Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #75 | Chanukah: Restoring the Messianic Light [AUDIO]

What’s said in this shiur

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

Well, we are less than a week away from Hanukkah. And I wanted to talk about Hanukkah. It's very appropriate, obviously. But Hanukkah teaches us many, many lessons of which we will see. But one of the most important things that Hanukkah shows us is that everything is orchestrated by the Ribono shel Olam. And nothing happens by accident. That's the first idea. The second idea is why do these type of events happen? And the answer to that is because we have to fulfill, we mean the Jewish people have accepted a spiritual task. And that basically is to bring the Ribono shel Olam back to the real. But what it really is is something which is in certain sense more general. And what that is is that it's not only that the Ribono shel Olam wants to come back. You see. But what it really is is that there are two realities really. One which is revealed which is ours and one which is concealed. Which is the reality of an entire spiritual dimension. And we don't realize that. And our job is to reassert to bring it back. That's the job of the Jew. And that concept is called we you know, which we know is called tikkun. Because the world is in a very uh um defective state. And that is that we only perceive a certain reality. But it's a very surface and superficial reality. And the job really is is to uncover the real reality which is spiritual. And of course that takes place in the Messianic Era. In fact, that's what the Messianic Era really is. It is this world that will remain physical, which is interesting. But will be uh governed by the spiritual reality. So, it's interesting that in this physical world God will actually reveal

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1. 0:01Well, we are less than a week away from Hanukkah. And I wanted to talk about…
2. 6:28do what? They are commanded to move it along. Tikkun process. Until you have the what's…
3. 12:56right? This wisdom will be so awesome that it will gore the nations. They will be…
4. 19:24they built the golden calf, the chet ha'egel, right? Is a denial or a rejection of…
5. 25:48So, Aaron felt that God did not forgive him for the chet ha'egel, for the sin…
6. 32:15Epiphanes. He was a general, and he took over the Middle East, including Judea. So, you…
7. 38:44There's no need for a spiritual entity as a resolution or an answer to what governs…
8. 45:11significance of this war is. You see? Of the Jews over the Greeks. How am I…
9. 51:34though it looks physical, is determined by the spiritual law that governs it. And according to…
10. 57:57what they did and allowed if the Hasmoneans would have gotten off throne and somebody else…

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