A Short Thought on Hanukkah | By HaRav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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[Music] so tonight we like the first nair of chanukah and let's share a thought i think a fundamental and very important thought on hanukkah what is it all about what was the decree of the evonim and what did the kashmir fight for so we know that unlike the romans and the babylium the babylonians unlike hormone via more deja viester that was out to annihilate to murder to kill to destroy the evonim were not out to destroy claudius oil but rather why did they specify milo what was it all about so let me share a feeling teemo called hashemanim they were matama the oil if they didn't want the jews to light the menorah some more they could just destroy the menida burn the oil or spill out the oil to nagal kidron they didn't destroy the oil it just impurified it the greeks darkened the eyes of israel how they said kiswa so obviously this gazeta this this decree was something terrible what does it mean and which oxen and why care and ashore why the horns of an axe so obviously the horns of an axe are the most obvious feature of an ox so why not the tails of the horses donkey has big ears which sure are we talking about keren hashor the evonum did not destroy the base of magdash it was in their power to do so but unlike the babylonians unlike the greeks they didn't destroy the base of english what did they do they breached the walls in thirteen different places judy marpur says why 13. no number in teresha teresa in our fundamental history no number is coincidental there must be a reason you'd gimla purchases and there must be a reason because the

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2. 1:00why did they specify milo what was it all about so let me share a feeling…
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