Chanukah: The Story Written in Flame

i'm going to i'm going to start over though because i'll probably cut this out you know okay it's thursday night challenge we don't have childhood we have latkes ends for uh chanukah we're learning a special chanukah edition of the thursday night tone music lila from sadhaka khan from lublin he was a rebel coin rabinowitz who was the uh he was a talmud of the ishbitser the maya who in turn was the talmud of the kotzker you mentioned that we did a lot of cuts recently thinking also of the guerrero the fassemest was kotsk and did we do anything else that was uh derivatives i think that was probably what we did and uh okay so uh the sodic was uh was a was a litvak and he became a host he not only became a hustler became a rabbit actually i think most of his life he would not take it a bonus he had a used clothing store for whatever that's worth interesting uh information he was a very very prolific writer one of his father is a lila we're going to learn from tonight it's interesting by the way oliver shalom was speaking about working on the circus and the lobby and one of the examples he gave his memory he said that once there was a sikh that uh the edited version of the circuit that ever wrote in a quote from uh tadik from uh ccli actually it's nitrous ccli that's the there's a like a soft on the back of this lila that is published with it and uh but anyways over there i've saw this talking about the the opinion of a birthday of a yamalatis and uh so the rabbit wrote in the edited version of the circle here's the quote and the rabbit told you i'm not sure this is exactly the quote so just look it up and make sure this is it's correct and i'd be all set you looked it up it was like word for word and you're saying that that shows you the kiss of the rabbit because it's fairly new stuff it's not like somebody's quoting shaas or uh madras valparais you know the classics this is uh you know riptodic passed away in 1900 i think he was born in 1823 and passed away uh 1900 so oh and in case those uh people out there who like seductrivia the circa that ebbiel was talking about is khalik hey of la cotes and this is entitled hofmar it's about starts with the story about the rabbit hashab a little bit of shab's birthday was khof it's a story about when he was a little boy he came home from cader and he was crying about uh wanting hashem to reveal himself to him like like hashem revealed himself to avraham anyways so that's delilah and we're gonna learn from we're not gonna cover it all but we're gonna learn from uh where's page one why am i missing 165 did i take this packet okay what did i do with my paper oh here it is i found my missing paper this is another packet okay all right so page 165 starts um paddock nun we're not going to learn the whole paddock but it's very interesting stuff maybe we'll learn maybe maybe we'll jump around let's let's see okay so uh indian mitzvos ner hanukkah where we're gonna later on when we upload this to soul words i know people are watching this on youtube people watching this on torah anytime if you want to get the the full features if you want the pdf you go to soulwords.org and uh there should be a study guide underneath the video player it should be like a little clickable thing where it says download the study guide you'll get a pdf of exactly this page that we are reading from here what's the concept what's the idea of lighting them to commemorate the miracle of hanukkah sadik asks a question it's it's it's a strange thing that that became the way that we commemorate hanukkah uber amis the main miracle actually had nothing to do with oil that was after the fact discovering the oil but really it was that we were rescued from the hellenistic attempt to assimilate the jewish people the miracle with the oil happened afterward and it's really its own story it's sort of almost an epilogue to the main story yeshua's and it really has no connection to the main story yeah it's only two words so he said that's exactly what he's about to say because in the al-anism it doesn't even mention the nace it mentions that they they that they lit the minoda right it's all about the muhammad it's about the defeating the odds and about the the the small over the the great exactly exactly what he says it doesn't mention the miracle that mentions that they lit the menorah it doesn't mention a miracle of one day's worth of oil that lit for eight days it doesn't say what does it mention that after they were victorious with the battle and that's what it speaks about at length they were victorious militarily after that badly noticed that afterwards they lit the candles it doesn't even say that there was a miracle involved in that okay so it's funny that we end up with the mitzvah of hanukkah that the story really isn't mainly about that and yet that's what we get what do we get from it for all these centuries and millennia we get the the mitzvah of lighting the the minotaur so we want to understand why the mitzvah that we do seems to be so tangential to the to the main story of hanukkah okay so now he explains a little bit that you need to have something you need to have some type of act i will call yeshua nick ladaines any salvation of the jews that becomes commemorated for all generations he explains that that that what when we commemorate the salvation of the jews what are we commemorating we're commemorating that there was some type of spiritual deficiency that was the source of the problems the problems were a manifestation of an inner deficiency within the jews and that that got cleared up but there was an inner deficiency that what caused the in this case uh evil decrees but the oppression the what caused the threat to jewish safety was an outer manifestation of inner spiritual stuff that we needed to fix the haqqael bamishpat all of this stuff is sort of cause and effect that there's inner stuff that we have to do and therefore there becomes an outer representation of that and then we fix the inner stuff sometimes we call it the ketrig lamaile we fix whatever is going on in the heavenly court and then everything down here and the terrestrial plane clears up as well so when the jews clear up the issue that's going on in their hearts the internal issue oz they get saved from the from the problem from the from the threat okay so we're understanding a little bit better or we're on our way to understanding a little bit better what exactly happened okay we understand that there was a military victory but why did there need to be a military victory there needed to be a military victory because we were under threat and why we were under threat not because the greeks one day decided to to oppress us but because there was something internally that jews needed to work on and we successfully worked on it and since we successfully worked on it in a sort of permanent way what he's saying here is that when sometimes there's a microcosmic victory sometimes there's a macrocosmic victory sometimes there's an individual sometimes there's a the whole claustro has a breakthrough and that breakthrough has permanent effects for the good and when we commemorate something eternally for all generations what do we commend why do we still commemorate it because we are reaping the eternal benefits of that breakthrough that they had at that time that that's what he said okay why is why is this connected to lighting a moneta we still don't know we don't know that yet okay israel when the source within the jews is fixed in such a way that from now on for all time forward the jews are going to be relieved of that issue that issue was cleared up in that time and now barak we fixed it then oh so then what do you do when you have a permanent victory when there was an issue that was plaguing us and then we got it behind us we cleared it up and we moved on so then oz nikoba yeshua zu zekel of deities that salvation becomes established as a as an eternal uh celebration something that you commemorate forever why are we commemorating it forever because it's not just that something cool really happened one time it's that something cool happened which is benefiting us has been benefiting us all along since then and continues to benefit us now okay what is it we don't know yet but we're getting closer okay uh vacaville is there we're going to flip the page the cavo now when you want to reap the benefits when you want to sort of tap into and be aligned with the breakthrough that happened and that we're benefiting from so what you do is you need some type of a physical action something tangible that you can do can't just be passive it can't just be well this is a special time it is a special time and there's a special energy in the world the energy of of of the the breakthrough that happened in the times of hanukkah that's available every year at this time but we need to harness it so how do we harness it you have to have some type of an action that you can do he calls here isa de la sato an arousal from below there's an arousal from above happening anyway but we need some type of arousal from from below we need some type of an action to harness it okay the cold dover any any holiness will not enter unilaterally on its own into the heart it'll sort of be out there it'll be in the ether but to enter the heart to move the individual there has to be some action from the person himself or like we say if you open up like the eye of a needle and often the famous uh rest of the vote which absolutely doesn't bring if you open for me hashem says like the i have a new i'll open up for you like the uh the corridor of the hall of the basement at any rate the point is that there has to be some type of action on our part yeah uh what does it say milo mata vacavo mitzvah so the sages set up a mitzvah that would be appropriate for opening ourselves up to have that particular holiness enter our hearts okay so we still don't understand why the miner was specifically chosen but we do understand that there needs to be some act that is a good tool or technology for harnessing the particular spiritual energy which is available at any given time and for whatever reason lighting the mineira is the right technology for harnessing the energy that is unique to chanukah now what is the energy that's unique to hanukkah we didn't say yet but we did say it was something that once it was achieved it was a permanent accomplishment and that we reap the benefits from it until today okay let's continue here if you do um the arizona says what did matasyau do the head of the the maccabees he fixed hoid hoidu is one of the spheros you have das which are the intellectual spheroids or actually maybe i should say because it's going to refer to uh cassers the first sphere you know there's that different ways of enumerating the spheroids so if you say kasir mabina then you don't say das but at any rate you have the gimora shyness the first three and then you have the the seven lower spheroids which are good forest nets we're going to talk about marcus we'll also talk about satan marcus if we get that far i don't know we'll see if we get that far but matissio fixed something that was damaged in hoyt this is a passage from daniel from the book of daniel daniel is describing this great state of fear that he's having from this vision of the jews in future exiles of course he's in exile in buffalo but he is seeing future exiles and it's terrifying him so he's describing losing control of his faculties and he describes it as hoidi napahala lamasques it says it in chapter 10 of the book of daniel i believe it's possible i think it's daniel chapter 10 verse 8. those online can go check that up and those who have this old technology called a safer they could also they could also check it i gave you the actual chapter in verse so you could go look it up in any book of daniel okay when this was revealed to him the hines saryavanba he saw the future greek exile the persecution that the jews would suffer at the hands of the greeks of the hellenists the yavanan and he describes that as hoidi hoidi means my hoid however you want to translate hoid sometimes they translate it as majesty i don't know if that means anything or glory or splendor splendor what is splendor so isn't that a sweetener splenda so ahoy d yeah we're going to say that hoid is also related to the word which means gratitude humble gratitude which is probably a better not a literal translation of hoyt but probably a more functional translation would be humble gratitude okay so anyways daniel foresees the greek persecution of the jews and he refers to it as a like a dysfunction in the sphere of hoyd in the faculty of heide the alcane and matissio came and he fixed the dysfunction in the sphere of whatever that means we don't know yet that's why when we celebrate hanukkah when we celebrate that the hoid was fixed we say the alanism which is a way of giving his humble gratitude but he does also relate it to the word haid and that's why hanukkah lasts for eight days ki who spiraches because hoyd is the eighth sphero that's right and by the way in benching it's funny because in schmidt acid it's late so you have time like in the middle of an essay like did i miss violence no no it's later but benching it creeps right up on you because because we're in benching where do you say right is so and that's that's earlier adventuring right so it's not about if it's earlier it's later it's the context of where you mention haida so wherever you say hey that's where you say and we know here naphtalic is telling us kabbalistically that's because hoyde was damaged and hoid got fixed and um hoyd is the eighth sphero and that's why hanukkah is eight days right the eighth sphere he's he he says he counts from casey from aliday eight i feel like the count from sesame street okay all right we still don't know what this means like tell us what what is the real issue here um and how you'd go together you never really hear about a huge by itself it goes with naza nazar is on the right side on the right axis cava you mean and the hoid is on the kava small but they're they're mirror images of each other and anatomically when we speak about the spheroids in terms of the image of a body like in passage when we speak about the the spheroids in terms of anatomy right where we say kindness is the right arm and gura drayasmola restraint or strength discipline is the left arm and tifares is guffa tiferes is the body the torso what's natsuk and hoyd so he says natsukin hide haim train bein they are either referred to as the two thighs because they're beneath the torso beneath the torso lower than tifaris so they're called the shuiken that's what it calls them which are the thighs or they're called the two being the two male reproductive organs and what does that mean spiritually well not just spiritually biologically as well uh what does it mean spiritually and biologically the biological comes from the spiritual we learned yesterday in the tanya kitas that the reason we have asaka sanafish is because it's nishtal shal it derives from the astrasvirais and in turn it doesn't say that over there in in yesterday's time yeah perigymal of but it says elsewhere is that the reason that the body the physical body is the way that it it is is because that in turn is a manifestation of the configuration of the kaikas which in turn is a manifestation of the of hashem spherus so the way that these two um these two body parts work is that by the way i'm being i'm being careful not to i'm not sure if i'm censoring what words i'm using because i'm uploading the torah anytime or because i don't want youtube to uh think i'm the wrong kind of channel but not sure which one i'm more concerned about but at any rate um yeah so i bet anyone who knows what train bayon did means you could figure it out so what is their function they are in other words their purpose is to prepare something that's to be given over reproductively speaking just talking about it begasmius that the purpose the function of these body parts is to prepare the genetic material that the father would give over to the mother to gestate for nine months in the in the mother's womb and you could describe that also in terms of emotional or cognitive functions like a teacher for instance who's preparing a lesson so there's how the teacher processes it in his own cognition and his own feelings about the subject his own law of his own awe but then the nets and is just before the transmission just before i give it over i have to attenuate i have to mix and match and and make sure that the right formula the right combination is is struck before i give it over so it's like the the the the last adjustments before something is given over that's why sometimes it's helpful to think of casing as emotions and and that's attitudes because an emotion is more something it's more it's more pure it's more my actual feeling about this concept attitude is more how should i approach it it's more adjusting the how do i go in for a landing how do i actually get involved in this thing an orientation maybe even you might call it so nets now when ace of or asa's malach his sar his ministering angel wrestled with yankovino where did yankee get injured he got injured and the the the socket of his hip which damaged his sciatic nerve and we have the prohibition of the giranosha from that from that story but absolutely says something here interesting that the ministering angel of asav he damaged the hip socket he couldn't he couldn't have any dominion over the essence meaning the more internal faculties shikule ms umitase leima because we know about yankovino that he was totally ms remember a couple weeks ago we read from the from the balatanya he said midosa yankee vs emma about that anyways yankee vis-a-mes tiferos is ms and mitose leima which means that mito means the bad his intimate life was perfect what does that mean his intimate life was perfect that from his intimate unions with his wives came only sadly him not like avraham who had a ishmael or like yitzchak who had an ace of mitosis his intimate life was perfect the aim by psilos clow he didn't have any negative derivatives like the aforementioned ishmael from who was casa de clipper or or asap was guru de clipper right [Music] which is ace of combativeness warlike uh aggression but the yankee vista ferris which is also called ms because it's consistency it's harmony it's truth is truth has an act to be consistent it's always the same mark twain said if you never lie you never have to remember anything okay something that's a lie works one place doesn't work the other place the truth is always the truth so yankiv is truth ace of couldn't damage the essence of yankee but he was able to get he was able to put a little bit of damage on him on a superficial level avon avo noga because he hit him in the in the in the joint to the ball and socket joint of the thigh what we're saying is that that's equivalent to remember we're saying before that that hoi they're called also they're called each one is called a thigh so nets and are sort of the outer spheroids it's not the actual essence they're what i mean when i say they're outer spheroids they're close already to the to the delivery to the to the outer to the outer form so that's all that the sar sometimes he translates partial but it makes more sense they pedic safe pedic iron zion chapter 77 of gracious rabbi it says talks about i actually looked up this message over here and it is at the end of paddock i in zion abrasion he says over it's talking about yankev wrestling with saudi shelters and it's talking about the the jewish people remaining unassimilated specifically uh not succumbing to intermarrying with the nations among whom they're exiled so it says the nations of the world try to cause the jews to assimilate through intermarriage we'll we'll be able to say to them your ministering angel could not uh defeat us yeah the atom of action is and you're trying to uh cause us to assimilate through intermarriage and he that's what the verse says the the the ministering angel of ace of touched meaning damaged yankees this is the quote that is brings that he struck the righteous men and women the prophets and the prophetesses which would in the future come from meaning be descended from yankiv they says and who are these kanye's and the vieux and the vice these are the great valiant martyrs of the era of persecution historically there's an era of persecution and it began with saudi says a few lines from now it actually it began with the hellenist movement or conquest yeah let's uh look back inside here lost my place kila that the era of persecution oppression which really we equate with the romans but the history of it really started from the greeks the greeks are a little bit before the romans var posca navoor misreal now at that point there was no more prophecy the it was the end of the era of prophecy but they weren't full-fledged prophets they were like junior prophets prophets and training he says to go look in the murmur [Music] like it's known and actually it speaks about this in many places there's a whole long letter in igetus hakredish in tanya that speaks about this that the navoor is from android the alkane korem khan naveem that's why they're referred to as naviem because they have this connection to netacan haid not that they were real full-fledged prophets but they had a connection to natsukin hoyt meaning that is going to explain maybe i'm going to start to summarize because we're getting getting late and there's i want to jump ahead to another part but basically this idea of preserving their integrity in terms of not assimilating specifically through marriage specifically through marriage which is the idea of nats which are the kaijasbo which are meant for leido which are meant for reproduction and they're not to be misappropriated for other purposes so uh maybe i'll jump ahead here he speaks about and i yeah wanna a few and i hate to do this but let's jump ahead a few pages to page 168. um look here at the beginning there's a sub chapter here this is still within the same mimer which is uh non zion or pedic non zion uh that we started at the beginning yeah but uh there's a sub chapter here on page 168. the first there's different histories of why the hashmonoi got involved why they took up this battle uh but it they're in the yoytzer which is the poem the liturgy that's written about it it says that the officer the uh they used to have a thing that the the head of the military the military governor in any area would have first rights with any kala and the the the doctrine of primonacta so the the kashminoi would not allow their sister to be taken in such a way and sadik mentions is also mentioned in gemada not explicitly in gemara but in in perish that's the suggya that talks about about hanukkah so they're and aloft of comodo shabbos why are women included in the miracle of hanukkah or the celebration of hanukkah because they were part of the miracle of hanukkah and what was their inclusion in the miracle is well their inclusion in the oppression unfortunately peter schmidzera the vote very strong language absolutely says the main ness before he said it was the military victory but now he spells it out more explicitly why was the military victory so important because if you remember the the hellenists did not initially want to conquer us at least not um not in the in the classical sense of conquest they were okay with us being culturally colonized and paying obviously our tribute and our taxes but um they weren't going to force us to be uh quote-unquote second-class citizens they were very enlightened very civilized they would they would let us be one one with them that was the whole pitch that they were making come on and be mix with us intermingle with us uh specifically through the lure of of intermarriage so that today says the main miracle was that we didn't allow this that we didn't allow the co-mingling uh the the spiritual holocaust of allowing a seemingly enlightened oppressive entity to invite us to become to dilute ourselves to to lose our identity by by marriage with them he says an interesting thing here alkane there's a whole story in the beginning above a basra wild story actually interesting i got it in the beginning but the hordes was uh was a slave from the house of hashmonae when he tried to become a uh when he tried to marry into the hasmoneans lay also there he was not successful commission talks about in the beginning of of that gemara giza hamish it that is the essence of the holiness of the hasmoneans which lasts forever what is it characterizes the unique holiness of the hasmoneans as the preservation of the integrity of marriage so now we're getting a little bit closer to understanding what is the unique character of hanukkah burning a candle wasn't to do very good because the oil oil was an epilogue to the story the main story was a war but what was the war over what did they fight the war over because remember if we would have intermarried with them we wouldn't have we wouldn't have had to fight a war so what was the war over it was about the preservation of the sanctity of jewish marriage very interesting and i'm going to summarize here but he connects that with natsuki and haid he also connects with the idea of yasoid we know that according to kabbalah yasif is your side yes and he talks about the fact that hanukkah is in the weeks of the yeashev and me cates which is all about yasif and yasif how he protected his sanctity especially when he was tested with asia's platifah and all of these things are interconnected it's all one theme okay uh so much beautiful stuff here um i think i wanna just look at one more thing so much wonderful things here um maybe let's look um on page 170 yeah let's look on page 170. uh the first full sentence on 170. he just finished speaking about yasif and about jasof's moral fortitude and how that's connected to hanukkah okay the davar zahu bisgalas bipol he's talking about this sanctification of of uh intimacy kia dua midday like we know about again he's speaking about the generation of of greek and roman oppression israel you don't see that russia is that often the wanton sinners meaning people who are deliberately not religious and empty people people who are religiously empty shamasru atsum al-qaeda they chose to die as jews they chose to die as jews it's interesting in tanya it mentions how pertinence the peculiarity of the jewish soul that to say the religious jews died for the religion is not a religious every religion has religious people who die for their religion but what's weird about jews is you have so many instances historically of irreligious people who died for the religion how do you explain that and here here again he spells it out what were they what did they give their lives for valerotso they didn't want to be assimilated the alkane therefore nais di purim nitin lichte the miracle of purim was allowed to be written this is a gemaran yuma it talks about why esther is called called morning or dawn because like the dawn is the end of the night purim is the end of the era of writing our miracles if you think about it historically mcgillis esther story of purim is the last national miracle wholesale national miracle that we commemorate eternally there's a mitzvah for it and it's written officially written it's canon like the star wars fans say it's canon by the way star wars fantasy voice canon canon is a biblical term and so is it canon can this is a whole interesting topic we should have a whole class on this another time but there are svarim which are contemporaneous to the nach which are not to use the proper term canonical i believe that is the correct pronunciation canonical they are not canonical um in fact you know we're in the in the in the mishnah in sanhedrin says and then it talks about people who are jeopardizing their portion of the world to come and says people who learn uh there's different interpretations of what those foreign means some say just mean secular books but uh one one explanation is i believe it's gonna be akiva i have to look at it look it up haven't looked at it uh looked it up recently that say it means the um now here i'll use a really uh academic term i believe it's called deuterocanonical texts or the apocrypha yeah you're going to google it for me yeah deutero deuteron means second like deuteronomy is mishna toyota it's the second repeating of the toyota so deuterocanonical texts those are books that are contemporaneous with this forum of nach but they are decidedly not redacted they are not part of the forum of tanakh and what's interesting is that in the christian version and there is no one christian version but in many of the christian versions of the quote-unquote old testament many of these books were included i'm sure we've heard of the septuagint which is the well at least the toyota portion of the septuagint meaning the commotion the five books of moses that was translated by the 72 elders the story in the it was in the mother magilla the the 72 elders who were locked in separate rooms tomorrow the king made them translate the terror into greek so uh the septuagint at least the hamish part of that was written by those 72 elders and that's the quote-unquote old testament in greek and the nach part of it should say lahavdil because it's not nakh but that the pseudo nach part of it includes many of these books which were decidedly rejected not included by the ancestors and some of them are books about hanukkah there's a scroll called yehudis there are there's a there's a scroll or a book of maccabees in fact i guess it's a very long book because there's a first book of maccabees in a second book of maccabees these are not reliable books these are not part of our canon and uh going back to the southik here the last wholesale national miracle that we have that is recorded in an authentic biblical text is poor after purim that's it there may have been wholesale national miracles but they're no longer recorded in the bible chanukah did not make the cut hanukkah is after poor much later after porn and chanukah is not in the bible okay so reptadik now explains a deeper explanation why purim is in the bible why to use the the gematis term in yuma that it's nitin lichtoff it was given over it it was eligible to be written whereas hanukkah cannot be written purim is the end is the end of the hashbah which corresponds to yasoid and malchus which are the end of the body the reproductive organs the hanukkah purim proceeds not only chronologically hanukkah but purim is the hakona is the preparation it it primes things to be ready for there to be a hanukkah at a later date shahu lavaday is funny it is unique lovate he said is it is the only holiday it is the only occurrence where you have a national miracle which is commemorated for all generations but yet not written in any official canonical text like one or the other if it was something that was only significant at the time and they stopped celebrating it after a few generations i get it fine it's not written but here's something that we do continue to commemorate every hanukkah every year we continue to commemorate it but it doesn't have an official written recording all those uh apocryphal texts notwithstanding by the word apocryphal is also with a small apocryphals like a story that you know it's a good story a mice are shaharya that wasn't really it wasn't really shahya but it was you know it's a good story so that's they call that apocryphal but the apocrypha were these these books that were not included in in tanakh so it's interesting chanukah is the only national miracle you will find where it's significant enough to be commemorated forever but not significant enough to be recorded in in the bible like one way or the other i get it if it if it's not enough to be in the bible find something don't celebrate it forever but if it's enough to celebrate it forever how come it's not in the bible like poor porn is in the bible so he says like this these miracles the hanukkah miracles which were not that which do not lend themselves to be written in his galaxy they still haven't been fully revealed you can't write the story because the story is not over it's still happening the full revelation of hanukkah hasn't even yet come out for at least a hundred years ago and tadak was writing the story of hanukkah is still going on it's too deep it's too much to cap it off at any one point and to write it down and say and that's the end of the story the after shiite bullet days there's only you can only capture an aspect of it for being commemorated through the generations this is such a beautiful concept here in a way chanukah isn't just about something that happened when the maccabees fought the greeks hanukkah is a catch-all for all it's really beautiful for all of the miracles the ace hagolas that happen in exile shalom which don't lend themselves to be written they can't be written and yet they have eternal significance the only way you can capture it is with the glow of a flame if you would try to write the story you couldn't write the story because in a way the story's still happening what's the story he's describing the integrity the the struggle to retain the integrity of our intimate lives which is a miracle the jewish people's identity is a living miracle a testimony to the integrity of of our intimate lives because if all of our oppressors who tried to murder us didn't finish us off assimilation should have intermarriage should have and you can bemoan what are the intermarriage rates that's fine you you can you can look at it glass half empty but let's look at it for a second let's marvel at the fact that we still exist that after thousands of years in gullus intermarriage didn't finish us off so it's an ongoing miracle that itself is you can look at it pessimistically if you want it and and of course there's what to be improved and of course we have to to be extremely vigilant about this issue but for a second let's be positive the the miracle of the preservation of jewish identity through the preservation of jewish marriage it's not just something that the the maccabees fought to preserve it's something actually that they they had a watershed moment at that time that's how he's describing it something that they accomplished that basically from that point on something changed for the good and i mean i mean that in both ways it changed for the good meaning in a positive way and for the good forever at that point what the what the maccabees accomplished in standing up against the lure of assimilation through intermarriage that basically made it that the jewish the jewish people would never succumb would never be destroyed through the assimilation of intermarriage that's basically what was accomplished at that time and that's something we celebrate every year now how do you write that story how do you write that story you can't write that story you know why because that story is happening every time some college kid on campus is sitting in class and some girl asks him to borrow a pencil and he has to struggle with his identity and doing the right thing that's not a story you could write it's not a story you put in the bible it's not a story you could read from a magilla in shul it's a story that's happening right now it's happening in thousands of places all over the world at this second right now this very second so it's a story that can't even be written in a book such poetry here the only way we can capture it is through the symbol of the glow of a flame words can't tell this story the light of the minorita tells this story it's really it's it's gorgeous okay let's finish it up here anyways baha'is ner through the glow of a candle whoa the candle represents the the the glowing the light of your side your side is connected to reproductive uh functioning how your slate can shine and overcome in the realm of the superficial in the realm of the of heterogeneous liaisoner gambinemius and to cause not only that it should shine into the superficial realms but then also permeate internally the heinough whole mine arabovum to [Music] basically saying to nullify any type of potential commingling that's that's really what the the moneta is all about and there's this much much more i mean this is uh what one two three four five six seven pages we we read about uh i'd say about a tenth of it it's gorgeous stuff okay anyways all right felik and kanika