The Yom Tov of Chanukah The Enduring Takeaway of Gratitude - by Rabbi Nachum Scheiner (Audio Only)

I have the opportunity that I work in shiner shish for those of you that don't know thousands of people come a day to din to learn these these soup these cookies actually today we gave out thousands of donuts a place that shines of a all types of Eden. all types of Eden being that I come across different types of people sometimes I hear and it's interesting I hear from people maybe even more than other yum when Kanekah is over they feel a little bit down maybe even a bit depressed a little bit sad they was. Yeah, let's see. And now it's over. We're going into the dark winter. We're holding now right at the end of Kaneka. It's Zaneka. It's important to know my father's gazun always says over in the name of Rav Hutner that whenever these are yumptiff and then the yumpt passes it's not that the yumpt passed but rather it's an addition added to our bank account to our spiritual bank account another preemptive. My father also says over from others that the year is not like a merry ground that it's sukus and then purim pes and then sukus again rashana. It's not a merry ground. It's like a spiral staircase. We're constantly climbing higher and higher and elevating ourself. I would like to share with you all the a limud a takeaway from the yumpt of kaneka that's applicable for the whole year to keep the to keep the inspiration the lim of kaneka throughout the here. The DMA to what you all are doing, continuing your year of inspiration, your seminary year for afterwards also to keep the the fire, the inspiration to keep it going. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Kasia mechanic for giving me this platform to be able to share with you all the organization intensive connection and Hashem shabbench all of you with the y of like we just mentioned after the gammorra says the story of the nest of kaneka the says the gammor we say the full howl throughout that's alim of course there's a separate discussion a question why the gammorra doesn't say kam also with lighting of course the garra speaks afterwards about the of lighting but the garra says One of the very famous questions asked later as the Taz asks later on the mashma. Why do we make such a big asich of the nest of thera? We make a z. We make a z for the nest of thera. Of course there was a nest the timu the came in they were all the oils we were not able to light the mana a nest happened we found oil and it burnt for eight days that's the that's we light the manra to remember that nace why don't we do something to remember which would seem seemingly be a way bigger nace the n of Of course. True. But why isn't it that we have actually the nace? Why don't we why don't we do something the n of the just to bring out how big of a n the was of course we say it in rashi at the end of the par the second rashi says that moenu was misspel for the kashoim 13 of them bey Re in the hands of many tens of thousands. It was a nest. It was a nest. Clalist was saved. If they would have lost, it could have been a sakashi. It was also sakni. They didn't let us learn was a nest. So why is it that we only make a z for the nest of the and not for the general the general n the n the whole n of the n of the answers the the following true that the n of the theim was a n However, it's possible it's possible for one to mistake and say, "Lisa, they had a technique, they had a they came up with a strategy how to do it." It's possible to mistake and think that it's actually tea. It's not an ace. It's not an ace. We had it in the recent war with Iran and before then when there were 3,000 rockets that came from Iran. 3,000 thou 300 I'm sorry 300 ballistic missiles and the lie came and just about nothing happened. And sometimes a person could think, you know, that uh they had it figured out. They had it figured out. from the huge mess of the M that people could have thought they had it figured out. They had it figured out and that would actually not get us fully involved engaged to give to the However the oil this for sure was an ace was 100% a nace that it burnt instead of one day it burnt seven days that's a clear. So that's how we make a z for that nace. And once we have that n then already like the kaduca that says the same ter and he expands on this pointer and he says the we make a z for the n of thera. When we give for that nace then already we give also on the which was a way bigger nace. However, a person could get distracted from that like the Ramban like the Ramban said says in Par's boy the famous Ramban the Ramban says when he's a big nut really everything is a nace even even but even even things that technically could look like that it's not a nace it looks like that it's a nace but if you see a that's a person to understand to give even But that the of is to give hidah not only on gluim to give haid on everything. But to be able to giveim, you have to start by just to bring out a little bit the concept. But I first want to bring expand on this concept of even with the famous famous asks why is the of eight days should be seven days why they found the Okay. So they found a par to be able to lie to minor. The nace was that from one day it lasted eight days. So what was the n? The n was eight seven days. One day wasn't a nace. That's the kasha. There are hundreds maybe even thousands of kasha. Theam cipher answers. You know why we celebrate eight days of Kaneka, seven days for nace and one day for the tea? What do you mean for the tea? Tea is also a nva is also a nita told his wife when she didn't have oil she the same that says that oil collide should burn the same is also for vinegar meaning to say what what did he mean to say the same way how theish that makes a nest of course it's tea but tea is also a n and just like the makes tev that oil could burn. They wish they could make that vinegar shaburn. And says that one day of is that is also a tea is also a which means when we give to throughout the days of it starts with the nigla and that's supposed to be to give him And to understand like we see from is also a nace and we say how a whole day is on the we give to the for everything you have to give. I had the opportunity a little under two years ago right before to be present at the eclipse. He was in a total eclipse. meaning to say is the sun was blocked 100% for over three minutes and it was dark middle of the day three o'clock in the afternoon when the sun usually goes down at 6 7:00 8 7:00 already then 6:00 I remember the next morning by ding Could you imagine? We just know of course the sun comes up every morning and it goes down. But when you see and you experience how the cover the sun for a few minutes. So even every morning that comes up that tea is also a nace. The days of the days of is to give to the on all on everything starting from the whole by ding is put in we by giving to every we say thank you that you have to give hidah be grateful. Just my somebody showed me this Kaneka from the Mashkisha Wolson beautiful contress they put out on Kaneka different anhus different nudis about him on Kaneka they bring a story his daughter asked him, what should I be misspelled by the ner of Kaneka? Should I dive him for this or should I dive him for that? So Wolfson answered him. He said, "Listen, if you want, you could for this, you could for that, but with you could accomplish a lot more." The takeaway, the takeaway from the of should be to be able to remember to give hidah to be grateful to the rabbi. If you would allow me just another moment or two, I want to share something from my brother. He said over this year by Akanaka Masiba and I like it very much relevant to what we're speaking about now. Pesak. We spent Pesak night speaking about the cypius every other day in the year. We don't spend so much time says we have a reference. We remember in keshma by kdesh we remember but how do you remember by just just you remember you spend once a year going through all the details and then any other day of the year it's a reference to that my father added the same thing as tishabove every day of the year davening these There's a lot of mention in we speak about building a lot a lot a lot of reference about we spend a day a full day a night and a day in the year what we're missing and every other day of the year when we dive in it's that reference that mention brings us back brings us back to the to what we spent time on tish. So my brother added and he said, "We spend eight days of being grateful to the that's the essence of the Yumptive. You know it's very interesting after we light the minora [Music] the mosur those pieces go through the four golas took us through golus mitim we were saved from golas bvel from the golus of akashes and hommon and the ivonim of It's very interesting pes by night when we speak about how the took us out of we don't make a mention over there anything about the golus yavan the golus of so why is it on that we mention or all other golas it could be being that the whole y is a yumptive of says in that when it comes to when once you start giving you have to be you have to say thank you for everything. So the whole is all about when we give like we said is on the n of the kaneka of the the n of the we give already on the other golas that the saved us as well but the y of we could clearly take it along with us throughout the year. Every time we say bye or any other time throughout the day to see to be grateful to theam for everything that he gives us. The is that we should take all of us. We should take the limud from the yam and be able to constantly be grateful to the rabb and have a wonderful evening.