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A live Torah class by Rabbi Chaim Mintz on Chanukah miracles and their relevance in 2012.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
since we're getting ready for the exciting holiday holy holiday of KHAK coming up just want to go over some of the laws of Kaneka very briefly we do it every year I'm sure everybody remembers from last year from year before but had a whole year to forget maybe so just to uh refresh our memories before we start we want to uh mention that we want to dedicate our SPO tonight to two people that need tonight to two people that need a they need a real recovery very very sick people very fine people one little girl by the name of Ro Le B over here oh here we are we are a little girl who's very in need of prayers very sick and the young man very special young man who has a family in dire need of of prayers May so we hope that they will have a speedy recovery amongst all other sick people need a recovery very soon and we want to dedicate and we want to dedicate tonight great Merit of studying Torah should be a reason for them to get what they need amongst all the other as it was during the time of the second Holy Temple about 200 years into it the temple stood years about 200 years into the standing of the second Holy Temple the Greeks became in power that took over the world the known world at that time and they wanted to spread their culture and forc people to accept their ideas and their philosophies which were totally the crash course with Jewish philosophy and Jewish ideas but they came in strong and they
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- 0:00since we're getting ready for the exciting holiday holy holiday of KHAK coming up just want…
- 6:19watches over us then and now and always important for our children and grandchildren to realize…
- 12:32God what can we do to get you to do miracles for us like you did…
- 18:46totally to sanctify God's name subordinate themselves they totally gave themselves over the serus neish to…
- 24:59and leaving them alone but if I know it's the right thing I have to get…
- 31:19has two different ways of conducting himself he created the world with a certain tat called…
- 37:31wonderful but let's not forget the main thing of KH the main point for the kids…
- 43:43branch Ru shim any the 12 branches of the Jewish Nation could become a nozer become…
- 50:01they would not allow them to many of them would would start up with them and…
- 56:10self-hating Jews and uh one thing you didn't mention was there a lot of influence that…
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