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A hashkafic exploration of Chanukah's spiritual significance and the hope for Mashiach.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
In essence, what exactly is the essential idea of the messianic light that everything emanates from God and that is how the Messiah will turn over that's how he will battle the entire false beliefs of mankind. And that's really what Khan is. So when you like Kanekalites, what you're really declaring is your belief that God runs the world completely. And not only that, he is the world
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- 0:00In essence, what exactly is the essential idea of the messianic light that everything emanates from…
- 0:31completely. That's really what you're doing. So when you learn lights, you should look at the…
- 1:01stare at them. Uh, it would be great if you could do that for a half…
- 1:33So maybe maybe this Kaneka Msiah will come. It's got to come sometime, right? So maybe…
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Chanukah: The Holiday of Ohr Ha'Mashiach1:55
Statement About the U.N.'s Declaration of the Palestinian State3:09
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