The Light of Chanukah - The Light of Giving

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com i'll tell you um a brief a brief thought uh nagiya the parachutes that we're learning now and also for hanukkah you look in practice by yeshev and at the beginning of the parashat yosef is walking in the clouds his father loves him more than anybody else his father teaches him all the torah that he learned in yeshiva yaakov teaches yahushua not reuve the other brothers are jealous of you but yeah yosef's walking in the clouds he's the happiest guy in the world he's dreaming of being the king he's dreaming of everyone battling that the end of the parasha where's guys safe he's in the bottom of a pit he's like with the criminals he's together with all kinds of skunk yosef has hit rock bottom worst of the worst of the world the beginning of the parasha is top of the world of the parasha he's the lowest of the low that's precious by isiah in a nutshell passions me cates yosu starts off he's on the bottom of a pit he's a prisoner he's a criminal he's uh hanging around with you know people who you would be afraid to meet in a light alleyway and uh the dregs of society yeah and then imagine the prison and at the end of the parashat the king of the world yeah he's the most powerful man in the world he's controlling the world academy he goes from the lowest of the low what happens how do we explain this dramatic turnaround someone's heard from a great rav who lives in england with isaac bernstein what's yosef doing in paris he says you wanna hear about my dream do you wanna hear what i'm dreaming about you wanna hear what my aspirations are you wanna hear what my goals are you wanna hear about me you wanna hear about me you wanna hear about me that's a one-way ticket to disaster that's a one way that's a recipe for uh to misfortune me you wanna hear what i'm thinking about what i want catches me kate's he's in the bottom of the pit he sees two people are sad right and uh what's bothering you what are you dreaming about what are you thinking about what do you want out of life that's a one-way ticket to success very interesting oh going all the way down down down down past just me kids going up up up up joseph is called a successful man how do you say successful man in hebrews about last night you know the word a mem in front of a word is causative to give off or is light ma'ar is to give light limu is learning malamate is to give learning teach simcha is happiness so why would the torah refer to success as should say ish means to give success so what do we see from here then the definition the definition of success in the torah is not if you accomplish if you achieve success is if you're looking around to help other people succeed that's success if you're wealthy or whatever you have achieved in life you may have money or whatever it is but you're not successful yet successful means you're looking around to see what could you do to make someone else succeed ish let's talk about azadek you mentioned sadiq let's talk about it sonic there are only two people in the whole time ah are called sadiq david you know because i'm sure you remember because in almost it says supposed to have torah joseph what do these two individuals have in common that they're the only two people called sonic oh they fed the whole world these are the only two people mr nathan remembers that said the whole world right nayak during the mabel he fed all mankind who were on the table he fed all the animals he fed the world safe two people who fed the whole world that's at sadiq sadiq means to give in an extraordinary fashion that's there's another being who's also called asadek you know when you say that three times a day why is hashem you know why because what does it say in the plastic before um so that's now is that hanukkah do you what's this man what's this called oh cough thank you a cough how do you spell cough in hebrew there are two cuffs in hebrew and they're two pages there's a small half which is called a bent over half it's anger right it's uh yeah and and and a straight huff is the in the word caf how do you spell it with a bent over cuff they're also two pays there's a bent overpay right and then the in the word cough the pay is straight it's open so there's a letter and there's a letter pay the cuff is your hand the pay is your mouth in the word cuff the hand is closed the cuff is bent over the hand is closed the pay is open that aim's good when your hand is closed and your mouth is open that's bad news what happens when you open the hand and you close the mouth oh good things then you don't have the word cough anymore when the pay is closed and the cuff is open it's a small pay and a big half you know where that is small pay you have the light of hanukkah when you open up your hand and you keep the mouth closed and you open up the hand then you're able to shine light on the world you're able to transform the iga because the injury of claudius into the light of hanukkah that's the lesson of the ishmael that's the lesson of yourself you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com