Overcoming Darkness - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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[Music] one of the most famous questions about Kaneka very well-known question is that of Rose Caro the miracle of Kaneka was the Jews found enough oil that could burn for one day and it would take eight days to get Replacements and lo and behold the miracle was that the oil that should have burnt for one day burnt for eight days so the obvious question is that day number one was no miracle and therefore why should Kaneka be an 8-day holiday it ought to be a 7-Day holiday there are literally at least 500 answers to this question I will not give you 500 answers but I want to suggest an interesting answer the miracle might be that they bothered to light the oil at all because after all you're confronting a situation where whatever you do today you will not be able to do tomorrow whatever you do will not have any longlasting effect what's the use of starting what's the use of lighting that little insignificant Cruise of oil which

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1. 0:02[Music] one of the most famous questions about Kaneka very well-known question is that of Rose…
2. 0:33holiday it ought to be a 7-Day holiday there are literally at least 500 answers to…
3. 1:03will have no continuity and no longlasting effect and the miracle was that they did what…
4. 1:33and greatest military Empire of the world at that time in order to establish the Primacy…
5. 2:05to the task and you have a feeling that what's the use of doing anything in…
6. 2:37the darkness of ignorance assimilation intermarriage anti-Semitism poverty depression despair anst lack of Shalom bias all…
7. 3:09will bless your efforts beem may all of us in our own lives our personal lives…

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