The Woman's Role in the Miracle of Chanukah

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

[Music] well with hanukkah in the air you can tell when chanukah is in the air because right after circus they start selling suv right and uh we don't eat those because they're terribly unhealthy you know that right they call them doughnuts obviously these people have never been in the united states of america they have no idea what a donut is here what they do is they take old hollow rolls they soak it in oil long enough that if you put in a wick you can recreate the chanukah miracle you know i said and they put in some jelly now the worst thing about these things are everyone knows you shouldn't eat them but they cover them with enough powdered sugar so it falls all over you so everyone knows you had a suv ghanaia you see and if you try to brush it off it just gives your clothing a glaze so you know you can't get rid of it you know so and if that doesn't work then all of a sudden the jelly squirts out on top of you you know so between the jelly and the powdered sugar you might as well just give it up anyway so uh i wanted to speak a little bit about hanukkah and i uh i have a unique position it's very interesting god has a sense of humor i'm one of six boys there were no girls in my house except for my mother if she was a girl i don't really know we never determined but uh six boys and i have eight daughters and um yes indeed these things have to even themselves out i was in fact gonna open my own seminary

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