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Rav Asher Weiss @ TC: Short Thought on Chanukah (5786)

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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[snorts] What is really all about? And I explained that the lamb writes all of in. So coming back to the question, D was only seven days. Why do we have eight days of Kaneka? Besides the three terutim of the rush and the bish and besides what I explained based on migillistanis one of the terutimm that has most appealed to me is very famous at the end of paras which I quoted a thousand times that explains why is it so important to remember fornim. We need to remember the supernatural miraculous events of to appreciate the life is the biggest miracle of all. And to aeshu there's no difference at all between nace and tea. To aeshb it's all the same. Human nature when we see something outstanding which we never saw before which we cannot explain we're amazed but it's all the same. [snorts] There is one Tana who was the Reba or the Baba in the days of the Mishna anas he's the balus anybody that needed that or Yeshua came to him who was that who knows nowhere is there one of we don't have any that was there are no all we know about him whoever needed the Yeshua gave a cradle to the and he immediately knew whether it's Visaba or not and there are many I do not mean to say that wasn't Alamon don't get me wrong. We have no way of measuring and evaluating tanoim. They are like neither not even they are above and beyond anything we could understand or appreciate. But the fact is there are no memor in the name of and one of the stories is inis his daughter comes to light n shabis for some reason doesn't light she looks at the bottle and to her horror it's not she it's vinegar she

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