The Magic of The #8 - Chanukah in The Worldview of The Maharal

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com welcome everybody to the coil agar de Perka here in here on planet Earth in uh Kew Garden Hills in uh Cedarhurst and welcome everyone to the special Hanukkah Edition we have an amazing sheer prepared for today on a very wondrous subject and um we're going to be studying and learning the uh ramifications and the phenomenon of the miracle of Hanukkah in the world view of the morale of Prague of the great rabbihuda Loi who was one of the great all-time Masters in what is known as Israel and it's very interesting the marao wrote many many svaram the mara was a prolific writer and we're going to be citing today from many of this form of the morale from about nine of this forum of the morale regarding the miracle of chanukkah uh the morale of Prague was born in the year 1526 and some say he actually was born in as early as 1512 and he was nifter in Prague in uh Tech Slovakia in the year 1609. he was uh the son of bitsalo Loey and the grandson of rabloi the Elder of Prague who was a great makobal he traced himself back to or of high going and all the way back lamala manaideash to David himself now the morale of Prague had many great hamidim he was the rebby of David who was born in 1541 he lived until 1613. um with David guns actually wandered from Germany to Krakow to be able to study from the Rama and he was an astronomer he was a historian he was in uh he corresponded with Taiko Braha and Johan Kepler and but today we're going to speak about the morale of Prague he became the nicholsberg at a very young age at the age of um we don't know exactly because we don't know exactly when he was born but it was at quite a young age and he served as the rav in the Afghan for 20 years he then came in 1573 to Prague he was he was the offbezzing in Prague and he opened the Yeshiva in Prague which was known as the cloace he was then a robin Posner and then ultimately he made his way back to Prague now the morale is recognized as one of the greatest masters of Mark Cheves Israel even though ravitzilla petterberg in his list of sifri Musser list the svaram of the morale as one of the classic Musser swaram and the morale has a very interesting approach to the understanding the antif of chanukkah and the Miracles that took place on chanukkah and that is the morale says that the um and we're going to begin by studying something about raw rights in the state fair near Mitzvah the Nar Mitzvah was written about Hanukkah the first part of the safer discusses the dreams of Daniel and nevucha netzar um seeing the Dallas and the guise of various uh animals and the second half of the safer discusses Hanukkah now we all know the gemara says and the morale says that the evonim by entering the they had the specific ability and capacity to dominate and Rule and contaminate and the reason they were able to have this kayak is because if you take the word the numerical value of the word hechal is 65. and yavan is gamatria 66 and therefore because yavan has a numerical value of 66 one more than they had this unique ability to dominate and to contaminate the Heckel now the was part of the base of miktash Al is known as the koi Dash so the their ability to overcome the hecal they showed that the vanum control what is known as koi Dash however what the Venom do not have shlita over is they don't have dominion and shlita over what is called koi Dash hakadashem the holy of holies now the shemen with which the the shemen which the ivanum contaminated the shemen represents kadusha because oil is always used for sanctification to sanctify the koyan to sanctify the kalim to be used in the base of miktash to sanctify a melach so the Shema represents in other words the Ivana had a specific and special capacity to contaminate koidesh however what they don't have the capacity to contaminate is they cannot contaminate what is called holy of holies and therefore there was one flask of oil that was signed that was sealed with the Seal of none other than the kayengadal because this flask fit Under the Umbrella category of that which is known as it's not merely Kadesh but it is known as kadoshim that was sealed with the Signet of the koyingado because the now we mentioned that the Cayenne has capacity to dominate over what excuse me the Ivana may have capacity to dominate koidez because hechal is 65 and yavana is 66. however the the maharl quotes an amazing safer called the safer mikhlal written by ravdavid kimchi the author of radak is a work of grammar and there were doc teaches that all the tenues the tonight is and they are remembered with the phraseology the pay has a yod after it the Sarah the shurok has above that Sayre has a is followed by the a comats godong now the the radak teaches us that at Sea Ray could be followed by ayur but it doesn't have to be for example in the word May the word may could be read could be spelled mem with Aid series underneath it it could be followed by ayod but it doesn't have to because the tsiree alone phonetically sounds as if there's a you there so it could have a year there but it doesn't have to have you there for example and the word voracious Bayes Reish aleph there's a a um it's a ray under the rage and there's no yud because the Yu does not have to follow that say Ray but it can now in the word which is 65. there happens to be a yud that follows let's say however says the morale of Prague that yud happens to follow the theory but that Siri automatically contains a yud with it even if it's not written because every say Ray it's as if there's a yud so when there's a yud they're really two youths the one that it says and the one it doesn't have to say so even though the numerical value of Hegel is 65 that's if you don't include the unspoken yud but if you include the S unspoken yud then hechal in fact is 75. and there's a hidden secret yield in the word it happens to be that there is a youth after the hey that's a spoken yod but there's also an unspoken yawn because that Sayre automatically has a yur in it so while the Ivana were able to dominate 65 which is koi Dash the yud represents koidash hakadoshima as the morale explains the kardashakadashian was 10 by 10 yud bayud so says the marao even though the ivanim were able to defile that which is there is a hidden yud a secret power of in the Kadesh which which represents the second which is nistar which is yud times yud and therefore using this approach to the morale that the ivanim had shlita over the koides but they did not have control over the sakadashim we're going to analyze uh many of the swarm of the morale studying the following subject and that is the significance and the symbolism of the following two numbers the letter seven and the letter eight and in the world of the marao the number seven and the number eight specifically reference number seven references and the number eight symbolizes in fact the mara writes that is why famously there's a question why is the famous question of the base Joseph why did why do we have eight days of Hanukkah while the miracle only happened for seven days and the morale answers that is because the miracle of chanukkah represented superiority over Teva Teva is the number seven while the number eight is only dominated but they had no capacity over kodash hakadashim the holy of holies hence chanukkah is eight days and the morale takes this teaching and throughout his writings this is a very uh major theme in the writings of the mara so for instance the morale road is safer to Ferris Israel and if you look on your sheet in number eight the morale says in Farsi Israel which is a safer bad Kabbalah that the nations of the world are bound and governed by Teva and therefore there are 70 nations of the world in the writings of the morale 70 or 700 or 7000 is the equivalent of seven these zeros don't make a difference so the nations of the world have 70 Nations Shiva mummies why because they exist in the world of gashmir's physicality they are Bound By Nature they're seven days a week because God created this natural world through the process of seven so since there's seven days a week the number seven represents Teva and each day are connected to a specific group of ten Nations that is why says Amaral we understand the nations of the world were given Shava Mitzvahs seven minutes because the nations of the world are bound by the number seven that's why is explains gemara in erichen the gemaran erichen for those of you who learn arachn I think uh my good friends in London are learning erichan why they're learning um okay the governor says and you'd give along the base the kinar the the harp of the miktash had seven strings like it says will have age strings what is the significance of that the harp is the musical accompaniment Tashira Shira is symbolizes reaching a milestone completing a an achievement therefore Shira is a marker of shlemus as human beings the greatest amount of slameless we could reach in this world is seven and therefore the harp of the miktash was seven stream strings the will supersede nature and the Messianic era will be a Beyond Teva will surpass the natural world and therefore the harp of meshiach will have eight strings that's why some suggest that when mashiach comes they'll be an eighth note that's why a lot of uh musicians like to call their albums Eighth Day or uh you know uh Hey the day eight or something like that uh representing the change in music in the world in uh the days of the future the maora wrote a deep um philosophical work on the agaratos of Shahs explains that the number seven the morale is a number 12. the number seven is connected and which is the marao writes in a beautiful Jewish for Shabba chuva page 14 as well now the morale says something amazing if you look into Hill and parachutes it's one of my favorites well I I did uh I did steal a little bit because this next plastic was really mined for good names so we have over here yeah so somebody told me they want to write a safer called a Neymar and then he they want to write a sequel called vain dvaram but um anyway the first seven sukum the first seven sukum of uh parachutes talks about the physical world the Sun the moon the stars the celestial spheres you think it's a coincidence how many sukim are used to describe the physical world that's right seven sukem but then begins to describe the greatness and the Majesty of the Torah and what does it say about the Torah foreign why because the natural world is seven and therefore until Hashem tamima is Hashem tamima is the eighth pasok because the Han hogas hateva was created in six days of in seven days and the Torah isai that is why that is why in parekh kufio tests of tehilim um which is the longest paragraph of which is about the Torah you have eight pesukim for each letter of the alephase indicating that the Torah is Le Mala the Torah is above and beyond nature and anything which is above and beyond nature anything that conquers nature is number eight so Mila is done on the eighth day because Mila is overcoming the deficiency of Arla which is a inherent deficiency of Teva which is the number seven and their formula is a number eight and that is why Marv Rabbi Sai when bilam made a Miz bayach bilam made seven misbechris now the moral says as follows Mao says something very interesting that when a baby is born the Teva of a child dictates that it has to be an RL because nature is by definition deficient and therefore the Mila the marao writes let's see a number 17 the Mila Teva the Mila which is above and beyond Teva because batava a person is born because the Teva dictates the we should be an RL and the Mila is therefore the Mila is on day eight so the Miele is is kaidesh the Mila is more than it's in other words the number eight is Kadesh kadasham now interestingly rev um Yeshua Hartman in his notes on the morale he references two other teachings of the morale explaining why a person has to be born RL English Hashem the marao writes the number 18 that he talks about the uh the ghoula from Israel and in the 35th chapter the morale mentions that the Allah is a MAV deal between our college barucho and Adam our law separates between USANA into pharis Israel the marao writes that what really separates between man and God is Teva and these two teachings work together very seamlessly because why is it that we look at a Sunset and we're not enthralled we recognize that we could think and we could process and we could see and we're not moved we're not inspired that is because nature drags us down and by definition the Maura writes nature is deficient and therefore the Arla is a perforce deficiency in man and it serves to separate between us and that's Teva however the Amela which is done on the eighth day is lamalo minateva and that connection and that raises us up to the madrigo of Le Mala melateva and that is why the Maura writes in his chuva in number 20 the moral says that when arunakoyan would go into the holy of holies it says because it says what does why does the Mila allow arunachoyan to go into the ocean because the number eight lamala megashmios so is the Mila Arla is seven and Mila is eight and therefore prepares for seven days I and then on the day on the eighth day he goes into the Kardashian which is by the way hazal tell us you ever go to a Bismillah and they sing a zamar yomli abasha which is a zamar about what about uh Chris yams of why in the world are we talking about Chris yamsov Adam because kazal says why did God split the sea in the Merit of the Mila the answer is Milo's on the eighth day Mila represents lamala manateva water filling up every crevice and going to its lowest point is the most basic element of nature the only way to split the sea is to create a phenomenon lamala minhatava so through the kayak of Mila which is the number eight which is which supersedes seven we were able to split the sea Marvel now we understand says foreign he's wearing eight garments foreign above and seven below to indicate seven forces Teva is pulling you down it's the eighth the kayak of the number eight that pulls you up and allows you to reach that is why the Torah before we receive the Tyro we count 49 days seven times seven the ultimate seven the essence of seven and we say no the Torah was not given in these 49 days because the Torah is not given in the power of Teva the Torah is given after seven fifty fifty is 50 is the ultimate eight the ultimate eight is fifty the hegal is seven the hikal is 65. that's the kaidash but there is a secret element of kadusha and the menorah The Hidden yud of hechal that it doesn't say but it's implied there ishim influencing the menorah was the Orion we could add iron the light of the 50th orionas are none the Torah was given on the 50th day by the way the bear haguela says during bias Cheney there were 80 kohanam gadolam well as we said there were 70 nations of the world because 77 there were 80 kohanim which is eight the power of eight and that's why the maurao writes in Faris Israel that interestingly when the koihane any Kai Hanuman today any Cayenne any aspiring koyanim yeah Michael you're clean you're inspiring ah so Michael's a coyan so when you're yeah mazel tov um so the when a Cayenne is Mubarak uh uh israelim for foreign as opposed to all other Mitzvahs we say Mitzvah is which is a difficult why does a Cayenne invoke a different level of kadusha when he's movarika the people than when doing any other Mitzvah by any other myth so you say why when it comes to because the coin invoke the kadusha of the Kahuna so rev Hartman in his notes on the morale he says that the kadusha of Mitzvahs is the kadusha of Teva the caducea of kahuna or toira islamala minateva so it's a different level of kadusha it's a different parameter of kadusha and therefore we say the shanu the coin says and therefore the moral says the miracle of Hanukkah demonstrated that even though yavan which is 66 has power and shlita over the which is 65 it could dominate but it cannot dominate koi Des Kardashian and the sanctity of Claus Israel came from the kaider sakadashim The Hidden and therefore since the caducea came from the hidden where the urine is which we could say is Arnon the r therefore chanukkah's eight days now let us progress on our wondrous Journey every day we yearn for mashiach we all hope for mashiach we need you right we all we're all hoping from when will mashiach come hopefully soon but the gemara says in Sanhedrin Michelle in the eighth year of the shemit a cycle the morale explains in number 34 why the eighth year of mashiach of the shemitah cycle because mashiach is is eight now the kriakar as well explains that the kohanim they are inaugurated for seven days but they were they began their service on the eighth day because Kahuna is the power of lamala manateva and likewise they begin on the eighth day now we have the following issue because if seven is Teva and eight is how do we bridge the gap how do we connect the world of Teva and the world of so for this we come to the morale as well because morale says in number 35 I know you were wondering that how come I didn't mention anything about Purim yet in this year so don't worry I'm about to the plastic says and she raised Hadassah and he raised Hadassah how old was Esther at the time says she was 75 years old just like avrah mavino left his father's household at age 75 so to Hadassah was 75 years old says 75 when he left his father why was Esther 75 years old the answers because they had a unique um they had a unique responsibility Esther had to connect the cloud you saw in this world who were far schlafen they were sleeping and in kind Hashem accorded himself as if he was sleeping so she had a caviago wake up she said why are you sleeping so she had to connect so the same way a 70 is 7 and 80 is 8 75 is 7.5 7.5 connects Hadassah Esther had a connect Heaven and Earth likewise avraham avinu because I'll tell us that Hashem wanted to bring kohanim from shame like it says but because he was avraham before he blessed God like it says so he should have blessed God first Hashem took away Kahuna from shame and he gave it to avraham now avraham was able to connect Heaven and Earth he was the one who called God adoine now the morale writes further that the Gematria of koihane is 75. because kaihein also his responsibility his job is to connect Heaven and Earth to do the avoida and the base of and bring down the shepher minha shamayim that is why we know the miktash was known as itsavar a neck Bridging the Gap between the RS and the shamayim Bridging the Gap between this world and the upper worlds so the number seven is Teva the number eight is and the way we Bridge it we had it we had an avraham 75 years old we had an ester 75 years old we have koihen Camacho 75 they're able to bridge the gap between even though the menorah has seven branches and even though the menorah is in the hegal but as we mentioned there is a hidden element of kodesha kadashim in the menorah and that is the garage teaches us that understood 49 levels of wisdom and he did not know the 50th level of wisdom this is symbolized by the menorah the menorah has 22 goblets it has 11 knobs it has nine flowers 42 the seven branches make it 49. because the menorah the 49 levels of wisdom but the menorah itself is the 50th level of wisdom the power of eight the unspoken yud of the and Moshe didn't understand that my show was he knew the 49 levels of wisdom represented by the menorah but he didn't understand the menorah itself so even though when you look at the menorah superficially it seems to represent the power of seven and at first the Ivana were able to dominate the menorah because they are yavan 66 they could dominate 65. nevertheless upon further analysis there is a hidden aspect of that is latent in the menorah emanating from the qaidashim is the power of eight he has eight began ate he has eight begotten the levium kadusha very often has association with the number eight the levium there are eight instruments that the levium used there were eight types of instruments played by the levium the power of sanctity power of kadusha is always associated with the number eight there were eight fragrances in the Shema mishkan in the tairas their aid badim and the various supertenances in the heikau two in the Orion two in the shulkhan two in them says carbonis are brought um so we have eight strings of cities and I saw in a safer avraham Page Memphis something quite remarkable that is why on Hanukkah which at first the ivanim which were 66 were able to dominate the hecka which is 65. but there was a hidden yud the the power of the 10 by 10 the Kardashian that emanated from the oreignona the 50th level that the ivanim had no shlita over that is of course we say as follows foreign we have eight expressions of gratitude for saving us and bringing us the Jewish people are not governed by the laws of Teva because we have Bismillah which overrides Teva we have Torah which is which is referred to in parakufio test and the number eight Teva is praised with seven sukhuman parakyotas but the eighth possum is the Torah the Tyra is seem to have been Shiva kanim but in reality it had a hidden source of kadusha which was eight eight garments of the Korean the eighth day is the day that the Korea will begin his avoida in the anom Kipper 70 Nations but our Mila is which is on the eighth day so rivasam gave us a Torah after 49 days seven times seven indicating that if we are rooted in the Tarak Daisha and we are rooted in the eight days uh the a the power of shmeina of chanukkah by the way rohitner points out the number Shava is Allah satisfied this natural world has everything in it that is needed but just what it needs Shema is fatty fatty excess that indicates it's lamella from Teva it's above and beyond so even the etymology of these numbers mean what the the message that they convey so if we're able to connect ourselves with the Torah we're able to rise up La Mala Le Malo above all the vicissitudes of and what we learned today comes from many of the storm of the morale the nere Mitzvah the teferas Israel the netsak Israel the guru Arya drushard Hashem and further okay I want to wish everybody Hanukkah thanks for joining and as always you could catch a share on tourneytime.com or on podcast wishing everyone a wondrous day now tomorrow night there's no um igarus hagrashir over Hanukkah um tomorrow night we may have a special event even a special musical event recovered the yard side of the great Tana Rabbi mayor so stay tuned for that and have a wonderful day you've just experienced another Torah Factor anytime.com