Chanukah: Creating Miracles (Ep. 212)

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

Hi, this is Rabbi Alansky, and welcome to the Rabbi Alansky show. And whether you're watching with our friends over at Eternity Time, wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, as always, thank you for joining us and spending this time together. And this is, of course, our special Hanukkah podcast. I know I'm interrupting my Shabbos podcast. Uh but don't worry, they're coming right down the uh right down the pike. I've got more I've got more to talk about on Shabbos. It's It's amazing. Uh I I said if having a podcast has taught me one thing, it's that I can talk for hundreds of hours without really um missing a beat. So, I got a lot more to say on Shabbos. I can't imagine I was going to get tired of it. Shabbos comes every single week. But Hanukkah is a once-a-year opportunity. And uh as the Maharal explains, uh actually in uh Ner Mitzvah, in reference to Hanukkah, we don't look at time as a circle. And time is a circle, you say, "Okay, you know, you go through the mazalot, you go through the 12 months of the year, you go through the four seasons, it's a circle." We don't look at time as a circle, we look at it as a spiral, says the Maharal. So, you always come back to the same spot, but always on a higher level. So, that when we count uh for Yovel, we don't count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7,

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