Nature is Miraculous: The Miracle of Chanukah - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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[Music] Shalom everyone and I know that particularly as we are in a time of travail a time of War a time of mil a time where many Jews over 200 are held as hostage and are our soldiers are putting their lives at our soldiers are putting their lives at risk uh we could aptly describe this period as a period of darkness and yet the lesson of Kaneka is the light that pierces the darkness a light that goes beyond what we thought possible that one day of light somehow became eight days because when God blesses your efforts there is no limit to the that you can receive and as a result Kaneka is a very very auspicious time to contemplate the Divine Light that can rescue us from the Divine Light that can rescue us from the greatest darkness that one faces this is true on the national level and this is true on the individual level as well I wanted to share with you a little observation and this is um based on a very very famous question it probably is the most famous question in the whole literature of Kaneka and that is if Kaneka commemorates a miracle that they found enough oil for one day and the manora burned for8 days then the

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1. 0:01[Music] Shalom everyone and I know that particularly as we are in a time of travail…
2. 0:33our soldiers are putting their lives at risk uh we could aptly describe this period as…
3. 1:04Divine Light that can rescue us from the greatest darkness that one faces this is true…
4. 1:34and the manora burned for8 days then the miracle of kanaka was only seven days because…
5. 2:06particular answer the question presupposes that day number one is not a miracle because it is…
6. 2:38nature but a sensitive Jew understands that the world does not run of its own accord…
7. 3:10is a banner or a flag that attracts attention to what I otherwise wouldn't notice theam…
8. 3:43between and Bina is is taking in information Bina is extrapolating from the known to the…
9. 4:13the Zer says only through the quality of Bina do we make Hana 8 days this…
10. 4:44not negate its miraculous character and for that we need to be eternally grateful joyous appreciative…

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