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The Yanuka’s own words in this shiur, translated into English by Lehallel · 429 words · 5:34. Press a time to hear it said.
0:00 We must thank Hashem; for two years now we have been waiting for the Rav to come here to the yeshiva. "Give thanks to Hashem, for He is good, for His kindness is forever," that we merited that the Rav comes here to us, to strengthen us. My masters, it is not by chance that the Rav, who is the Gaon of Israel, holy of holies, comes here to us to strengthen us. I want to tell you that there are many, many parallels in the Rav coming here to our holy yeshiva, for the sake of Hashem, to sanctify the Name of Heaven. For this, the Rav, who is the hidden light, the Rav who is coming to us - one of the yeshiva students told me, he says to me, "Tell this to the Rav," for it is a very, very powerful Torah thought. I am saying it now, here, to the public: he says that the war of the Greeks with the Hasmoneans was a great miracle,
0:55 but we do not commemorate the war, we do not commemorate the swords that were there, all the war that was there between the Hasmoneans and the Greeks. What do we commemorate? We commemorate one thing: the miracle of Chanukah. Why? Because sticks and swords and wars - not with these, in our generation; it does not work. That does not work in our generation.
1:20 What does work in our generation? Only light, only the hidden light, only joy, only the Rav, the Yanuka, shlita - that is what works in our generation; he brings light into us, light for the Jews, light for all the Jewish people. That is what we need today, in this generation: only to bring in light. And this symbolizes the Rav, and this symbolizes these days of Chanukah, which bring in light for the sake of the Jewish people.
1:48 This is going to be a strengthening for all generations. We are going to remember the Rav's talk all our lives. The Rav who comes here - every word of his is holy of holies; these are holy words. Fortunate are we that we merited that the Rav is here with us. Blessed is Hashem, we thank Hashem that we merited this. The Rav is right in the elevator.
3:16 - But if we truly go according to what the Rashba holds - that the blessing over the lights of the fire is a blessing of praise, and its subject is the luminaries, then in fact it will be understood that the fire, in fact...
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