Why the Chanukah Story Was Hidden From the Jewish People

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com good morning everyone the yum duff of chanukah spans eight days and even though of course it's not mentioned in the and it's barely mentioned in the mishnah and there's no masefta in hanukkah in the safer beneath saskar there is more information on the octave of chanukah than any other subject but amazingly as much information as there is on the yum tif of hanukkah the gemara massachusetts discusses this purim to the extent where the gemara asks esderman minayan looks to discover the source in the hamish for the heroes and the villains of the purim story ask for shoulder kluger what about hanukkah for purim how about hanukkah why is hanako been omitted why is there no explicit reference to hanukkah discovered by the gemara [Music] furthermore raphael mclugar asks you know there's one particular phrase in the al-anisim that it's very hard to explain none of them are first to explain the the the expression goes you made a salvation as of this day what's that supposed to mean as opposed to tomorrow obviously whenever the miracle happened it happened on that day what is what does the mean who forgot [Music] of this very day so here's the problem the problem is that everything you've heard about hanukkah until now it's not really true whatever they told you that's just you know because we were not sophisticated really to understand what actually transpired but we need to upgrade our understanding of hanukkah we cannot reduce ourself to our former understanding of hanukkah what are the possibilities what exactly are we celebrating that they found one flask of oil and was enough to last for one night and miraculously lasted for eight nights do you really think that we have an eight day yomtif to celebrate oil lasting longer than it's supposed to since when do we celebrate a miracle since when do we have a young de for a miracle you know in the times of the valley srisha and the nirama ravi lit for 410 years is there any yomtiv to commemorate the continuous burning of the nerma ravi is there any day on the calendar that we even remember the burning of the mahrabi no the nerma robbie is forgotten nobody makes the big deal about the narrative the mischievous says in perque of ice that in the base hamikdash daily ten miracles transpired do we have a yomtiv to commemorate any of those miracles no is there a day on the calendar okay everyone go to uh where do you go shopping here in flatbush go to glockmart go to pomegranate go to shopsmart get meat leave it out in the sun for a week and then come back a week later to celebrate the miracle that in the basque dutch the meat never rot is there such a yumptif do you have a yum diff you turn on your barbecue you let the smoke go and the wind can't blow it it goes up in a straight column to commemorate the miracle of the smoke and the way we don't commemorate miracles based on mikdos routinely there are miracles every single day do you really think there's a young dude to commemorate the fact that oil that was supposed to last for one night lasted for eight nights i mean what difference does it make miracles happened every single day they were commonplace in the base hamikdash she said no it's for the military victory rabbin the admiration did the jewish people ever fight a war that was not robin the which nation have we ever encountered in military encounter that was not robin yeah which nation did we ever attack that we outnumbered do you know of any historical episodes when yeshua bennun came into canaan and he had to attack 31 kings what do you call that that wasn't robin bian when was the last time jewish people fought a war that wasn't rather oh the miracle of chanukah now that's not really what happened so what exactly are we celebrating on hanukkah we know there's no masefta that's a famous question and purportedly sam soyfar said and this is brewing the safer tame and hagem that who redacted the mishnah rebbe rabiudanas he redacted the mishnah and rebbe is a saiyan of the mafid and he was standing up for the honor of the mafid because the kashmir inappropriately usurped the meluha and therefore rebbi did not want to give too much kavod to the hashman and therefore there is no messefta on hanukkah now this is a very controversial sam soifer he says a completely different reason so whether the samsuffer said this or not it's hard to know we do have other evidence that rebbe when he redacted the mishnah he very much upheld the honor of the maha special for instance [Music] begins with with which musafta yevamas now is that a logical place to start say their notion first should come then and then you want to talk about a far-fetched case of eboom you could talk about ibamas why is ivamus the first massachusetts and the whole mouthful space david is bonnoy on mitzvah of ibm like we find in this week's parashat yehudah was told his sons to be miyabi their their sister and then yehuda was in fact the benwa ashri that sadiq ranana writes that the opening words of this week's parasha vaishev yaakov the eretz magure rasheet voice because that's the main feature of harsha's vaishav the mitzvah of evan therefore since foreign examples therefore rebbe wanted to be mahabed ebon and he gave yamas the distinction of being the first masata and say they're not so okay rebbi has some authority of how to redact the mishnah and therefore there's no master on hanukkah we'd like to explore perhaps a new reason so many years ago i heard a recording from a rabbi in england named rabbi isaac bernstein who is originally from ireland who quoted over [Music] something he heard from rob salavaitchik this is a very jarring concept and we're going to examine it to see what historical evidence there is for such an idea and it's based on a serial between two gemaras let's start with the gemara might caught on in number six the gemara tells us somebody sees the tragic scene he sees a safer torah that is torn he's obligated to tear two tearings one is obligated to rise korea twice there's no greater tragedy than to witness the the ripping of a safer torah if one sees such a thing they have to tear kriya twice says the gemara echoed one for the words and one for the parchment you know the parchment also has kadushas oysters safer then you have to ask your local orthodox rabbi what to do i'm not local i'm from the 5 town so i would say you have you have to rip twice you have to rip one for the ville because the oysters also their kadusha is enhanced by being part of a kosher safer torah so even if they're not actually torn but they're split in the word also it affects the kedusha not only of the ville but of the icy ice that's what i would say but you know the zayar famously says he swallows russia tables yeshua and the question is other asked that they're only about half that number of letters only about 300 000 letters so one of the answers that the dog gives is that the the space in between the letter also has kadushas seifer tyra therefore the kumara says somebody sees the tearing of the safer torah they have to rip kriya twice one for the letter and one for the parchment here's the question to be executed by the way we just had raptanino ventrac on last week's parasha in the parsha was [Music] they wrapped him up in the safer torah zamairos and they encircled him with vine branches they littered a flame and they turned to rabbit tradion and they see they said rebbe do we have to see you in such a state and he said oh my lord if only i would be consumed i would be troubled because maybe i'll be consumed and nobody would ever stand up for my honor [Music] now that i'm being burnt with the safer torah he who takes up the cause of the safer torah will take up my cause um the students said to have been cutting them in tragen royal [Music] and the letters are flying up they cannot destroy kedushas the letters of the safety are not being destroyed they fly off the cloth and they're paratha ash of solaveichik that means the gemara is telling us that you can't destroy the letters of a sacred torah so if you can't destroy the letters of a safer torah then why does gemara might contampaskin that if you see a safer tyra torn you have to tear korea twice one for the goville and one for the icos the oysters can't be destroyed it's always parachutes the kimono is says he can't destroy the letters of a safer torah so if he can't destroy the letters of a safer torah then why do you have to tear korea twice herein lies the secret of hanukkah as we mentioned whatever you thought until now respectfully request you dismiss it's not about the oil lasting for eight days and it's not a mad military victory that's the superficiality of the story to explain to those who are not yet ready to hear the true story the true story is that the zero of yvonne was unique azera never before and never again did such a thing happen because every other golos and jewish tragedy the come with the following mishma mission le hashmi they come to annihilate they come for the kill and for that objective they are uniquely suited at that task they fit the bill they are uniquely qualified la shmood but here's the problem if gentiles come to affect the sanctity and the caduce of the jewish people they're not capable of rendering us coming they're not capable of not being cannot be metame only a strong case in point so you go for breakfast to the store you go to the bagel store and jose is preparing your bagel so you say jose i want everything bagel i want low-fat tuna lettuce and tomatoes so jose is there the last time he put on gloves was 10 years ago he's touching your sandwich i have a question what's not luck if somebody wakes up in the morning you're allowed to touch food before you watch an egomaster can't watch that you're allowed to touch your eyes your ears before you watch an ego you can't what if your eye is closed could you touch the outside of your eye the outside here is like the art says you can't you can't you're gonna contaminate you're going to be metame so i have a question if how could jose prepare your bagel and tuna fish he's contaminating he's being mitami he watched nagobas sir you think the the the vad or kehillah when when jose walked into the store in the morning they said jose come here we're going to watch negevassar so he writes three times on the right side no no no right left no you pick up the cup with your right hand you put into the left hand then you watch the right hand first and then four times with hakhila you think he watched last in the morning he doesn't have to why because only somebody who has connection to kadusa can render tummy someone who has no connection to kedusha cannot render tummy in fact has a leniency that a young child who doesn't yet really have nishmas israel until they're 13 certainly until their age of qin of there are certain leniencies before they watch negoblaster and they touch food only a yid could be michal and now the issue is if the guy in the bagel shop isn't a religious jew so the the cash rest of the store is great the only thing is he contaminated your sandwich so the post can discuss it probably by the time he got to your sandwich in the morning he got his hands wet three times and that's the cooler that most rely on but it's stuff from the playskin the bottom line is in order for somebody to be able to be metame and to be able to be muhammad you need to have connection to kadusa and therefore throughout history the gentiles there they attempt la hashmid they cannot desecrate they cannot defile that's not something they're capable of that is until gollus yavan so how they do it in the times of golola they're syrian greeks syrian greeks cannot be in mahal and they cannot be metamer says let's look a little bit closer on the alanis research [Music] why are they beating around the bush all kinds of poetic and flowery just say it straight israel and that is because the cachement were so careful to cover up the story they didn't tell us the true story it's not ah israel this was not the greeks against the jews this was the messiah against the israelites it wasn't israel the akuma could be lahashmi only a jew could try to defile the torah and the sacrament were so careful not to write the words because it's not true and they would never say explicitly israel morin but but that's the true story that's really what happened the [Music] writes a historic point that's certainly worthy of our consideration he says this was the very first and he says the last time that the majority of the jewish people were heimiru dasam and left the fold he says [Music] this was the first and last time the majority of the jewish people they converted they left the fold and the reason they were able to imitame the mikdash is because they were israel and they weren't dying now i was hesitant to say this over until i found that this was uh printed in the 65th edition of hadaron which is a journal rav shmario shulman who passed away this week was one of the frequent contributors to hadarim and this is the approach that rob salvatrix says he says that every story has two parts to it what we tell the kids what we tell the hamoinam and then the true story this is really what happened the reason why there's no masekta for hanukkah is because it's downright embarrassing for the jewish people and would never it's shameful to us so they throw the story under the rug they tell us the oil lasted for eight days they tell us military victory this was not a matter of military victory this was not a matter of the oil this was a matter of the greatest chuva movement in the history of the jewish people where after the jewish people left the fold we came back to serve hashem so where does it say that says and afterwards your children came one simple question afterwards they came where'd they come from where'd they go when they came where were they this is not something that happened in chhutsala and then they came back there to israel this is something that happened in ushalayim no one was chased out of you shalom nobody was chased out of their home where exactly did they come from they came from being the torah and they came back to the fold you know we talk about kids at risk teens at risk this was nation at risk not nation at risk this was nation leaving the fold the last and first time in the history of the jewish people so the question is are you willing to accept this approach to the chanukah story first let's analyze this on two fronts number one halachically is that really the case can only israelim that's a very important history do not have the capacity to do chuba the matter says in paris what about ramali pano gives four answers they didn't really do chuva hashem delayed hashem pushed it off many but are not capable of doing chuba does something say that if you're going in war it can take some to take uh the wonton ones will come in and desecrate it this is says you know the mark says in tinus there's a macholicus when do you commemorate the destruction of the basal mikdash we commemorate the ninth because that's when it was set aflame rabbi says if i would have been there i would have commemorated the 10th burnt down the tent some surfaces so what do the men say for this you saw it when the came and they said fire to the base of mikdash it lost its kedusha bow preets so on the 10th it wasn't the best anymore so since it wasn't based on mcdoug it was a secular building that was burning and that's why we commemorate the ninth and not the tenth but here's the issue the gemara says that the hashmonaum came into the mikdash and they were meshach the mizbayach they destroyed the base of mikdash how could they do such a thing um ashkaf vidarash bow paritsim the paritsam came and they defiled the messiah as the ramban and the muhammad how could the defile the mizbayach can't defile not only that if let's say somebody comes into your house and uh you invite them to your house for shabbos and you you bring out the filter fish and you come back to the table and they're down on their hands and knees and they're korean to your table so what are you doing i'm being oi i want to accept your tables what happens to your table nothing another oyster double standard you can't ask for something that doesn't belong to you so somebody cannot uh worship your table and then answer it however it says rambam so how could the evanim be meshach it's the mizvah says and hectic is more sensitive to kedusha therefore the have the capacity to be meshockets that's the shita of the ramban which is really against what we're saying so far namely we were saying don't have the capacity to be metame is they can't be matame hulen they could be comes the balamar i believe we have it on the sheet here the balamar in number 17. and the balamar says avada not only can you not ask for something that doesn't belong to you cannot be metame and michal anything don't have the capacity to makaalomatami so what happened what happened with the mizbayach says abalamar the ivana weren't meshach they tried to they worshipped it they were making zara but they can't affect anything on the mazda you know who was shocked according to the valomar he's documenting the story this is not about the evonu so this whole concept seems to be mahlokas who's showing him the ramban and the bahama that's their saco so that if uh or even pours the wine then it's uh let's talk about the uh second aspect are these the facts of the story is this is what happened the time of hanukkah that the majority of the jewish people left the folds the majority of claudius were heimerdasum that it's yes and there's no masefta on hanukkah because we're embarrassed about the story let's talk about the alanis in itself anybody know how many words in alanis it's immaculate how many words either 124 or 125 says the kalbai there are 124 words in alanisim gematria because alanisim was written by none other writes no there are 125 words in because it was written by and you know 124 and then because of his humility he made it have one more word than an american value of his name so you cannot wrote allah who is yaya is he actually not good for the jews or is the not good for the jews what do we know about yours so the gemara tells us don't trust in yourself until you're fine all day take a look at number 19. broccoli is [Music] was the koyan god who used that sadekadar for 80 years all of a sort of nazis sudoki and he went off he became a heretic he was yanai in other words he started off as a russia he became about suva and then he veered off again you know when you can't trust yourself when you start off rotten then you can never trust yourself but someone who starts off as a tadic will never veer off that's the opinion of abaya robert said no yana from the beginning and then he veered off that means there was somebody who was the kain goddamn he served for 80 years one of the goddamn hadar and then he became a heretic who is this is this was the hero of hanukkah the who became a heretic so this is true in the cloisenberg and the kluisenberger rather said he heard the shame his great zeida the banaya saskar absolutely mata he also holds the swing that mata was the son of yoshino who went off not only that closeness brings an incredible rabbis that means if he was at suzuki then at the end of his tenure he when he was bringing the kataras he made the fire outside the kaiser kardashian and then he brought it in conscious distinction to the perugian who made the fire inside he [Music] outside he was liable he was no longer a loyal member of the jewish people but says with kaisenburg he heard vashem rabbah that even though the veered off ultimately through the story of chanukah he had a tikkun and that's also maruma's in the mishnah omar yehudah remastered binary [Music] and somehow yehuda macabee got him back in how he got him back in mars says was killed or in unison that they found the step of the of the uh of the malacca between the shoulders he was killed also i don't know right which earth that's what rebecca measures writes by the way this is not unanimous the gra vehemently disagrees the gross says absolutely not that mata siohu was the son of joycon who veered off the hero of chanukah was the son of zadaiki yoikunan had his son mata mata [Music] no it's the same one you know who else agrees with them he says it's the same yoshino which is seems to be very problematic what's the halacha you have a god of israel who rode a safer niffler and then he veered off but the safer is good what do you do with the safer you're going to save you don't you can't learn from the safe right can such a thing be that we say that fila of someone who became a zodiac [Music] his name is not quoted even one time in the whole shots except for one mishna in pair but that's it we don't quote it we won't quote his name and even ramirez when ramayana was learning from africa rebel islam said uh i can't even say over romero's torah for learning from afghan and eliyah nobody had to get ramer back into the base matters so you have to be very careful why would we continue to say his fila in the daphne so okay some would say because like degra this is a different yay but there is an opinion so let's analyze that for a second let's just imagine do you think according to the banaya saska and the klutzenburger rebecca the god don't and then he veered off you think that was like an isolated case it happens to be one person who happens to be the god radar became a tsudoki but nobody paid any attention to such a thing it's very highly unlikely that if you can gather was the kind of that this is an isolated incentive again we don't have absolute evidence that anybody else was but i think that's pretty telling and even according to the gra la maison there was a koyen gadong by the name of yayoi who became a suzuki so i think that's quite telling as what was happening um during that time a friend of mine sent me another marimoko the [Music] a jerusha of hyderabad young the reishirov who basically says this explicitly the famous gemara message the shabbos they went into the haital and there wasn't enough oil and they found one flask of oil there was only enough glass for one night lasted for eight nights says the raisharav you think that's what happened the whole gemara is a mushroom when they came back into the bay san migues they found one flask of oil you know what that meant there was one family in the jewish people that was loyal to tyro mitzvahs and that family was mata and from that little family how long could they have continued on the history of cloud israel one night a very short amount of time and miraculously who gave these mischas kim and these moisturizers the ability to inspire the rest of claude israel and bring them back to the mikdash and back to the torah and back to yiddishkai and from there it lit for eight nights meaning says the reishirov whatever we just said today is maroomas in the short lines of the gemara the one flask of oil is the small group of yiddin that remained loyal to tara mitzvahs it was only enough to continue kalisto for a schwarzman and from there it continued to burn forever and ever and ever so accordingly what the gemara is saying the gemara is really telling us the real story of the miracle of hanukkah right according to dominato saskar no such thing no such gemara there's no remnants of them in the homes yeah he's got to be there esther has got to be there mordechai got to be there there's no remnants of hanukkah in the torah says [Music] because like all miracles that hashem usually performs hashem is mass makes that with brian doesn't like to change nature so how does he want to make a miracle when he created nature he stipulates with nature that when the day comes to for a miracle to happen it's already pre-programmed into your bedrock that a miracle will happen the miracle of purim was pre-programmed from the beginning of time from bria anything that will ever occur has already been programmed into the torah with one exception was not pre-programmed until the tire says of shall mcclugar because hashem cannot compel to happen why would that be because chronicle was so dependent on the free choice of the jewish people to stand up at that time and to fight the tide and go against the majority of the um asylum and the majority of the jewish world that the ubanisham could not tamper in any way to compel the miracle of hanukkah to happen and he could not be muramis not antioches and not to any of the heroes of hanukkah by and it's commentary to the cinder urea [Music] which is only printed not in the first edition of the academy and not in the current edition of the there was an intermediary edition of memphis as opposed to every other miracle that happened that was already pre-arranged from the beginning of time the miracle of hanukkah is not programmed into istakal by erica obara alma it was dependent on the messiest nephesh of those jews at that time and therefore it's not a miracle from the beginning of time it's a miracle in the last participate in the first one means it was already declared from that time out as we told them [Music] and on a certain dimension then yes it's certainly in the tar shell however for it to be kosovo hassam and the tar sheba that that would then compel brian to move in that direction that the bunch from cannot connectivity that's what we're showing clogger says though right everything is we could have a hundred rumors into hanukkah let's start parsha's valley are you ready once we're here already this gentleman wants to hear some ramazan takanika and so here's one you never heard before joseph in the pit no you know that one already here it goes joseph has a dream and in the dream of yo [Music] the bundles of grain bow down to yosef and uh the pasta says for his dreams what do you mean he only had one dream so far what do you mean following myself he only had one dream so the bartender says it's that yosef already had two dreams that means in total you said outside had three dreams two recorded one not mentioned in the hamish what's the third dream not mentioned in the hamish the third dream not mentioned in the homies says about tenors you've got to go to pasi after the story of hanukkah after the story of um joseph reveals himself to the brothers and yakov comes down and then yaakov passes on and they bury yakova vino and then are starting to get very nervous now that yaakov is dead maybe yosef would take revenge so what does it do [Music] what did you save tell the brothers says ignore miguel and dr zion joseph tell the brothers if ten candles couldn't put out one candle how could one candle put out ten candles meaning if the ten of you could have knocked me out by throwing me into the pit how am i gonna get all ten of you says about tenura why is this abusing the analogy of candles why doesn't joseph say if ten towers wild animals lions couldn't attack one lion then one can attack ten you know why yosef uses the analogy of lions god you're listening it's because the the first dream of your safe was he saw 10 candles not able to extinguish one candle that was the first dream of obviously and why isn't it recorded in this week's fashion because when joyce had told the brothers hey brothers guess what the 10 of you can't harm me he says okay have a great day that doesn't bother us that you don't think we can harm you but when joseph has uh visions of grandeur illusions of grandeur that's what bothers the brothers so the first stream is not recorded which means the first dream of yosef in this week's parasha is neris you think it's a coincidence that the first dream of your safe is about nervous after all by yeshua does the powershell right before hanukkah say okay come on but it's 11 nearest what are our 11 errors now watch this that means you see saw 11 candles and then he tells the brothers guess what i saw 11 candles how many are we up to 22. and then in parishes tells the brothers if 10 candles can't put out one candle another 11 then one can put out 10 44 nero's hanukkah beginning in bayesia ending in parishes so you say what's it doing in via february if he is after hanukkah no no it's not jakob [Music] that's why yakov is connected they cry for yakov 30 days they embalmed him for 40 days 70 days of mourning says some sofa takes you from tesla tishrei until then they mourn yaakov for seven days seventh day of hanukkah and on zoys hanukkah yo says you're ready for the remnants of the 44 candles if ten can't put out one one can't put down ten when zoysia i can tell you one more that you never heard yay safe tells the yakov tells you you know go go find the brothers where where is where are they he goes that when you're finished 24 which are the 24 letters of barak shem you get to 25. that's hanukkah in fact they were victorious [Music] so therefore which is let's get this going already and when that's done we're ready for the of channel you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com