through torah that this gods torah and a connection with god to the mitzvot not only that even in the war against us learning torah and doing mitzvahs their main war was a spiritual war and the in a godly war of the terrorist voice in other words that's why when it says that we should forget it says referring to your terror at the time of hashem in other words the greeks didn't care that we learned torah but what bothered them that we that we learned tariq is god's torah you want to learn intellectual concepts in the torah whether it's kabbalah mysticism or talmud as stories if it's you know academic they didn't mind that we that we we had an academia jewish academia as we know it says we're wise and intellectual people amongst the nations of the world they have no problem you have intellects their problem was in the war they waged because they wanted for us to disconnect from the torah sacrament that we're respecting that it's god's torah or we should god for it forget that the torah is hashem it's a terry that comes from utk buffet from the infinite part of hashem so that was their war against torah they didn't want us to learn terror not the academic they didn't want us to have the godliness of the torah that was one war the second one was also in reference to mitzvot it was the greeks war in reference to its voice wasn't about doing a good act it was about doing a godly act in other words the fact that mitzvot is the commandments are the will of hashem and that's what it means hooking refers to the which part of the midsole is the statues the one that don't make sense the ones that are above logic the ones that you only reason why you're doing it because hashem told you to do it and what's next referring to the will of hashem i never explained those two insights into to to explaining it in reference to the midsoles in other words we know when it comes to the mitt's voice there's three different types of mitzvahs there's what's the difference eidos are the mitzvots that we do to celebrate as a testimony for example we celebrate shabbat because god created the world in six days rest in shabbat we observe passover because god took us out of egypt and different missiles go into the category of adus but logical rules that even if the torah wasn't given we would put them in civilized society and these rules then there's something which is called choking out beyond logic reasons the whole idea of purity and impurity kosher and non-kosher these obviously don't make sense travis points to this in reference to the mitzvos that are adus you want to celebrate because god took you out of egypt you rested on the seventh day you want to sell you want to uh have civilized laws that's what we're okay with that because they're intellectually they make sense that you know the greek so to speak agreed to the mitzvoties of aegis and mishpothem what was their war no no you know those crazy laws of purity and impurity kosher et cetera why are you doing that it don't make sense you're doing it because it's the will of hashem the rotten hashem so that's what that's what bothered them that's the war they waged they waged the war not necessarily against the adolescent respondent but specifically against hookum that's one opinion that's one way to look at it another insight is no no even deeper this that they wanted to take us away from khukei retinacs according to the first time inside is referring to spiritually hooking your friend now it's going through a second insight even deeper no they wanted us to take away the hook game of all the mitzvahs in other words even the mitzvoth of addison has spotted him they didn't want us to and observe because because they're the midst of hashem you want to observe adus pay passover and sabbath and you want to you know have a civilized laws fine put them in but not because they're god's laws they don't want to be a godly law so the difference is according to the first insight they they were okay with aids and respond to okay with testimonies and and civilized laws they were not okay with cooking according to a second insight even the ages of the spontaneous irk them because the reason why we're doing it because because it comes from hashem in other words why did it really bother them there explains now in a very very practical uh way he goes into now explaining what was the issue with the fact that we're observing eidos from because hashem commanders commanded us never explain it as follows because when it comes to the mixed voice of adus testimonies like you know shabbis and pes and passover etc and civilized laws why do we observe them even though they're civilized and even though it's a nice you know how they pass over and and the the shabbat that we celebrate even though they're they're nice you know beautiful holidays and beautiful celebrations why do we do them we don't do them because they're a civilized law because we're celebrating we run out of egypt we're doing it because it's rocha hashem it's the will of hashem and as we observe the addison from the same perspective it to us it's not a difference true this doesn't make sense and true this is a testimony and true this is a logical law but we observe a dos hook and mush bottom all 613 commandments of 248 positive the 360 are negative for one reason one reason only because it's the will of asha that's the reason why we observe all the midsoles in other words even the mids voice that there's a reason for it a lot of the missiles have reasons for it why do we observe it because it's wrong hashem key word say hashem i'm doing the will of hashem in other words and this applies not only to the person doing the myth i'm doing it because it's russian hashem but even and what happens when you do a mystery because what's in hashem so you're doing it so as a servant of hashem hashem wants me to do it i'm doing it it makes sense it doesn't make sense it is a testimony it's not i am doing what's in hashem now so what happens like this so it applies not only to the person doing the mitzvah because when you're observing the mitzvah you're not observing it because it makes sense or there's a logic but i'm doing it for one reason one reason only i'm doing because this is what hashem asked me to do so that's for me observing the mitzvah but even the mitzvah itself all the mitzvots even the ones that make sense and even the ones that have a reason the mitzvah is really the will of hashem irrelevant how i observe it the mitzvah itself this is the hashem hashem wants us to the mitzvahs that hashem wants us to celebrate uh shabbat uh passover et cetera and to do all the reason the myths because of logic now even though there's a reason but the fact is we're doing it the mitzvah is all about the will of hashem what does that mean this is what hashem decreed and hashem the creed to do it but even the reason that's hashem's will that it should have this reason the reason is not that the reason caused the mitzvah the mitzvah is gone told us to do it and then hashem attached the reason to it it's not the other way around there's a reason if we do the mitzvah no the mitzvah is connected to the will of hashem and the will of hashem some have logic and some don't have logic not only that there goes a step further even the mids voice that there is attached a reason and a but logic truth is the mitzvah is much deeper and much higher in the logic that we can understand why because what's the real reason for a mitzvah the real reason it's hashem has a reason in hashem's intellect now so let's say there's a reason for a mitzvah who gave the reason for it's the one that gave the mitzvah so whose intellect has a reason the infinite who's in hashem's intellect now hashem's intellect is that like are it like our intellect is finite hashem's intellect is infinite as we know that hashem and his intellect are all one so how is it possible that a human being that's finite and limited could really comprehend the reason of hashem i mean is it really possible i mean is it a joke could we really comprehend the in the wisdom the reason of hashem we're finite like your alter brings in in in tanya in in in garrison dish that the reasons of the midst voice were not revealed and it's above intellect and it's above comprehension even where the toilet gives a reason do this mitzvah and this is the reason for it but even that reason that's not the ultimate reason it's a fine it's a reason it's like giving you know a child a you know candy and he feels good for two seconds he's not he's not feeling the candy just to to pass around for a few minutes even when the torah gives us a reason it's a limited reason it's not the ultimate reason how can we know the ultimate reason hashem is infinite other words this idea that we're saying that the reason that we understand it's not the ultimate reason it's anyone can comprehend it why because any simple person understands that a finite and a limited intellect that we have we cannot comprehend the infinite understanding of hashem in other words this that anywhere in the torah there's a reason for a mitzvah that itself is a tremendous wonder how could we understand the the reasons for the midst of hashem so how could we and the answer is very very simple it's the hashem it's the kindness of hashem that intellect as fine as we have we should have some kind of comprehension it's a gift muslim the fact that sometimes we understand that's a gift from hashem now even after hashem gave us the gift and he revealed some kind of insight to our mitzvah and there's a reason that we can comprehend oh i understand it but nevertheless that's a reason for the general idea of the midst of it doesn't go into every single detail of the mitzvot so in other words you see from here it's like this even when it comes to the mitzvos that are adas testimonies and the mixes which are spartan which are logical to us they're also like cooking they're also like statues why because the reason of its voice that comes from the the intellect of hashem is much higher than for us to understand not only that it's definitely not high fossil understanding actually comes from a place of words the will of hashem which the will of hashem is even higher than kahma a mitzvah ultimate comes from rotson from a will not from intellect so even we understand okay we got that's a finite comprehension but the ultimately the middle concern the will of hashem and this powerful idea that we're saying that the aid doesn't spot them ultimately why do we do them we do them because it's the will of hashem sometimes we understand sometimes we don't have a sense we don't understand we're doing because of the will of shame even when we understand and only understand a little bit and we don't understand the ultimate depth of it so when we do a mitzvah whether it's him adas mishpatim we're doing it because it's the will of hashem not because we understand that we appreciate it makes sense to us and this is what the greeks it bothered them how can you live a life just following hashem and where's your intellect where's your understanding so what they wanted to do was they wanted to destroy our special relations with hashem they wanted to take away away from the fact that we had a relationship with doing the cooking of hashem which applies to him and adas and mashpatem in other words what the greeks tried to accomplish was they wanted to uproot god forbid from the jewish people the godly experience that we have in the mitzvah because when you don't understand and you're just doing it just because hashem asked you that's a godly mitzvah and they wanted to take away the godliness part in other words the fact is all of its voice is the shem which is above our intellect so they wanted to take away me the fact that we're doing the mitzvahs because on the level of and they wanted to take away god forbid our feeling in its voice which is the will of hashem so that was the war so the war from the greeks were that we should not have a godly relationship with hashem so based on this river explains very powerful and it says like this we know it says in the talmud that when the greeks came into the temple they went ahead and they defiled what are they they rented the fire they ran for that oil they ran to to defile the oil to make it impure in other words what does what what what is it saying in the talmud when the greeks went into the temple like the temple what did they what was their effort and what did they put all their energy in to take the oil and make it impure and that's how they're gonna so to speak destroy the jewish people that's how they're gonna win over the jewish people by defiling the oil why were they so excited about the oil and rubber explains very simply the temple the heckle on the in the turns of the tennessee road what is the heckle connected to it's connected like the albino being the morbina the oil on the other hand in the temple that's the so shemin the temple is vena they were going to defile what not necessarily only the bean up but they weren't going also to file a and it was just higher than the intellect of beena as we learned before shaman is in the level of kindesh holiness kharma and therefore they went ahead and they tried to file all the oil that was in the temple of beena why to take away our connection our holy connection to cause us to god from it to forget the torah of hashem and the mid-source of hashem let us learn mitzvot learn torah doom its voice but it should only be from a level of intellect not necessarily from the level not no not specifically not from the level of and from the level of holiness that was the war so now that we know what the war was what was the agenda of the war that we shouldn't have that special godly relationship they're trying to destroy the oil which represents so in order to overcome that war so what happens now is what was their their goal their goal was to take away our special relationship so how do you how do you win the war how do you regain the what they were trying to destroy so you can't go ahead and start having a relationship based on logic and reason that's what they wanted from us they wanted we should have a logical and reasonable relationship that's not how we're going to win a war also you can't win the war by going back to having a relationship which is above intellectual understanding but it's somehow connected to into understanding i know those in in practicalistic terms it's called we know from the summer we have nepal and then we have which is all connected to our premiums and then you have which is connected to which is making it it hovers over us so mock gif is even though it hovers over it's above nature but it's connected to nature because market is connected to never quickly so it's not enough to to to develop a relation hashem from the level of makif of which is basically above nature but it's connected to nature and there's a hebrew it's called machiavelli which is close to nature because since they went ahead and defiled the oil of the temple in other words they defiled the level of above nature which was connected to nature they were able to defile that machiavellia nepal to pilot so in order to win the war tom vadas is not going to work in other words and above thomas is not going to work so machiavelli is not going to work so you have to go to the higher level of market which is yukido so the way the wind the war is specifically going to what does that mean practically what does it mean you're connected to yokida that is when we realize we want to have a relation of hashem and the level of mysterious nephi so willing to give up our whole life for ourselves what is mysterious snappers mean practically that's when you take a stand a strong stand about against anyone that's holding you back and stopping you having a relationship with hashem in hebrew it's called toygif atsmi a internal essential stand above above logic and above above intellect off the charts no intellect no logic not even above logic we'll just connect the logic take if ask me strong essential stand which is above intellect like for example when you go and self-sacrifice to sanctify god's name you're not doing it because it makes sense but the reason why you're doing because you don't want to be disconnected from hashem where does that come from that comes from the connection of the essence of our soul which is called yeshida this essential connection of our soul what does that represent it can't be different i am not being disconnected from even for a second that doesn't sound like logic that's not even above logical connection it's totally off the charts we're not being disconnected that's the way you wage the war that's so you win the war against the greeks now in the level of yukido on the highest level above nature which is not even connected to nature over there in the lower levels yes the greeks can get to your intellect they can get to your above nature connect to nature but in the level of edo it's not possible to create a blemish here it's not impossible to to to make it in a way where it's not holy it's not impossible to taint it it's not possible bringing any tumor there defiling it in other words just like that literal jug of oil that was sealed with the seal the high priest no one can touch it because yukhida you can't touch because when we serve hashem in a level of messiah's nephesh we're willing to go on self-sacrifice from what from our yakida that's the way you win the war against the greeks and the rebels just like it was literally with the war with the greeks in a literal sense that when they were from the physical level that when that when the when matasio and his children went on the seriousness they wouldn't self-sacrifice what does it mean all sacrifice because the fact is they're they're they were they were they were very very few people they were very very weak but nevertheless they stood up with what power did they go what power they go to war they what the power they went with wasn't logic it wasn't above larger connecting that wasn't with their hair it was they heed themselves into war and they were able to go to war against strong people many many people and by doing that they actually inspired people on their their generation to give their life over to um to sanctify god's name not to god forbid transgress against god and that's specifically how they were able to win the war they won the war with are you witness and trevor says when a person goes i'm a serious nephesh and you bring out so you can think it's not complete because your intellect your emotions et cetera he says no no no the war that you win when you go with me serious nephesh and you bring out your that's a real complete complete uh victory it's a complete victory why besides the fact when you serve assemblers in seriousness where is it coming from it's coming from nothing external you it's coming from your essence so when it comes from your essence it penetrates in all your attributes of of intellect emotions up until action what happens when you're a person is going on a serious nervous yogida is shining it affects you on all levels and it's recognizable this is a person that's going on a serious nephesh and like german gives an example we all know of brahmavinu where it says in the torah and we know vermont was a was a personal mysterious nephesh he went in self-sacrifice he wasn't saying the terrorists have brought hino akev which literally translated as because ash hashama ramakoli because abraham listened to my voice so ache of also we know is the translation for the heel which is the lowest part of the body but when abramovina went in with serious nephesh akev even his heel heard and felt godliness so by going a mysterious snappish it's a complete it's a complete victory because it it penetrates every part of the human being all the spheres up until your physical you heal not only that when when your head is alive when the is activated it's not even it's not even possible to have a position there's no opposition in the world of either in other words because you're dealing with when you serve hashem with logic or even when it's above knowledge or connected to logic yeah there's opposition and the proof is the greeks are able to defile it physically and spiritually however when you awaken you're your freedom and you say no no there's no way i'm being disconnected there's no there's no opposition on that level and that level affects every part of you but not only that when the eugene is revealed that when your heat is revealed what happens it actually impacts your animal soul that literally the coarse animal soul that we have gets transformed so when yakita comes out guess what not only there's no opposition and not only this full transformation but you're even able to engage and transform your animal soul that the animal souls on board as well so based on this river explains very very powerful why there's a difference between the candles of chanukah and the candles in the temple both in the in the in the number of candles and both in the time of day that we lit it who knows what have we just learned what is chanukah hanukkah is all about mysterious nephesh a mysterious established council which is above above logic above nature above all the steroids so since since the miracle hanukkah is all about mysterious snappish above logic and that's why specifically there was eight candles why because age represents above nature seven is nature and eight is above nature so now we know why it's eight days and eight candles because eight represents above nature and just like there was says the difference between the violin that's played in the base of mcdosh do we know the violin the bass makers had seven strands seven strings the violin that's going to be played on the shirt comes is going to be of eight strands so let me ask a simple question what do you mean we're dealing with the bass amigos the holiest place in the world and especially we're talking about the violin in the basement and the violin he was called the keener and the violin draw in jordan to the base of mikdash because how do we know that because keener is made up of of of uh has four letters um it has in the keynote spelled half nun so non-race is referring to a candle and is 26 which is the numerical value of the infinite name of hashem youth k above k which is 10 5 6 and 5 which is 26. so it's basically near the candle represents this the the hashem the candle of god the soul of a human being so in the temple you have the holy spirit in the world temple you're drawing in through the kingdom you're drawing him from the infinite part of hashem but nevertheless even though you're drawing financial prophesy but in the mesa mcdonald's only say they're established you're running it you're drawing in heavy heavy heavy energy you came off okay but you're drawing it into ear into nature and ever since you're drawing it into nature there were seven seven strands on the violin however when the shirt comes we're going to have the revelation of what above nature not the utk buff the way it comes down to the world it's called shema by the la la youth came on high that therefore we're going to have a mashiach comes the the violin is going to be of eight strands which represents above nature so and so that's why that's why eight days and and eight candles and the second difference we see is that in the in the candles of hanukkah wouldn't we light him versus the candles that were lit in the temple in other words the mitzvah of lighting the candles of the manure we do when it gets dark why because when you bring out and you reveal the yakido which is above nature so then you have no problem with the darkness because when it comes dark you we right we brighten up the darkness we bring light into the darkness it is not only does the darkness doesn't conceal from the light but there's a step further we actually transform the darkness the darkness becomes light so not only does it doesn't it doesn't doesn't allow the light the light to come out the light can shine the darkness but it actually transformed the dark so the darkness actually comes night and that's why that brings out another fascinating point because we know says natalie tillen could you like the candles so it says you can light the candles and regular and the expression used in the talmud is and the calgary regular the tamil what does that mean on a on a on a on a on a spiritual level so tarmoday um uh is referring to so it refers to the people of tamari but tamid the word also is that if you take the word tamari it has the same letters as a moira it's someone that rebels and knows even to the point where you have people that rebel in hashem timer is the same letters as we read this and they're in there and they're in the street people who rebel against hashem and not only so you're dealing with people that rebels well against them also where are they they're in the public place we're social robin which we know is a place which has no bull no water no no no ownership and no boundaries is totally open to anything but nevertheless by lighting the candles we are in an open space and lighting the candles were people that rebelled here so what happens is the power of the candles of chanukah that it's able to create kill you it's able to transform the people that rebel against hashem and ever since two two levels in in in transforming here like rebel against him one on a simple level is that by lighting the hanukkah candles it it gets rid of and it nullifies the people that rebel against hashem so candles come out boom all the people that rebelled against shamrock disappear uh there was a step a step further a step deeper that the light of the candles of hanukkah creates a a a yearning a tremendous deep yearning comes from the word of the soul is going out the soul is connecting to hashem even in people that normally would rebel against hashem even the purpley rebel will become to the level they're going to urinate to hashem so in other words you see the hanukkah lights have the power a to either get rid of anything negative but more importantly it actually transforms the negative the negative becomes a positive force and based on this rubber explains the connection between the candles of chanukah which we started in the beginning it says that what's the connection in the candle hanukkah and the holiday sukkot and the bulls that are offered on sukkot and robert explains very simple because we know what's the idea of the holiday sukkot and also the bulls that brought on on the holidays the code on sukhot we know you reveal tremendous levels of machine which means above islands above nature like for example specifically we know the sukkah you go into sukkah what's a sukkah it's not something like a garment you wear it's something you internalize it's covers over you it's like makeup like which car hovers over the person so you see that what that suckers is connected and flipping the bar up is correct idea of market and what happens on the eighth day of subkays so all those powerful machif energies that are above us like the level of on the eighth day they become internalized just like when a person goes over seriousness on so it's not just mysteriousness and it's up above you it actually gets internalized within you like we gave the example from abramovino akev he transformed even the heel and that's the connection between hanukkah and sukkot and that's why hanukkah and sukkot are both eight days because they're both connected above nature now why what's the idea of eight above nature because what is the idea of eight eight is we have seven as nature so in order from seven to go above nature you add a one seven is nature you add a once you so you have aleph one above nature and connect the seven in other words aleph is represented by the extra day the added to make it above nature so the aleph the one which represents above nature refers to hashem is drawn in to the zion drawn into the seventh the seven seven days and seven levels of nature and just like the chanukah candles affects the people that are rebelling against hashem in two ways one is they totally get nullified but not only that they actually get transformed so the same thing also applies to the sacrifice that are brought in the temple you mentioned before there are 70 bulls that are brought in the temple why 70 we bring sacrifices in honor of the nations of the world so first the component of by bringing the sacrifice is to get rid of all the negative forces in the world they should the negative the force should be diminished but the goal is deeper just like hanukkah versus to get rid of the negative then to transform it by bringing the 70 bulls you not only get rid of the negative force so you actually transform the negative force into something positive up into the point and they help the jewish people and like it's brought down in the khazal that say that if the nations of the world knew how great and how important the temple was for them they would actually surround it to protect it because actually getting rid of the negative forces and actually elevating the world in other words by creating an awareness and that that the temple is not only there for the jewish people but it's there to get rid of the negative forces and transform the negative into positive which is the hebrew terminology it's called the total transformation so by doing that what happens is you add into holiness and into actually watching the base of mignosh up until the river says the ultimate is going to be when mashiach comes when the whole world is going to have one voice and we're all going to serve one hashem and as it says what's going to happen then all people that were strange before are gonna are going to take care of the sheep and take care of whatever we needed so we can all serve hashem together and thus like when they brought the 70 bulls they were in honor of the seven nations of the world and what happened after seven days of sukkah bringing the bulls to the nations of the world what happened we got a gift we got shmini at saras we got that unique day which is basically dedicated for hashem in the base amigdas and never finish off anything like this what are we saying the lining of the candle is to take the darkness and get rid of the darkness and transform the darkness so what darkness are we talking about so we have the darkness we're talking about is specifically applied to the darkness of exile and especially the double darkness of the generation right before mashiach is coming and this is the powerful lesson that we have from the lights of hanukkah for every single person ingalls regales it's dark it's very very dark performance coming but the lesson is that the purpose and the intent of the galas and the darkness of goddess is to awaken within us mysterious nephesh to bring out our yakida and we bring our yakitori snappers we're able to transform and elevate the darkness of galas into into light and when every single person does their avoidance of bringing out the yukido going on a serious snappers bringing light into the world and when everyone does it at least most people do it or even if someone does one single mitzvah and every single person does one mitzvah whether you do it you do it in action by physically doing a mitzvah or by speech by learning by praying or in thought thinking about hashem etc you literally tip yourself and the world in a positive in a positive light and you cause a salvation and a blessing for yourself and for the whole world and there was to finish up by saying how much more so by specifically not only learning terry rem praying and doing myths specifically by adding in the mitzvah of lighting kaneka candles and inspiring other people to like kind of iconic candles because the chronic candles are specifically connected to salvation and huge blessings and the redemption redemption is going to happen comes why because we know with reference to mashiach and in reference to elijah both of them are here to bring us the redemption and they are as brought down the talmud says there are there are eight princesses amongst men and and and they are two of them are what referring to mashiach so you see the number eight which is connected the hanukkah is also connected to mashiach and elijah and another idea that says a connection between the candles of chanukah and the ultimate redemption just like we know that the kansas of chanukah is always going to be there even mashiach we're still going to celebrate hanukkah so the same thing also the ultimate and future redemption is going to be a redemption that's going to be everlasting there's not going to be exile after that when shia comes it's all over it'll never be exiled again and the same thing also when it comes to the third temp temple we know that the first temple unfortunately and the second temple was destroyed was taken away from us but the third temple is gonna be a house that's gonna last forever it's never gonna stop it's never gonna go away when is that gonna happen we're gonna have all these greatest blessings the ultimate redemption and the third temple is gonna last forever it's gonna happen when meshiach reveals himself and he arrives and he's going to come god willing to finish off beautifully he's going to come and he's going to redeem us and he's going to take us standing upright to eretz israel and the uber finishes off by saying the karate mammogram should happen very very quick and very very soon so obviously it's a very very powerful hanukkah class and i think there's a lot of beautiful lessons one of the most powerful lessons that we learn here is that chanukah is unfortunately all about the darkness of exile but through lighting the chanukah candles through living a life from a serious nervous bringing out your we can bring light to the darkest places and it can allow us to live a great life and ultimately bring about the coming of meshiach have a great and blessed week happy hanukkah let's hope our next class will be in your shalom iraq happy hanukkah