Chanukah and Chinuch: The Power of the Beginning

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

relates to khaka as well as to to um our daily and our lives in general we're going to discuss today probably the second most well-known question about khaka aside from the question of the B of why kanaka's 8 days there's another very famous question which is most uh connected and attributed to the but this question is asked by as well well in and the original source of this question is namely we know that runs the world in a certain way that he allows the world to be disguised through a method called even though certainly is the force of all phenomenon nevertheless Hashem prefers to allow the world to uh run prefers to allow things to function in prefers to allow things to function in their regular nature and not to change nature unless there's a absolute necessity so the Jewish people are running away from the Egyptians and the Egyptians are on one side and the yam is on the other side so what could they do uh they have no choice but Hashem has to Hashem has no choice he has to split the sea however in in general the prefers to allow the world world to run its regular course he doesn't like to reveal himself course he doesn't like to reveal himself obviously and therefore Miracles are only performed if they're absolutely necessary so ask Thea we know that when they search for oil they only found enough oil to last for one day and miraculously lasts for eight days why did Hashem have to make that miracle that the oil lasts for eight days so just use T oil so you say t oil you're not how to use T oil yeah yeah you can when the majority of the Jewish people are T we say t is

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