Hanukkah: History Repeating Itself?

we're before and and uh every year you go through a sh on a certain subject on a certain M during a certain but I think sometimes it connects to the days that you are standing inside of and therefore I wanted to uh bring out a couple important ideas that really connects Kaneka to the times that we're standing in right now because I think there's a lot to connect to let's start with a little bit of History though I just want to start with a little bit of historic events because people speak about certain subjects but they don't really know about the history that goes behind it so as we know one of the events that happened approximately uh 2200 years ago was there was a great man by the name of Alexander the Great he was the one who was in charge of the Roman in charge of the Greek Empire and he was able to make them the superpower of the time he made them being able to be overpowered and then he had a sudden death at a very young age he barely hit 40 and he died at a very young age and as a result of that because it was so sudden there was a tremendous split in the Empire and they started fighting amongst each other to know who would take over this incredible royalty to be able to take care of this incredible Place one of the Prime uh leaders who was the head of the Sal seeds in the in Greece his name was anonos maybe maybe I'm sorry antus the one you might be familiar with antus was considered from the most powerful groups that broke off there was four groups that broke off he had a tremendous apathy a hate for the tmes who were the other side and they had many Civil Wars amongst each other so he felt that he was a reincarnation as they say Gil of Alexander the Great and he said he was going to take over the whole entire world he was ready to finish up the Empire and make sure he conquers everything he held that he was a God Like many of these did and as a as a result of that he was very as they say into himself that's something we're too surprised about hearing some Greek leaders in order to do that he wanted to go as they say down south he started to go towards Egypt he wanted to go towards Egypt and Destroy Egypt and then eventually towards Africa also we know Alexander got most of the known world of the time which is a lot of Europe and most of Europe but he wanted to go down South Africa now we all know the greatest channel to get down to Egypt and then eventually to Africa is through Judah what's known as Israel these days but that know as Judah he wanted to go down in that direction and therefore he needed Israel out of his way now he didn't want to D conquer us or destroy us he didn't need he just wanted us to be humbled surprise surprise Jews can be a little bit stubborn sometimes we could be obnoxious not listen to leaders as we've maybe been so familiar with sometimes and therefore he just wanted us to be humble to acquest to everything he says do whatever he does and part of that meant resign your religion just be like us when in Rome do like the Romans or in this case when in Greek do like the Greeks just basically wanted to say be like us and therefore they made many against our religion again he wasn't looking to kill us he was no Hitler he was no hon that wasn't his interest he was just looking to try to get rid of our individuality from us being too separate from them that's all he really wanted us to be now the best way to do this and this is unfortunately something that has happened over and over again in our history is to go from amongst us there were a lot of helist these are what we call the M the people that are sometimes go off the D and from within they sometimes can beat us out from without in other words they can go ahead and take care of us in a in a way that's um unprecedented as we all know when you deal with people from inside it's much more dangerous so there were many hellenists that were coming about at the time that were going ahead and going up with the Greek gods going into mythology starting to focus on all their beliefs and uh and they knew that if they would be able to take power over Judah so then we're we're in we're good we'll be able to go back and forth freely we'll be able to do what's necessary as much as we need that was what their prime interest was great that was his idea so here it is there was a Coen who was a big his name waso he lived in 174 BCE that's about 200 years before the 20 200 years before the destruction of mikash this person named was a bigad and he was very upset about this situation but he didn't do much he had a brother who was already heniz what we call an Enlightenment movement a person who went after the that went after them and he really wanted the point of power being the K meant that you were the leader of the Jewish people more or less he wanted to go ahead and be one of the he wanted to take over his brother's position so he slipped a few bucks is usually how it is to an and his marry men and he ended up taking the position ofo he ended up becoming K what a great way to become K he ended up becoming the leader his name was Jason this person obviously changed his name but anyways his name was Jason he was the one who took over and he was the one who was doing all of an's work for more or less he was going ahead and putting gymnasiums right next to the bet Dash the gymnasium is a place of now these go together in German literature was also learning meaning education at the same times the sports so was the same thing the worship of the body of greatness whether it's from smarts down to the physical body we know that they had a tremendous arena for going and focusing on the physical body all of their gods had to do with the K of the physical body a Zeus Apollo all of these gods that they put inside of every Stadium were dressed around the whole stadium these gods they worshiped them they bowed down to them they worshiped the physical body they amongst each other these gods for anyone who had a education when we were younger we had to go I remember when I was younger I had to do an English they used to make us read this garbage book I have no idea why to read mythology it was I went through all the stories of Mythology where they go ahead and they uh you know that was their thing now obviously there are sports similar to the sports we have these days but but a little bit different you should know our Sports when we compare to our Sports which is also true which we'll speak about is a little bit commercial team sports all right they're usually planned together they're professional team sports one team plays against the other and they make a few dollars here and there a little bit more than what we make okay but that's really what it's uh what it's about however their Sports was a little bit different it wasn't a team sport more or less it was much more of an individualized growth of a person his capabilities that an individual can go ahead and strengthened himself up to be able to run the long uh the long miles or the Sprints something we're very familiar with from the Olympics and most of the Olympics the majority of the Olympic games are individuals they're individuals running whether it's ski events or like I said running events or hurdles Sprints and all these types of ideas that happened the sports events that happened in Olympics wasn't from Greece that's our own thing that they kind of added on to the Olympics afterwards you know they have basketball or these types of sports events that's events that happened afterwards everything that had to do with Greece was the individual with all his strength and beauty going ahead and trying to overpower the other person of course everyone knows the very famous Gladiators that was being that they fought one against the other tremendous competition whether it was types of wrestling or boxing the closest thing we have to this at this time is boxing when you see boxing you could think of wow this is Greek culture at its best just each guy trying to beat the the other guy and he finally wins with a bloody everything half a face and everything's droopy and this and they raises his hand in absolute success wow what a point of GAA of success of a feeling how exhilarating but anyways that's exactly what they uh were vouching for okay the the survival of the fittest the strongest that was what they were doing and that's what Jason was bringing in he wanted to put it next to the B mikdash higher education to be able to change a little bit that's what he did and the hellenists were becoming rampant m like the enlightenment movement that we had 100 years ago same type of type of thing and like we said from within is always the worst you know the Shah if anyone reads a little bit about the Holocaust the people that were the most dangerous were people that were known as the capos the capos were the ones who were Jews within the barracks that they were the ones who were atrocious they were the most vicious ones to us they did the job for the ESS because they always wanted to get on their good side so they're the ones who always did their work anyways so that's what uh he did now as it usually works with these types of things eventually the one who was under Jason his servant paid off a little bit of the higher servants guy in millenias and he actually took the place of Jason he got forfeited and another guy came and took his place and that's what happened now at this stage it was getting out of hand Jews were getting killed with no end it was done ruthlessly and again it wasn't done for no reason K it was done only if they found you caught you serving religion a person keeping Shabbat there was a cave full of people that they were hiding a thousand people that they did the sin of doing the Brit and they were also keeping Shabbat during the Shabbat time over there and they were cut and they burned down they burnt the cave they burnt the cave and killed all thousand people inside of it and her seven sons was during this time period it was during this time period they insisted that they bow down and when each one of her servant Sons to the little to the smallest one didn't they were all killed including KH so we know that this was a very treacherous downtrodden and I'm on purpose bringing out how difficult this scenario was now from here of course we know there was a great man a man by the name of mahu who was already very elderly was no young chicken he was very you know he was on his almost his last legs as they say and he decided that this is enough we we read in when we say we say that fought that we that you he fought our fights and he done our he done our what do you mean our we fought his fights not the other way around we're saying you fought our fight what do you mean he fought his own fight we were here fighting for him but the answer is took it in a way that he was fighting his own fight no this is this is treacherous this cannot what bothers who bothers me it was in his blood that it so Disturbed him that we can't hold back and he went ahead and did if I could say almost a suicidal War him and his five Sons he only had five sons and they went ahead and of course went ahead to go ahead and fight against a whole Roman Empire the name was yonatan yanan Yehuda elzar and shim these are the five Sons now these five children of his went ahead and they made a to go against now they couldn't do it themselves probably so they recruited a whopping 5 to 6,000 people wow against literally tens of thousands of soldiers now remember we're not talking about machine guns here we're talking about hand-to-hand comment first of all I don't know how much strength you can have after killing a few people you're like wiped out it's a little bit hard that's first of all and second of all when you're surrounded from all ends you have to be Bruce Lee to be able to pull this eye how do you get the back of the front the sides it's a almost impossible mission to do to do such a thing besides the fact that these guys were raised from the time that they were two to be able to be Fighters it's not like they were people that also learned to be in the Army the people were in the Army were people that that's what their job was from young age that they were meant to be Josephus points this out that they were meant to be this from the beginning that was their whole objective we all know Ma like I said he was an elderly man with his five children they were sitting in the M all day they weren't the thing they weren't giving off any type of impression but they leted out a prayer to and they call themselves who is like you who is comparable to you in the amongst all the other gods meaning all the olical Gods no one can stand up to you and therefore we are fighting your fight and before they went out to battle I don't recommend doing this they fasted they fasted the day before you go out to battle it's not something usually so highly recommend I don't really feel like going out to fight it's not usually the best time to pull that off anyways so that's what they did in this plea to this suicidal kind of type of War but the energetic feeling of I'm here to do the if is here and he wants me to do this and I felt that this is the right thing to do I'm going to do what he asked me to do I will do his beckoning and they did it and they vanquished and they vanquished and they were able to succeed now most people just see it as one war it wasn't it was a three-pronged war andus was enraged he was Furious about what happened and therefore he sent double the amount of people with many generals on a second and third spring in order for it to uh in order for them to conquer now eventually they conquered I'm going to tell you how soon but I'm going to just stop before I tell you how it happened just to tell you that we see from here the incredible power of what we call they went ahead and did because they felt it was the right thing to do and therefore they made a war that they felt was maybe unprecedented but necessary to be done and they did it because they felt that we had to go ahead and fight's War we cannot let this continuing people are fighting to hold on to religion and they went out of their way in order to make this incredible that's this incredible story and this feeling that we get from now when we light candles I want to explain make us understand what some people might be making a mistake or un misunderstanding of what kanah is really about now that we understand a little bit of the story and again I'm not finish with the story but we'll put it in soon the second part of the story but I want to get a correction most people again I don't think it's amongst the religious if I could say it's amongst more of the non-religious have encountered this religion and it's a big religion over here in this country a big a big holiday in this country as a religion of conquest of Vanquish of being able to to be able to have a tremendous amount of strength to be able to be M it's an irony it's a very ironic idea the fact that they go ahead and express it in a way is it has to do the power of man and how strong we we are and they went ahead and fight fought back and unfortunately like I I said I'm going to put the theme in perspective that became the theme of the holiday sort of speak when we know as I just gave you an introduction that these people were completely weaklings they were not people who were on the gym they were not people who were working out who were Pumping Iron that's not what was happening M was on his last legs he only was around for one more year after he started the Rebellion he was niftar naturally within a year that's it and he gave it over to Yehuda Yehuda his son ended up being the leader the general of the next two Wars he only won the first war by the time the second war R wasn't even around anymore and it's seen as a type of fight which means that we always have to go ahead and fight to the Finish and be able to do what we can do what we say and is usually coined is the words the strength of my power my own individual strength now like we said before makabi stands for that was their that was the doing that they did before they went out to war the great strength of hasem and here it is what did they name their basketball team the basketball team and the soccer team the football team over here in Israel is of course named makabi you know why it's called makabi because it shows the strengths it shows the capabilities it shows that we have vanquished it show that we have won do you realize the irony the exact sports team which is the epitome of what helenismo team one second that doesn't make so much sense at least don't call it makabi call it the hellenized or something like that so they have a different abbreviation which seems a little bit more appropriate which for makab stands for who really is a Jew here anyways who on the team is anyways really Jewish and it happens to be factual I'll be honest with I was one time on a plane going back to the States one time on an LL flight and I was sitting next to a chap who was about twice my height and a little had a little bit more color than me and he was you know he was very very and I was like oh wow how are you you know what are you doing here you came he was talking to me he actually asked me he wanted to ask me some questions about Judaism so I spoke to him I said what are you here for it he said well I'm here to play in the makabe team they recruited me to play in the makab team I said oh really as I could be you know my wife was in there so I sometimes could be very as they say a little obnoxious so said are you Jewish and this he goes no I'm not Jewish at all why I have to do jewi I'm here to play the basketball team that's what it was it mean the majority of the team has nothing to do they just take on teammates that will win the team so I don't understand why people are standing on the crown and going yay my team won when they have nothing to do with you they come from the states or they come from all places all all sides of the the universe but anyways that's so they go ahead they've kind of taken the the ideology of what Kaneka is all about in order to be able to feel and connect to something much greater to be to understand that is behind us and they went ahead and made the mistake of calling that what a makab is about about going ahead and chasing after the sports one time we have a friend of the family my wife's friend that she had a they come from Modern parents so they bought for them a present they bought them a manura they bought the manura this was back over a decade ago they bought for them manura so what was in the manura holding each one of the lights was a different sports player basketball baseball soccer football each one had a you know boxing a box each one this oh look at our that are here we have our Greeks that are able to hold up our our lights in order to do it what I'm saying is there seems to be some ironic mistake dissidence that occurred during the celebration of this incredible that we have that have focused on the wrong side of the team we're focused on the side of the team are not I'm not necessarily doing that and that's uh the idea that we see when we go through the story and we see that they before they thought their whole idea was going ahead and fasting they said he cried out to everybody saying who could be and that's the greatness of what this whole is about you know the similar uh the similar idea occurred also by um by y as we know there's a day that's known here as Y which a nice idea it's a good idea we also celebrate y we also have a day that's called y it's called which is when the destruction of MD happen so to also we understand what happens to be okay during that time period That's that that's when World War One happened which led to World War II which led to the Holocaust as we all know but anyways the idea of Y is was made on the day of the Warsaw Uprising on the Warsaw Uprising why because like I said see we weren't as they say we weren't like sheep that went to the slaughter they went ahead and they fought against and it was done certain you should know it wasn't there were big sikim that did it and they succeeded very often and we didn't go like sleep to the S other words the establishment of the idea of yah is to remember that the problem with the Shah is that we didn't fight back I'm trying to say there's a certain mistake in AA here which I want to bring out of understanding what what this is about now if this war of Kana was all about just a war I assure you no one would remember about it 200 years later less than 200 years later there was aash we we the temple was destroyed we were thrown out it wouldn't have remembered there have been hundreds of wars and rebellions than thousands that have occurred in history that people forgot about it there have been great Empires the Egyptian the Babylonian the Greek Roman all Empires with a lot of rebellions one after the other Napoleon who remembers all these wars nobody remembers them they're there they're forgotten the next day and that's it they come they go someone who's a history buff maybe he'll remember a little bit about it but I met these are Wars that not remembered why are we sitting here and celebrating and kindling lights continuously every year about a rebellion which really doesn't exist right now we don't have a bet MDES right now it doesn't exist but it's for this idea this perspective to teach us that no the war happened as a result that we light the lights to always remind us of the nest that was reminding you bua I'm here I'm taking care of you I'm the one who's behind you if you put your full trust in me then you should know this is an incredible idea that the more I put you put your trust in me you focus on me and you care about me and you realize it's from me you should know I'm going to take care of you the more I know and I'm cushioned by my father up in shim and I know where it's coming from and I don't Focus On My Own Strength I have to do what we call my own personal effort but if I don't go ahead and I don't over focus it on myself but I realize I'm only a utensil to be able to get there then I know then I'll be okay then will take care of me I'm going to give you a couple examples of this idea just so we get an example of it I'm not just talking about the idea of believing in hasem it's a lot more than that it's it's it's doing what we're doing but knowing that is next to me I'll give you a couple good examples of this idea first of all there was a person who surprise surprise over here he was making a wedding and uh he didn't have the means the money to be able to make the wedding so someone told him a brilliant idea go to America that's good idea didn't think about that one said go to America take a plane and hopefully over there you'll be able they say you know it's the land of uh land of milk and honey I'm just kidding it's a land that you know that can go ahead and give away those was an exaggerated statement but there was a plan said they'll be able to take care of you over there maybe they'll be able to find you something so he said okay I'll try it you know was a guy who spoke a broken English but to do it a little bit said I'll do what I can do so he bought a plain ticket which was already blowing the budget almost just to buy the plane ticket and it was on the plane on the way he was like what did I do I didn't real he started having Kata remorse about what he did I just spent a good amount of money which I need for this wedding on a plane ticket I'm going to land I don't even know where I'm going where he's staying where am I going to collect he didn't do all the homework a very inexperienced guy and he was very as they say Bren he was a little bit broken about the whole downtrodden about the whole entire event didn't realize what he's doing he landed got his bags and got out and then he happened to see another he saw another Israeli that was coming out and he asked him can we take a cab together can we take me to the Jewish areas can you take me to one of these Jewish areas I'll go with you maybe I'll be able to figure out where to go there I'll go to some Big M I don't know so they went together to to uh Brooklyn around that area and he ended up knocking at someone's door he knocked someone's door and the guy took him in and he told you know he spoke for a little while he gave him something to eat he gave him dinner and he gave him something to eat and they were talking and shmooing and he said so why you here he told us I'll tell you the truth I have a little bit of a savings but not enough I'm wearing off a daughter and uh you know so they told me maybe here I'll be able to find something so you know after sitting with this person for uh for a good amount of time for about half an hour he wrote out a check for $155,000 he wrote a check 50 you guys want to know his address right he wrote a check I know he's going to call he he he he wrote a check $15,000 he wrot to him he goes this is unbelievable the golden of Medina I got this is unbelievable this is a place a golden place I couldn't believe it and that's what he did he went back home he said that was sufficient funds to be able this must have been a long time ago CU $15,000 not enough anymore but okay that was sufficient for what he needed in order to do and he went back home very satisfied and very was 3 years later guess what another daughter was on the way another daughter was getting married he had another daughter that uh needed to be married but this time he didn't even have any backup funding last time he had some of his savings this time this without saving he said S no problem I got my good pal over there in America he hopped on a plane and this time he knew exactly where his address was he wrote down the address to make sure remembered took a taxi to this person's house and he knocked on the door and he said you remember me he goes yeah sure I remember you invited him in he gave him something to eat they spoke for a little while he told him how you know how things are going and what he's here for that's very nice he took out his checkbook and write for him $180 wrote from $180 here you go he looks at he goes um you're missing a zero you know like what's going to didn't know there's he said is everything okay whatever he said yeah it's fine you oh cuz Oh you mean cuz last the last time I'll tell you last time I'm not very I'm not I'm not a g I'm not a super wealthy man just last time I was in the middle of going through a difficult situation he had a certain court case that he was going through that's a easy situation he was going through and I made a vow to made that if you let me win this cour case the next person that comes to my door I'm going to give him $115,000 obviously the person coming collecting for the right reasons but I'm going to ahead and give him $155,000 so last time I gave you $15,000 but now it's $180 that's what I give people what else do you want it's like said okay I understand you know you can't complain as they say Beggars can't be Chooser so to speak the expression goes and he went knocking door to door after that he went he tried to pull up he was able to gather together some six or 7,000 and he ended up coming back a little bit as they say again down and expected more I thought I would get an easy 15 or whatever at least I thought maybe a little bit extras okay I didn't know you didn't know to he went to the rabbit he went to his R and he he told him the story and he said rabie what happened he said what do you mean what happened it's obvious what happened don't you know what happened he said the first time when you flew you had no idea where you're going what you're doing you set your eyes to K and you said AEM I've no idea what I'm doing here I don't know where I'm going please can you help me and said oh you want me and by I'll help you the next time you were going could you know Hashem was also there you know I said do and I do I need to do said a little bit to him he was he was was also in the picture but really I knew the address I'm there I'm good I knew exactly where I meant to go so K said oh you're okay said take care of yourself he said you can go ahead you're okay you say he gave you $180 you know like what's wrong you to do that it's all a matter of perspective how tly dependent you are on that is the extreme that's the amount of how much you're going to end up getting in order to be able to survive that specific situation you got it now going to give you an example in this is interesting from how can you give me an example to this idea in so let me tell you interesting which brings out an important idea in anyways the is that if someone comes to your door you're not really allowed to set him away without paying him you have to give him something now if it's a if it's someone who St collecting is's not really a poor person then could be not but if a proper poor person comes to your door and knocks then you should then you should know that you're supposed to give him something you should give him something the one 5 10 20 sh you should give them something okay it's a problem a little bit in the when you have so many people coming you have to know who's really a poor person or not but that's what you're that's what you're supposed to do now the is like this listen to this the real and it's brought is that if a person is missing a certain amount of money you have to give him all his needs in order to fill up his needs guy's making a wedding excuse me right what you say wait till the end don't run away before I'm finished right but really you're supposed to give him supplement him to the amount of money that he needs in order he can get him back on his feet in order that he can be there not just to give him five 10 shek that's the however and there important with a big H right however there is an addendum to this Rule and that is if it's what we call a person who's who's he goes from door to door he's a guy who knocks on all the doors he goes from building to building door to door and he collects money so over there you don't have to give him more than a minimum amount give him five shekel give him 10 give him one whatever you can give him a certain amount give him 20 shekele you don't have to supply all his Necessities you don't have to fill up all the gaps what's the difference between the first guy and the second guy what is the difference between the first guy and the second guy either way if a guy needs it so why don't I have to pay him the whole amount of money you hear the question so you know what the difference is the difference is the first guy doesn't go collecting doors he's embarrassed he's your brother he's your sister your mother your father your daughter your son your your Uncle Joe whatever it maybe make make Uncle Yuda I'd rather make him right it's a guy who he needs money and he's too embarrassed and he goes to his dear relative to be able to get a little supplement of money now you don't have to break the bank for him but for him or her you're supposed to actually give them as much as you can in order to help them out they are first in line in the prior of Saka because they're not going anywhere else the second guy when he knocks in your door he knows you're not giving him the whole amount he doesn't even expect it he doesn't know he love it saying he's denying it and you can do it that's a fantastic thing but the reason why he's going door too is cuz he knows as they say if he knows I'll go here I'll get a few shekel I'll go here I'll go here go here hopefully I'll be able to make a hopefully I'll be able to do something with the amount of money I'm collecting he'll go to a lot of places in order to do it you hear the you hear the difference what's the difference when a person goes and he focuses 100% on you you have to fill you have to fill gaps you have to take care of him you have to go ahead and help him to the best extent that you can help him when the person is not dependent on you he lookes you and you and you and him and it and that and Boo and boom bo he goes lot places so I'm not obligated to take care of him everybody together should go ahead and help him out we all together should go ahead and help him out that's how it is with in as much as my whole sustenance and everything I do after I do my after I do what I need is only focused on one one address says oh I'm I'm that's it I'm the only one here I'm the only one in the picture it's not me and him it's not me and the guy it's not me and your boss it's not me and someone else if it's that the scenario so then says okay I'll help you out I'm here I'll try to do what I can do to try to get you to help you out as opposed to when we do it and add a few other people into the scenario that we're we also kind of focus on other people then you should know we're entering other people into the par and that ends up causing that doesn't give it completely to us we don't fully get it the one who's going to take care of you for sure are is your father is your mother they're the ones who are going to take care of you because you know that's it they know that you're completely dependent on them a child is completely dependent on their parents so they know that are going to take care of me I'm they're not going to go anywhere they're going to complet because I have nowhere else to turn that's really how our attitude should be towards that if that's that's really the ideal of what we're focusing on that's what it says when we say we gave over the strong people to the weaker people the the the the bigger amounts to the smaller amount of people the the people that are to the people that are the pure to the the impure to the pure and those that are so the second half is very obvious people are people are busy with Tor and people are are pure Gave Over the bad people the bad guys like a good movie at the end the good guys win and the bad guys die sounds good right it sounds good it makes sense and that's what we're praising to but the question is what's the first half you put the bigger the stronger ones to the weaker ones and and the more to the to the less that's not the same syntax it's not the same exact thing but the answer is it is the same thing it is no difference it's because we were the small amount it's because we were were the weaker amount it's because we were the ones who were the underdog that we realized there is no chance of us winning the went into it like I said it would be a it wouldn't be permitted to do what they did they did a suicide mission there is no way in logically but they knew that this is the ofm this is what I need to do and hem is going to back me up and since they knew that hem is going to be behind us they did what was necessary to be done to to be done and therefore is the same thing is by saying it's no difference just like gave toim because we were the few because we were the small amount Hashem took care of us he was behind us we humbled ourselves in front of hem and that's why it's always like this you know it's so funny the Jews have been around the longest religion that's been around we've been here forever why are we still so small we're 15 million people this is ridiculous it's a joke why are the Arabs so much bigger than us they haven't been the Muslims have been around for 1,100 years the you smile have been for a long time but in the end of the day where where is it where is it so strong and the Christians are way much bigger than us even the Buddhists and all this are tremendous amount of people why they have so many of them we're so we're so small because wants say you will always be the smallest because I always want you to be humbled I never want you to think because you're you're bigger you're stronger so therefore you're going to win I want you to realize you're the smallest one of the smallest countries in you can't even fit the word Israel in the word Israel you can't on the maps right they all goes in the the ocean they all put Israel on the ocean what happened can't even fit on the map you know United States of America you gra the whole thing across we're such a teeny little place we make such a mess over here in this small little cute country what says I'll make you as many as the stars and sand right so that means if you're asking me how does that mean so that's called in what we say Quantity and not in quality It also says that Israel in the uses a reference in it says Israel is known as a place that's it's very big and very large excuse me like what are you talking about so the answer is if this place was above bunch of sand and dirt and domain so it's pretty small place but if let's say AR Isel is a diamond this is a humous Diamond wow I wouldn't mind purchasing this one as a diamond AR Isel is humongous it's massive there's no bigger Diamond than AR Isel it's like that with the Jewish people we are as much as the Stars much and as much as the quantity of the person then we we engulf the whole world okay everybody's talking about us everybody cares about us for some reason this cute little country that's on around right so that's a when it comes to quantity it makes that much but in terms of the I'm sorry when it comes to Quality it comes that amount as opposed to quantity that's that's where we that's where we claim okay anyway so that's um so that's this idea that's the point now I told you I would get to the second half of the story I want to get to the second half of the story because you know on the sign it said we always have and I want to mention how this brings out a little bit of what we are discussing right now and that is the second half of the story how did we win this war like I said the first war was won with mat and his and his and his sons the when the when the last grouping came they had over 50 to 60,000 Greeks that came against a family more or less like I told you we had 5 6,000 I think a little bit later we had a few more thousand we were talking about less than 10 we had 5 6 7 8,000 people to fight about against close to 60,000 people like if you're talking me about grenades and machine guns I hear Maybe we could win maybe we'd have a chance to be able to pull that off but again hand to hand comment I don't get it so this is what happened there was a lady by the named of yit okay this lady which people have heard her name but nobody knows the story so I might as well tell you from the mid mid about what happens this lady was a granddaughter to she was a daughter to who was the son of M was a very fair person very very nice looking person she was a very uh very Nic looking lady she decided that I she realized that this feat that they're about to do is a little bit dangerous and she decided to take initiative and she was a Kala by the way she was a Kala also she went to the Greek uh to the Greek encampments over there before they were about to come uh soon to go ahead and attack and she went there and everybody was like wow what she doing Jewish lady and this whatever but they realized this lady fit fit for the general they came with three superpowered generals they came with a very strong generals he sent his best generals Anu sent the most powerful generals that he had he sent the most powerful generals that he had so she went into the encampment and they took her to the highest General that was there at the time his name was nikor according to there's two different girls or bigus or Nicor I don't if think you guys really care but anyways that's his name anyways so he uh so he met this lady and he apparently this nikor had some blood cuz after one was enough for him he was ready to close he wanted to get married right he was ready to to get married to her and he said he wanted to get married so she said said her said said her she said just give me a day to prepare to go and wash up and get ready you know I have to make myself a Kala have to get ready to to get ready for the for the right so he gave her free reain in the encampment to go out and in and do what she needs to do after to go out to the river is go out and do what she needs to do she had free rain to go out and around and out and about to do what she needed to do and then that night she came and they had the sh together right they got out the wine she brought out the booze and also you know some sometimes According to some gear she actually had G she she brought some milk thing that's why some people have during this time period but anyways so they drank and she worked it out that he would drink a little bit more than he's usual to drink which probably meant a lot and she got him to drink a lot until he became completely stupid and he dropped absolutely asleep he was absolutely asleep now before she went out to do this whole event she let out a prayer this is what's written in the mid over there she let out a prayer saying the whole entire time she said just like with s that you went and wiped out his whole Army in one night I'm asking you that I know what I'm doing is incredibly dangerous and I cannot do this myself but I'm coming to do this not for myself only for your and I want you to go ahead and do Rebellion I only want to be a vessel a receptacle in order for you to be able to do it that's what she said before she left and now when he was asleep she said I see that you've given me the direction I'm supposed to do according basically from the basically I know we're the weaker ones we're they're much stronger than us and just like you've helped us until now please can you help me to finish up the job she went ahead and she took the sword out of his she out of his his sword out and she chopped off his head back then women had a little bit more of things she chopped off his head but it gets gorier than that listen to this then she took his head and she wrapped it up in a blanket a blanket over there in order to make sure that she and she slung it over her back and she went out now normally that would be a very dangerous feat but don't forget she was very intelligent before this happened she got free rain to walk around the they said oh here's the the king's wife the General's wife so I know not to touch her you leave her alone and she had free way to so she walked out with his head in the sack and that's it and she uh she was able to get back to the camps she went to Yehuda who was the General told already passed away and she opened the head I guess you want to see it and he said check this out she goes wow this is good stuff right this fantastic and he finally realized wow and they gave the morale that they can win this war they realized because back then especially without a without any type of leader they couldn't they went the next day aler as they say right after daving Nets they went ahead and they fought and they pounced on the Greeks who went ahead and were ready to fight the war against them but they realized that they're a general and then suddenly they realized that their head was gone pardon the P right they realized that the person who was in charge was the running supposed to run this wasn't around and that led them to a complete array they were taken back and confused on what happened and we were able to Vanquish so from here we see you it's a big idea you should know the over here is a women's it's considered the of is the of the women you should know the of is Mal is the receptacle the one that receives and that's the bottom that receives all the that's that's the of the woman the female and also we see that that's why women are it's really a this is a MIT that is bound by time but still women are because she was able to do a little bit and finished off the job did the rest for us and we were able to do the rest she started the dominoes to start rolling and everything well else went from there it's an incredible to be able to be able to succeed and such a thing we have to go ahead and do our but in the right way not to know where it comes from they only did it together with the fact that I knew where it's coming from and that's why they were able to succeed why do I say like I started this year that this is so relevant you could say a in Kaneka every year and it's important and you should and give and all that but if we didn't understand the message I'm saying presently in the past years I think there's one year that we can do it including last year we wouldn't understand this message we started off last year with a horrific event that happened just like they were started horrifically it was very tragic and dark days there were many deaths that occurred I told you a thousand people in one in one cave that were killed during that time period when they burned them down and it was very sad but they didn't realize it would only lead to eventually them becoming on top being able to hold on to Judah to be able to hold on to AR Israel for another 200 years to be able to keep the mikdash to be able to keep a holiday that will be held on for Generations because of this incredible M something that looked bad ended up being to our to our to for our good it's exactly the story ofel and especially what we've seen this past year when we started this war we were all infuriated people were upset and we then we said we got to get them but did you realize how many fronts that we were about to fight they did and it was in no way possible it was no way physically possible it doesn't make any sense are people that we never wanted to fight face to face because everything thatas owns is Tinker Toys according to the to the to the tools the things that they have by they have almost some say 100,000 200,000 they're two gear 200,000 missiles ballistic missiles long range missiles they can get to a lot from there they can to any single place and it's done to a perfect dime to a to a they get to a specific place we were incredibly endangered in the scenario that we were surrounded by and it was very scary we didn't know if uh we should do this or if it's it's Kai to commit to such a war is incredibly dangerous plus and this is the worst part they're our neighbors they're right next door they took over Lebanon on purpose because they're right next door you you see them you could see them the people in the north could see them from their Windows which is incredibly incredibly dangerous he ran of course the big threat but at least they got some distance they get a little bit of time till the till the guys get here that's a b not only is it these two we also have Iran we have these funny tanim that came out of the picture out of nowhere these Iraqi these enough you know they're coming from all the sides and again how big are we how how how wide are we exactly how many people are we more than that and people don't even pay attention to this fact what's what's humorous almost is that we're people right people they're people with jobs they're people are learning or people doing things were all people and they take all the people go to the Army everyone go to the Army all people that are normal or the M people the people that are on the other side exactly like I was speaking out with the Greeks and I'm showing you the parallels in the scenarios here these people are born from 2 years old to wield a machine gun I don't know if you've ever seen pictures but you have like these little 5-year-olds with a machine gun and they're showing them how to point and how to aim and how to do this they they they Mish and brainwash is not the word brain you know brainwash is when you start a cult when you do what they're doing is uh is to the extremes that are not there they completely make them psychotic okay now the amount that they're going ahead and they're willing to go ahead and kill themselves because as I was told that they go ahead and show them they show them Graves and they say see this this is where you're supposed to go this is your mitvah see here this is where you're supposed to go this is the mitzah if you get here you you and Allah are in the same place you are in the same place but anyways that's you're supposed to you're supposed to go to the same same idea so everything they're doing we literally are surrounded by not just so many front and so much money that they have being given over to them but a bunch of lunatics that's what I'm saying it it was it was a war that has no that if they all came at one time everybody agrees we have no chance and if you look at the predictions at the time they were venturing tens 20s of thousands even to open the mouth to say thing of of fatalities or deaths or injuries of what what could happen in this country or the amount of damage that would that would occur and here it is and that's I don't have to tell you what happened happened it's so it's such soon history you know you don't have to watch the news but ell let's learn history you know what I'm saying look at what happened over here they didn't do it at one time one went after the other it was in a perfect scenario that one went one's folling after the other we didal and here we havea did it took care of the next part you a little bit to the rest happened afterwards it just fill into place we did this and then takes care of the rest afterwards it's exactly the same story and I'm going to tell you why because when we started this war again you have to be careful when you listen to the news but when you when we started this war we really came from a point of the fact that it's it was completely a focus on there was an they called it all the soldiers were wearing to whether they religious or not the fing that was being put on and the was real there was something there was a real there was a real connection people all say oh that F away I disagree I still think there's a tremendous amount of I just think the leftists were never on the side of they're all against they all into trying to make make a war and make they they're exactly the heliz okay the the helist never took our side no matter where we were the small name the leftists are still in their same place they haven't decided to change their position but the energy and the strength that we had came from the fact that we completely were tell ourselves to we knew that it only came from hasem and it was a very comforting idea and Hashem said oh me you remember of me hasem said okay I'll help you out I'll take care of you Hashem said oh you're in my in my court right now it's not just the idea of you realize that it completely now how did we get to the stage yes we got to the stage because something miraculous happened what happened on we all know was literally a miracle in the wrong way but it was a miracle it was it was not normal I don't have to tell you all the details but to go ahead and break through offense like that we so much guarding and and they knew also and they were preparing and this for all that to happen was just out of this world but does these things for a reason he does it so that we start making us realize take a realization on understanding that no it doesn't have to do da with My Own Strength but to go ahead and focus on the right direction to go ahead and collect Z from one door I go to one door I'm not going to any other doors I'm going to that one address and that's it to go ahead and say that I don't know where I'm going I don't know where I'm flying I'll get there and will help me I'll just do what I can do we'll do what I can do and goes and he takes care of us and the biggest of all with this I'm finishing basically but the biggest of all of all of it is the team playing we spoke about before the difference between the Roman and nowadays how Sports work nowadays our sports teams are team players and there's a lot more to it not telling you to play sports or advertise for it that's not my idea but I'm trying to say at least there's a big difference the whole idea of the Roman of the of the Greek Empire was to go ahead and bring out the individual strength to work on myself and how powerful I am we don't work like that we work as scen players the whole power that we have is when we work as a group be when we work together as a whole and how do you become one whole when we all focus on one person one one that you don't realize this is an exhilarating liberating and exciting feeling when a person really puts a strength in not only are you not alone anymore not only are you only in the basket of a but you're with everybody else you're with everybody else who's there by we're all in the same team we all have the same we're all the same fans of the same place it's a really good feeling I have someone who's rubbing shoulders with me I have people on my side and with that we are with that we are able to succeed we have a tremendous amount of this year was a miracle year there's nothing left to go nothing better and when you light the lights during Kaneka we should be realizing this idea the whole ideaa is the only that happens in the middle of the winter in the darkest part of the year it's dark it's cold the the days are very short and uh you know and that's what happens and we go ahead and we light the lights in order to say that no even in that time we see strength we have energy it brings out a tremendous amount of our capabilities that we can go ahead and bounce back in the most despairing of times and that source of light only came because of what I told you because we went ahead and together we were able to get together and do everything it's incredible when Ukraine Got into a war do you know how many um refugees we had from Ukraine over here and don't even ask in America how many people were running away from the war I understand what happened s happened you know how many people were jumping on planes to be able to get here they had to go ahead and people were buying tickets and this and someone was supporting tickets to be able to get on planes there so they can find the war have you ever seen something like that in history of mankind literally you will never see it in any history book it doesn't happen you're going the wrong you're flying the wrong direction when there's a war you go the other way not this way we you going this plus I'm trying to tell you we're not the size of the Ukraine Ukraine you buug us I go hide in some corner somewhere over there there's nowhere to hide here over here wherever you go that's there's nowhere to Nowhere to Run under the hide that's what happened when we work as a team and we worked as as so then we were able to succeed we were able to come out with it but when we do the other direction when we're focusing on ourselves when we're focusing on our so then we end up losing everything the two words people are my sh know I hate these two words the most uh loathful words that I've ever heard and I used to say it even before but now at least proved itself on is when they said the the the line never again never again is the worst fear that a person can say it's the most incredible heresy that a person can say never again it says who like where who you decide we're never going to let something like that happen again they're referring to after the Holocaust it was only one day wasn't many days the Holocaust was four five years four and a half years but it was a day of a holocaust we had another Holocaust don't say never again unless you know unless they meant never again because is behind us he's going to take care of us okay then I hear but Som have a feeling that wasn't the tensions this is the of and this is what we're appreciating when we're lighting the lights and we're seeing even in a time of that we've went through and even though you know in the beginning it looked very dismal but at least L FR and retrospect when we we look back we see wow there was a tremendous success here we've gotten rid of all of our biggest enemies we feel a little bit more safe now okay and it's fine it's good to feel that way we've gotten rid of slowly but surely the domino effect is happening one to the next to the next and soon don't worry ran is on his way out also in the and all these other idiots are going to be gone and that's it and when they're gone you feel a certain place ofia is on his way he's M here he's just taking his steps as they do one after the other and that's how we see it all end with a mush that at one time saw it comes out so perfect that we'll finish is by the um drle as we all know it speaks about the great Miracles that we saw in did you ever think about the fact that when you spin the drel you can't see the letters you can't see the letters only when it stops suddenly you're able to see the when it finishes ah now I could see it but when it's spinning we don't know why we're spinning our heads are spinning from the news our heads are spinning from day to day every day what happens is is unbelievable how things that advance and change on a Conant basis and things are unusual and things are spinning but when the drle stops then we start realizing should bring us out of this [Music]