What Can We Learn from Chanukah? - Part 2 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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before we dive into the deep philosophy I want to share with you an idea from the lighting of the menorah itself which expresses a very important basic Jewish value you are all familiar with the custom of increasing the number of candles each night that happens to be a difference of opinion in the Camorra between basil and by Sean I and Shammai says that we should decrease by eight the first night seven the next night all the way down to one that disagreement has been the subject of a great deal of analysis Zevon wrote a famous cipher called maudine bahaha it came out 50 years ago or more and has been translated into English I guess it would be the holidays in Jewish law he had a sense for interesting unique ideas I need a way of expressing them in a very clear fashion he cites an analysis of the disagreements between by syllabus shamma throughout shas on the basis of potentiality and actuality the difference between looking to the inner character of a thing its essential nature which gives it the potentials that it has what some philosophers called dispositions versus what actually happened so for example sugar is soluble in water sugar will dissolve and t even sugar that's sitting in your cabinet I gets burned up in a fire and never makes it into T we say okay okay that's what happened but how'd you put it into two you would have dissolved solubility is a property you don't see acting in that sugar but it's there anyway it's its inner potential its inner character and

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1. 0:17before we dive into the deep philosophy I want to share with you an idea from…
2. 4:26celebrating we're not celebrating the internal change we're celebrating the external expression the effect that it…
3. 8:32confirm your internal greatness know the greatest I gave you was for the sake of what…
4. 12:39realm of nature have times when they gods tell them what to do or food taboos…
5. 16:47interact that's how it happens can you hear us Nestor's next Perry aren't you just giving…
6. 20:56have always gone together this way or the things we've looked at when we were watching…
7. 25:05level halfway through the sequence is because God created it there at that point at that…
8. 29:10story and said i saw one story and say that in ancient times when they were…
9. 33:18people still do practically press buttons are computers you've probably seen it so you're moving your…
10. 37:30is a Greek impulse in something which we can we can make use of even though…

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