pt1 Rabbi Etiel Goldwicht - Chanukah Celebration for Yiboneh 5776

okay so Hanukkah I thought I said very special holiday holiday the Jews from all over the world celery for what exactly are we celebrating what are we celebrating so the most basic form we're celebrating two things the first thing is won the war there's a big war over here the Greek army was this huge army coming in you know demanding their their way of life forcing their way of life on to us and there is one family who is going to stand up for what a family that was willing to stand up for the okay so the first the firt the basic thing is we won the war it was a serious war it wasn't a very simple war will be here but the hustling are you stood up you know the old uncle she Valentin to be a free nation in her own country to live here based on her own belief and that's exactly what we did and miraculously they want was not it was a long war people don't know him grow up with the story of Hanukkah it's a 52-year war was a long time and a lot of casualties wasn't a simple work of the one and that it's up was a miracle these people were not trained it wasn't too how was on top of the army was a family of koha me that the only night they know is how to cut the you know the sheikah maybe or how to eat their car bonus so that's it didn't know anything beyond that they were able to it but then the second miracle is they come to the visa mr. basically this is totally destroyed everything is broken they spend a few days cleaning it up refurbishing it and then they want to light the menorah the golden menorah the reason they can't find there you go they can't find any any oil so they look around there looking round we all know they find a small jug with enough oil for one day and miraculously it stays lit for eight nights imagine you have a your phone and it's got like twelve percent battery and at last without charging it for eight days unbelievable that is exactly the base that the Hajin you know if we're trying to understand what they felt that they felt I don't believe it without recharging the light is still going on I could still enjoy it for the light of the middle there's an unbelievable miss but the question is this is really what I want to discuss is what was the war why didn't I get up there and risk their life to fight against this big Greek army the Greeks was the only ghost the only eggs out that we had that they did not want to wipe us out you aren't here to destroy the Jewish people didn't want to destroy the temple to be Samantha all he said is like listen wherever we go we expect people to to be good civilians to be good citizens and to take up on the customs of the Greeks what's the big deal let us be Jewish with some customs of the greedy have to get up you have to go ahead and fight against the greeks risk your life what was the war on them in order to understand what the war was all about we really have to try to understand the framework of Hanukkah what is where does Hanukkah fit in to our holidays system throughout the year right we have a whole set what the basic system of holidays which is brought down in the Torah is we have shin ochelata me Charlie go deep each one is called a boy and it starts with pace up shabooms and circus it's a process you know a Muay comes from word baked vibe or ayad you know when you land in a loud as your landing the airplane is landing so then what does it say on the speaker Z tau D god no hey hi yaad we have never reached our destination of course an Israeli more claps are in it's very festive we actually made it visually it takes only here on in I don't touch their head that's like we are expecting not to but we made okay okay so we made it there just roll reach our destination so the word yeah is the same word as mo aid is our destination how do we normally reach our destination with our red light with our reg a lien which is the same word Ezra Klein you walk towards your destination with your feet with your legs so there's a process that we're trying to go through and that's what the yearly cycle is all about it starts with Passover with pace f we're just a holiday of freedom we come out from our slavery whether it's our own personal slavery whether it's a national slavery we're able to break free and start a process of connecting of becoming our own individual so now we have you don't have any limitations to connect it all mine and we can't 50 days until we reach shut up I'll check work now we were free work but clean were a vessel to receive the wisdom the Dora of God away we're able to receive that wisdom that comes on chef wok and we continue with that now that we have this wisdom we learn it we connect to it and then we r equal to go into the sukkah the sukkah is really like you're in the house of Russia it's a hug from Hashem that's why it's like that the measurement of us do guys like right to imos anataka it's like a hug from Russia where it's called singer than Musa we finally made it into edit aside into the Land of Israel that is our destination break free receive the wisdom connect to it and now make it to the Land of Israel who are living in the house of the God oh man there was a glitch in the way we did hate that a young the city the golden calf so I sham said it once you sin the horns away so then we have to have a yom kippur a day of atonement because the first lujos were broken so we need to have the 40 days of atonement and on yom kippur we get the second set of lujos to make sure that we can keep on going at our destination an hour yeah and reach the house of a Sherman you have the day of judgment grocery shopping them in the way before the Yom Kippur that's part of that package that is now a brief we did it very very quickly a brief from our yearly cycle and we go through this process on an individual basis and on a national level every single year going free getting receiving the and going into the House of Usher we're not perfect there were glitches a long wait so we have rosh hashanah and yom kippur to make sure that we can actually make it into the absolution that is the where does hurry and Hanukkah fit into this system we know that poor a matança are not Torah holidays rather they are open economies but they're not Selena they fit into the system where you shoveled haha it's my phone and don't please turn off your phone before the lecture that doesn't master generation off their phone where does Monica and pouring fit into that yearly site now its own pointer on how always tells us you want to understand you know a lot of times as Jews we go through life and we're doing different meats of oats and we're focusing on what we need to do sometimes important to take a step back and to see the general picture when we're able to see the general picture it gives us a little bit of a deeper understanding of what exactly are we doing what is our purpose where are we heading to so this is a little bit very much agree the overview what we go through as Jews through the year Lisa but now let's try to understand where this purity and Hanukkah fit in the to their abundant holidays so what's up with her pouring we know there was sort of a default there something that wasn't perfect a defect something that wasn't perfect in the receiving of the total and the game our analysis in Megillah kapolei amharic a genius akhilesh morrow got my sort of sort of speak forced us into receiving the total receiving his wisdom acting out tonight and he sort of picked mounted over us and he said if you receive the donor great if not I'm going to bury you right away dear the before should explain that it's not necessarily a literal that he picked up the mountain over us but the revelation but God Almighty is so clear to us that we didn't have a beefier we didn't have any choice whether to take it or not we were sort of forced into if you see something so clearly so then you go in a way you lose your free choice whether you want to receive erina and the way God runs his world is that we're supposed to choose anything we're supposed to choose him as our King we're supposed to want something we can't be forced into it but the revelation was so massive that we were sort of course into it that's what the time to tell us on the tablet tell us you should know mode on arrival arises we're making a big claim in a big statement if you do not want to keep the donor so that maybe you're forced into it your ancestors were forced into we're talking about the torch about that not the torture was that but you should know that as a nation we re accepted upon ourselves to keep the door what did we do that I'm burning keep moving keep ooh la Mon who didn't who did we accepted the whole tour upon themselves it was a dark mornings the time was there can be worked out but they didn't have a he did it had love the word keep the quipu km and keep l it's like we accepted it before we even knew what it was it's sort of like NASA denisha the game are makes it a reference between the two key movie he was like not seven ish one but today is not a share of unborn but that's exactly what happened on firm we were forced into it and then are currently accepted to that glove so there was a little bit of a defect on Shavuot then / is able to fix them and therefore it's part of our rabina colonies where the Jewish nation as a whole as a nation we accept it upon ourselves to go together with God out of love but then there is one other thing it is sort of lacking from Shub hope that Hanukkah comes to sort of give us the coop to continue even though we were missing something what is that me the Talmud tells us it's ready so Karen passions lozada that the Jewish people after they received the Torah at Mount Zion and again when they received it they heard it from the first two commanders to her forgot himself the next eight commanders they heard God himself from the mouth of a surety and they knew that the years following in the desert if they have any question they go to Moses he's the man of God he showed him where he to ask him anything we want everything will be clear so then the Jewish people ask what's going to be when we won't have Moses it we're not going to have no share of a knee so then how are we going to know if we have any talents you have any thing that were not so clear about how do we know what to do somo sure David tells him to worry God listen to your prayer and he's going to give you a proper just like me it will always be a profit company the Jewish people and that's exactly I was there is time and for many many years for centuries there were prophets accompany the Jewish people 48 profits that are well known tubs but the Talmud tells us that there were more prophets throughout the Jewish people more than the amount of people that left Egypt we're talking about millions and millions of profits you and I we could have gone to the base of a fish on simcoe space lesha wava we would have gotten this unbelievable prophetic it was called the prophetic age where everyone was able to connect to God all our doubts like we might have we didn't have we were able to connect together but there's going to come a time where that prophecy ends what do we do then we don't have profits then we have all these questions we have all these nails how do we know that God is real how do we know that this is what he wants us to do what should we be doing what is the purpose of life where all of these big questions why am I here what should I be doing with my life they had a prophet to telemetry have a profit so what should we do that's exactly where Hanukkah comes in and I'm going exploring when we had profits it sounds so awesome right we have these profits but how come a lot of juice didn't follow the profits and whether they serve idols they did all these terrible things going to read the top tier ii batana inside it wasn't so simple so we have all these property if I had profit today if Moses would come here if your voi nobody will come and will call out to the Jewish people come on everybody we're going to get together of course it would be no question right now at all the juice from around the world will make a yahoo the base it will be amazing that's called meshia that's what that's what we're waiting for what happened when they have those profits it wasn't so simple because there's a rule the way God governs this work there is always going to be an equilibrium between good and bad there's always going to be an opportunity for us to choose between good or evil it can't just be one sided if we have profits and that's all we have like nowadays if we would have a profit everyone would run it but in those days were never profits what was on the other side a tremendous urge a Yid certain harder for a bow design for idol worship we don't understand what that means entities we don't have that Virginia to us it's silly bow down to stick some stones I don't understand how that works but in those days Lucinda little eyes met Justin to understand what it does imagine there is like a window and heavy that connects this world and the world about you could use this window for an unbelievable amount of energy you can tempt in than any one kid was able to do and that's why I was called the prophetic age you were able to connect you understood exactly what you're here for