This is Why We Have Chanukah

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

How do we understand the miracle of the mana? Was it have to do with the victory? The Jews did not know really what they had accomplished. They undid the sin of the golden calf. They rectified the defect of not receiving or accepting the messianic light. How would they know this? They didn't. So God said, you know, I have to tell him what they did, what the true measure of accomplishment was, which is they actually created a new tikun, a new or a new light of tikun in the creation. How am I going to do it? I will send him a telegram. Well, what is that? That's the manura. So what God did is he allowed the manura to be rekindled miraculously because the manura is the instrument that represents the messianic light in the basikdash. So when they saw that the manura was lit with a miracle eight days

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1. 0:00How do we understand the miracle of the mana? Was it have to do with the…
2. 0:30actually created a new tikun, a new or a new light of tikun in the creation.…
3. 1:00instead of one they said how is this possible they understood it wasn't just a miracle…
4. 1:33message. It's like the minur is talking to them. And of course, since kazal are so…
5. 2:04new light. It reinforces an old light. But if you actually initiate a new light that…
6. 2:36and the spiritual dimensions. Right? And that's why we have a holiday of Kaneka.…

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