What Can We Learn from Chanukah? - Part 3 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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as anyone yeah he's got a he's got stocking in a candle factory I think the point of it the point of it is to symbolize the number of the night so I don't see what the point that would be it is true that I'll tell you something else the minimal Mitzvah the Mitzvah that that's perfectly adequate to be satisfied is one candle / house / night so you have only one candle today okay and you can have 30 people living in the house wouldn't matter one candle / house / night now there are two ways in which the Tom would suggest upgrading and it's one is that each responsible adult shed light is on menorah and the other is that you should increase the number of candles per night a question of which takes precedence but there are two possible upgrades commentators ask why is this mr. structured like this why should it be abated minimum and then two upgrades a single upgrade you have very often there is the best way to do a mitzvah then there are certain parts of the midst of which if you omit them you are still satisfied at a minimal level but there's no other mid so that has built into its definition two upgrades and the answer that's given is this history tells us that they were looking for pure oil with which to light the menorah when they reset it up after pushing the Tsarina greeks out of jerusalem and they only found one container of pure oil what would they

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