Chanukah: Saving Others with Self-Sacrifice - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

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[Music] Bruma boom Chanukah is essentially about the reestablishing of our identity we'll explain it's a great story told that it happened here in Israel that a an accountant lost his job he was fired laid off very serious he's got a family can't find a job month after month finally he sees in one of the local papers that the Jerusalem zoo is looking for someone for a special position if he goes maybe it's in the accounting department he applies for the job and he arrives there to the CEO of the zoo he walks in the guys and look at him and says okay you got the job you perfect what do you mean we haven't spoken who what's the job you don't know me said none are you absolutely perfect you see what happened the chimpanzee died and it's a big attraction in the zoo so what we've done is we've got the suit and you a perfect fit you'll masquerade you'll be in the suit and you'd clown around in the cage like a chimpanzee okay in fairness Espinosa he certainly won't be recognized so his first day on the job he goes into the cage and the kids arrive and they whooping the chimps back and they start throwing fruit and and and and bumpers and nuts and he's grabbing and diving and entertaining them he's having a ball until one kid throws the Apple and it lands in a tree now chimps climb trees but accountants ain't so good at that so he but the kids are coaxing so he starts climbing the tree as he reaches the top of the tree he reaches the Apple he slips he falls out of the tree into the neighboring cage which happens to be the cage of the lion so the lion comes

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