What Can We Learn from Chanukah? - Part 5 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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there's a problem that we all face and that is that certain things repeat over and over again and become very familiar with them and then we take them for granted and we stop thinking about them and then all of a sudden we discover that things aren't the way we thought they don't mean what we thought and it's a bit of a jolt to me it's always a joke because I think of myself as an intelligent thinking person and then I discovered that I was asleep when I was dealing with these things this happens with the texts of Prayer very regularly I want to share one with you right now at the bottom of the page in the gray is the addition that we insert in the prayers for the two holidays konica important want to go through the one that describes Hanukkah and I'm going to read through it as I read through it think about Hanukkah think about what you know of a conical what we're doing and see how the text relates to what's going on for the miracles a Salvation mighty deeds victories battles you perform for our forefathers these days at this time the days of Martha CEO so I'm the Oakland High Priest the husband Aaron and his sons when the wicked Greek kingdom rose up against your people in Israel to make them forget your Torah and compel them to stray from the statues of your will you and your great mercy stood up for them and the time of their distress you took up their grievance judge their claim avenged their wrong you delivered the strong into the hands of the week the

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1. 0:17there's a problem that we all face and that is that certain things repeat over and…
2. 3:56and in the big house of Muslims we say after after eating bread it's the same…
3. 7:38prayers is to teach us something crucial about the message of Hanukkah this is a application…
4. 11:14war proceed they're all proceeds from out the North that driving the Greeks and Syrian Greeks…
5. 14:52groups religion is valid it's true the Babylonians agreed that the Egyptian gods are real God's…
6. 18:28events how does he take them well how does he structure his world there's the god…
7. 22:04have to get a new queen and that's a beauty search and Lester is taken into…
8. 25:46step beyond that now go back and re-examine the events at the beginning of the book…
9. 29:24but your mind and heart are filled with false ideas false goals disconnected from the reality…
10. 33:00destroyed don't know what's the difference between those miracles that become celebrated annually forever and those…

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