Chanukah: The Eternal Spark in Every Jew - Rebbetzin Raquel Kirszenbaum

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

[Music] hello everyone it is so exciting to be here when I started learning about Chanukah there was obviously the famous question that everyone asks why do we celebrate Hanukkah for eight days if the miracle was only for seven days I'm sure everyone knows a bunch of answers for this question right maybe because even the day that we didn't have oil for then that day it's also a miracle it's a that day it's also a miracle it's a natural miracle but is still a miracle and maybe because each day a little bit of the oil was used and therefore it should have lasted for one day but it lasted for eight days and there's a bunch of questions but one of the questions that no one even asked which I think it's really one of the most important questions is why did God do a miracle at all now if you ever study Judaism God is not very big into doing miracles I know we look at the Bible and we think God does the miracles all of we think God does the miracles all of the time just because but the Rambam says God never did a miracle that there wasn't a need for because God doesn't want us to believe in him because of the miracles and therefore he only makes a miracle when there is a need for the miracle either in order to save us from our enemies or in order to save us from a physical calamity like hunger or something like that but he doesn't just do a miracle because and if you ever studied a lot of the menorah or Hanukkah

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2. 2:06actually you don't have to like you have to go all out of your way in…
3. 4:39like Heda brood that care for them but there are simulation around the Jewish world is…
4. 6:42blessing to Yakov it was the smell of the traders surah says who is these traders…
5. 9:17know please welcome him back says the Torah that is the lowest youth that we have…
6. 11:54right and that's when we go and we like that Ranocchia yes because if there's one…
7. 13:58see it except for you so the question is but if no one is gonna see…
8. 16:30dark we're all full of pain were all full of sorrow were all full of difficulties…
9. 18:34but we take a real item we put it outside and we say you're confused it…
10. 21:06see because the light wear off says rabbi nachman that's our life some people live in…

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