R' Berel Wein on "The Normalcy of Miraculous Times"

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we live in a miraculous time as far as Jewish history is concerned the Jewish world today resembles no other time in its history certainly for the last two millennia and maybe even earlier and when people live in a time that is so momentous and so miraculous we would be momentous and so miraculous we would be unable to function if we really thought about it so the rabbi's therefore said the great rule in balanus mocker benissa person our nation our society to whom miracles occur do not recognize it as being miraculous they recognize it as a series of events coincidences normalcy series of events coincidences normalcy that's the way the world works and that enables us to get up in the morning and do what we have to do and not be awestruck by the time that we live in the task of rabbis however is to realize how abnormal the society and the times are and somehow to remind the people of it and I want to point out to you the it and I want to point out to you the abnormality of our time so that we can appreciate what is happening and we can appreciate what we are supposed to do the Jewish people have experienced Nissim miracles throughout our ages we have two holidays that are devoted to the memory of Nissim of miracles on us the memory of Nissim of miracles on us Hanukkah and one is for him and we make the brother show us so nice in lava Mayumi mine Bosman Arzo it was a miraculous time but it was a miraculous time because we are looking in hindsight at the moment that it occurred people didn't realize it was a miraculous time the Talmud teaches us that by Hanukkah the rabbi's could not establish the

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