Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #29 | The Essence of Chanukah

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

and therefore i'd like to talk about hanukkah and really give you an explanation which most people have never heard of before now we all know the story obviously of the uh syrian greeks attacking the uh british amigdas the temple and of course they arose mate and he fought them together with his sons and of course ultimately they won which was itself an incredible miracle and uh therefore they came to the base of mythos and they found that there was only one vial of oil which had not been contaminated toma and they lit it and it lit for eight days and of course ghazal decided that this uh occasion would become a holiday a young tough that would be celebrated until the end of time basically until the moshiach comes so we all know the story you know but when you really think about it that's not the real story as i will show you uh so therefore the first question that i would like to ask is what is the essence of hanukkah you know now there are two major miracles that happened if you think about it one is that the jews were victorious against the greeks and the syrian greeks they had a tremendous army they had over 125 000 battle hardened soldiers and maybe there were 10 000 jews so that itself was a miracle that such a small number of jews vanquished such a large number of ill real combat soldiers and the second nest

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