A hashkafa shiur on the essence of Chanukah and its tikun, given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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we are next week actually we are six days away from Hanukkah so uh it's very important uh you know to really just speak about Hanukkah because Hanukkah in itself is what's called a paradigm it's a model for in many ways how their bonus film does things you see and why things happen and why things happen so Hanukkah in many ways is a tremendous example of what many events that happened to the Jews why they happened even though history looks at them well they happen because you know the way history moves no well we're going to begin to see something is very very different but in any case right again I just want to say that this year should be a merit for the health and success be a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina basio safe Roofing and yeshive in Israel Benjamin wolf and sweetheart wolf uh so it's really what was that I I have to I just have to say it louder so and back Sarah okay good thank you in any case so the first thing we can think about is like I say what is the essence of Hanukkah you know and most people when they think about the essence of a holiday right so they think about the storyline so they think about the storyline and of course we know what the storyline is you see but we're going to see that throughout the history of the Jews there are always spiritual necessities now an event actually in many ways is brought about because it allows the Jews to do a deacon through the event in other words the Jews are tested all right the Jews are tested and when
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