The Source of Chanukah Rooted in the First War in the Torah

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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.

thank you everyone for joining the elements are quite rough outside and I'm very appreciative to those who are listening to the show tonight on uh Zoom or on live stream and we even have whoa they're coming in by the droves we even have a few people who Brave the elements and are here alive and um to all those listing on the various venues says we have a principle in Yiddish Judaism it says [Laughter] if you don't know most beautiful of women meaning it's talking to Claudia claiso is considered the most yaffe of all the um if we don't know what to do whenever we have a dilemma of what to do in life says [Laughter] go in the path of the sheep that means go in the path of the sheep that means follow your predecessors follow the obviousim and in the path that they took you should follow suit so we want to know when cloudy soul is faced with Annihilation and gazeros and decrees what is the proper reaction should we fight a war as should we attack back or should we do chuva Sarah says we have two holidays we have two yamatovim in the calendar and these two yam taivim are commemorate very different responses in the times of very different responses in the times of chanukkah we fought a war mustama they also did shuva but we don't find this major chuva movement they fought a war in the times of Purim they did in the times of Purim they did chuva Esther said so here we have very two different very

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1. 0:31thank you everyone for joining the elements are quite rough outside and I'm very appreciative to…
2. 5:10heard the Mayes say let's gather together and arm ourselves you know we as far as…
3. 9:16that means the definition the essence of a test is good is is tight yeah so…
4. 13:19mid-rashim on boracious that almost every thing in voracious that is counted in numbers of four…
5. 17:28the war it's Abraham versus Greece yavan because that is the precedent when we're in any…
6. 22:08he took his Khan where in the world does the word mean his trained ones says…
7. 26:33believing in the forces of nature believing in the beauty of the physical of the physical…
8. 30:46of who serves the kalalian all of a sudden we're calling associating him with kelelian why…
9. 34:59the voracious now where did he get Kahuna gadola from he got it in this battle…
10. 39:20because these two institutions they don't go together there's Kahuna and there's little yes and and…

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