Chanukah - Do G-d's Will bc He wants it and not bc it makes sense - Your Torah - Statutes - Will

in the alanisim that we began saying last night for hanukkah we say that the irvanim the hellenists um the greeks the the the the the ones who were our enemies at the time and desire to destroy the the jewish people through destroying the jewish torah and the mitzvos now what does that mean so it says in the allah al hanisim that their desire was to make us forget our torah ulaviram and to make us desecrate the statutes of the will of god of your will the question is why the language torah your torah well of course it's god's torah it's not your my torah it's not your torah we didn't write it so it should say torah to make us forget the torah allah to make us desecrate the statutes what's the language emphasizing its gods three times three different words why so the explanation is considered the following that the the ivanim they were fine with jews fulfilling mitzvahs in particular and studying torah any part and any mitzvah that doesn't point to a transcendental god a god that goes beyond nature and supernatural like we're learning this mime of your dieter a god that's within nature which makes sense they were very much interested in you in in associating with any part of torah that supported that they were very fine with people jews learning that but let's say the mitzvah of mila of circumcision or the midst of shabbos why does shabbos have to be on the seventh day of the week why can't it be another day the answer is because god says in in in in the torah uh that six days i i worked on the seventh day i rested so you should rest too well that's only because god said so it makes no sense you can rest on friday you can rest on sunday you don't have to rest on shabbos to get some rest and respite for a work week so why are we resting on hashem they said that we're against in other words they see they sought to strip the divinity of tata the divinity the holiness the kedusha and the same with mitzvos mila circumcision it makes no sense to go and cut a little child at eight months i mean today you know we already give logical arguments that it's better for their health later so why that must be when they're eight days old you can do it through later and you could do it another in other forms maybe which is less painful the answer is because god says so in the tata on the eighth day you should circumcise a jewish child so again this mitzvah is is demonstrative of a bond to god that's divine and holy not humanistic and that's what they were against so that's that's the explanation and that's the short answer to the question to make them forget your torah ordinary torah that that's that's stripped from you they had no problem with but you're torah that it's holy and divine because of you uh and the same for mitzvos your statutes and your will that's what they were against you decide god decides that it has to be on the day of shabbos to rest that's the law they're upset with that why because because it puts them in a very bad light in other words they sought to turn judaism into a humanistic culture and this unfortunately has gone on in different ways in the in the jewish community for many years you know even and it really is reminiscent of the of the of the greeks of the hellenists what it is you know to say that remove um sacrifices from the prayer book from the schwann esri because it's not relevant today we don't have a temple is analog is similar to stripping and removing certain mitzvahs because it's not sensible there's no difference so a person in their service of hashem needs to know that my commitment to hashem goes way beyond logic logic is only a stepping tool to as we learned also in this mimer to make our faith in god stronger for your diet right all that is us you should know god so that you come to a place where you have faith in god and faith isn't a god that transcends as we've been learning for weeks in this minor and that's the underlying the kudu in other words uh that's the underlying point of hanukkah that the the the the the greeks what did they want they wanted we should have a god of knowledge be a dieter only via dieter they don't want of a udaipha that will lead to which we're learning about which really is the which is real the real meaning in the verse in voice khan on the odaito the adait is not is not a means in in of itself it's a means to an end a very important one as we've been learning over and over you have to have knowledge and study and understand god and you could understand god and and you can and you have to understand god and don't waste the munna on something that could be understood but the flip side is the flip side of room is that that the that the faith is not accessed i'm totally into the das knowledge and faith is not important and the same is true with mitzvos there are people that can philosophize and they know a lot when it comes to mitzvos they're very very weak at mitzvahs they do a misra they do it without heart and soul they do it without excitement when you put on till in the morning your body should be so excited your mind should be so excited that you like like jumping to do the mitzvah it doesn't mean literally you have to jump if that's what it takes okay but you're like you you rush out of your bed you rush out you get him saying you can't sleep in the morning it's the it's the first time after halloween we don't put on twilight yeah right you jump the shule to be the first one to shoot or let's say sukis it's it's still dark outside you're up pre-dawn so that when when when when the the sun rise hits you could already have gone to the midfield if you go to the midfield if not and you can make the brach and the sukkah on on the mitzvah because you're so excited about the mitzvah and the excitement starts from within that that's what they wanted to eradicate that's they wanted to obliterate and destroy and this is why this festival chanukah is a foundation in judaism you know we talk about the uh the war and we and we won the war we rested on that we finished the war on the 24th of kisly which was um yesterday and today uh the 25th the first day of hanukkah we rested which means to rest on the the words the word hanukkah is comprised of two hebrew words hanu rest rest on the 25th day so you would think that okay well you know we struggled we fought we won you know now we have some respite it's true that's what happened but that's that's also part of a cultural war in other words we we we fought the clipper of apathy the clipper that desire to remove the sanctity and the divinity we fought against it and and we won and the proof is that we found a jug of oil and oil represents as we've been learning and considers the kudus the essential essence of every jew the neshama the pentalaid as we say in other words the essence that's what oil represents that's why oil always hovers on top as we also spoke about versus water which settles settling representing adapting to the lifestyle and culture of the greeks this level of is not just intelligence it essence intelligence intelligence as it's from the perspective of essence i don't want to elaborate on that now but that's the that's the point so therefore hanukkah that's what we're celebrating we're not celebrating we just won a war big deal you can win a war and lose you know you can win the war and lose the win the battle and lose the war of the expression but meaning to say what's the point the point is that we defeated this creeper could you imagine if we lived in a world in our personal world in our communal world in the global world we would where every we wouldn't have to struggle against this clipper for a machine would have truly come but b because that's part of the uh the goalless mentality the goalless mentality is capitulate to the non-jews capitulate to the yates of capitulate to the greeks when in rome do like the romans when when in china like the chinese and when in the new hampshire like the those living there in new hampshire so yeah you might go out with a yarmulke and a beard the question is what is your attitude and we need to we need to know that the attitude has to be of of one of la la torres to find the divinity in every godly experience and the barometer is very important how do i act what decision do i make in my life if you look from this perspective that you're going to this base your decisions on divinity versus logic you'll have completely different results and this is true for finances this is true for cheryl and bias this is true for every aspect of a jew's behavior in everything so someone might say to you abraham they what are you living in and you say look you're right my maybe in america i would make more money and this and that but my this is what my soul my soul feels special here and and i have to feed my soul someone else's what yes and someone else might and someone else might have the opposite feeling where they're doing so much you know to help jews here in in america or outside register all and in their stroll they feel stagnant and stale plenty of people the rebbe i don't know if i told you the rebel advised rabbis who retired young israel rabbis generally not to make aliyah and to continue helping and teaching even as um uh what's it called they call them uh you know the rabbi have to retire emeritus rabbi emeritus in america why because he has people to work with the republic said you're going to go to jerusalem you're just going to be another one on the block they have so many teachers and so many rabbis they don't need you now if you go to tel aviv or you go to a suburb or a mushaf and the people are not from all they want teachers and all that that's a different story but if you're just going because you retired he worked hard for 40 years and and and but yet you know you gotta you have to work otherwise you drive yourself nuts you're going to be a very unhappy man and the son of one of these rabbis he he gave an interview to gem and he had admitted my father was miserable and the rebel you know when he came back he came back to america i'm just saying there's no right or wrong it it's for one person their divinity speaks to them there and for someone else it's outside of verity so the point being that it's the divinity that should make the decision not not the logic that's what hanukkah is about so it's a tremendous festival even though it's not roshanayam kippur the sukkos pesach and all that right it's a tremendous it's in a way it's it's it's it's the foundation of all holidays to appreciate all the holidays and to really live those holidays you need to believe in a divine god otherwise why celebrate in other words if we're celebrating pesach just because we were liberated and we're commemorating passover well i did it last year you don't have to do it every year how many times are gonna say the same story right and what's the answer i'm reliving the experience because god is god is constant god is alive not he was alive because god is divine so where is this message of divinity hanukkah the chanukkah festival of eight days is all about a divine experience and that's what we're left with and that's what we need to think about and talk about for these eight days how to be more divine all right what do you think what what you what any comments i think that is the occurrence of the whole of hanukkah is to to connect to divineness to to infuse your magnet not just like just don't like candles wipe the candles with cabana and take it forward take that lava hunk until the rest of the year and forward and keep that that excitement in your voter you know don't just uh go back to the old thing after hunger's over exactly okay we had a good year 15 20 minutes of talking learning to see this in this way yeah my pleasure so i'll i'll send out a whatsapp and i'll let everyone know whether we'll have sheer from tomorrow through uh until next week if people are just too busy with hanukkah things which it seems like we're just gonna leave it up yeah okay it's fine you and i i i really you know i just i just don't want to learn the mimer you know the rest of the mimer and they would listen you know it's a shame because we're learning the whole thing have a great hanukkah nice seeing you all the best bye bye take it take care bye bye