Chanukah: The Light of Truth - Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblatt

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[Music] the two major urbic holidays are Purim and Kaneka one really striking thing is that while Purim gets its own track date of gamarra and is dealt with in quite some detail khek has only given two and a bit pages in The gamarra and it's only mentioned in the mishna in passing now since Kaneka is really quite a big deal and it's a time when we commemorate such tremendous miracles this seems odd to tremendous miracles this seems odd to try and explain it I'd like to share with you an Insight from Ros salic he points out an apparent contradiction in M Katan the gamorra says that if you see a Torah scroll burning you have to Rend your garments twice one tear for the parchment and one for the writing the letters and the gmor sites averse to prove its Point lamenting how King yakim burned the scroll and the words two things on the other hand the gamor in aara tells the tragic story of K Tron who was burned tragic story of K Tron who was burned alive by the Romans wrapped in a Torah scroll for the unforgivable crime of teaching Torah in public his students called out to him as he was being guled by the Flames rebi M what do you see and he replied the parchment is burning but OAS pois the letters are floating in the air they cannot be destroyed a beautiful and poignant image but which is it do we tear our garments twice once for the arment wants for the letters or are the

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1. 0:02[Music] the two major urbic holidays are Purim and Kaneka one really striking thing is that…
2. 0:32tremendous miracles this seems odd to try and explain it I'd like to share with you…
3. 1:02tragic story of K Tron who was burned alive by the Romans wrapped in a Torah…
4. 1:32arment wants for the letters or are the letters indestructible solvic explained that it depends on…
5. 2:02now the Kaneka War wasn't just a war against the Syrian Greeks but it was a…
6. 2:32basically light a candle now one place where kanaka is mentioned is a mission in bakama…
7. 3:02been outside then the store owner would have been liable since outside is no place for…
8. 3:33physically and metaphysically but a candle is not just fire it's also light kanuka candles represent…

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