Chanukah: The Holiday of the Messianic Light - Rabbi Mendel Kessin

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Botton’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

next week is kanuka so I decided I had to make a choice obviously because uh what's happening with current events is very exciting um but I believe that this Kaneka also could be very exciting and besides it's Kaneka is a very really very important holiday you know it seems simple but the truth is it's tremendously profound in terms of what's happening and so on so I thought I would speak about Kaneka this week you know anyway uh before I begin let me just make certain statements uh this year should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina basio ru and wol wolf and Sh Ru Ben Regina right and they should all have bras and have a also estas yaa should have a fo as well as schl then Figo also should have a in any case like I said next week is the holiday of Kaneka and I I thought kanaka is really like I said very important holiday far more important than I think most people realize you know and it's also very joyous I mean really takes it to heart in terms of get togethers it's a really it's a tremendous family holiday but I wanted to go into obviously the more the greater underpinnings of what's really going on and so on you know now of course Kaneka has a very famous story to it but there's something about kanaka I think you can ask many questions about it but I I would like to ask several questions about it that will dramatize its importance the first idea of course is what is the essence of kanaka I mean obviously we make what's called potato lkas so that's obviously very important

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2. 6:30incredible but as we know he wanted to uh modernize Judaism Israel now after he died…
3. 13:04which is very far distance and so on but what he is known for is his…
4. 19:40everything else even ideas or even the concept of existence which are Concepts has to be…
5. 26:16rectify you see so even though God ultimately created different realities he does not want that…
6. 32:43even though we don't understand it now you could explain to us but that was a…
7. 39:20light exactly how the mitzvas are a trigger and how they interface with the mechanism which…
8. 45:53getting into that therefore mankind is always tested now we don't understand the nature of the…
9. 52:28that God made everything but that the world has a pus it has an internal structure…
10. 58:55interesting not only that imagine after 3 years when they started the war when you had…

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