Parashat Behaalotecha - Why does Judaism LOVE candles? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are in parashat Mahalo to hob and we're still a week ahead from the DES pour there in parashat Nassau but as I mentioned a few times in Israel we always step ahead and there's a famous story I'm sure you heard it one way or another the story is known with the famous rabbi called Robbie Israel Miss Alan's from salons and there's a story that he was once walking down the street was very late at night and he noticed that the street that he was walking on was where all the shops were all the shops were closed but there was one shop and he saw light through the window and it was very curious who's they who's up in the middle of the night he walks through and he looks through the window and he sees the shoemaker sitting there as a candle on the table and he's sewing and fixing shoes he comes to him and he tells him why are you working in the middle of the night everybody close their stores everybody went home why are you working so late so the shoemaker tells him as long as the candle is lit you can still fix this is the famous saying corridor near the lake of Charlotte again as long as the lancers candles still lit up you can fix oh he went home that was echoing in his ear he said wow this is an unbelievable approach the next day in the morning after the prayer of shahe read he gave a little class to his students and he said : on a Dalek I shall attack n as long as the candles lit up you can still fix and this is of

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2. 5:58carry the ark with the wagon you're only allowed to carry the ark on your shoulders…
3. 12:32their victory is they took them in over and they showed everybody we have the manova…
4. 18:16I'm not bringing a sacrifice now he felt very uncomfortable he actually got very hurt but…
5. 24:43knew that something special with the manova that they wanted it to themselves so let's kind…
6. 30:34again and take whatever you want this time he says no you tell him no what…
7. 37:11dominating thing of the manova that it has seven branches mine or eight why not six…
8. 43:02serve a shame I'm not talking right now that somebody comes and makes up his own…
9. 49:35dealing with oil oil not from the ground oil from Shemin from make olives but nevertheless…
10. 55:40reason to judge you and to mock you or to not like you and once in…

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