The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-הגאון הינוקא הרב שלמה יהודה שליט''א - שיעור הכנה לימי החנוכה • כ＂ג כסליו תשפ＂א (פארק בריטניה)

5:18 Have you ever seen Chanukah fall on the third day? So what is written on the third day? It is 'that it was good' twice For the 'that it was good' of the second day — that was a dispute so it could not be good so the good is found on the third day "And she saw him, that he was good" And the twice 'that it was good' of the third day and 'And she saw him, that he was good' this is what she saw on Moshe Rabbeinu What did she see? She saw the hidden light that was on the face of Moshe That is to say, within the menorah within the Chanukah menorah that we light, the hidden light is revealed And this hidden light shines in...

5:53 Of course there is the obligatory candle for the hidden light shines within the obligatory candle of that day and also in the candles of beautification and in the shamash Therefore one must always put the shamash in front so that, Heaven forbid, there will not be a prohibition of benefiting from the light of the candle and therefore the shamash should come first So even if there is some light and spreading of light it comes from the shamash "for we have no permission to make use of them, only to look at them" And then the light shines And corresponding to the doorway — this is how the Holy One, blessed be He, passed over the houses over the lintels of the Jewish people this corresponds to the doorway, that the Holy One, blessed be He, passes over

6:29 all the lintels, everything, in all their dwelling places all of Israel who have a mezuzah and have tzitzis as it is written in the She'iltos on Parshas Vayishlach that Rav Achai Gaon writes about the Jewish people going together that they fulfill the mitzvah so they have tzitzis on their garments and they have the mezuzah on the right and they have the Chanukah candle on the left and this is the main joy of Israel it is only because of the lighting of the candle, which lights up the joy and they have a mezuzah and have tzitzis, and they are surrounded by mitzvos and this is their main joy for they rejoice in the root of their Judaism And there are three aspects in this corresponding to Ehyeh, Havayah, Adnus — the three holy Names for corresponding to the Name Ehyeh, in practice, the doorway and the candle will shine

7:17 for the candle must be opposite the doorway And therefore what the Chesed L'Avraham writes about Chanukah on page 56 so he brings that specifically the illumination of Chanukah corresponds to 'Ehyeh Asher' which equals the numerical value of 'lehadlik ner Chanukah' And therefore there is a practical difference whether it is 'lehadlik ner Chanukah' or 'lehadlik ner shel Chanukah' which is specifically for those whose version is that it is to remove the filth of the serpent for 'lehadlik ner shel Chanukah' is 'nachash', serpent or 'lehadlik ner Chanukah' is 'nachal', a stream And therefore some have this version and some have that version for all the Jewish people, in practice, draw down through the customs of Israel for a custom of Israel is Torah they draw down — some of them remove the filth of the serpent and some draw down mercy, supernal mercy

8:01 which is from the mazal of 'Notzer Chesed' so that abundance is drawn down to this world And therefore, corresponding to the Name Ehyeh, which corresponds to the doorway it corresponds to the mezuzah, it corresponds to the light which is what the Chesed L'Avraham writes that this is 'Ehyeh Asher' which equals the numerical value of 'lehadlik ner Chanukah' And after that there is the mezuzah, and we have the Name Havayah, blessed be He The Name Havayah, blessed be He, corresponds to the tzitzis as is known, that the knots of the tzitzis are the Name Havayah And Adnus corresponds to the deed and the deed is that the Holy One, blessed be He, guards the doorway corresponding to the Name Adnus, for Adnus corresponds to all four directions And the mezuzah corresponds to the whole house for the mezuzah of the house is the main thing

8:42 what is placed at the entrance of the house, which is a drawing-down, so the whole house And some are accustomed to put up a mezuzah in the house in a beautiful way therefore one must fasten it tightly to the wall so that everything is fastened, that it is not glue that there be something with a nail in the wall, as much as possible... so that the mezuzah does not fall for this, in practice, is to guard the four directions of the world corresponding to the four letters of Hashem, blessed be He the four letters of His Name, blessed be He This is the dispute in Tractate Shabbos, page 2, that the Gemara discusses 'The carryings out on Shabbos are two, which are four, inside and two, which are four, outside' This corresponds to the doorway

9:16 that whoever sits inside the house or outside the house both the poor man and the rich man which is what Tosafos say regarding the poor man and the rich man what practical difference is there in giving such a reasoning specifically about one who is poor and specifically about one who is rich to teach us that in this there is also another virtue, another obligation for a person to see the mercy how much one must have compassion on the other, on the distant one on the one who is destitute, on the one who is poor on the one for whom mercy must be aroused on the unfortunate, on the outcast, on whoever is down below for the poor man who is outside — that corresponds to the mezuzah And therefore the mezuzah, which is in the doorway

9:52 corresponds to what is outside and to what comes inside therefore it is the protection of the house, corresponding to the mezuzah And the hidden light that is lit in the doorway shines both from inside and from outside that is to say, there is illumination inside the house and there is also illumination outside the house and there is also publicizing of the miracle from the Chanukah candle That is to say, the hidden light spreads within the house spreads outside the house, opposite the doorway spreads in the public domain, illumination — in the public domain And a person shines with his tzitzis, he lights up all his four cubits which are the four corners and the mezuzah guards the house, which is to guard the hidden light for one must also guard the hidden light So how does one guard the hidden light?

10:41 The guarding is through the mezuzah And there is no measure to the virtue and the obligation of the mezuzah And the main protection of the mezuzah is that Hashem, blessed be He, guards the illumination that is in the house that the hidden light is guarded Now this hidden light that comes down is the mercy on all the Jewish people There is awesome mercy that the Holy One, blessed be He, reveals in the world And now, at this time, when there is great confusion in the world so the world cannot...

11:12 Hashem, blessed be He, closes it so that the light cannot spread in the world it cannot spread because it is impossible... there is a guard of angels so that the light does not come down for when there is a very great illumination that has to come we see that the Holy One, blessed be He, made a lockdown What is a lockdown? It is not what the world does It is forbidden to think that the world is running things... only Hashem, blessed be He, runs the world And when the Holy One, blessed be He, shows a reality that He brings about it is to tell us that this is how it is also closed from Heaven Now, when the Jewish people were in Egypt before they went out of Egypt they had a lockdown, it was forbidden to go out of the doorway of the house

11:55 And after they went through the plague of the firstborn which is a Torah commandment to remember the Exodus from Egypt this is also the splitting of the Sea of Reeds for right after that they go out — the beginning of the redemption For the main point of the Exodus from Egypt was in order to go out to the redemption, to go out to the light to go out to eternity, to everlastingness, to go out to what... to the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple But because there were those who did not follow Moshe and increased hatred among the Jewish people and increased dispute among the Jewish people, they damaged the tzitzis, the mitzvah of tzitzis For it is: "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them that they shall make for themselves tzitzis on the corners of their garments throughout their generations"

12:37 for this is the main remembrance of the mitzvos of Hashem it is through seeing, which is "and your eyes shall see your teachers" "and your teacher shall no longer hide in a corner" This corresponds to the corners That is to say, there is a removal of the wise that their wisdom is hidden from the created beings the world cannot grasp the wisdom that is revealed in the world There is wisdom... there are several kinds of wisdom And the greatest wisdom that, it seems, there is is wisdom that comes down to the world and repairs all the damaged vessels which is called the illumination of Chanukah for Chanukah is an illumination of very great wisdom that comes down and repairs all the broken and damaged vessels all the impurities, all the broken vessels all the dark places

13:24 all the gloomy places And when the Jewish people were in Egypt and the Holy One, blessed be He, wanted to take them out they were in a constricted state of mind, they could not go out until they believed and looked forward and hoped that Hashem, blessed be He, would save them to go out from darkness to a great light One must believe in Hashem, blessed be He, with complete faith that He will overturn, turn everything around And it is forbidden to be broken by anything in the world by anything in the world Whatever a person goes through whatever a person goes through it is forbidden for him ever to be broken it is forbidden for him ever to give in to anything and he must tell this to his children and to his children's children

14:05 "And you shall make them known to your children and to your children's children the day that you stood before Hashem your G-d at Chorev" which is the main remembrance of the stand at Mount Sinai that the Jewish people remembered to keep the Torah, to receive it therefore there is a virtue in saying the blessings of the Torah standing to recall the remembrance of the stand at Mount Sinai But what was so new about the stand at Mount Sinai to say the blessings of the Torah? to remember the stand at Mount Sinai? Sounds, lightning, thunder? That was the wandering that the Jewish people went through for the Jewish people were in wandering What does wandering do?

14:34 Wandering will not bring a person to a settled mind he will not be able to settle his mind in the world And the holy journeys of the Jewish people will be the greatest settling of the mind there was in the world there was no settled mind like the wanderings of the Jewish people the journeys of the Jewish people that is the greatest and most awesome settling of the mind there is for what Hashem, blessed be He, did with them with the Clouds of Glory and the manna, and miracles and wonders, and signs and portents and the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and all that they saw and all that they saw with their eyes they clung to Hashem, blessed be He they clung to Hashem, blessed be He, they loved Him, they thought about Him

15:11 Love of Hashem is when a person reaches such a level that he will see Hashem eye to eye and he will not fear anything in the world and he will never leave Him this is love for Hashem, blessed be He this is the revelation of Chanukah that all the Hellenists and all the wicked who wanted to destroy our light they wanted to destroy the hope that is in each one each one can bring about the redemption and in each one there is the greatest hope of the Jewish people And what our fathers went through, and that we went out of Egypt was so that we would merit to be joyful and see the Jewish people joyful and walking to the Temple And all that our fathers went through, and all their tears and all their blood

16:01 was for this, was for our hope was so that we would continue to be in hope If we, Heaven forbid, are broken and if we, Heaven forbid, lose heart or, Heaven forbid, one of the Jewish people loses heart or distances himself from Him, blessed be He — one, one, Heaven forbid one, then it is a sorrow for generations If, Heaven forbid, one loses heart it is impossible to know what we lose out on and what we lose And the main thing we can receive on Chanukah is only to ask Hashem, blessed be He Master of the world, Merciful and Gracious One to ask simply, like this to ask before Him, 'Arouse Your complete mercy' reveal it in the world The Name Ehyeh is a most awesome Name There was the holy Gaon, Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen of Anipoli

17:01 he has a book, Or HaGanuz The book Or HaGanuz — he composed it on "the heavens and the earth" This is not Ehyeh; this equals the numerical value of 'tov', good That is to say, Alef, Hei and Vav instead of Yud That one is 21, and this one is 'good' It is reversed: this one with a Yud and this one with a Vav This is "the heavens and the earth" and this is "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" and "the heavens and the earth" equals the numerical value of 'tov', good This holy Name equals the numerical value of 'tov', good "And she saw him, that he was good" — that is the hidden light This illumination and this good is the third day which the Maharil says it will not fall on the third day For why will it not fall?

17:46 Because the light of Chanukah is above the grasp of the created beings It is a light that is above... the created beings do not grasp what this hidden light is We cannot grasp it it is possible, in a few ways, only to receive it If we look at the flames — whoever looked at the Chanukah candle that he sits and looks into the fire gazes as much as possible, as much as he can gaze more that he looked into the flame and to ask Hashem, blessed be He, to arouse His complete mercy upon him, upon the Jewish people Look into the flame and ask to arouse the complete mercy on the Jewish people and on the whole entire world And the main mercy must be aroused in the heart that a person should leave his bad character traits

18:32 toward his friends, toward the people of his household toward those around him, toward the Jewish people that there be no bad traits, that there be no cruelty that there be no bad traits What Hashem, blessed be He, has — is mercy on everyone Even if a person has a trait that is not good, or a desire before the Omnipresent, blessed be He — Hashem, blessed be He, has mercy He will have mercy on him, He will forgive him But a person who has a bad trait toward his friends, toward people that is something that is a flaw, which He cannot forgive him for one needs the Day of Atonement — so how will I forgive you The work on character traits is toward one's fellow Hashem, blessed be He, forgives you He has great compassion on your desires

19:15 He has endless compassion but He has the attribute of judgment on your bad traits toward others And it is not for nothing that the Torah says "Love your fellow as yourself" What is this? No, no, no, I am not sitting. But I also don't... Everyone is standing — I am standing too It is an obligation on each one, each one that a person understand and believe with complete faith that everything depends on him everything depends on him, everything, everything depends on him on each and every one on each one it depends the whole redemption, the whole purpose on all the Jewish people, on each and every one of them everyone, everyone, everyone is important For the most precious and most important purpose is to arouse the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He on the souls, on the created beings

20:12 that at this time of Chanukah, when one sees the revelation of the flames that as much as a person looks at the candle — at the mitzvah at the time of the mitzvah, when he looks — he must gaze best of all, into the flame, into the candle and as I said, to picture the Name Ehyeh Alef, Hei, and Yud, and Hei to picture it within the flame and to arouse the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He, upon us this is mercy that can break through all the gates You must understand that the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He, is the most awesome mercy there is it is complete mercy And the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He...

20:50 What is this? Chairs - the chairs. Fine, maybe let them sit on them. Now you want to [unclear] it? No need, tzaddik, I don't want it. No need, no need, no need. We prefer it this way. I'll tell you why. If you bring out chairs now, there will be noise and time taken from Torah. It is better that I [unclear], And also I don't want it to be easy for people.

21:15 [unclear] a burden on the public. I don't want to trouble [unclear]. It is also healthier to stand than to sit. When Rabban Gamliel died, learning while standing ceased for they used to learn standing So the Bnei Yissaschar of Dinov says one should be careful not to learn lying down He writes, 'In the time of Rabban Gamliel they would learn standing and after Rabban Gamliel passed away, they now switched to sitting on benches' So the Bnei Yissaschar of Dinov says further: one should be careful not to learn lying down But of course one can also learn lying down; it is also possible to learn lying down It is written in Tractate Zevachim, page 5a about Reish Lakish, who answered a difficulty with an answer in the study hall, while he was lying on his stomach And Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim also brought this in the responsa Torah Lishmah

22:02 he writes about Reish Lakish So here he brings that it is permitted to lie on one's back not with the intention of sleep — so occasionally it is possible, so yes, it is possible So it does not have to be like what the Rebbe of Dinov says about learning lying down — the main thing is that a person learns Torah This is the most important, that a person learns Torah; the main thing is that he learns only that he learns — lying down, standing, sitting, only that he learns that he learns Torah, only that he learns Torah only that he learns, it does not matter Do not accept what I said.

22:34 Know that the cold is holiness that when a person is cold — it is holiness, it sanctifies him The Bnei Yissaschar of Dinov said that when a person immerses in cold water it saves him from death And Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov says that when a person immerses in cold water he can bring about a salvation above nature And the essence of holiness — is to immerse in the cold There is a very great virtue in this for when a person is cold — that is a very great self-affliction But there were many tzaddikim who were careful throughout the whole winter they did not want even to warm themselves Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz wrote in Imrei Pinchas that if there is a house that is cold — it can cause poverty It is forbidden for the house to be cold

23:14 So there is a distinction in this between cold for the body and cold in the house It is forbidden for a house to be cold It is forbidden for a person to be cold in the house One must always make sure that the house is warm whether by heating it with some heater or by any means only that the house should not be cold for in a cold house — there is an angel of cold who is appointed over poverty a prince of cold who can come and he can cause poverty and sorrow in the house So one must always make sure that it is warm and that there be joy for the household, and that it be warm and everyone will feel good and be happy And it is very important to me that we understand

23:51 that it is true that now, because of the situation it is impossible to gather and give shiurim They said they would come with two minyanim, that's it - it would be something small. And even that, they did not announce. And in the end, Baruch Hashem, [unclear] people. I am only saying a simple thing I do not want to trouble you but I ask of you when Chanukah comes — at the lighting of the first candle at the lighting of the first candle that is lit with every candle, with the obligatory candle that is lit and after that with the candles of beautification and the shamash with all the candles, all of them Tzaddikim, to arouse the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He from the Name Ehyeh. Remember that Hashem, blessed be He rejoices in each one of the Jewish people

24:54 and rejoices to hear every Jew who prays to Him and turns to Him And let each one remember that a person must say "This world was created for me" this whole world was created for you and you must see how you will bring the redemption and light up the light of Hashem Have in mind to shine the hidden light in the world Have in mind to shine the hidden light, the Name Ehyeh Ehyeh — have in mind 'the Name Ehyeh', the hidden light I pray for you, for each and every one for each and every one of you that all of you have salvations, each and every one of you and be happy, think good, good only holy thoughts, only good thoughts There is a holding back from Heaven now, that they do not let the light spread

25:33 so that they cannot... And the Holy One, blessed be He, rejoices in all that is done There are many sources for this plague, from the Zohar There are many sources in the Zohar where I saw everything that there is in this There are very, very many sources for this What is needed now? Now one must learn, one must give a warm heart to people a warm heart, so that they will be warm Remember, remember, when you light the candle ask for the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh that the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He, be aroused upon us and that everyone have miracles and wonders, signs and portents, amen And the Holy One, blessed be He, will redeem Israel with mercy and with complete kindness and that everyone have miracles and wonders

26:17 and a good life and good abundance, amen And may all the blessings and abundance spoken of in the Torah be fulfilled in you and in all that is yours. "Blessed are you to Hashem, Maker of heaven and earth," amen that everyone be happy And whoever wants — every time someone asks me what will make me happy the only thing that will make me happy is that each one of you, if, Heaven forbid, at some time in the day suddenly loses heart or if suddenly he has a thought of despair or a thought that is not good at that very moment he should be glad and joyful, just to make me happy Everyone should be in joy I ask everyone "Take words with you and return to Hashem" Get into the cars, tzaddikim, calmly, and travel to your homes, to a good life and to peace.

27:03 Asking forgiveness from everyone we troubled We love you, fortunate are you, Israel Be glad and joyful may you have salvation in all that you will need Maybe it's possible to go in - let go, let go... Close the door, close the door...