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Why 8 Nights When the Miracle was 7 Nights?
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Rabbi Moshe Elefant (COO of OU Kosher) discusses the Halachos of Chanukah.
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this the one of the most wonderful
things about Kaneka is that khaka is not
just the Y of the monora and it's not
just the Y of the donuts and the drel
and the lus it's also the Y of Tor and
one of the sources of the on khaka is of
course the famous question of the B who
asks that the first night there was no
Miracle they found the oil and there was
enough oil for one night it was only the
next seven nights there was a miracle
that the oil kept on replenishing so the
question is why do we celebrate Kaneka
eight days it ought ought to be only
seven days and there were there are a
countless number of answers given to
that question every year it seems that
there are new answers and they're all
great and they're all wonderful and I
was asked what is my f favorite answer
to the question so it's hard to pick
which is your favorite V Tor it's like
saying which is your favorite child but
the de the answer that seems to be
resonating with me this year is the
answer given by the
Samer in the we
say they lit
the manur in the courtyard Ander asks a
question the manur is not lit in the
courtyard the manur was in the B
mikdash so he says actually that year
they chose to light the manora not in
the B mdash itself but they actually lit
the
man
Outdoors why cuz the whole point of
lighting the manura was to publicize
the miracle that was had done and does
for us if the Manar is going to be lit
in the B mikdash when no one can enter
you won't feel the miracle you need to
see the miracle and appreciate the
miracle and they let the manora outdoors
the amount of oil that they found was
the amount of oil that you need when you
light a manora indoors because there's
no wind there's no there's nothing
that's making the oil get used up
quicker when you're lighting outside you
need more oil so they only had the
amount that would be proper for inside
but the N was that are lasted that
year Outdoors it lasted for the same
amount of time as if they would have lit
indoors and I saw that the and his sa
from says what does that mean to us what
means to us says yes we all light the
manur every night of Kaneka but what
many people unfortunately do is they
light the manur they make the BR they
say that and then they go on and they
leave that isn't what kazal wanted from
us they wanted us to sit at the by
manura look at the manura think about
the manura think about the Miracles that
aesh did for us and for the Miracles
that AES constantly does for us and for
the Miracles that we pray that K should
continue doing for us that's what Kan is
all
about to
thank and to
asku for all the Miracles you do for us
all the time that we should have the
privilege especially in these very very
difficult times in Israel that Miracles
should happen again for cl and we should
be able to constantly thank and praise
Hashem for
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them