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We Have No Heroes - The Chofetz Chaim on Chanukah

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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recording in progress. >> Okay. Welcome everyone. We're continuing in the on today's comes from the alabis and makes the following observation and the author of this says he heard this from it's based on also's biography that if you look in the Just think about the vantage point. It's not talking about it's giving a reference point that in the times of we're talking about what the did for us. The only mention of is that's the context meaning okay everyone we're about to thank Hashem for what for something that happened in the what for something that happened in the times of but there's no focus on no It's it's we're talking about we're talking to theam. We're talking about theam and

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  1. 0:01recording in progress. >> Okay. Welcome everyone. We're continuing in the on today's comes from the…
  2. 0:35Just think about the vantage point. It's not talking about it's giving a reference point that…
  3. 1:06what for something that happened in the times of but there's no focus on no It's…
  4. 1:38to theam. We're talking about theam and any reference or mention of the orio is just…
  5. 2:09why? What does this show us? That we don't have heroes. We don't have redeemers. Goyel…
  6. 2:39alanim the whole thing is in Hebrew except for one word all of a sudden the…
  7. 3:09it comes to porkon it's Aramaic. What does porkon mean? Porcon means gula. We're very careful…
  8. 3:41could have from abas gula. Gula is only from my so that fits very well into…
  9. 4:11shabas is like a yumiff. Remember we we we learned that it's it's not just shabas…

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