Chanukah: The Return of The Shechinah

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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.

and they defiled all the oil in the hekal and when the came in and they prevailed they were searching they were looking and they found one flask of oil is only enough to last for one day and miraculously it lasted for eight days so the question is why did they need the miracle to last for eight days so go make new oil so the answer is very simple either they were tame mace and it was going to take seven days to become tahar or to get to the north where shaved usher was it was going to be three days there one day to make the oil three days back okay but the question is like this we know the riban islam does not make miracles for naught god does not like to change nature for uh no reason hashem has to have a mighty good reason to change the laws of nature when the rebellion created the world he set the laws of nature into effect and he likes them to run their course unless he has a very good reason to change them the question is why did god have to make a miracle that the tummy oil should last for eight days let them light with tame oil after all we all know we're all familiar with the principle tomah hutra bitsy bar tomah is not ha it's hutra and there's a very big difference between if tama was if the tomah is just pushed away in the face where the majority of the jewish people are tame then at least it's better it's preferable it's ideal to do the avodah betahara however tomohochobazibra means it's not even a hitter it's not better to do it but hara

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