Parashat Miketz 5786 Shabbat Chanukah - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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Not going to continue from the beginning, right? Should start over. [clears throat] As well as what did he say? I want to uh connect a few things. I I really want to discuss the holiday of Hanuka, but I also want to connect it and I think it happens to be very connected to um who my mother was as we connected to um who my mother was as we mentioned that we don't really doped during Hanukkah and I'm not interested in doing apid but rather just to connect certain points of the life of my mother and the legacy and takeaways that we could learn from it that is very much associated with the holiday of Hanukkah. So let's start from the gumar itself. The tells us that the is a very famous Shabbat. The [snorts] says the mitzvah is every person in his home, not somewhere else. Sometimes people they don't know the like maybe I'll just light at work instead because that's where I am until very late. The is there is no such thing as lighting at work. You light at home in the house of a person is where he fulfills the even the to light in the but you don't get credit for that mitzvah that's a communal mitzvah it's like reading it doesn't mitzvah it's like reading it doesn't mean the person the individual gets credit for the his mitzvah his personal obligation is and the famously continues and says the main is means one candle you don't have to light more if you want to perform the light one candle. If you want to be you want to do extra credit, you want to go above the letter of the law, do a little bit more meticulous job, then every person lights

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