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Chanukah’s True Miracle: Going Beyond What Is Required - Rabbi Dovid Gottleib

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  1. 0:01[music] The miracle of Kaneka. No pure oil for the manora. And then they found one…
  2. 0:31The answer is they would have used impure oil because that is permissible in the communal…
  3. 1:01kohanim, the priests who started a war to recover the temple from the kashmanoim, from the…
  4. 1:32which they had no hope of winning but they could not tolerate the disgrace. So, Hashem,…
  5. 2:03and of course, one has to pick one's battles. And sometimes it's appropriate to step back…
  6. 2:33your lives. I remember when the beginning of the Second World War to fight the Nazis,…
  7. 3:03for [music] a person's future. It's a decision that has to be made with appropriate consultation…
  8. 3:34overcome. It's something which will build his character, will build his family, will build his community…

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