Jew denounces his Babtisim bc of seeing Menorah on Car - Publicize Torah - Chanuka Light 2021

the following story will put us in the mood i get i heard a clip this week there's a rabbi a chabad rabbi flinkenstein who i know is a rabbi in wilmette illinois it's a suburb of chicago i believe he gets a call this week early in the week and someone says rabbi i'd like to talk with you and he says what about he says i'd like to know how i can retract the conversion that i did of b of becoming a christian years ago i want to change my status i was born to a jewish mother and i want to be again a jew the rabbit says that you as a jew you've always been a jew the technicalities will we we'll deal with come over let's talk etc but the rabbi then says to him what made you call me what happened that all of a sudden you want to become jewish again you in your mind you want to become jewish again although you're always jewish and you want to denounce your christianity he says rabbi i'll tell you i was walking in my neighborhood and i saw a car driving around with a menorah on top of the car and something went so deep inside my soul and it shook me then all of a sudden i said i want to do chuva he didn't say those words i want to return to my people i don't know i no longer want to be a christian and i want to get rid of this stigma and this ugly christianity from me i'm a jew that's what this menorah on top of the car reminded me of so i looked up a rabbi and i came to your name and i called you rabbi this is what chanukah is about peter menissa publicizing the miracle 50 years ago or so when the rabbit allah spoke about this and said we should go out and he once said better than talking here and go out and and share the the the message of hanukkah with other people and chabad starting in the 1950s started to do this today it's so popular there's a manor in each street corner public menorah lightings it's unbelievable but when it started there was criticism from the right the center the left from everybody from the lit foxes fired them because see them don't ask so many they said you should publicize the nest that means put it at the window so people can see it it says and that's true but that ever said that's not enough you need to be first you have to publicize the nasty miracle to others and the message of hanukkah this story that we just shared concretizes and substantiates that the rabbis saw 50 60 years ago what will happen today now you might say really yeah because whether he saw the detail or he saw the cloud the general idea it's one of the same meaning if you do this and you go on this course you will touch people and you will do chufa tell me how many even are standing neela in shul in benebrach in in muncie in lakewood in borough park in flatbush in passaic and have such level of chuva that they want to denounce their stu their nonsense their their of their values their transgressions their ugliness their their lack of obviously soil how many here is a jew there knows nothing about judaism there he knows one thing he's a jew and all of a sudden he sees a he says what am i doing what am i doing that i've converted he didn't learn he didn't dive and he didn't give to taka he just something hit him first you have to die you have to know god before you can experience alike of the god of your father which means faith da this is what i'm telling you is not a faith this is da this is something that's understandable if you get rid of your hatred and your animosity and your shtick that we have against others we have to get rid of it this is true for for khaba to others and others to habad this whole idea is not a jewish idea of course we have different approaches i understand that that ever once said in the fabregan i was there that ever said difference of opinions is a good thing divisiveness is not a good thing we have to make that discernment between divisiveness machekis and kiluki dayas and difference of opinions sure we have different opinions svard ashkenas fardim aree whatever but when you hear such a story you have to be honest with yourself and say you know i thought this lababacher idea for years was ridiculous why must they drive around with tanks and menorahs and go to manhattan and go to king's highway and go here and there can't they just do it in their own community what do they want from everyone and give this as an expression let's let them let someone live let them be let them be stop pressuring pressure boy's side this is not pressure this is ellie coos this is godliness la cruz divinity here we have divinity how can you not want divinity if someone gives you a good investment and puts it in front in your hand you'll run after it you'll go after it you won't see it as an exertion and and bother but rather you'll embrace it you'll say i want more and more chanukah is about bringing into the world light bringing titan to the world it's tater light it's not light that we decide what light is it's light that is gave every single year an opportunity to be fastened to publicize the nest anywhere and everywhere they can go whether they're on an airplane or whether they're walking in the streets where they're driving wherever it is you have a brochure you have a hanukkah minority you say about it you say something you today we live in a world where what do they say if you see something say something if you see hanukkah don't say oh just to myself and my family and my friends i will make a little hat giga little party with some ghanaian with with with oil and more oil and doughnuts and what are we doing just thinking about ourselves enough already enough go out and go out doesn't mean you have to go to timbuktu go out means up here in your cup in your head adapt the attitude of chain of of of going out and understand that such a story which happened this week in america in a suburb is talking to us who live in the greater in the bigger cities of miami and look los angeles and chicago and brooklyn and then lakewood et cetera et cetera this is another reason why this shabbos is to really say him to say words of terror to singapore is such a touching and beautiful song you know it starts with halloween [Music] hello [Music] it goes on and on until the end it says and wonders and salvation may be in our day amin kenya not saying with the covenant of mashiach a good native shabbos a good narrative and we should see each other together with the rabbin all sadique him in the basal mignders bombing