The SECRETS of the Dreidel (Hanukkah Will Heal Our Global Suffering)

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

okay here we go big day we're talking about the following item this is of course a dreidel both hashem the song dreidel dreidel jailer made out of clay we're gonna see uh the drills that i have in my pocket all made out of wood we'll see if we get to that today the dreidel is a very interesting uh device we seem to think of it as like a toy right how do we all grow up learning about the dreidel so how does the dreidel go you spin the dreidel spin the dreidel no what is this thing of course the story goes the legend goes that that the ancient greeks and the wicked king antiochus made a decree that we can't learn tired we spoke about that yesterday so we're hiding in caves learning tell your right and then what happened as soon as the the soldiers came we closed our gemaras we closed our our tanyas and we we just started spinning dreidel right oh they're just playing like little games here right games here right must nothing be happening they're just you know gambling and stuff like that or shimmy wrapping and uh that's it nothing's happening you know the drill is very deep the dreidel is a meditation device we're going to explain that a little bit the dreidel is the first meditative device that we've been given and you know that's him the big big people sit by the dreidel sit by the candles and they spin the dreider for like five six seven eight hours straight they're

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1. 0:00okay here we go big day we're talking about the following item this is of course…
2. 2:03be a reunion with jacob and and the brothers and joseph that joseph is alive and…
3. 4:07and we went into exile for 70 years and you know within that time there was…
4. 6:471800 years ago he said okay napoleon was like 1800 years ago you know what he…
5. 8:50hey is he this for help half the pot still pretty good what's a nun nothing…
6. 11:23and i need to take the drain i need to spin the dreidel and all of…
7. 13:26their life is like a hey hey means how half they make you know if you…
8. 15:26lot because life is falling apart things are really not easy he's spinning a shin and…
9. 17:59there's nothing else and everybody knows the cute idea that that hung on what do we…
10. 20:02so we're spinning the drain of the whole world as one big dreidel this whole world…

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