A Little Light Dispels Much Darkness - Facing the New Antisemitisms | Rabbi Nir Menussi

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom everyone. Good evening. >> So happy to be here. Such a a joy and a privilege and a pleasure. And my name is Nusi. I'm here from Isel. And I'm here on a tour. We're launching a new book. So first I have to tell you about the book then we can go into our topic. It's a new book on Kanuka. It was written by my Rav Ravitzka Ginsburg from Israel and myself. He taught all the classes. I adapted them and made them accessible. It's a book on Kanuka. It's called Dancing Flames, Meditative Essays on Kanuka. Uh you can see it in the back. So when the class is over, when you have to go, just make sure you go past the book and you take a look at it. And it's a really original and very profound book. It's uh it contains eight essays, one for each night of Kanuka. And each one delves into a different aspect of what Kanuka is all about. And believe me, it's the most original book on Kanuka you've ever read. It's nothing like you've ever seen. There's one essay uh going into uh what's the difference between the light of the candles and the warmth of the candles and what they spiritually signify. And there's another essay on all the candles of Judaism, how they come together. Studying with the manora candles going to the Shabba scandals and the havdala candle and the the kat scandal and all the way to Kaneka. And

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