Chanukah: The Secret of the Flames

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

[Music] in the year 165 before the Common Era the mabes overpowered the Syrian Greek army and when they entered into the Holy Temple that was ransacked they could only find one Cruise of oil that had the signature of the K god of the high priest and that was enough oil to last for only one for only one day and yet that oil lasted for eight complete days and so we celebrate the Festival of kanuka every year on this day the 25th of klave the day when they entered into the Holy Temple and we too light the Kaneka manora for eight days and so to discuss this concept of why we celebrate eight days and the lessons of the candles and why do we lessons of the candles and why do we need a shamish to light the manura and to understand this on five levels of first and foremost on the level of on the simple level of the Torah the question is why do we celebrate Kana for eight days and the answer that is given in the ran is that it took four is that it took four days for the makab to go to the place where they normally made the oil and 4 days to come back so that took a total of eight days according to the Mii that place was tocoa in the tribe of Usher when they normally made the finest of the olive oil so therefore it was a 8 day trip to go there and come back and

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1. 0:02[Music] in the year 165 before the Common Era the mabes overpowered the Syrian Greek army…
2. 2:33to have this ritual purification through the red heer and only on the eighth day could…
3. 5:11really a repeat of the first note the a note that's why it's called an acave…
4. 8:14isn't one verse enough so thean explains that some rabis feel it's a negative commandment and…
5. 10:49here even though the dam tells us when we teach somebody Torah and they are a…
6. 13:55htics of the manura what is the soid the esoteric so the so is that we…
7. 16:30approach in truth we want to do every single day of the week for seven days…
8. 19:06candles and thirdly if it's symbolic of the manura in the Holy Temple they lit the…
9. 22:15mishna and we have and we have all of these things are to repair the damage…
10. 24:49story a story of Yehuda air who was the speech writer for many prime ministers in…

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