Hanukkah: And Then What? | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning as we are in the holiday of Hanukah my friends and the holiday of Hanukah has of course a lot to talk about a lot of connection to the parasa to parasit share an idea today from Bernstein on this uh fantastic holiday on the holiday of the we know there is a concept of that everything really is hinted to in the Torah Whatever we find historically the Torah Whatever we find historically always somehow finds itself alluded to somewhere in the Torah. And if you know how to search, we could find the um the hints. We could find the secrets. Unfortunately, most of the time we only know how to find it retroactively, which doesn't always help, but uh it does help anyways because the lessons are there for us to learn. And so, as an example, where do we find the story of Hanukkah in the Torah? Where is the first time that we find uh Greece mentioned in the Torah? Greece mentioned in the Torah? It's actually found, my friends, back in Par Noah, believe it or not, the name Yavan, Greece. >> Recording in progress. >> Yes, found. Okay, recording is in progress. Good to know. And the name Yavan is found. Um it says that the children of of Noah Shem Ham and Yafett eventually they had their own children and the children of Yeett was Gomeog Madai and Yavan. Yavan is Greece. So

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2. 3:08really something that we should aspire for and nothing more. And they, you know, Greece had…
3. 6:17they minded was the prayers inside. What they minded was the carban being brought. They didn't…
4. 9:25ye the issue here was a uh issue of human dignity. There was a human being…
5. 12:28it's mid Shem was concerned about the spiritual so he was rewarded spiritually he got a…
6. 15:34room red." He says, "Nah, this is horrible. Get rid of it. I don't want red."…
7. 18:44of the issue. So what happens when we defeat the Greeks? The says in the prayer…
8. 21:49ourselves that one word question. Why? Why am I doing any of this? Why am I…
9. 24:56makes it beautiful? The aesthetics, the architecture. That's that's physical. That's only nice When you add…
10. 27:58when we have vacation. Why do we want vacation? To sit and of course we want…

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