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Chanukah: The Holiday of Ohr Ha'Mashiach

2.2K views · Dec 14, 2025

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A hashkafic exploration of Chanukah's spiritual significance and the hope for Mashiach.

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In essence, what exactly is the essential idea of the messianic light that everything emanates from God and that is how the Messiah will turn over that's how he will battle the entire false beliefs of mankind. And that's really what Khan is. So when you like Kanekalites, what you're really declaring is your belief that God runs the world completely. And not only that, he is the world

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  1. 0:00In essence, what exactly is the essential idea of the messianic light that everything emanates from…
  2. 0:31completely. That's really what you're doing. So when you learn lights, you should look at the…
  3. 1:01stare at them. Uh, it would be great if you could do that for a half…
  4. 1:33So maybe maybe this Kaneka Msiah will come. It's got to come sometime, right? So maybe…

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