Seeing the First Flame: 1 Verse · 1 Story · 1 Mitzvah

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

[music] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] >> [music] [singing] >> We know how to light correctly. I'd like to show you how to light differently in a way that takes the same mitzvah you've been doing all these years and gives you a different experience of it. And not by adding extra time or humras but but just adding a layer of kavana a simple layer of kavana it's a yoda foundation at kavana mitzos that in order to have connection we need to have reflection now huzzal call that kavana not just paying attention to what you're doing but reflecting and therefore connecting to what you're This leads to something subtle about the first night of Kaneka. Nare the first nare you're about to light. Well, in some ways it's the easiest, but it's also the hardest. Easiest, well, you're just lighting one candle and well, you have the excitement of Hanukkah hasn't been around for a year. Okay, that way it's easy. How is it? How is it difficult? First candle, I want to say it's the most difficult lighting you're going to do all Hanukkah. To understand this, let's go to Maur. It says in Maurina, it says those Benina, those who p possess Beina, they made the Hanukkah celebration 8 days. Now, excuse me. Why do you need beina for that? My littlest grandchildren know that Hanukkah is an 8-day experience. So not so simple. Uh the famous basio of uh kasha is that if if we're celebrating

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1. 0:00[music] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] >> [music] [singing] >> We know how to light correctly. I'd…
2. 0:33a way that takes the same mitzvah you've been doing all these years and gives you…
3. 1:05doing but reflecting and therefore connecting to what you're This leads to something subtle about the…
4. 1:38To understand this, let's go to Maur. It says in Maurina, it says those Benina, those…
5. 2:16that the pak shemen the the oil extended past the normal time then the normal time…
6. 3:19mindblowing making it patently obvious that hashem is there now what was hashem's goal according to…
7. 3:50show us that hey, the fact that oil burns is an ace. Now, you may have…
8. 4:25that's what we heard Okay. One doctor told me what another doctor told him that night.…
9. 5:00You're living by a miracle." Rash Diamond, I can't believe you had the wherewithal. Rush Diamond…
10. 5:31the mitzvah are abundant to light the candles and there if with a little more reflection…

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