The Inner Lights of Chanukah - Rebbetzin Avigial Gersht

[Music] okay let's do a quick summary again of what Hannukah Hannukah we said is celebrating the what happened it was during the times of the Second Temple where the Greeks wanted to totally assimilate the Jewish nation okay and what they did was they basically took them over they won and they fought them in the army and they went into their temple and they took all of their pure oil the way that oil is produced to light the menorah right we like also often times you'll see people there Sava state other Shabbos candles are lit with oil also right there's certain idea of lighting with olive oil okay so though it have to be it's called chemin sight Zak which means pure olive oil and they basically take like an eel or something sticking into the olive and that the oil that will come down will be totally unadulterated oil no squeezing anything okay that what happened the Greeks went into the temple they opened up all of their jars of oil and they touched it okay we'll get there like why again so obsessed with the oils a little bit weird they touched it and if it's touched that means that it's not pure anymore and it can't be used to light the menorah what happened was the Greeks started banning mitzvot we'll discuss which ones they were and the Jews got to a certain point the words a group called The Maccabees you know there's like a Jewish group now called the Maccabeats right so they're copying that the Maccabeats boom boom so it's Maccabees right nah be okay I don't even do a heart there so Maccabees was actually it's actually an acronym for like this is how you spell it in the Hebrew right mica Mojave alien Hashem which means like who is like you like the holy amazing God yet is the guy right mica that's what the Maccabees were there were these group of Jewish boys who stood up and said I don't know the exact number but they stood up and said we have to fight against this Greek army and they stood up and people like you're gonna get yourselves killed but they stood up and the miracle was they won the Greek army they went into the temple but the Greeks already touched all their oil and they wanted to light the menorah they were known as no oil to light it with and they found this little jar of shemin's ice is a pure olive oil they found in pop chemin it's my sunshine these two a little jar of oil and they lit the menorah they only had enough to like for one day but like Daniela said it lasted for all eight days the two miracles of Hanukkah are one the oil the miracle of the oil lessons for ATS not just one day in the fight right you had this small little Jewish army winning against a bunch of people a huge Greek army that's a miracle of Hanukkah I asked last class but we didn't get to it yet which is do we have Konica today which was due the what the Greeks tried doing to us does that apply today not trying to kill us out with that this isn't like Purim when on Purim they were focusing on we want to completely annihilate the Jewish nation here they didn't care if we were dead they didn't want us to be like what all Jews off than that they didn't mind if we had Israel this didn't want us to do that spiritual thing that we do do we have that today tell us Rachel hey I know that's why I don't answer in class because I me always do these follow-up question I know all the tricks in the book okay don't make the eye contact with the teacher you know answer I have to go the bathroom right away when I told my my principal that I was going into teaching so you know what they say the worst students make the best teachers I'm like I'll take that backhanded compliment yeah so so have there's no right or wrong answer just um what were you thinking when you said that today I mean I think you said it right so just finish your sentence we don't let her run on sentences so finish that till we get to the period then we'll stop you it's so normal today [Music] yes okay so that was actually a whole paragraph but we'll accept what you said that's exactly you said it's true right they want us to be totally one if you had loved tennis class I'm sure she showed you and a healthy must i'm afraid on primary health relations unhealthy relationships right it's it's we all have to be one everyone this is one big melting pot right drew them not invite new york at the mouth and fam we all have to be one are all three of you have been in universities and honestly have it in in england or your hometowns but they literally have Greek Lane do they have Greek Lane in your university Greek Lane they have it right Greek Lane is the road where all the sororities are okay do we have are we still fighting Yvonne Yvonne means the Greeks are we still fighting Yvonne today yes more so today than any other time you're right you have Ahmed in a job you have these maniacs for a saying on the Israel shouldn't exist no Jews right I shake shake a dog's head before shaking a Jews hand you have people like that but that's not what the focus is on today take you just be like us why are you so weird and more than even why are you so weird this standards of what week Greek psychology is of what Greek norm is where did they worship the beautiful body parts what were one of them what was one of the mitzvot they banned three myths of oh one of them was bris Mila right circumcision why why are you destroying such a beautiful body part if I told you you guys probably know better than me cuz I was never in a sorority believe it I was never in a sorority I've never done a sorority but the stories that girls have told me what goes on and that's that's just sorority I forget about regular sorority that's a girl homey in her sorority they had in her food the one next to I remember what she was saying they have girls sitting on a washing machine they turn the washing machine on and any part rises on camera any part of her body that jiggled they would circle it and say here right here you have to lose weight here you have to lose what here after this way the stories that exist in sororities in the regular life of what became the normal it's not nice to say what I think it's funny often times free thinkers are like people who are the least judgmental people are oftentimes the most judgmental people that if anyone who's not like that right which means if I don't believe that global warming is the biggest threat against the world and there's something wrong with me if I think that carrying a plastic bag is torturing you Society then then there's something wrong with me right Yvonne was just being normal just be like us Yvonne grief is why do you have to dress like that aren't you hot in the summer trust me they're no cooler than we are if it's a hot day it's a hot day we're not talking wearing burkas here and it's a hot day it's a hot day and that we're still fighting Yvonne Greek today more than any other time that's clear right that's like totally I don't disagree it's fun to have your own thing having it doesn't mean unity is not uniformity that's a bit that's a bit important principal mine to be United doesn't mean we're all uniformed we're all the same thing that's not what I mean when I say Greek philosophy when I say Greek philosophy I mean you have to be exactly like us right you can't have whatever it is that you believe in your own individuality because we believe what is definition of beauty was definition of Brett what is definition of wrong and you have to mold into that right and if you are not like that and there's something wrong with you right are you thinking of something that you're not saying I'm not you're just okay so we said what is it that we're celebrating on Hanukkah time again what are the two miracles winning the bow on the oil lasting for eight days okay so when you think of Hanukkah what object do you think of minora right Passover you think of montage circus you think of a hot tuba Shabbat you think of a flower right on Hanukkah what do you think of a menorah but what was the big miracle there were two but they also won the war there's no really any mention of the war the only place that we mentioned the wars in the prayers that father we said Chanukah the customs are it's not like Shabbos you can drive to work and all these things you're so late at night there's a bit of changes in the prayers but other than that you need latkes oily foods to like commemorate the miracle of oil I don't know who invented that but you know there's like starting from like basically October till December Israel you'll have sooth Conneaut you'll have these doughnuts so but there's not really any mention of the war anywhere right Hanukkah is the festival of lights right it came before Christmas [Music] it's a good question it was just part of the a vote is part of the work in the temple there were all sorts of like they brought sacrifices they looked the menorah there were just different voters they called different work it wasn't a sacrifice we were just lighting the mineral you know what I'm in awe it looks like yeah exactly right so so it was one of the services in the temple the actual reason why it was Institute I don't know I mean it says in the Torah the Torah says you shall item in our I don't know the reason behind why it was one of the works that they did there so we have both these miracles but it's interesting because the war isn't mentioned anywhere other than a few places in the sitter you're following me right it's not it's all about the lights why so one little idea and then we'll move on is us winning the war was God's favor to us right God like totally helped us out like we're gonna go to the war and even though we're small little army against the Greek army God will take care of us PS that's a lesson life I'm doing everything that I can now Shem the rest is up to you it's the same thing when the Jewish nation we're supporting Egypt right and they got to this big seat I'm going too fast okay it's your job it's your job stay focused on your job but the Jews weren't if we're in Egypt and they escaped and they got to this big seat and they go oh my god what are we gonna do there's this see in front of us and there's these Egyptians behind us well what am I gonna do where we gonna go and they said we can't go into the water until you have someone by the name of national been I mean nada the mattress tells us and he went into the water into the water until was almost just above us in in the sea split that's in life and life is we can't wait for a miracle to happen I god I want to get married okay Prince Charming who doesn't exist okay Prince Charming right like I'm ready for you no you go you do your hitch style that we call we do our effort we do everything that we can and then you can say it's up to God right that's always up to copy you it's a true relationship anyway so so they grow up star me and and God saves them and we're saying when it comes to the miracle of the war God thank you so much thank you for saving us from this war and God says don't worry it's not such a big deal mention it in your prayers in your prayer somewhere some that's not what you should be focusing on what are we focusing on on Hanukkah God saying thank you Jewish nation why does halakha called to my ultra fitzy bore which means impurity is allowed if the majority is impure meaning if all they had was impure oil halacha CLE speaking they were allowed to use that impure oil to leatherman our right why wouldn't they how luckily speaking they were allowed to use it they didn't have a choice they didn't have a choice and they were supposed to like them in our so that the halacha says you were allowed to use the impure oil so why are you chanting and taking only a little pure oil and you can light it for one day as opposed to all eight deeds with impure oil [Music] Thank You H I think that's it right all they wanted to do was for us to be like one of them right why I don't know about you but I was grand sacking a home let alone a mansion let alone the temple the last thing I would fiddle with is let me go into their car and take out all the oils and touch it maybe their vinegar red wine I'm gonna go right it's even more expensive than I do why did it bother them it bothered them because what is this thing you have called spirituality and the Jewish nation said when they enter the temple they said we want to serve you completely unadulterated we know we're allowed to use this in for oil but God we'd rather take this little pocket Eman would rather take this one little jar of pure oil and use it as opposed to using all that oil that was touched by the Greeks say I want to take something for myself and give it to you God why is Hanukkah the festival of lights because that's what God's focused he's saying don't worry about thanking me for the war I'm thinking you Jewish nation for saying regardless of what the other nations say I want to serve God unadulterated there's the the summer fan [Music] and you could do it together [Music] that's all about that exactly I know I have some cousins who do that also they put on menorah on top of their Christmas tree that's exactly what the Greeks were trying to do the sky would goose were trying to assembly as you know intermarry - all that stuff the blues of a rabbit he was a rep in the Holocaust he realized a few months before Hanukkah that Hanukkah was coming up didn't have calendars they had to memorize what data we didn't know for Saturday Tuesday Thursday right he knew Hanukkah was coming up in a few months he told one of his students whose job was to wax the boots of the Nazis Yamauchi mom right which means me their names be erased sometimes you hear teachers mutter things afterwards so you should always ask what they mean your mother mom just literally means um I mean their names be erased like your shame what's your name right so your mother mom is the name anyways so so he he told one of his students in the Holocaust your job is to what is to wax Anarkali Marsh mom's boots so start saving everyday a little bit of wax so come Hanukkah we can light the menorah he took a little bit of he formula is something to be the wick yeah and every day this one of her students would do they say wax comes the first night of Hanukkah they're standing they all huddle the Rebbe and twenty students they're standing in this crematorium late at night you know any moment an officer can come in and they'll all be dead and they light the first candle and the Rebbe says the brothel mahalik Nisha Chanukah the boss no blanket candles and then he has to say the brothel which we see on special occasions and on holidays the reflector Hashem blessed are You God a volcano our God Mela ha-olam the king of the entire universe ah-ha-ha-ha know that you sustained me Vicky Manu and you you enabled me bahiga Yano to come to arrive las monjas death to this time it's a blessing we say at special times or someone buys a home they say Shaheen is a very special blessing and he gets to this blessing we're saying thank you God thank you for keeping me alive and thank you for for sustaining in enabling to arrive in this day he just couldn't say right you're sitting in a crematorium in Auschwitz you're gonna say thank you for keeping your life for this moment and and he he stutters and his students are like we said raha and he can't say and finally after five minutes after tendency most of the purse strings there's a button he survived the Holocaust and one of his students later on in New York they made up and he said to him rabbi I have to ask you this question all these years I've been wondering this question how did you have the strength to save the blessing of Shaka and that night that Chanukah night in hell and the Rebbe said I didn't say the Braja on the candles I set the brach on the 20 and the shamans that were there and the 20 souls that were there I couldn't say abraca thank you God for getting me to this day right were talking about the candles that was too painful too hard that was too not a real I said thank you God for getting me to add a sustained Lee enabling to come to a day where I see 20 students 20 Souls risk their lives just to serve your just took just a lighter menorah you say I didn't say the the the Cheyenne you and the cans listed on the neshamah every single one of us has within us it's called the POC chemin that little jar of oil that no matter how far we are how distant we are how uninformed without whatever it is we are we have that little candle we have that little jar of oil and we all have something come Hanukkah night the first night of Hanukkah when we're saying Xiao Yan oh we should all be singer chef/owner on our neshama on our souls there is something in my life that I can say that there are times in my life where I can look like I say I never thought I'd get through that I never thought I'd make it to this point or there are times in my life work that I didn't know I'd ever be this great I didn't know I'd get to this point whatever it is come Hanukkah night make a chef a ya know on yourself make a chef can you on your neshama make a chef can you on your own personal mission on your own personal journey any questions so far we're good okay what are the three myths vote the Greeks band we already said one hmm circumcision bris Mila right one is bris meal all right on the board which is circumcision yeah Shabbat and the last one is Rosh Hodesh [Music] right so why the ban exactly that it's not remain thing what's right it's a it's a minor holiday it just celebrated there's a new month yeah [Music] excusing they were time due to time like mess up their their camping system could be maybe make sense that makes sense it could be any other ideas Danielle any ideas why they're ban Rosh Chodesh who was here when we discussed Rosh Hodesh how's that oh you guys we never confessor beverage holders yet so what's gross Kodesh rosh lourdes has Rosh Chodesh come about you have two witnesses who see now we have a set calendar so it doesn't apply today before during the times of the temple during the time of the bait I make that you have two witnesses who say rabbis rabbis we saw the moon and they put these witnesses in separate rooms and right there ask questions where was at what time what location what direction what size etc if they both have the same exact narrative they say today's Rosh Chodesh but guess what if it's a cloudy day and the moon can't be seen Rosh Chodesh is pushed off if no witnesses come where the witnesses are delayed and they didn't see the moon yeah Rosh Coalition is delayed well speak out when we get to Rosh Chodesh God willing it's so beautiful an amazing it's unique to women also why are they badly Rosh Hodesh because what does that mean that man gets to determine reality what is that right we were determining the times if we're taught if the moon wasn't seen verse Kaddish wouldn't be that day right and the quickstep scene there's a natural order and the things stop messing awkward things stop with this whole above nature I found a cut eight days why eight days seven always represents in nature seven days no week seven scales on a music scale seven colors in a rainbow right there seven days in a week there's seven years of shemitah of giving tipping the land of israel right and there's seven weeks before shiva whoa there's seven times seven forty-nine years before the yova which is seven shemitah cycles etc etc seven represents name my birthday's date this week right so $7 represents nature it is always one day a browse nature why is it force meal on the 8th day because of course it's not logical that we're going to take an 8 day old boy and give him a circumcision right 8 represents above metaphysical above this world right Rosh Chodesh is there's something spiritual going on here man has the ability we have the ability we have the free will to impact the world why pursue private urmila why Shabbos what does that mean you're taking a day off to connect with God what does that mean bris mila what does that mean you're ruining that body part the whole war of the Greeks the whole war of Chanukah was a spiritual war right Noah had three sons shame come and y FS y FS is where the Greeks come from we come from shame right the Jewish nation of Noah who had this flood write the Great Flood so he had three sons shame coming up at the office is where the Greeks came from yah fess is the same word as Yaffe which means clearly you've never met any Israelis hitting on you why nice beautiful right is yes Fifi is what they call like your guys tries like picking you I feel like the most pretty I say yes I you're so beautiful the Greeks come from us they come from Yaffe they come from Beauty they're trying to sell us what their version is a beautiful this is what's beautiful 72 inch screen TV this is what's beautiful look at these designer clothing this is what it could be it is beautiful but it's not beautiful just because that's what they said is beautiful they were trying to sell us what Yaffe is they were trying to tell us this is what actually beautiful what you're doing is weird he G B G stop I would stop with that the whole war of Hanukkah is a spiritual war that's what we're fight as we were fighting that's what we were fighting today but the Jewish nation there are many books plenty of books and poems and and quotes about other nations come together what's with this Jewish nation how could be they're never destroyed it doesn't make sense why is Israel the news were smaller than New Jersey to know the state of Israel what the Arabs are fighting for what the world is going to war over is smaller than the state of New Jersey you can travel the entire Israel in six hours from a lot all the way up to the north in six hours why is that in the news who cares right it's not about that there's something that the Jewish nation that our flame will not be put out there's so many stories about how how a Jewish soul is a flame a Jewish soul cannot be put out right which is why it celebrates we said with why is it on the eighth day the Hanukkah is celebrating the the triumph the the success of light over darkness right we don't believe in fighting hate with hate if I hate with love you fight darkness with light our job we actually have a job to be light on to the other nations as a commandment in the Torah we need to be a kiddush Hashem we have a job we were put down here for a reason right and we all have that within ourselves on a global level and on a personal level there's something called the Oregon owes what does or mean like or hug a news which means the hidden life so God create the world with a spiritual light with the Oregon owes it was a spiritual light that says the hazaa say the rabbis that it basically kept essentially kept everything under this light healthy which means evil people would never die right or was sucked and it was such a pleasure that people who didn't deserve it benefit from me God created the world with his light called the Oregon news and it was in the world for 36 hours just go with me it was in the world for 36 hours and then God said the world can't have this now for the times of Messiah and he retracted this line says Dubonnet susto was a commentary every Hanukkah this or how God knows comes back have any of you ever celebrated Hanukkah yeah it's amazing and anything in Israel is just like 10 times more powerful Hanukkah falls and December right it's actually the only holiday that ever has a Rosh Hodesh in it Rosh Hodesh falls out because what date of the Hebrew calendar is kind of kind you remember this from last class remember we said this last class I knew means they rested half hey what's the numerical value Adina's looking I see it 25th is Hanukkah for honeymoons rested my new hot Shabbat Shabbos rest right Hanukkah literally means hey Nokia which is a menorah but it also means a new half hey they rested on the 25th day Hanukkah comes out every single year on the 25th right 525 is in on the 25th day of Kislev it comes out every single year because that's when the war ended and they went to the temple at the Minar but it's an 8 Day holiday and there's usually after 29 or 30 days in a month so there's always a Rosh Chodesh and it bleeds into today's the month of today's Chanukah is about renewal Rosh Hodesh it will get there when we speak about God really it's about renewal rejuvenation starting fresh that is implanted into Hanukkah Hanukkah is about light in the dark it's one of the darkest months it's the winter and you look so beautiful here in Israel also on outside of Israel your truth is especially if you're living amongst now Jews remember it's a kid I used to like walk with my mom and we see through streets and just see like oh look and we see little menorahs in the window here especially in her now but I go everywhere is the ever azzaman are right perfection so it's a literally lighting a little candle in the dark it's so amazing anyways back to I'm saying which is you have his or her Gunners the hidden light that God retracted he took it back the PSSI says every Hanukkah comes back every time cut this candle this light is brought back into the world if you count the candles how many candles do we light each night one right so I mean you're always camping up right so if you count up one candle the first name plus two the next name plus three and then plus word if you count up not including this Shawn wish right this Shawn which is we know what the Shawn measure is the main one right this is the Shawn rush not including this shot where you have square one sometimes that was really just for fun okay so so not including the Shana ship if you count every single candle altogether equals 36 candles all fears 36 candles representing the 31 candle for each hour the light was in the world comes Hanukkah there is the potential there is the ability to tap into to tap into this hidden light at whatever darkness whatever tragedy whatever hardship whatever challenge you're going through then comes Hanukkah the light of a candle then there's the or Fagundes you have after Hanukkah they call it the Hanukkah blues right it's kind of like matzah Shabbat if you experience this maybe it's cuz you know the week's about to start but also because they say on Shabbat we have an extra soul right with two souls on Shabbat and then mostly Shabbat people are you looking at me like I'm Amish okay is that so have you heard that we get two souls on Shabbat no ok so it's called neshama USERRA UT around means like an extra one so I see we get a second solo on Shabbat and then mostly Shabbat it so you have people who look you have the matzah shabbos blues which is like the most about enjoy right again it could because the week starting or it could because your souls leaving the extra soul but comes Hanukkah you have after hanukkah's kind of like this Hanukkah that like Hanukkah blues of where that goes so it's going to go for eight days and presents PS I'm being into presents on Hanukkah right you'll have people who say no don't copy the non-jews it's not true first so we're not copping them but second of all any holiday or any time of the year you can make Judaism more exciting for your kids make it more exciting for them right birthday give a present Savas have a Shabbos party you want your kids you want your stuff also by yourself president hit your boyfriend why president my teacher once told me at presents so so if you give my present that's exciting for kids my daughter remembers Hanukkah she got a present every single night dollar store presents but presents every single night it's exciting for them so Hanukkah so you kind of feel that actors like what's what's that low right there was there was this or her gonna that was here right there there is this or huh Condorcet comes Hanukkah then tissue a fresh run like basically like two and a half three months two and a half months Hanukkah is right and it's gonna come again right and you have this light that were able to tap into that we're able to light up in our darkness that is essentially a healing light if you want to call it all right I want to say just one more point what do we plan on Hanukkah this little Drake I was y'all seen a dreidel yeah anyways well what are the letters that are on it it stands for none what you want stands for nice good job hi yeah Sean right or a pay which means nice to hire Hayato oh great miracle happened here a great miracle happened there that's what you see outside is run inside is really a great miracle happened tears but what was onion a spin then there's all sorts of like gambling going on great things I've wanted your children right put in one chocolate coin three chocolate coins okay gambling part of it but what were they spinning on those dreidels why do we play dreidels the reason why they see originally I've never seen it's inside the way that I've heard it explained it's because when they were banned from learning Torah or practicing all of these holidays or Shabbat they would protect and they hurt soldiers coming they would quickly put it with all those holy books and they start playing dreidel almost like jacks the soldiers would be coming couldn't guys plug your drat you plug your jacks and they'll be you know they'll be playing with these little games so what was written on the dreidels then nothing so how would they know when who's Trent was could be yeah could be I would I know I wasn't there but what I do know is it's not a coincidence that the same letters that's on the dreidels spell the same letters as a story about to tell you when Jacob um yeah Cooper V new Yaakov our forefather there was a famine there was starvation going on and Kanaan in the land where he was living he was told you need to go down to Egypt and get food for yourself and your family or else you're gonna start right man why would they want to do that they're living in like in their own community with their own comforts with what they're used to why go down to Egypt where they're serving idols worth a culture they're not used to right you have a question what did he do says the Torah he sent his children ahead of himself and he said go to ghostnet and prepared but ami drushyam there prepare study halls prepared synagogues there why because we know we're about to go down to exile we need to have a place something that's going to keep us right in line something that's gonna keep us prepare so that means gonna have it's called like a I'm I'm a hiya but an obligation on us so we don't get so seeped into their culture right Yacouba V who thought ahead to pro go to ghost net this town right before Egypt this town my performance right make over there but Timmy Josh a make over there study house but we can learn Torah right why so it won't be completely seeped into their culture and now thousands of years later you still have this Jewish nation spinning these little dreidels with the same letters gonna honor comes Hanukkah or comes any point in your life where you know ok I'm going back to America I'm going back to England I'm going back to places I can't pronounce I'm going back to these places what can I put for me right what can I put in store for me or in place for me that I know when I go back this is what's going to set me up right and once will you put these things in place you're setting yourself up to not just get stuck back into the old routine right it's so easy it's so easy and it's so quick that's that's really what we're doing when we're spending the trade oh we have one more minute just want to say one more thing with this we'll finish so Makabe you know who he is no you definitely if you know him you know his song you know yeah okay so the he basically was a rabbi who was a hippie also and when around singing every Friday night yeah I love his songs he sing a song that it's really beautiful he passed away actually on an airplane he haven't yet he had a heart attack on an airplane coming from your hometown England England your hometown not in England you live in the city New England so he was coming from England and right before he came he boarded the plane he turned to a rabbi and he said the rabbit was with him at the airport he said he on her crazy story he says yeah he said the rabbi who told me this was the rabbi who was in the camps with the Jankel who's Yong chol Yong chol was this holy year who lived in the Congress was in the concentration camps he would count his days by the number of the amount of times he read the whole to Hill and he read the whole Psalms right and he would just be there in the can mumbling his tell him and I'm praying to God all day and doing his own came Hanukkah he lit a menorah in the camp this rabbi whose time look some of the story says for all said uncle don't do it he said it's kind of come letting a candle all of a sudden the guards come in and this was the first night of Hanukkah and the guards come in and they say whose candle is that and everyone was silent if you don't tell me now who's carols I'm going to kill every person in this bunker says this rabbi the uncle stood step forward he searched greater than I've ever seen him stand in his life and he said the candle was mine that Hanukkah candle was mine they took my sign they shot him dead and the rabbi said I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't see it with my own eyes that candle burnt for all eight days of Hanukkah all eight days of Hanukkah that candle stated in our bunkers rip slow mode turned to this year in the airport to this Jew in the airplane he said that's the story of yong-chol in the Holocaust and that's the story of every Jewish soul right that's the story of the Jewish nation I've if we had more time we can speak about this forever of the incredible acts of courage and and strength of what it took but but this is what I'm doing what are we doing on Hanukkah we're saying I'm choosing something for myself choose something for yourself choose a mitzvah for yourself we can say god I'm going to give this to you totally unadulterated I'm not going to worry about what my friends think right this is what holds the Jewish nation together is what keeps the flame of the Jewish nation still burning with that being said ladies I wish you a wonderful Chanukah [Music] you