Rabbi David Kaplan - Chanukah: Choosing Sides

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everybody knows Konica comes around and what kind of guy comes around there's always an association that's made you did Hanukkah in light we know we rekindle the candles we Kimball the candles of Hanukkah representative of the light everybody knows that the source of this idea of reckoning the light is because we were in exile goes what's called galoot and this exile was called the Greek exile which is alluded to already in the Torah in the very first section of the Torah when it says the kosher ALPA date the home there was darkness over the abyss and the Midrash says that darkness refers to the Exile the Greek exile now weary kid the light on Konica and obviously a light is symbolic not only of the physical light of those candles but obviously have a light of the Jewish people which has been extinguished and the commentaries explained the light of enthusiasm or enthusiasm for Torah and through the other four mitzvahs and that's part of the job that's what we're trying to do trying to accomplish on Hanukkah very interesting a few years back maybe more than a few years about twenty years ago there's an Israeli reporter writing for one of the the editor of one of the main secular Israeli newspapers man named I'm known dank nur and I'm known Decker presented a challenge to the secular Israeli public it was right around the Hanukkah time and I'm non-doctor chillage the secular Israeli public and he said to them the following so just

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1. 0:17everybody knows Konica comes around and what kind of guy comes around there's always an association…
2. 1:19the job that's what we're trying to do trying to accomplish on Hanukkah very interesting a…
3. 2:53just imagine that battle was taking place today whose side would you be on would you…
4. 3:56have in myself how much of my life which I hopefully is a life of devotion…
5. 5:29they attended police sappers Ordo police ever said those are doesn't last long exposed on a…
6. 6:30them what's the halacha I just found $10,000 cash what's outlook what's the law am I…
7. 8:02live happily ever after stop and think how does the person do that man found $10,000…
8. 9:05plateau and they know that the power source of the Jewish people is simply the Torah…
9. 10:37dumpsters and none of the neighbors on the block should be inconvenienced when they want to…
10. 11:41and culture but it's like beauty and a culture it's the antithesis of at our life…

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