Torah Illuminated Series: Parshas Vayeishev - CHANUKAH - A KISS FROM HASHEM

foreign that the Syrian Greeks defiled all the oil on the hechal and when the entered the hikal they searched for a flask of oil to light the menorah they only found one flask it only had enough oil to last for one night and miraculously it lasted for eight nights the gemara is clearly saying the miracle of Hanukkah is that they found oil that only had enough to last for one night and it miraculously lasted for eight nights the miracle of the oil on the other hand if we study the alanisim the alanisim tells us the miracle of Hanukkah celebration of chanukkah is the many in the hands of the few tame the impure Syrian Greeks fell to the Jews the military Victory the alanisim is clearly saying that chanukkah is a celebration of the war so what was it is Hanukkah a yomptif to celebrate the miracle the oil or is it a yamta commemorating the military Victory furthermore we could ask why was the miracle of the oil needed at all the prayer they both ask there's a halach principle that when the majority of the Jewish people are impure you're allowed to do the service in the basement in a state of impurity so why did they even have to why was the miracle the oil necessary they could have used impure oil and lint with impure oil for eight days they didn't need a flask of pure oil to last for eight days they could have used impure oil we find in this week's parisha parisheshev that the brothers they were jealous of Yosef and they threw him into the pit and ruvane says you know what let's not kill you is safe let's sell him to the Ishmael and the posix says they sat to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and they saw Virginia a caravan of Yeshua elim were coming from gilad um and their camels were carrying all kinds of fragrance spices these camels were carrying all kinds of aromatic substances and Rashi is troubled why why does it concern us why do we need to know what the camels were carrying Rashi says shall Sadiq him to teach the great reward of the righteous it is not the way of Arabs to carry aromatic spices only things of foul or odor says Rashi but foreign they were carrying aromatic substances substances so he should not be harmed from the fowl smell it's a very difficult Rashi Rashi is telling us that a great favor for Yosef that his kidnappers at his hijackers were carrying substances that smelled good do you think it concerned the ice safe how his kidnapper smelled Josef was on the top of the world he was learning Torah from his father he had the special garment it was the last thing on yosef's Minds at the time that he was being sold into slavery and his world was crashing down what the camels were carrying of what significance is it why why does it even concern us why would it have even dawned on Yosef to pay attention to the smell of the items the kidnappers were transporting that's the aroma the good aroma the pleasant Aroma of josef's kidnappers was sending Yusuf a very important message yes he always says the world was coming crashing down he was being kidnapped from Jacob avino he was being taken to the most degenerate Society in the world he was all by himself a young boy in yosef's mind he may have thought God was forsaking him God was abandoning him he was being Cast Away the good aroma the pleasant Aroma was showing Yosef no Hashem is not banishing you you're not being Cast Away just the opposite Hashem is taking you there he's holding you by the hand Hashem has a mission for you you may not understand it you may not know what it is but the emotion was not abandoning you he's guiding you foreign certainly the great miracle of chanukkah is the military Victory our lives were in danger the Syrian Greeks persecuted us for religious observance we had to win the war to save our lives the miracle of the oil was certainly not halachically necessary but it put the miracle of the war in the proper context we may have thought God was saving our life because he has to save our life we're his people he has no alternative if he doesn't save our life there won't be a Jewish people Hashem didn't want us to think he's saving our life just because he had to Hashem wanted to show he's saving our life because he loved us the miracle of the oil was an added touch a touch of love so that we recognize and understand and appreciate that the military victory was not because Hashem had to save us but rather it's because he loved us explains that when a person gives a gift a watch or any other item the gift is certainly the most valuable part of the Matana of the present but the wrapping paper and the bow add a certain touch a certain Dimension it's a certain Touch of Love That is added to the gift certainly the primary Miracle of Hanukkah was a military Victory however the mirror the the miracle of the oil the miracle that the oil lasted for eight days was A Touch of Love was the wrapping paper was the bow it was a kiss from Hashem says this is analogous to a family that lost an heirloom and they were searching for it for the longest time and one of the children finds the heirloom and returns it to the father and the whole family is Overjoyed that the heirloom was found and the father goes over to the boy and he gives the boy a kiss on his head so while everyone is Overjoyed that the heirloom was found this boy has extra Joy because not only was the heirloom found but he also merited a kiss from his father [Music] the the celebration of Hanukkah is the celebration of the military victory but the Added Touch of the miracle of the oil was a kiss from Hashem and that is the greatest cause of Celebration wishing everyone a wonderful week [Music]