Women's Chanukah 5786 Lecture - Why the Chanukah Struggle Continues: Choosing Experience over Reason

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

begin with a chapter of Tahillim for our brothers and sisters in Sydney, Australia and especially all those who need a recovery of the dozens wounded in the horrific massacre the first night of Kaneka in Sydney. So let's say a cap tom for them and for our brothers and sisters in Israel in the holy land. So we'll say capital which is 124d 124 and which is 125 for. And the next 125 125 Shave. [snorts] So Kaneka, happy Kaneka to everybody and welcome. I know it wasn't so easy today with the weather and the big snow that we had. So thank you for braving the weather and gracing us with your presence. Everybody be blessed with a bright kaneka and a happy Kaneka for you and your loved ones among all of our people. Next week, please remember there's no class. I'm away next Tuesday but the week afterwards Ber Hashem we will resume. Today's class is dedicated by some very very special people. The class is dedicated in honor of the marriage of Ephraim Wolf to Batva Fox from their friends and families from Sydney Australia. Rabbi [snorts] Ley Wolf was one of the great rabbis of Sydney of Central Synagogue. married off his son Ephraim, [snorts] two foxes from South Africa. So maztov maztov and an amazing life and a day also dedicated by the cups and lefawitz family celebrating today the pion of their greatgrandson named after his grandfather Stanley Paul cops. May the beas and may he grow with all abundant blessings and joy and tranquility and and all of the blessings

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1. 0:00begin with a chapter of Tahillim for our brothers and sisters in Sydney, Australia and especially…
2. 6:16know, what do we tell ourselves? What do we tell our children? As you know, I'm…
3. 12:24oils that were in the sanctuary. The oils that were designated to light them in because…
4. 18:38conquers the defeated what's the first thing they focus on? They want the booty. They want…
5. 24:56practice. But it's much more complex than that. It's much more nuanced. It's much more nu…
6. 31:06learn Mishna, you learn Gimmorra and all of its commentators, there's nuance, brilliance there. There's foundations,…
7. 37:47one person speaks and nobody listens. At a fabbran, nobody speaks and everybody listens. An embodied…
8. 44:01then look at a fish and say this fish is God and then turn a cow…
9. 50:11it's a tool at best and it only describes that which the mind can describe. The…
10. 56:20relationship. The words will be nicer. They'll be fluffy. They'll be eloquent. There won't be mistakes.…

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