Are We Obligated to Make Meals on Chanukah? The Rambam's Unique View

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

the issue we're going to be exploring today and happy hanukkah to everybody is actually dissecting what is the definition of hanukkah what is at the core of the institution of the hanukkah celebration with a practical question are we obligated to enjoy and make and create and celebrate hanukkah with festive meals or not and as we will see this is a debate that goes back many many generations and we're going to be discussing the various perspectives two general perspectives on how to explain hanukkah including the unique view of the rambam on hanukkah this class is based on a presentation a siche a shir that was presented by the lobov on chanukat of shanla medal and zoys khannak actually the last day of chanukah madalid that's the beginning of night the end of 1973. and he continued it next job as shabbas vayigash and it's published in the kute sikhais by the lobov chereb volume 10 a sikha on chanaka so let's begin you'll see in your source sheets you have we have the secret inside from the the presentation the sikh of the talk of the ramba but before that you have source sheets and i want to go through with you we're going to go through some of those sources soon but let's actually begin the sikha right away hanukkah if aleph the first source is isabel shabbas there's a gemarium is the second chapter of shabbos of allah is pedigree that's the section of gemara the brief section of the gemara that is dedicated to the laws of chanukah and the story of hanukkah says what is question what versus hanukkah and says the gemara listen to the words shaksha nicholas when the greeks entered into the heckle into the sanctuary of the base amikters this is of course the second basa mig

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1. 0:00the issue we're going to be exploring today and happy hanukkah to everybody is actually dissecting…
2. 6:20rottenberg my ramy ruthenberg this is not mandated [Music] however the rambam writes about chanukah and…
3. 12:48meloria the maha shall write shalom according when i'm partaking in this meal i'm fulfilling a…
4. 19:09and then he quotes the maharashtra but before we get to the marshall if you look…
5. 25:35clearly hanukkah was commit was established to celebrate the story of the oil when you read…
6. 31:53because this is actually a complimentary you read terrorism you read it then you read this…
7. 38:27was it wasn't double a number triple the number it was much more you're dealing maybe…
8. 44:55this is because of what happened with the oil also see the connection between the oil…
9. 51:41or paragraph the rambam puts it in two separate moments two separate allah why because rama…
10. 58:06physical state of the jewish people it affects the spiritual state of the jewish people it…

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