The Miracle of Chanukah - Accessing Siyata D'shmaya {Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel Chanukah Mesibah}

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com good morning everyone Kana you know I woke up this morning I was experiencing like a Time Warp I'm coming back TOA actually you might not know but I grew up right here a few blocks away from the ISA and I had my bar mitzvah in this uh Isa actually for those of you who grew up in Flatbush my bar mitzu was scheduled for the shabis right after Tish my bis was something like um 10 years ago let's say and I'm headed to literally the shabas before myah it wassh it wasab we ding in the aoda and I'm walking with my father to sh and ask my father you daddy where's the sh and the sh burnt down on Tish uh a couple of years ago and I didn't know where my bar MIT was going to be so actually RAB Jacobson was kind enough he opened up and that's in a way how I ended up coming to rememb that yeah was at myah fire I remember who did the fire too yeah me too and uh the rest was history so it's really I woke up this morning I'm thinking I'm back in high school I'm coming to theiva I remember my route I went from Avenue M and East 31st up Avenue L and then Avenue L till East 35th Street sometimes I would meet Mya walking to Yesa on the way to Yeshiva so it's really uh very special to be here this morning and you know at the time that I was inel it's it doesn't look like it does today it was in stage one of the building so maybe there were four classes in Isa it was about a quarter of the size of Yesa is now and I remember of a Turk taking me into his office and he showed me stage two and stage three and stage four and stage five and I remember thinking you know yeah it's a Dream It's a dream but here I am today and we see the dream became a reality and really the of is uh reflective of the of I want to share with you a very simple thought I think for a young man in high school in the sifta very often we think you know we look at the gamarra we look at what our responsibility is we look at what we have to do in life and sometimes we feel very overwhelmed we feel I'm never going to be successful it's too hard for me I can't do this it's too much to lift you I was thinking about this very often in life we feel overwhelmed and really feeling overwhelmed in a sense is G it's arrogant to feel overwhelmed because we're not doing it we're not the ones who have to do it I want to share with you a very simple question you know when we talk about the of khah we all know there are two Miracles that happened on KH you it's very hard to know so which Miracle are we celebrating we talked about the oil the gamar talks about the oil they came in they found one flask of oil there's enough to last for one night it lasted for eight nights that's all the gar talks about you look in the alamim and the alamim talks about a different Miracle talks about the military Victory a few a group I want does anybody know a little trivia question yeah how many fought in the War very good what's your name Barry May mayor Ros so mayor says 13 that's right Rashi says in there were 13 there were 13 soldiers among the so there's a question you know which which was it what was the miracle was it the miracle of the oil was it the military Victory you know we focus it's hard to know which Miracle we're really celebrating and old the they say really it was one miracle and the other one we needed for a different reason or was the other Miracle is there any way to understand how somehow both of these Nim come together because it's very unusual by every y we celebrate One n on suus we celebrate we celebrate and comes we have two totally different Miracles how exactly do we understand this I want to share with you a simple comment of the B reading this B is literally the key to understanding Kana no the Bak discusses an indion that we're probably all familiar with we know that there's a fundamental difference between Kan and Kana we celebrate and we celebrate with we celebrate spiritually and we celebrate physically and we all know the famous that the reason why Kana we celebrate spiritually is because they try to take away Ty and the reason why Pur we celebrate physically is because they they wanted to kill us but let's let's dig a little bit deeper why do you think on allowed them to take away and allow them to make to kill us why do you think theam allowed different Gazo at these two different times in our history so the Bak says something very interesting we don't quite know what the Mak the Bak is the B doesn't say what the source of this is but the box says in order to understand why a g happens you have to look at the root of the matter what did CL do to deserve that Gaz says the in the [Music] times the says they were so therefore because the was a physical the allowed a decree of physical Annihilation but says the what was the that did in the times of it's interesting we don't find anywhere we don't find in any mid Russia we don't find in what in the times of says they were you know what it means they were they did the they brought but they did it perhaps without enthusiasm without energy without Focus they were maybe they came a little late maybe they did it without the proper emotion they were listen to the B and we learn a very important from here we learn from here their patterns in life you know what that means are patterns in life says when when we're weak in says you don't want to do it no problem I'll take it away and the came and they closed up was closed no no at all they patterns in life you know if you see that there are Gaz and opportunities are taken away sometimes we have to examine well maybe there's something we're doing that we're not taking advantage of the opportunity properly s says you don't want to take advantage of the opportunity I won't give you that comes the so how did the of they were they risked their lives to restore the so you have 13 they went back into the and they risked their lives to restore says oh you want the you're being I'm going to give you now I'm going to give you you only found one flask of oil really that oil should last for one night I'm going to make a miracle that the oil is going to last for eight nights because there patterns in this world once you put your best foot forward once you give it your all once you yourself says I'll take you the rest of the way there you know the it's reputed that when the elevator came out was very excited very happy about the elevator said the elevator is a all you have to do is press the button put one foot in put the other foot in and the carries you the rest of the way up you're not doing it of course you look at the the skyscraper in my times actually I was in the morning of 911 I was in the I don't know in the coat room I went outside there were newspaper clippings floating in the air landing on the floor I was here but in the uh Twin Towers if you looked up at the Twin Towers you would say it's impossible to climb it is impossible to climb but you don't have to do it you just have to wait online in the elevator walk into the elevator press the button and get along for the ride says that is that is doesn't ask you to go all the way asks you to access something called you put your best foot forward you're yourself it's okay you only found one flask of oil it's okay you only tried your best because that's good enough and then the re carries you the rest of the way there that's the fundamental lesson of kanah so it comes out there aren't two Miracles there's one Nest The Nest was that when were when they strengthened themselves when they to regain the restored you know there's a medis I don't know if we could say this over in a high school you know this is like a a little bit uh edgy it's okay okay we got official approval but uh there's very interesting matter of it talks about an alcoholic you know it already Okay so in shell the guy couldn't shake it in a nutshell the guy couldn't shake it the family had enough with this guy he was depleting all of the all of the accounts so they took the guy they got him uh an evated they brought him out to a cemetery they put him six feet under and they buried him the med the guy's sleeping he's in a stoer and all of a sudden an army is coming by and the Army here is that that there's another invading Army in the other direction and of course soldiers what do they take with them in battle they brought with them the whole bar with them and the soldiers didn't know what to do they fled they ran and they left the entire bar right by this guy's Kevin the matter the matter says he woke up he says I can't believe it Gan is much better than I thought and he sees he's provided with days and days and days worth of alcohol the family comes back they expected to see him dead they expected to see him depressed and he's sitting there in the best condition of his life they said what happened he tells them the story he was lying here an army came and deposited all the alcohol there that's the end of the story so says what in the world is med telling us what kind of Med is this what do we learn from this medish says we learned from this medish a very important lesson that what you really want in life the helps you make it happen this guy really wanted what he wanted so gave him and this is the of if you're yourself you put your best foot forward you strengthen yourselves the will help you lalala and I ask you a very interesting question you know in Yesa they used to joke in you know in the RSA that the only time you're allowed to say something which isn't is by the party so they used to joke with me because you know I used to learn other things sometimes so they they were joking with they said the glad they might invite you to speak at the Kana party in RSA but I I would assume that we could we could say something here maybe that's not 100% us but I think I think even I think it's definitely true I'm going to ask you a very personal question okay we know there's a concept that you read that's right as the generations progress so the diminish we get weaker and weaker there manyas in right we're not even our our says are not even like the of the earlier generations to many many garas but if I to ask you and I've said this over a lot lately who does love more our grandparents generation our parents generation Our Generation the who does r love more how you supposed to know who knows who knows I want to share with yous he writes you could have a yes today could be learning a could be learning a rash we learning aitv and he might not even fully understand the rash but in sh the esteem that this B is held is even greater than the than the of whose words this Bak is learning says we don't like to say it we don't like to focus on it but that's the truth and I'm thinking that actually there's a m for this in in one of his F he brings that would always ask the re how come you always tell me that in sh I'm more than the earlier Generations I don't even come to the toenails of the earlier generations and that said something very important says AR the truth is the earlier Generations were much greater than us but in our time in in the 16th century the are so out of control that in the you are more valued even than the earlier Generations so in the new editions of they point out if you think Source in the words of so I saw something amazing in the writings of we say every morning I have if you stop a thousand people and you ask them what do the words mean you could look in any English they usually translate it with a great love you have loved usab writes that's not what the words mean doesn't mean with the great love you loved us the word rabba doesn't mean big it doesn't mean great it means increasing expanding that as much as Who Loved earlier Generations he loves Our Generation more and more hashem's love for us is growing is expanding look I look back to my time in Yesa we had we had m in the time we had great in I'm sure they're great buck today but one thing for sure one thing is for sure the love of For the Love of for every single Jew for every one of you is more today in 2023 than it was even in my time which means that every Mitzvah you do is more valuable today than it once was which means every you learn every line of gar every you offer every hisab today you know look if the AR said in the 16th century the were out of control what what do you think he would say at our time so really we're living in historic times every Yesa B today has to wake up in the morning and say to themselves my today is more in the eyes of maybe even then the earliest generation I thank you very much for for hosting me this morning and maybe I'll even come back they usually don't clap after I speak so thank you very much and it's really an honor to be here to see uh ra the bench right now and we move over to [Applause] you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com