The Mysterious and Miraculous Chanukah Practices of the Maharshal

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning everyone we want to welcome the rookstein family from silver spring who came here for shabbos i want to welcome who used to be a neighbor of mine yeah to the second daughter he's got five daughters and one son very nice okay so welcome everyone okay anytime so uh i want to speak at a very interesting indian we've discussed part of this in the past i want to share with you a very interesting hanhaga of one of the great all-time acharyan the marshall rip luria one of the great old-time machines he had a very interesting custom as we know the the first night of hanukkah we make three brachas lahadlik and of course and from there on we only make two but the marshall had a very interesting custom and this custom is quoted in a number of sources first in the shari chuva what's a shari tuva in any mishna bhura there are like two forgotten that you have under the you have the shari chuva and the bear heytev in fact they once asked like everyone who publishes a safer they published their safer why did he put the shari and the bear they've in the mission of like what's it doing there it's a pair because times appears on the shock it's not a person so he said it's not you know he doesn't want to take over you know he wanted to leave re leave covet for other acquaintances as well anyway the shah shiva brings down that the marshal i actually uh this past summer i was supposed to be at his cover the yamcha actually the sam soy for rice that without the marshall we would never been able to learn gemara because the gersias the texts had become so corrupt over the years that we couldn't make heads or tails over the over the marshall sifted and it was the text of the gemara in fact the samsuffer says the only reason that marsha was able to plummet the depth of the suga is because marshall had clarified the precise text anyway the character says that the rashal khano shokasaf not sometimes every year every year the marshall would buy silver naira over shaney he wouldn't light it the first night he would only light it the second night why this way when you buy a new item you'll have you're allowed to make a shakianus so here this way the first night was shakhyan was covered the second night why would you make shakhyanu so he would buy a numenora make a shakhiano on the menorah that you like to arrange brachos when you have other brachas to make so since anyway he would be making lahadlak and anyway he'd been making shasta so he would arrange the shakhiano together with the others and he was the primary disciple of the marshall so the mata moshe i want to read to you what the mata moshe writes about his rabbi but we learned from the mata moshe really a beautiful language that he uses in describing the customs of his rebbe the marshal he says like this we know the gemara says greater is the service of toronto more than learning even though the greatest myths in the world of all the mitzvots in the world talmud is the greatest mitzvah someone in silver spring sent me he said rabbit you know i i listened to shurim probably the main theme that you keep on speaking about that i got is that talmutoya is the most important myth like so we like to say that it's important to know but um but there's something greater than tamatara there's a mitzvah greater than tampa and that is um and there's a question what is shima it's actually some learn it's literal and that's what we're going to see in the mate musha that little is to help tamiya to bring them food to bring them drink to bring why because when you when you associate that with them outside of the learning that also has a tremendous influence on a person igmar says to do business with one to marry one's daughters to them and so on and so forth to associate with tamika the other shot is literally to hang around in terms of learning in terms of learning you know some people like this the shearer oh the sure starts nine o'clock i'm there nine o'clock this year's over 9 30. i'm out of here at 9 30. that's not when the main learning happens the main learning happens in the time after this year when somebody asks what did you mean but it says like this what did you really mean oh what do i really mean that's when you hear the the amkos or the the viewer and the p rush in other words sometimes during the learning itself you just get the generalities but the subtleties i would say the subtleties are the people who sort of follow the rebbe afterwards then they get to hear oh what was meant what what what's the depth of it what's the parish of it so that's the gemara the umar says and by the way many israel talk about the shemosh that they had for their rabbi for example who is that me or something some suffer some civil rights all the time says that when he was young he did not move his hand away from the side of nassar he served serviced him wherever he went that's and i looked some sorry for us you know it's one of the all-time greats anyway here also has a beautiful expression he says yeshua and i when i was drawing water from the wellsprings of salvation here are you done so even more important than going to the sheer is when the share's over you follow your rebbe what did the rebbe mean what could i get the rebbe does the rebbe want to drink right that's the even greater than tamatara says um water me my hair from the wellsprings of salvation what a beautiful language it says from the source of living waters hanoi that emanated the waters of shelimah who are mayuri hagon he bought small flames of silver of allah he began to light it on the second day uber had like he would make the headlights normally when you buy a new item you make the shakiyan upon the purchase and that's the sack of the rush and the tour nevertheless he would arrange it with other brokers as we see we often do such a thing because the gemara says when do you make a shakhyanu on the sukkah when you build the sukkah but we don't do that we arrange it together with the kiddush why because there's a concept that we like to arrange shaky under together with the said likewise the marshal would buy a numenora and he would and he would arrange it together with hadlik this is half of a fellow what in the world was the was the marshal doing he was making shahianu on the newman after the hadleigh and after shasta nissan that would seem number one that would seem to be a half um i have sec imagine a guy you know uh he buys a new suit and the middle of that lock is saying oh i bought a new suit and then he makes a shakiano on his new suit what would we call that a have sec i would assume he would have to make the brachas again of the hadley and shasta nissan it's a habsak you don't make random sha imagine a guy said oh i have an ashley outside to make sure you say what are you doing right so then why would he buy a numenora i mean the fact that he bought a numenor is very nice it's not relevant to the mitzvah of hadleka's nerman ira there's no mitzvah to buy a numenor on chanukah there's no some bring down you should have a nice mineral on hanako mission brings down you should try to have a nice manure which is a pella because hidden mitsa is on the item of the mitzvah the menorah is not even the item of the mitzvah is the the item that houses maybe she have nice nero it's a nice shemen but the menorah is not the shell mitzvah but what if you get menorah the same day of life because they are then you put the first day and you did not actually take your you could have in mind that the anu goes on that but he why it sounds like he would daft go wait to make the shakhianu on the second night why would he want to make a shakhyanud on the second night right here that's what he's doing he's making that that's what the shark shiva says that he would buy the numenora every year and he would make the shakhianu on the second night what's the he's not making two one so he made one for the first night and then another one the second night what's he doing that's an odd prank between the kiddush so so the lay shave is going on the kiddush also because in order to drink the yayan you need to make delay shave so it's it's it's connected but a random shaky on a new imagine if you made a shaking on a new car which by the way you don't make what brake do you make on a new car if you buy it now if you buy it not if you lease it most people don't buy cars anymore right but um but if you buy a new car now it depends if you trust your wife you trust your wife to drive the car then two people are being nana from it so you make a turmeric if you don't then you just make a shakhiana if you buy a new house you don't because you buy a new house you're going into debt for 25 years so it's not uh you don't make it they've had a new house only on a car talk to some people they buy a car they also go and then speak to your local therapist and okay so so the gemara says like this um so charles what's the shot in the marshall yeah why would the marshall make the shakianu on the second night so listen to this we're going to say a prima godim and then we have uh uh right you're from uh fardik descent good so we're going to have a big debate now between ashkenazim and fardham a beautiful ishitase okay it's not it's unbelievable okay my ass like this i actually had a hanukkah last night we had with the my wife's family the lakewood side of the family so the bakram said over torah from vienna ibishits on this gemara okay we'll keep it simple um when you light the miner you have to make a bracha for me it says one who sees the narcotic has to make so we have two statements says the name of rav if you like you make a broadcast review says if you see you make a brach on the first day one who sees makes two brachas umadlik mavarak gimmo and one who lights makes three brahes from here and on madlik mavarakshtayam when you light you make two for me when you see you make one so on the first night if you light you you make three and if you see you make two and on the second night and on if you light you lie too and if you see you light one so what's the missing brokaw that you don't do after night one sigmar says why are you so what do you think it is why don't we say why don't we not say shasta nissan the miracle was done already no koyome issa every day there's a new miracle okay so it says the prima goddamn it says i'm feeling wait a second what in the world does the commerce have made oh what bracha don't you say after night one good morning america what do you think it is what you know like what was the sheila what's the haba mean over here apparently the gemara has a havamina that you could continue to make a shahianu a night too so why would that be a miracle each night is a separate why would that be now it almost sounds like you could make a shakhriana night too but loved afghanistan but knight two maybe yeah the guard is a havamina to such a thing why so there's an interesting uh tasha i don't know if you ever heard do you ever hear the basics kasha you know i was thinking there's so many answers that actually now we said there 500 answers so takakaniko should be the whole year the whole right because we have 500 reasons to have an eighth day so it could be a whole but that means that means they're all wrong except for one right okay but b has made that's basically says kasha kanako should be seven days because the miracle is only seven days so the associative gives answers that what either they split it up into eight so every night was a miracle or even the first time when they poured it into the menorah there was still oil left in the jug or even the first night the oil didn't burn down to basically safe learns that the miracle of the first day was the miracle of the shaman the miracle of the oil but the prehadash has a different answer to the basics of kasha what's the pricha's famous answer the first day very good i live the first day the miracle was the military victory so right they rested from the military victory that was also miraculous it was 13 year then i once heard from romantic solomon that the whole jewish army was 13 people rashi and visayas says they're only 13 so 13 people against the whole greek army so that was also a miracle so the first day was the military victory so he says this uh saisoa quoted from the safer ritsai and ashkenazim the svardim hold like the base yosef according to basilica if the miracle of hanukkah is only in the miracle the oil therefore they don't say muhammad ashkenazim we go like the pre-khada she was in ashkenazi d silva he holds that the first day of hanukkah is not for the oils for the muhammad's so therefore in our text we say that's whether you say them whether you go like the babysitter you go like the pre-kardashian i guess not right okay so be it as it may be it as it may it would come out then at least according to ashkenazim what's the first day of hanukkah the miracle of the military victory what's the second day of hanukkah a new miracle a miracle the oil and that's maybe why the gemara has a half amino that the second day of hanukkah you should make shakhianu the marshall loved hanukkah so much that he was for the havamina of the gemara and therefore he wanted to make a shahianu on the second night of hanako because second night is like almost a new yomtif the first night begins is a military victory and the second night is the miracle of the oil so therefore the marshall in deference to the havamina the gemara in deference to the prehadash the marshal was noyek to buy a new menorah every year and make a shakhiano ai it's a random shachiano it's not a random shapiano because the same way the second night of rosh hashanah really we make a shakianu on the yomtif but just in case it's the america we take a new fruit so too the mashal shakhiano on the second night of hanukkah is going on hanukkah but just in case we're not supposed to now the thing here is it's more than just in case because it's only a havamina the gemara but the mascara of the gemara is you don't make shaky on the second night of hanukkah but still in deference to that havamina you would buy a numenora have in mind that the shakhyana is going on the omtif and the numenora as well why not make the way at the end you mean after he's done so i guess the shot is that really he should have done it when he bought it the only reason he's not doing it when he bought it is he wanted to be masada with the other brachas because there's a swara in general to be masada shakira's with other brachas so it could be that if you don't put it there it's not considered being masada with the other brachas using the like like abdullah why why are we smelling basamin during abdullah it's not it's like your masada breakfast together like what are you supposed to do when you buy it really you're supposed to make the shakhiano when you buy the whenever you when whenever uh whenever you want to shabbos it's not really you may you make the alakais and why do you don't you don't make uh you don't have to do bassam al-hakus no there's an indian since you're making brachas be masada everything so here there's a concept for example technically speaking when you wake up in the morning when you get dressed you say mama sharon when you put on your shoes you say uh shasta called sarki right when you stretch out you say mata asura when you stand up you say it's like boom we don't do any of it we just we're masada it but there's a concept in brachas you masada the broccolis together so bottom line is is this a good should we be naughty this practice of buying a silver manure every year what so man says or let's say you happen to be a bar mitzvah boy and you receive a gift a menorah on the second night of hanukkah should you incorporate it into the seder you know like the marshall not saying you have to buy it but what if you happen to have you receive a menorah on the second night of hanukkah salman writes by the way this shot in the marshall this is of um the primage first night his old menorah and the second because the first night he doesn't need an excuse to make a shakhiano you make a shakyano even without a numenora because it's the first night of yamtha so he lead first night old man yeah oh okay yeah the shot that we said on our show is he says like this he says the gemara says you don't make a shakhianu why would you think you do because you would think the 25th is a military victory and the twenty-six is the merrill is a miracle the oil in kenya knows mitzvah the marshall loved mitzvahs the sidran and he arranged it gimmel brachaise three brachas the base the shakhianu akadasham however the primage says so it doesn't look like gaiva this is a very it's like in uh a very uh saintly pious practice so we're not it's not major gasenos so the sort of questions whether we should do such a thing he says it could be it would be guy but for us was different martial is different and so he says writes have in mind when you make a shakhyanu on the first night so you say maybe maybe then i should wait till the second night no don't do that and on the bottom he says and the name of the martial to wait till the second night we don't do this in other words this was the martial's personal practice by the way once so in the sephiroth they say that a school up for paranosis to learn the havamin or the gemara why because they say the whole world this whole world is a havamina the whole the whole existence is the havamina so they they're into okay i'll just end off with this there's another alumnus here but we'll save for a different time i want to share with you just one particular miracle that once happened to marshall that he writes in the beginning of his uh safer as a hakadama that he himself experienced the chanukah miracle in his own study in the dhamma the yamcha if you look at number 13 you know we'll preface this with the famous question of the harim that what's the big deal that we celebrate the oil that lands very nice but sadiq these miracles happen all the time like rabbi nino bandusa his daughter said i lit with vinegar so you say well so what what's the hello oil burning itself is a miracle so whatever says oil should burn we'll say vinegar should burn so if that's the case we don't have a yum to commemorate regarding bendoys vinegar burning so why do we have a uh yum to commemorate the burning of oil so he says for sadiq and taco it's not a miracle the fact that it burnt for all of claudius that's a big mark anyway the amster summer writes saying that what gave him encouragement to write his safari is basically he alludes to the fact that his oil lasted long hashem was telling him you know attaboy keep it up keep it up we don't really have much more details but the swarm bring down the kawayasha brings down he quotes the he quotes the words of the marshall and he says well let me tell you the the true story he says on the fourth line number fourteen by the way brings us down as well when he was learning it happened he had a little candle the doily the funnel that was burning before him valius manches was about to go out by adolescence and three or four candles will burn more than than uh many many hours and this is what they're talking to testify about him he says one of the all-time great acharyan he himself experienced such a miracle but and uh we see he had a special khabibos for the amt of hanukkah as he bought a silver manara every year on night two and one of the explanations is is there is such a swara that the second night begins sort of a new phase of hanukkah and that's when we begin to experience the miracle of the oil okay our backside we'll hold it over here you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com