How to Celebrate Chanukah in the Midst of War with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

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[Music] I would like to um begin as always by welcoming the members of uh yiben to the km series and for all the other listeners on YouTube um I'm really hoping that this um this sh is going to help a lot so let me let me begin and explain all right Hanukkah in the middle of a war uh suffering all around uh fear anxiety suffering uh um for the soldiers for the captives uh anti-Semitism all over the place so this doesn't really feel like the spirit of Hanukah right like how how are we going to celebrate H celebrate right this holiday when everybody's in in pain and suffering I am going to deal with that I have some help from very special rabbis on that point but I'm saving that for the end okay before we discuss celebrating Hanukkah now before we do that let's learn how to approach Hanukkah in a way that will significantly contribute to what we're looking for salvation uh relief of suffering Etc okay now you know what my Approach is my Approach is let's do the Mitzvah really well and doing them really well requires cavana having intentionality and focus on what we're doing so that's what we're going to do but before we get into that I want to explain I want to give you it's my job to tell you many times about the value of this because I mean few seconds thought what's that doing this action over wherever you live what's that doing so I need to go over this but I want to give you a new angle all right um one of the greatest uh holy books of all time

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