The Meaning of Chanukah with Chaim Kramer

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[Music] Salam alaikum welcome to breslav web seminar the week is Pasha's me fete 2016 or Tufts and I in Zion and it's also Hanukkah the week of Hanukkah all right we eat latkes we like candles we celebrate and it becomes family gatherings and a lot of things happen on Hanukkah I often wonder what Hanukkah the repechage lesson to Makuta Mehran that the days of Hanukkah are days of joy and happiness days of Hanukkah our days of praise of Hashem as we say in the East when s rayon Alan Eason when we hear that piece in for Hanukkah it says the co foolish - you may Hanukkah a low the high dose or the Holly Aleutian haha God or that they established his eight days of Hanukkah in order to be able to praise a Shem if you know the story you know that the Greeks Alexander of Macedonia he conquered the Persians he was a warlord a bloodthirsty king he died young and but he taught war not peace to his people the Greeks picked up on it and they joined together with the Egyptians so the Egyptian kings and the Greek leaders became oppressors trying to conquer whatever they could the whole Middle East eventually they got very powerful and they conquered the Land of Israel the Jews returned some 150 years prior to the Greek the conquest of Israel the Jews returned from Babylon from Persia and they rebuilt the temple and they were living a Jewish life then we have the pure clear voice tells us that there were the

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1. 0:00[Music] Salam alaikum welcome to breslav web seminar the week is Pasha's me fete 2016 or…
2. 1:36a bloodthirsty king he died young and but he taught war not peace to his people…
3. 3:12the world the Greeks who introduced the Olympics who introduced the physical pleasures and who introduced…
4. 5:18not really the state the word exile in dictionary means that you're taken away from your…
5. 6:49Jews went off to Derek they followed the Hellenistic followed the local ideas I was a…
6. 8:54today look at the way the family structure there is no family structure anymore what happened…
7. 10:29lightning and let's go with the racecars and let's go with the thunder and the noise…
8. 12:03civilization right every nation has changed even the Chinese who were like behind the great wall…
9. 14:09defeated the Greeks these were the mighty Greek armies that defeated and conquered the entire Middle…
10. 15:42message of what Chanukah always falls out with me Kate so me Kate's always falls out…

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