Rabbi Etiel Goldwicht on Chanukah for Yiboneh Chanukah

okay so like the rabbi said very special holiday holiday that Jews from all over the world celebrate but what exactly are we celebrating our con what are we celebrating so the most basic form we're celebrating two things the first thing is we won the war there was 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 onto us and there was one family who was willing to stand up for it one family that was willing to stand up for the okay so the fir the first the basic thing is we won the war and it was a serious War it wasn't a very simple War over here but the stood up you know to be a free nation in our own country to live here based on our own belief and that's exactly what they did and miraculously they won it was not it was a long War people don't know it we grow up with the story of Kaneka it's a 52 Year War it was a long time and there were a lot of casualties wasn't a simple War but they won and that itself was a miracle cuz these people were not trained it wasn't tahal it wasn't top of the army it was a family of kohanim that the only Knight they know is had a cut the you know the maybe or how to eat their corbas but that's it they didn't know anything beyond that and they were able to win but then the second Miracle is they come to the B of Mikes B of Mikes is totally destroyed everything is broken they spend a few days cleaning it up refurbishing it and then they want to light the manur the golden manura in the Bas they can't find any gold they can't find any any oil so they look around they're looking right 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 12% battery and it lasts without charging it for 8 Days unbelievable that is exactly the nce that you know if we're trying to read to understand what they felt that's what they felt I don't believe it without recharging it the light is still going on I could still enjoy from the light of the man it an unbelievable need but the question is this is really what I want to discuss is what was the war all about why did the get up there and risk their life to fight against this big Greek army the Greeks was the only gulls the only Exile that we had that they did not want to wipe us out they weren't here to destroy the Jewish people they didn't want to destroy the temple the B mikdash all they 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 the some customs of the Greek you have to get up you have to go ahead and fight against the Greeks risk your life what was the war all about in order to understand what the war was all about we really have to try to understand the framework of KH what is where does Kaneka fit in to our holiday system throughout the year right we have a whole what the basic system of holidays which is brought down in the Torah is we have each one is called a and it starts with it's a process you know a comes from the word or a you know when you land in as you're Landing the airplane is landing so then what does it say on the speaker we have now reached our destination of course in Israel everyone claps their hand it's very festive we actually made it to Israel I think it's the only airline that everyone claps their hands because like we were expecting not to but we made it okay okay so we made it we've reached our destination so the word is the same word as it's our destination how do we normally reach our destination with our rug liing with our regalim which is the same word as reg 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 PES which is the 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 individuals so now we have we don't have any limitations to connect to the almighty and we count 50 days until we reach sh on SH now that we're free we're a CLE we're a vessel to receive the wisdom the Torah of God almighty we're able to receive that wisdom that comes on sh and we continue with that now that we have this wisdom we learn it we connect to it and then we're able to go into the Suka the Suka is really like you're in the house of Hashem it's a hug from Hashem that's why it's like the the measurement of a Suka is like it's like a hug from it's called we finally make it into 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 you are living in the house of the god almighty there was a glitch in the way we did the sin of the golden calf soem said once you sin the Longs way so then we have to have a yipper a day of atonement because the first L were broken so we need to have the 40 days of atonement and on Yom Kipper we get the second set of L to make sure that we could keep on going on our destination on our Y and reach the house of hem and we have the day of judgment R in in the way before the yur that's part of that package that is now a a brief we did it very very quickly a brief of our yearly cycle and we go through this process on individual basis and on a national level every single year going free getting receiving the Torah and going into the house of hem we're not perfect there were glitches along the way so we have rer to make sure that we can actually make it into the house of hasem that is the year where does purin and KH fit into this we know that and are not Torah holidays rather they are rabic holidays but they're not St made up they fit into the system where do they F it's my phone everyone please turn off your phone before the lecture so that doesn't disturb [Music] okay did everybody turn off their phone where does and P fit into that yearly cycle now it's so important that R always tells us you want to understand you know a lot of times as Jews we go through life and we're doing different and we're focusing on what we need to do it's 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 in brief the overview of what we go through as Jews through the yearly seven but now let's try to understand where does and fit in the two holiday so let's start with p p we know there was sort of a default there was something that wasn't perfect a defect something that wasn't perfect in the receiving of the toah and the tells us this iny of sort to speak forced us into receiving the Torah receiving his wisdom at Mount Si and he sort of picked up the mountain over us and he said if you receive the Torah great if not I'm going to bury you right over here the M explained that it's not necessarily a literal that he picked up the mountain over us but the revelation of God Almighty was was so clear to us that we didn't have a 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 don't you in a way you lose your free choice whether you want to receive it or not and the way God runs his world is that we're supposed to choose everything we're supposed to choose him as our King we're supposed to want something and we can't be forced into it but the Revelation was so massive that we were sort of coed into it that's what the tal tells us and the T tell us you should know we're making a big claim and a big statement if you do not want to keep the Torah so then maybe you were forced into it your ancestors were forced into it we're talking about the Torah not the but you should know that as a nation we reaccept it upon ourselves to keep the Torah why did we do that re accepted the whole Torah upon themselves it was a dark point it was the time that they're going to be wiped out but they did they did it out of love the word and it's like we accepted it before we even knew what it was it's sort of like n makes reference between the two is like but today not a on P but that's exactly what happened on P we were forced into it and then on P we accepted it out of love so there was a little little bit of a defect on sh and P is able to fix that and therefore it's part of our rabic holidays 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 that is sort of lacking from sh comes to sort of give us the K to continue even though we're we're missing something what is that thing the T tells us and it's that the Jewish people after they received the Torah and again when they received it they heard it from the first two Commandments they heard from God himself the next eight Commandments they heard God himself from the mouth of Moser 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 we're going to ask him anything we want everything will be clear so then the Jewish people asked what's going to be when we won't have Moses anymore we're not going to have mosha so then how are we going to know if we have any doubts if we have any thing that we're not so clear about how do we know what to do so MOS tells them don't worry God listen to your prayer and he's going to give you a prophet just like me there will always be a prophet accompanying the Jewish people and that's exactly how it was there was time and for many many years for centuries there were prophets a the Jewish people 48 prophets that are welln to us but the T 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 prophets you and I we could have gone to the base of we would have got this unbelievable prophetic it was called the prophetic age where everyone was able to connect to God all of our doubts right that we might have we didn't have it we were able to connect to God but there's going to come a time where that prophecy ends what do we do then we don't have prophets now we have all these questions we have all these doubts 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 deep questions why am I here what should I be doing with my life they had a prophet to tell them that we don't have a prophet so what should we do that's exactly where kanah comes in and I'm going to explain when when we had prophets it sounds so awesome right we had these prophets but how come a lot of Jews didn't follow the prophets and they went and they served idols and they did all these terrible things when you read the you read the tanak inside it wasn't so simple so we had all these Prophet if I had a prophet today if Moses would come here IFI would 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 that all the Jews from around the world make alah we the B it'll be amazing that's that's called mhia that's that's what we're waiting for how come when they had those prophets it wasn't so simple because there's a rule the way God governs this world there's 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 had prophets and that's all we had like nowadays if we would have a prophet everyone would run there but in those days when they were prophets what was on the other side a tremendous urge a for a for idol worship we don't understand what that means thatone at least we don't have that urge anymore to us it's silly they bow down to Sticks and Stones I don't understand how that works but in those days it was it was an unbelievable thing just to to understand what it is imagine there is like a window in heaven that connects this world and the world above you could use this window for an unbelievable amount of energy you can tap in and anyone could was able to do it and that's why it was called the prophetic age you were able to connect you understood exactly what you're here for you understood it you could connect you could go speak to the prophet that window was open and what did the prophets always sayem this is the word of hasem we knew it very very clearly but when that window was open you could tap into that power and bring down sort of K that was the and they put in a certain energy into the wood and stone and then people were were drawn to it there was a spiritual ecstasy wow I want to run right the tells us about King Masha that he lifted up his cloak to run to he said that you one of them run you would have picked up your cloak to run to it he was already dignified he didn't run to the but there was a tremendous urge to run after thear because there was like a spiritual ecstasy that people felt with this AAR but what happened there was there was a declining of the generation if I ask you electricity is that a good energy or a bad energy tons of electricity is that good or bad depends how you depends how you use it a little bit of electricity like plug my iPhone even though my iPhone is only four but still I could still use it to plug my iPhone right I'm not up to date but it still works if my little kid sticks his fork in the socket he's going to get a shock he's going to run to mommy he's going to say ah look what happened to me Mommy's going to scream at him and then ab's going to come and have to calm down then I'm going to scream at right because it's going to be the whole thing but at the end of the day if it's misused by a child it can hurt him what if there's a lot of electricity a power plant it could power the whole entire city amazing but what happens over there if one of the workers touches the Live Wire he's fried on the spot the more power we have if we use it properly a tremendous amount of K we could use if we misuse it the damage is going to be so much greater when this window is open Between Heaven and Earth tremendous amount of electricity you could connect and have so much power and understand things so clearly but if you misuse it bam a destruction of theik and that's why the rabbis recognized that we were becoming like children and you don't give such a strong powerful tool to a child if I have a chainsaw it's a tremendous tool I could build something with it I could cut heavy wood with it I can do tremendous amount of things but what happens if I give it to a child it's dangerous it's true he might be able to use it properly but he might also misuse it and hurt himself the rabbis of that generation recognize that keeping this window open is like giving a chainsaw to a child and we must close this window Between Heaven and Earth it's true we have n we have tremendous amount of electricity but too many kids are touching the live wire and are falling to there is we must pray for that window to be shut and that's what happened in that generation that generation an T tell us about exactly how it happened they got together and they prayed please remove the Yara for AAR and the uh Bas came down they got a note from Heaven that their fer was accepted and a pillar of fire came out of Kes because obviously the dwells right in the place that's the holiest of holies because that's exactly the same energy depends how you tap into it and it leaves K and that the continues it's not our topic but the over there continues they saw they had such good fortune with their request they said please remove the desire for inappropriate relationships for arot and they and they got an okay from heaven but you know what happened the Earth went cold for 3 Days the chickens didn't lay their eggs there was no warmth in the world there was no desire and they realize the world is not going to continue if we don't have a desire to procreate so therefore they requested it please have a person have a bad desire only for his wife and in heav they wrote them back a note you can't have half a desire either you have it or you don't have it right and that's exactly what happened but they said okay but we there won't be a desire for immediate relationship for for sisters for parents that there were able to remove but that that's the end of that GAR over there we know that the day and according to the Rama it's very interesting the Rama brings down there's still an old yemenite community that does this we we know that we're now near there are certain communities they used to count the years from the rule of Alexander the Great and the r explains it's brought down in s that the day the last Prophet was n Mal was n that's the day that Alexander the Great Rose to power meaning the day that we lost this prophecy that we no longer have this window that now there is something lacking about shavu we do not have a clear relationship to Mount Si anymore because we don't have a prophet like we had for throughout so many years throughout so many centuries so we're missing something on sh we don't don't have that prophecy anymore on that day that we lost the prophecy who Rises to power the Greeks Alexander the Great which was the fir the beginning of the Greek Empire and he starts to spread that culture throughout the world before that time that world was a pagan world and that's why our modern history when we learn modern history in school where does it start it starts from the Greeks from Aristotle from Socrates from of Alexander the Great because that is modern civilization beforehand it was a prophetic age it was the time that we were able to connect to God through Neva and the rest of the world was a pagan world that served Idols but now that window is closed people are not starting to serve Idols anymore we need to find some culture we need to find some science and some philosophy it's a whole new world that is spreading onto world history and also onto Jewish history because now for the first time we don't have anymore but rather what do we have we have the if you look at the the first is what's the second was from the remnant of meaning he sat there in the men of the great assembly 120 Men He Saw prophets with his own eyes he s was not a prophet but he was a m for the first time in Jewish history we have somebody saying a he used to say something how can we never have because they never said their own what did they say they said this is what hasem said this is the wisdom of because we had the the connection back to SI but now for the first time we don't don't have it we have a we have the we have the wisdom of the Greeks versus the wisdom of the rabbis we have that equilibrium continues for us to choose where are we going to go beforehand we had an equilibrium do we want the idol worship or do we want to follow the prophets now do we want the science and the culture of the Greeks or do we want to follow what the rabbis say shim it's very interesting shim which is the first in P so we know that the tells us the story how he met Alexander the Great you see that it's Mish in the same time period Alexander was coming and taking conquering over the whole world he was going to come and overtake Y and destroy it and so shim puts on his his big b gut he walks out towards him with two rabbis on either side with torches they're walking all night and when Alexander the Great finally meets him so it says that he got off off his horse and he went down and bow down to him or I bow down to this filthy Jew set his Messenger s the guy next to him so he says you don't understand when I go to battle I see shim I see his image in my dreams I know I'm going to win there's a connection right over there the next m in is anos anos that's a Greek name there's already the Greek influence on the Jewish people because shim was able to convince Alexander the Great don't conquer you you could stay here but don't don't conquer us and Alexander respected the Jews there's wisdom over here there's there's intelligence look at their rabbis this is something that this is a culture that I value he's already he's got the Greek name and now that the Torah is no longer Kar it's up to the interpretation and the explanation of the rabbis we for the first time have different sects within Judaism cuz who were the two students of anos iso sadok and BOS sadok and BOS is the first sect that is breaking away within Judaism and the because they're saying oh if you're explaining the gar that way I got my own way to explain it I'll explain the wisdom of God Almighty in my own interpretation this is the way I understand and this is the way you understand and then the Mish continues Yeshua over there and the second Mish over there is right away referring to the firstus we have with in J we never had Aus before because everything was now we have a there was one over there yesu already his T started Christianity we already have sects breaking off of Judaism and starting different religions because now there's no longer the Clear Connection back to sin and if we don't have the Clear Connection back to sin we're lacking something in our yearly cycle but that is exactly wherea comes in that is what the stood up up and were willing to fight because in the beginning it was just the Greeks were around it was beautiful Greek culture why not they're wise we're wise we value their culture it's great let's all get along it's going to be great but eventually the Jewish people were so enamored by those lights wow the stadiums and the Gladiators and and the culture and the philosophy so amazing and eventually not only were Jews starting to be more and more like the Greeks but the Greeks were starting to force it upon us you can't keep chabas anymore you can't have a bris you can't have they're starting to what are they picking these these specific mitzvos what do they care about it because they were bothered by something there's something that is different between their culture and our culture the Greeks worshiped Beauty was amazing for that wow the physical body it has to be perfect the philosophy the understanding they were they were they loved it they loved that culture and they saw the Jewish people also loved it but there's something that bothered them about the Jewish people because we saw the beauty in Holiness while they saw Holiness in beauty that was the difference if you take the letters y n this beautiful letters very symmetric three straight lines it looks a little bit like our cell phones maybe that's a hint about our cell phones right do I have enough energy am I fully y right you think about it like that if you turn it around okay so we got the I just thought about that right we got the Y the B and the and the N really beautiful letters really symmetrical but it's the only letters in the Jewish alphabet that don't have Aus there's no inside to them they're just they're very straight and Olive it's got It's got some meat to it it's got thickness to it very very very flat very it looks beautiful but it's only beautiful on the outside there's one letter in the Hebrew alphabet that represents righteousness aik which letter is that right the name of the letter represents that that element aik is like a if you take the letter and you put it in front of the word what does it it spell out seal the Jewish people we Value Beauty as well but what do we put in front of it the righteousness that is the beauty of yusem 10 measures of beauty came down to the world nine took yamam is a beautiful city but so is Greek so is Rome there's a lot of beautiful C cities all around the world but in y the beauty is because we're able to connect the physical and the spiritual Beauty into one we're able to turn it into one thing and we were we were willing to stand up to fight for that because that's what Yan represents if you look around go to the Israel Museum go to any Museum that has Jewish art so it's not that we don't value art there were Jews that were tremendous marksmen they were able to do the most unbelievable things but what is Jewish art all about if you look at the Museum what is the art pieces what what are they it's normally a beautiful esro box it's a beautiful painting that was on the wall of a Shore it's a beautiful case for a mitzvah for a commandment meaning we take the art and we take that beauty and we use it as a vessel to elevate the spiritual connection we value the beauty the OS were beautiful but it has to do with and that's what they were willing to fight for if we look in our we say what did they want to do this the kingdom of stood up to do what they stood up to make us forget our Torah how can you make somebody forget their Torah if I have a there's a war that breaks out and we have a special family uh message or we have a special code where we keep our family treasures and some somebody tells his child you have to remember this code never forget it so then the child is going to remember and if people tell us you have to forget you have to forget you have to forget everyone I want everyone to forget about the big white elephant in this room just forget about don't think about it at all ever right so then everybody's starting to think about you how can you actively forget make someone forget but if you look at what the Torah what the says it says it doesn't say it says to make the Jewish people forget that this is your Torah in fact the Greeks wanted to translate the Torah into 70 languages they wanted this is an unbelievable wisdom we want this to be the best seller in all time history and they were able to accomplish that it did become the bestseller in world history it's the Bible right but at the end of the day what do they want the Bible to be if everyone's got the Bible so that it's not the Jewish Bible anymore then it has no inter connection to the Torah it has no connection that those were the three mitzvos that they went out to fight against us bris mil oh you think your body is Holy you have to sanctify take a baby and make his body Holier by a bris m we're against that it's got to be just the physical Beauty you want to take shabis shabas you want to say that there's one day more holy than the other days you want to tell me that there's K in when a certain time period comes in there's a special Holiness we don't believe in that there's no connection there is no Holiness there's just wisdom there's culture there's philosophy is the because with you can only be allowed people to do Al to to come to the holy place that's why they didn't destroy the bik because they Love Culture let's keep it as a museum let's let people come in and see what it's all about but we have to have an idol in here we have to make a lot of breaks there's no separation between Jews and non-jews everybody should be this is a beautiful cultural place but there's no connection between this world and the world and and for that the were willing to get up and to fight and it wasn't easy fight it was one of the darkest times of Jewish history in fact Y is called it's called Darkness the second in the Torah says the brings us down that this is that brought down a Darkness onto this world because we had a a prophetic age before that and now we're in an age where it's all about wisdom my wisdom versus their wisdom and this is what the were willing to fight about and it wasn't an easy battle and I want to tell you something that gave gave them the there's something that's very very special in the Mitzvah ofos that we don't have in any other mitvah if somebody is traveling or if somebody is homeless he doesn't have a place like we know that the Mitzvah that we light we light as a family there's a Mitzvah the Mitzvah is on the home is on the family and that's why if you don't have a home so then you don't like it's specifically on the home because the Greeks tried to undo the Jewish Family they tried to breach it they tried to break it you weren't allowed to go to the mikah you weren't allowed to have bris if a girl wanted to get married she had to go to the anything that had to do with the Jewish with the Holiness in again that same concept they want this is just a physical related this is just you know this is an agreement there's no Holiness in this relationship they want to destroy it that's why we do it as a family every family lights their candle but there's something special if somebody does not have a home or somebody's traveling and he doesn't like the manor so then what should you do there's one there's a that thear brings down I don't think we're knowing it nowadays I think the tour brings down that we're not knowing this nowadays but it's called the of somebody who sees if you're traveling and you don't have a place to light but you see somebody else's light you can stop and make a br because you saw his light where do we have ever find that in Judaism if I don't have any mat but I see somebody munching away on mat I'm allowed to make a he's eating it he's the one who lit it what what type of is it it's you have to light the candle how come you're making a br because you're seeing somebody else's land explain that there's something we see this with candles of there's something unique to seeing the candles we don't have permission to use them rather to look at them what so special about looking at the candles because in life and listen to this good in life you could take away from somebody almost anything besides their their choice how they choose to look at the situation that they are in right now you could take away almost anything from it but it's their choice to decide how do they want to look at this difficult situation that I'm in were in the most difficult situation imaginable huge Greek army to get up and fight against them is suicide it was a suicide mission what how can we go in there but they were able to look at the situation and to understand if we don't get get up and fight for what it means to be a Jew so then there won't be any Jews to fight for anymore there just won't be the continuity of the Jewish people we'll all just be like the same thing it'll be one big Melting Pot and everybody will be there will be nothing unique about the Jewish people they were able to look at it in a different light this past week a week and a half ago I went to a wedding on Thursday night the wedding of SAR TI and AR I wasn't the only one who went to that wedd there's a lot of people who went to that wedd but for me personally that wedding was extremely extremely inspiration you know normally you write on the invitation you write that's what you normally write an invitation we all know her story her father and her brother were traveling to the Shabbat of her wedding and they got killed by terrorists on the way to the wedding so instead the day of her wedding she has to be sitting sh but she decides to invite the entire Jewish people to her way for her it was the darkest point it it supposed to be the happiest week and it became the saddest week the the most darkest point in her life and she could have looked at it in so many different ways she could have been in the darkness and in the misery but she decides to look at it in a totally different light I'm going to use this opportunity to let people be me to be an inspiration on to myself and you know what to be an inspiration on to other people because the people who came to that wedding they weren't just they wer coming to inspire them but we we were also coming to inspire ourselves because we want to feel a part we we want to be no old we want to be there for that she wrote on her her invitation do not rejoice my enemies if I fell I'm going to get up again and if I'm sitting in the darkness God Almighty is my light that was your wedding indication and I came in there and I remember it I came in there with my father and my two brothers and we walked in and you know somebody recognized my father so he put us into like the Inner Circle over there was RA and this and people are dancing and the and are sitting there and I'm hearing is singing his song I don't know I still haven't found the source for this song maybe it's just a nice song and he said and the words of the song I remember it because I'm looking at the and he's singing songs that says like this God Almighty I know that the Third Temple is not built from Stones rather from tears and if all you need is one tier please take mine that was the song and everyone's rejoicing let see the color she's rejoicing and she's crying she's crying she's rejoicing and she didn't have just one tear she had a lot of tears and she's saying she's not saying I'm upset she's saying take my tear and rebuild the and that's what everybody was thinking that is taking the darkest situation and rebuilding it rebuilding it and seeing the The Light Within the darkness and I noticed that within that Circle of the people dancing in Fr who came to be who came to Rejoice with them there was a Jew his name is David David Kel lost his wife and four children he was his wife was pregnant and he had four daughters and they were driving he wasn't there he was in school at the time CU he was a principal and they were driving in G and they were all gone down but you know what he did he was it was a difficult time the most difficult time but he was able to regroup he got remarried he had a child a boy and then he had a girl and he came to Rejoice with his to show them I know you went through the darkest time but when the sun sets the Sun is going to rise again that week's par was yov leaving ER when yov left ER it says the son went down for him and he slept in that place it became a point of Darkness for him he was leaving ER ASA is chasing him elas took all of his clothes all of his money he's got nothing left what's he asking for please take just something to eat and something to wear he had nothing he's in the darkest point of his life but he gets up and he goes to L's house and it's difficult and he builds CL and he comes back says the same son that went down for him after he was able to overcome as and make it back to came to Rejoice to tell them you could do it you could come out of the darkness and see the lighta is that time that gives us that gives us that energy it doesn't matter how difficult the person situation is it whether he's in a financial difficulty whether he's looking for a sh whether he's he's got sh bias issues whether it's children issues whatever the situation might be and we feel like oh no we're able to see The Light Within the darkness it's specifically that gives us that opportunity that that's what the taught us they taught us that it doesn't matter that the window closed and now that we don't have that prophetic age and now we're fighting and there's assimilation that is beginning for the first time in Jewish history there's assimilation there is M because we don't have a anymore in the time of the first B when they didar they still knew that there was a now there's a ation for the first time but they say we're going to be we're going to fight we're going to see the light from the darkness we're going to the the Torah the wisdom that that the Torah has for us and then this whole time period turns into a time of to praise to glorify what's in its simplest form is just to say to you know the the heroes of this story we are called all comes from the word but it's very interesting in Hebrew the word has two explanations there's I say thank you to you but there's another that's called I admit I admit that I did something and it's not stound that these two words have one they they're the same word but two different meanings because you know sometimes it's very difficult for for people to say thank you why is it difficult for people to say thank you to say thank you to our wives to say thank you to our parents to our close friends why is it so difficult to say thank you because a real thank you first comes with a I have to admit that I need you my wife I have to admit that I need you my kids that I need you my friends no one wants to admit that we need somebody else it makes us weak but a real thank you is first saying I I admit that I need you and now now I'm saying thank you to you that you were there for me is the time that we admit that we needed God's help and we were able to see that because if it if it's up to us so then there's no way we're going to get out of the darkness if it's up to us just by ourselves we're not going to be able to do it but Hashem God Almighty will be my light and now if God Almighty isn't going to help me so then I could do it I could do it and I admit that I need your help and now I want to thank you for all the beautiful things that you've helped me and that's is to spread it out if we were given a gift and we found there's something good in our life so we have to be you know this man has got eight uh lights on it the man in the B of M how many candles did it have seven the tell us in this very interesting that our face is just like the in the B how is that we got two ears we got two eyes two nostrils and one mouth there's seven openings in our face similar and parallel to the of the why because with our faith we could do exactly what the the to lighten up somebody's day you say a good word you had something good to you so say say a good word to somebody else say thank you to somebody else be excited with them then they're going to light up and you know what a smile is just like a candle because if I have a candle and I give it to you and and you give it to her and to him and to this everybody's going to have that candle and I don't lose at all from my flame you could pass One Flame to the next and to the next and everyone it just multiplies and the original flame does not lose from its length the same thing with a smile Tri give somebody a really good smile it's they're going to smile I see you smiling they're going to smile and then other people are going to smile and it passes up that's called This is what is all about Kana the war was to fight are we going yes we Value Beauty we value this world we value it but it needs to be with a connection a connection to the world above and that's why it's eight which is we want to go above the seven is the physical world eight is above the physical world we want to be connected on top of the physical world what connects number seven is the physical world number eight is above the physical world what number will be the connecting number between seven and 8 what's the middle between seven and 8 7.5 so if you want to take it into the bigger it would be 75 the gatri of Kain is 75 it's the Kohan that connect the physical and the spiritual world together and happens in the they're connecting the two worlds together that's that's why it's called that's why we eat a lot of oil and goes up to it makes us more sh because we're eating it shows that it's above it rises to the top but that's also the word Nish is the same letters as it's the inside it's the spiritual world that is what Kan is all about they wanted to destroy any connection to the spiritual world they're saying everything is here physical Beauty Gladiators stadiums it's all about here it's all about what this world has to offer and the the say no our job is to connect this world and the world above for that they were willing to risk their life CU if you don't know what you're willing to die for you don't even know why you began to live what your life is about they knew what their life was about to they were willing to die for it and it was mysterious neish and they got up there and they fought for it and they were able to be it was the darkest point in their life but they were able to see it they were able to see the light with in the darkness may we be as well to see The Light Within the darkness within our own personal life within our own National Life we're in a difficult time whether it's personally but definitely on on the national level and our job and what the the of tonight is the first night it's get the light is going to just keep on increasing from tonight on and we're we all see it soon in our times thank you very much [Applause] hi for