The Full Hanukkah Story - Why Hamas won't see 2024.

we could see so many similarities between what's going on in Israel and in Gaza right now and the Kaneka story and I'm going to tell you the entire KH story and it's going to become clear how the two are completely interrelated you have to understand they say that history repeats itself and there's so many things we could learn from history to make sure that a we don't make the same mistakes and B we could actually understand with context what is currently going on in modern day Israel and with the modern day Jewish people so that we really become strengthened with these Eternal messages there's a reason why you light a khaka manur there's a reason why you put it in your window there's a reason why we're proud Jews we don't let the world step all over us because we have a two three and a half thousand year old history that has sustained us we didn't just fall from Heaven we didn't just we didn't just get plopped or fall from a tree we have an incredible history Rich behind us we're going to learn right now the whole story of Kaneka and how it relates to Hamas Gaza and what's going on in Israel so come join us so over 2,000 years ago the Jewish people found themselves in Israel by the way yes Jews were in Israel over 2,000 years ago it's not just a 75y old story this is a thousands a story thousands of years old and they were living peacefully they were living in Harmony and then all of a sudden one day a army led by a man named Antiochus antigonus theii he comes and he conquers the land of Israel again this whole concept of Conquering the land of Israel from the Jewish people is not a new story so he comes and he conquers the land of Israel and he puts it under the Greek and Syrian Rule and they were living actually in harmony the Greek syrians and the Jews were living in harmony for many years until eventually what started to happen was the Greek syrians wanted the Jews to assist assimilate and to become more like the Greek Syrian culture so what they started to do is they started to chip away at the Jewish way of life and of course the center of Jewish life is the is the temple is what's known as the bikash that's the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and really if you look at the uh the name of the attack on October 7th what was it called storm Al AA Al AA is the name of the mosque that sits on top of the temple that sits on top of the Temple mount the where the Third Temple will be built the base of mdash so in those times the the temple was operating and they had a high priest and his name was yanan and he was the high priest and his job was to run the temple to give the offerings to light the manora to make sure that everything was functioning smoothly and because they wanted to crush Judaism where's the best place to start is in the temple so what did anti do king anti he decided to crush the Jewish people by removing Yan the yanan as the high priest and he put in his stad a man his brother by the way yanan's brother um his name his original name was yosua he eventually changed his name to Jason because it sounded more helenistic it sounded more Greek and Jason ended up running the temple so what he did was he would he destroyed all of the altars he destroyed all of the beautiful Jewish Traditions that existed in the temple and he replaced them with all these helenistic and paganistic uh idolatry in the temple in order to crush Judaism at that time obviously Jewish people do not like when you en crouch on their on their on their territory they don't like when you en crouch on their Traditions just like any nation in the world for that matter so what did the Jews do they revolted they thought that something they thought that antias the rumor had been that antias was involved in a war in Egypt and he was in a very bad way and the Jews saw an opportunity to finally reclaim their culture to finally reclaim their land and reclaim their Temple so they started a revolt and turns out that antias was actually not in trouble and he heard about this and he became extremely mad he became furious with the Jewish people and what did he do he sent over an army to do battle with the Jewish people now as you know as you and he put He put even sorry even before he sent an army he made very harsh decrees in order to continue to crush the Jewish spirit so things for example like Shabbat became something that was illegal kosher became illegal circumcision Brea became illegal he took all the things that the Jews found sacred and he made them illegal punishable by death he first started with those things he didn't mind by the way you know the Greeks were philosophers you had the great Socrates Plato you had some of the greatest Greeks Minds thinkers coming out of coming out of Greece coming out of Syria and they didn't mind the parts of the Bible the parts of the Torah that made sense for example Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal those things make sense made sense to them and they weren't ready to make decrees against those things because how could you they made sense what the Syrian Greeks were concerned with were those things that didn't make sense Shabbat doesn't really make sense one day a week a Jew shouldn't work he doesn't turn on electricity he doesn't ride his donkey he doesn't work he doesn't change money what is it doesn't make sense a a bre Mila circumcision a covenant with God a God that you can't see I mean these people bow down to Idols it didn't make sense to them so those are the first things that the Greeks wanted to stomp out because those are the things that were not rational but you have to understand the way the Jews think is not in a rational way if you look at the if you look at the size of your brain it's eight inches long 5 in 6 in wide some of us smaller some of us bigger and the brain is so small so incapable of grasping the Infinity of God the Infinity of Hashem so yes of course there's things that Hashem is going to ask of us God is going to ask of us that don't make sense because God is so much bigger than we could ever imagine so he might tell us something for him make sense but to the Greeks it didn't make sense and he was very upset the Greeks were very upset about that and they wanted to stomp that out they went so far as to one small story was of a story of a man named RAB eleazer he was one of the leaders of the generation at that time he was 90 years old and they took him to the Public Square and they said you must eat pork in front of everybody why because Judaism says the kosher is something you should keep and if you look at Pork there's no reason why you shouldn't eat it it's it's delicious it's nutritious it's abundant why shouldn't the person eat pork it drove the ancient Greeks nuts so they took Eleazar in front of the entire in front of the entire nation and they brought him in front of the Town Square and they demanded that he should eat pork in front of everybody obviously elezar was not willing to do that so they said okay fine we don't want to embarrass ourselves in front of everybody we don't want to embarrass you just pretend to eat the pork and what do you think elezar did of course he did not eat it of course he didn't even pretend to eat it and they ended up killing him the ancient Greeks killed him and slaughtered him in front of everybody because he was not willing to bow down in the way that they wanted him to by the way stay tuned watch Until the End please because we're going to discuss how this all equates to modern day Israel modern day Gaza and the current situation that we find ourselves in so the war the intensity of this time kept on growing and the anger between the Greeks the Syrian Greeks and the Jews kept on growing because the Syrian Greeks wanted the Jews to become Syrian Greeks and assimilate and the Jews didn't want so they kept on trying to force this and and eventually there was a man named Matisyahu by the way even before he get to Matisyahu ah yeah there's a man named Matisyahu and he was in a I'm just reading my notes in case you're looking why I'm um see I do research before I do these things matisia once was a man he lived in a village and the Greeks soldiers came to his village and they built an altar and they demanded that the people in the town offer offerings to their pagan gods to their helenistic gods a Jew came and offered an offering and Matisyahu killed him because that was the the Jewish law at that time if somebody offers a pagan sacrifice you had to kill him and Matisyahu saw that the war that the that the hellenists that the Greeks were not backing down and this was only going to continue to get harsher and harsher and the decrees were only getting harsher and harsher so Matisyahu before he died he spoke to his children and the most famous you might have heard of him was named Judah hamabe makab in Hebrew means who is like you and the Jewish people who is like the Jewish people and he told his sons that I want you to form a army and you're going to be the army that will fight for Hashem and for to fight for the Jewish people and to fight for our rights and to make sure that we're not going to become extinct matisia ended up dying and the mbes were a very small group of people you have to understand that the Jews in general were a small people and the mbes were even smaller many Jews had already joined forces with the Greeks they became hellenists so they were very very very small and they needed to go fight the greatest Empires I mean we're talking about the Roman Empire we're talking about the Greek the Syrian Empire the greatest empires of the of of of that generation and this little group was supposed to fight them off so antias King antias heard about what was going on he heard about the Jews who were not bowing down to the idols who were not giving their you know who were not giving in he heard about Judah hakabe he laughed it off and he sends a a battalion he sends a group to go wage war with the Jewish people with the mbes and what do you think happened the mbes Judah makabe destroyed and beat antiochus's group his Battalion in battle antias hears about the news he's all upset about it thinks it's a fluke he sends another one another Battalion and what do you think happened the macbes smashed them and burned them and killed them and they won the battle again andus is burning he's angry he's upset how could it be his honor he is the he's the greatest King that ever existed up until that point How could somebody dare threaten him his kingdom how could they not listen so what does he do he sends an army of 40,000 Greek syrians to Jerusalem to wage war with the mbes you have to understand the mbes they didn't have proper weapons they didn't have proper training they didn't have proper chariots these weren't Warriors they were Torah Scholars that took that that that had no choice but to get their that to that had to arm themselves in order to wage war and to fight the battle against the Greek syrians who were trying to destroy Judaism and take over the land of Israel and take over Jerusalem so the 40,000 the 40,000 soldiers are Marching towards Jerusalem they're marching towards Israel and they finally meet up with the mabes and they go into combat and the makab strengthen themselves and everybody gets behind the mccabes we're talking about Farmers we're talking about storekeepers we're talking about Torah Scholars we're talking about the entire Jewish people rallies around the mbites at that at that time and they go into war and God gives them a promise they go to the to the to the prophet at the time they go to the navi and they and and they ask for a blessing and he says you'll win don't worry go into battle be victorious be strong be confident and of course what do you think happens the Jewish people the mccabes beat the nation of 40,000 soldiers a miracle that is unfathomable it's like it's like a tiny little island it's like the Virgin Islands beating the United States of America in a war it doesn't even make sense what happened the Jewish people are victorious there's a Euphoria that's happening amongst the Jewish people you can't imagine how incredibly happy they are they get everything together they go the mbes go back to the temple they go back to the Bas of mikdash and they start cleaning the Bas of mikdash they start taking down all of the idols that the and all the altars that the Greeks put in there they smash the idols they take it up they clean it up and they go to light the manur and the manur is the Candelabra the Han the hanuka you've probably seen it in Jerusalem it's the thing that has the the eight uh the eight candles on it the seven candles sorry and there's no manura because they stole it because it was a the Greek stole it because it was solid gold so they make this makeshift manur and they go to light the manora with oil but they could only find one jug of oil from the original from the original um Cohen from the original minister that was if you guys remember yanan from the beginning the high priest they could only find one jug of oil that had a seal in order to be able to use the oil it had to have a seal a special seal that if it was broken it means that it was contaminated so what the Greeks would do is they went to all the oil and they would open it in order to contaminate it and there's a very big lesson that we learned from this that what the nations of the world try to do to the Jewish people is that they try they don't say whoa whoa whoa whoa you don't have to destroy all of your Judaism we but we we want to just we want to have our say we want to open your we want to contaminate it a little bit we want to open the seal what is the big deal with the seal anyways the Jewish people the mcabs found the mabes found one jug of oil they put it on the manur and that one jug of oil it was a miracle lasted for eight days it was supposed to last for one day but it lasted for eight days that's the equiv of your cell phone instead of lasting one day it was it has enough charge for one day your cell phone lasts for eight days imagine what a miracle that would be you would be freaking out it would be on the front page of CNN so that proved further that this is not a simple thing the Jews didn't just experience a military Victory because they are such a great Army but they experience a military Victory because God the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is with them because they have an eternal inheritance to the land of Israel that the Bas of mikdash the temple the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and God is there to protect them even though sometimes it seems like it's dark sometimes it seems like the nations of the world are so big and so unfathomable and the danger is so great how how we going to win how we going to protect ourselves the story of Hanukkah comes to teach us that God is with us physically he's with us there in war but he's also with us there spiritually he's with us there in the light he's there to bring light into this world now after the Jews won the battle and they had restored the temple and they had come back and they had triumphantly made their way back into Israel into Jerusalem you would think that they would stop and relax a little bit but unfortunately they couldn't because there still existed a great threat and the threat was is that the Jewish people were going to be taken over again by the neighboring Nations what happened was is that all the neighboring the can ites the midianites the pites they saw what had happened they saw the Jewish people had beat the Syrian Greek army one of the greatest armies and instead of having humility instead of saying wow maybe we shouldn't mess with these people it ignited their old anti-Semitism it ignited their old jealousy and they started to G to GD themselves for war they were all they got together they started plan together they started to plot together and the Israeli intelligence the the Mad also existed back then in some way shape or form I'm sure the intelligence came back to them that all these nations around them were all planning to do war against them so all Judah the makabe wanted to do was to go back to his town and to learn Torah like he did before but he couldn't because he now had to go prepare Israel and Jerusalem for another battle so he gets everybody together everybody's still euphoric about the big victory that they had experienced and he gets everybody together and he says to them we are going to we we can't rest we have to go back into war so he starts preparing to outside here he starts preparing everybody for war he starts getting more artillery more ammunition he starts building walls around Jerusalem he's building Moes so people can't cross and he finally fortifies the land of Israel and at that moment when Israel and Jerusalem was finally fortified he takes his battalions and he takes his soldiers and he goes out into war and he attacks first the Nations that had pledged to attack him in order to protect himself and that is the story of Kaneka and there's so many lessons that we could learn you know I saw a good quote recently it said don't mess with the nation that every few months celebrates how the entire world tried to destroy them and then they won and beat them don't mess with that Nation so the story of Kaneka is a story where the entire you know at that time the entire world all the neighboring nations were trying were out to destroy the Jewish people and they were victorious so we could learn so many lessons on how we could be victorious in the situation currently with Gaza and the current situation in Israel I'm sure by the time you read you watch this it'll spill over into the West Bank and how we could protect ourselves against modern day Syria against turkey against Iran against all these countries that are looking to attack us it's the same story new anti-semites same Jews same anti-semites so what are the lessons we could learn going forward from the story great question number one is there always have been and there always will be anti-semites there always have been people who are looking and who are out to destroy the Jewish people this is not a new story so if you're somebody that has a weak Heart Like Me by the way that really doesn't like anti-Semitism it really affects me to my core it really bothers me just know it's part of being Jewish it's a it's a story thousands of years old that has happened hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times and it's not a new story and it's part of it's part you you it's part of the uh it's part of being part of the family it's part and parcel the anti-Semitism so that's lesson number one lesson number two is when Jewish people see a threat against their Judaism even if it's as small as somebody telling you that you cannot keep chabas even if it's somebody as small as telling you they pretend to eat pork we have a responsibility to stand up and say absolutely not we will not Bend we will not cower we will not bow down to appease anybody the Jewish people are here to be a light unto the Nations we're not here to be influenced by the Nations it's our job to do the influencing the nations of the world have to be humble enough and respectful enough in order to allow us to do our job so when the nations of the world want us to bow down and even pretend to eat pork they don't want us to eat eat pork they want us to pretend to eat pork the answer is absolutely not number three when we see that there's a threat to the Jewish people when it comes to our Judaism and for sure when it comes to our physical safety and a physical threat we must get our soldiers together and we must assemble an army you know the Jewish people by Nature we're not Fighters we're not we're not we're not Warriors we're people of the book we study Torah that's our natural habitat but if the hour calls for the Jewish people to be strong and if the hour calls for the Jewish people to put together an army then we put together the best army the most sophisticated Army and we must make sure by the way that everything about our army is also under the jurisdiction and the guidance and the Providence of God because if we don't have Hashem if we don't have God that is taking care of our armies then we're just like everybody else as a matter of fact we're worse off than everybody else when the other nations of the world make Army and they don't include God in their army God doesn't really care he says okay that's a normal thing that's nature nature is you make an army what do you need me for you have your weapons you have your chariots you have your Provisions what do you need me for when the Jewish people go to make an army if we don't bring God into the picture if we don't bring God into the army then God will actually turn the Army into a thing that will end up destroying us we have to bring God into our armies we have to bring God into everything we do even though it's a physical gun it's a physical action it's a physical plane it's a physical strategy God must be the first middle and last part of everything that the Army does whether that means praying before they go into battle whether that means putting on Fillin before they go into war whether that means saying to hilum in the battle whether that means Consulting our rabbis on Jewish law on how to conduct a proper war that has to be done so that's lesson number three lesson number four is we have to learn from the nations of the world that when they try to contaminate our oil when they try to bring their ideas into our BAS of mikos into our Temple we have to be very careful not to be fooled and say oh it was just the seal we have to guard and we have to protect who we are with the utmost force and not allow the nations of the world to infiltrate or to contaminate Us in any way shape or form the lesson of the Nora is the lesson of the kukia is is that we are supposed to bring light we are the lighters and when we see that there is a contamination we have to guard ourselves very very strongly against any outside contamination and the last the fifth lesson is is even after we win the war and even after we see the Miracles and after we reestablish the base of mcdes and the temple and everything and we still see that there's nations in this world that want want to destroy us and that they have claimed and proclaimed that they are a threat to the Jewish people and they want to destroy us we have a Mitzvah we have a commandment to destroy them first Judah the makabe Yehuda the makabe did not stop after he won the initial battle he did not stop he made sure to uproot every single threat that existed to the Jewish people before he rested and we find ourselves in Israel in the exact same situation right now we have a very real threat it's called Hamas and they are claim they're not just claiming they are proclaiming they're screaming from the rooftops that we're going to do it again and again and again and we have a responsibility to uproot every single last one of them we have to be mabes and we have to be strong even if the world tells us not to and even if the world complains and even if the world is upset with us that's their problem we are fighting for our existence right now if the mbes had not done what they did 2,000 years ago we would not be sitting here where we are right now we would have been dead a long time ago or would have been converted with the helenness a long time ago we are here today because the Jews in the time of Kaneka were strong they were Valient and they didn't let anybody walk all over them and we are experiencing a Kaneka right now and we have to be strong and we have to let our light shine and we have to be the Warriors that our future Generations need us to be so that they could celebrate their future kekas and we could finally bring light to this very dark world and we could finally bring mishia the Messiah and build the Third Temple the basa mikdash may we Merit to see it speedily in our days thank you so much for watching I really appreciate it if you enjoyed this podcast please do me a favor hit the like button leave a comment subscribe I would love to hear from you guys I love you so much you could have been anywhere in the world but you're here with me and that means the world God bless and may we only Merit to hear good news