The Rasha that Lit Up the World - R. Yehoshua Nissan - TorahAnytime.com

you know there's an incredible story with the choice it was in the town of lublin a very terrible jew unfortunately who was an informant and he was really ruining the lives of all the jews and so the jews in the town there were they had a great rabbi over there a tremendously righteous holy person called the seer of lebanese and he had the ability to see beyond in a totally different realm so they said this is what we're going to do is a time for miracles because hanukkah is this time where we transcend the sense of limitation where we transcend beyond the natural to recognize that with hashem there is no cap to what we can accomplish comic is a time of miracles you should know that's well known the great righteous people it was on chanukah they would do wild miracles because this is what this light is all about that's shining out of your manure the light of recognition that you step forward and what hashem will do afterwards is going to shatter your perception of what is possible so they said let's go to the there's this guy he's wreaking havoc on our lives let's he's a terribly wicked person and let's write his name on a piece of paper we'll give his name to the chris that would see his name on the paper with his eyes what he can see about a person when he sees their name he'll see he's an evil person and he'll do what he needs to do in heaven to save us from the plight of this person so they go it was hanukkah and they give this note to the khaizer the syracuse he looks at the note and it's got this guy's name on it he looks at it and he says wow this guy is lighting up heaven and earth what what'd you say this guy is lighting up heaven and earth they took the paper back sure enough they had written the right name they didn't understand it so they decided you know what let's come back in a couple hours they came back in a couple of hours they handed him the paper he looked at it he said oh wicked person he was able to see with his eyes so clearly the evil of this person had jumped out at him oh scared him so they said what's going on here we handed him the same paper two hours ago and he said this guy's lighting up heaven and earth so they went to find this guy and they acted all casual i guess like they weren't trying to do what they were doing and they said tell us two hours ago what were you doing he said i was lighting my minora two hours ago i was lighting my minor hero i was lighting my sonico mini wrong [Music] this jew the lowest of the low came forward and he lit his monaro and the crazy looks and he says he's lighting up heaven and earth how is that possible how is it possible because you don't have to do it alone if you don't take the candles out of the box there's no menorah but if you show up no matter who you are then you take out those candles you take out the oil and you set up your naira and you say it's time to light up the world and the greeks start laughing they start laughing at you maybe your neighbors are laughing at you maybe your family's laughing at you and maybe even you inside are laughing at yourself light up the world let's not get so dramatic he's just a couple candles it's just little old me i'm just putting this thing in my window what's the big deal but when you reach out and you light that wick the chryser would say i see someone lighting up heaven and earth we're not as wicked as that person imagine what happens when we light our menorah we light up the world we light up the darkest corners of the world but you can't how could you because i'm just here to light my candle if i step forward and light my candle if i step out and say i'm gonna fight for what matters then hashem says i'm right here behind you buddy i'm right here in your corner i promise you you're gonna light up the world is it possible no we don't work with possible possible is for the greeks limitations is for the greeks that's the horrors department we live beyond all of that because we live with hashem you