Chanukah: Maccabees vs. Greeks - Rabbi David Kaplan

okay so I want to give you a couple points on conical probably the first one okay if I if we spoke what I don't remember I spoke about this somewhere and I don't know if we spoke about it did I ever mention unknown dank nur the Israeli Israeli editor was really editor Imanol Dekker okay there was an Israeli editor I first heard of this man for my mental Weinbach Arusha visaphone Rafa I heard about him about 30 years ago I don't know dank nur is the I think he came from a religious home and he left it Doris says Shana who pH one who learned and left it cautioned me Coulomb he's he's more difficult than everybody he's got a he's got a biting resentment against the religion probably cuz he knows what the religion people think of him but he's got you know he's learned enough to either he's learned enough to darker shade Shana bearish cuz should be cool up so I'm gonna dignify I'm not mistaken he was a shadow bearish he became the editor of one of the major Israeli newspapers which means that they're very limply left-wing anti-religious either Mari ver you do to one of the one of the or Haaretz I don't remember which one it was it was an art so one of the one of the the virulent Li anti-religious deserves island Eichner robber Weinbach kvish Moses go make 30 something years I'm known doctor once wrote in the name of favor journalism you know how journalism they always want to show that they're impartial like the BBC they want to show that they're impartial and they're fair and everything else on thank you wrote this article called live ID with Hardy was a column he wrote which means by myself by myself that's what translates I was the name of the column and in his column he details how he grew up in Israel he says all of his friends there's either one of three things as a but they've either been killed in Israel's Wars they've left Israel to go to either Los Angeles or a little bit live in Los Angeles or West Germany or Canada or they become ball Chivas and then he goes on and this article he says you know when you go to tizen golf in Tel Aviv and you look at the people Disney off in the clubs and in all these places you look at these people you always see is darkness on their face see darkness and frustration and his friends the Bali Chile's their eyes their lit up you see you see light why he wrote a very positive article about the very positive about the ball to chew that's right first heard of this man my bling bout had mention it even dec he is at the end of the shows are in the base of edge heaven I've ever heard of my wine bucks speak he was a remarkable speaker and he just then to do a thing I'm doctor we're gonna get you you're gonna come back to he hasn't so far but that was the shoes okay now why he did have no idea but a very positive towards Bali Chile's talked about how the while Jews are fulfilled in their that sounds over then about 15 years ago he wrote another column those columns on Kanaka and he's addressing the secular Israeli public and he says that a secular Israeli public imagine the war was taking place today the Greeks against the cosmonium the yvonne and the greeks they stand for entertainment sports outdoor cafes immorality general college campus behavior right that's like that's what the greek stand for the fashion I understand for Torah Fela self-control guest said selflessness she said city Israeli public while you're lighting a menorah and eating a super Gandhi yeah and you're celebrating Hanukkah if that war was taking place today whose side would you be on would you want the market would you either hutchman trying to win or you want the Maccabees to it would you want the Greeks to win or you want the Maccabees to Windows as a secondary probably you're celebrating the victory of the Maccabees and you do nothing that's similar to what their life was that was you're living like a Greek now who would you want to win their war if that were taking place today there was article there was a column he wrote why he did this I have no idea so I remember when I read this thing or the thing my first thought was if I was a secular Israeli I'd be going nuts I have it I have a very serious inner conflict there a very serious inner conflict whose side am I on then my next thought was not as pleasant my next thought was okay and her side will do what I'm going to endure yeah if the if the if the Maccabees win okay so now they Maccabee as a beer which is not very good in that could be as limb of a sports team which is even worse you know you got to see them play to really appreciate how bad they are you know and and you know that that's what they turn market beats in my Creed there's everything like we stood against right nothing wrong with some beer once in a while but sports that's straight out of Greek sports it's straight out of great so you know all the things that we're into sports entertainment all the things that we have a lot of in our life how much is that how much of that war was fought today you know there goes out the window no more you know all the Jewish agents in the NBA you know that's it you know put on the arm of God get me I find a job guys you know they'd say you're you're finished so so it was just a very poignant reminder that it forget about the secular Israelis who will one day become religious we'll get them they're all going to come back yeah that's inevitable but what about myself what about us what about we in our lifestyle what are our values and where are those values coming from where those which of those values are coming for the patrimony which of those values are coming from the are coming from the from the Yvonne and that's something a person always has to take stock of always has to do some self introspection they tell you that about my football incident when I was in America I tell you I was watching a football game once what happened in every suggestion I mentioned I was in America the first time we lose to Israel they moved to Israel and in sports as always my Achilles heel so then on our first visit back to the United States we had to make a visit so many laws so I know where my weaknesses I told my wife you know what I'm not going to touch the newspaper certainly not TV nothing nothing so you get back to America and I think for a couple of days I held out and eventually I took you like the sports section into the bathroom you know slowly but surely then after that I read the newspaper okay but the first trip I held out the second trip was there an air of Pesach Simon the living room was scrubbing now listen to how difficult this test was do you think you have tests listen to this test I'm scrubbing the carpet in the living room over pace off my brother-in-law is watching a game in the backroom and all I hear from the announcer keeps oh it's a basketball game I keep saying bird Jordan bird Jordans all come on oh come on out that I mean I mean couldn't it be you know hey you know you know couldn't it be some Paul Pierce or something no no bird Jordan and I lime scrub and I look at my wife was it can I go scrub in that room over there so she says they're gay one time one time one time only so I go in the room game ends tied over time she comes in she goes game over yet I said overtime night comes out watch overtime game over yet there's a second overtime she says you have a special sea otter dish Maya force water specialist yet there was the game Jordan scored 63 points that was yeah I happen to see that one day see how Jen loves the righteous I have I have this day okay so once you know once once once I broke that was the in the armor once we broke through there so then a little later on a couple at over with a week later there's a football game on I think Cleveland was playing there getting hammered there's a football game and so you know I come over my brother-in-law so I said I'm standing by the entrance of the you know it's kind of looking from the doorway with a mich nice in my hand you know then you know they take a few steps in and eventually you sit down and put away side the mission is and I bench I just push everything I bring out a whole tray chicken corn chips I've I mean I'm going to get hanim I'm going the right way you know I'm going to get him standing in a doorway you know I may as well do it right you know yeah yeah I remember I could tell you what I hate - oh boy so I'm watching this football game you know and all of a sudden the the what he caught the the guy scores a touchdown those of you are not I mean you know there's very little in America that is significant for American males as a gorilla with a helmet scoring a touchdown there they I mean they're they're nothing more significant the fans go wild and the camera they're zooming in does close-ups they say you know he pins the crowd they zoom in on this guy I just remember it's a big one guy with no shirt has got like the team logo painted on his chest you get orange and purple hair just a monster of a thing and and he's holding a beer in one hand and a beer in a second and if you get a third one in his mouth and this guy's this guy's just going like that any it is rubbery and I was frozen I was absolutely frozen I'm looking at that thing and I reputable I was enjoying myself as I'm looking at the a this really looki feeling I'm thinking myself how can how can he and I how can it and I possibly have a common interest how could we possibly have a common interest I'd like to tell you I got up I slammed off the TV I stormed out and discussed I would like to tell you that I didn't I stayed in there watch the rest of the game you know I wasn't about to stop right that I should have I should have so you know that's the you know got some of that in me how much do we got in us you know we got a lot we got a lot of that in us I remember when when they had the 1991 to go for there were people watching the Gulf War America is going into Iraq right they're going in through through windows and through whatever it is they you know they're taking down buildings and people are watching this destruction with corn chips and pop you don't wait you see that's mommy just took out a whole building here let me have some chips wheat is unbelievable right if you're enjoying that where's that that's not coming from your Covino and that's not coming from the Huff Italian if you're enjoying destruction it's coming from Asaph it's coming from a Sevilla and I said we are we we have that stuff in us we have all of that in us so so the first thing we have to think about is why you know how much that's the first thing now there's another very big question here but do you imagine the following imagine the following I'm kind of go we have two miracles right you got the miracle of the war they have the miracle of the oil what do we do to commemorate it we like the oil in the what's called pure sue mania I want to answer your question imagine a guy jumps out of an airplane and his parachute doesn't open and he lands everybody told there's a guy laying on the bramble bush okay guy jobs falls 10,000 feet in he lands and he doesn't die he lands on a bramble bush and he walks away from it okay now he also checks his pocket real quick and he sees that his smartphone is in perfect shape not a scratch on the smartphone so he decides he's gonna in the next year on the anniversary of his miracle he decides is gonna commemorate it so what is he whence the he wants to publicize the miracle so what does he do right in his window he puts up a big he puts up a nice beautiful smartphone that's how he commemorates the miracle how would you commemorate their miracle I would put a parachute in the window right that's what I would put a parachute on airplane something this large phone is nice but it's not really and the list of priorities over this side that's not the main thing that's happening now is it so here we have a war the few against the many we survive and at the end of it what do we do and also there's another miracle we find a an untainted little thing of oil how quaint so we want to survive it every year I mean every year what I would do is I would put a bow and arrow in the window put a Greek in the window you know huh yeah Greek a Greek with a bow and arrow through him you know something you know why are we why are we we're celebrating by putting in the or the man over I mean it's a nice miracle miracles I mean I'm all for miracles but on the list the priority you know they how is it really so let me ask a question you know you know a story of Dovid of Melek and go yes governor of the Goliath what happened did we mention this last week Jeff should we mention says we WI there's some familiar okay Goliath is six almost in as Eris know if a nama and I'ma somewhere we do one and two feet so let's say he's 10 feet tall who exactly the size of a basketball rim and if a nama is a little taller a little more depending on it so he's the height of a basketball backboard by the way do you know this is totally parenthetical minute they Bowl who was the tallest employer ever played nambia was seven seven and a quarter something like that you know he once chipped a tooth found the rim think about that thinking about that a chipped a tooth on the rim returned jump one for rebounding you know I hit his to they happen to me all the time he chipped tip the tooth on the rim so so a goal guess is about 10 feet tall he's he's armed to the teeth he's covered head to toe with armor the only part of him that's exposes his forehead he's standing out with the police tip the Philistines they are in their military formation they're on one Hill the Jewish people with Saul King Saul they're on the other Hill and for forty days he goes down into the valley and he say command send out a fighter come on send out your best fighter let's go and he's blaspheming he's blaspheming God he's he's intimidating to Jewish people he says okay let's I'll make you a deal send out a fighter if I beat him you being slave to us and if he beats me we'll be enslaved to you so Dovid I'm Elif shows up but he sees a Jewish people exit during they're all sitting there they're all shaken and fear nobody's doing anything what's going on he says they you know they're police he's intimidating so dovid amount goes out there the meddra says first he put they put armor on him but he couldn't move in the armor it was too big for him but his brother his brother's arm around in somebody's armor they put it on her shoulder armor I think with King Saul's armor they put it in he couldn't move the armor was too big for Saddam to melt goes out there he says what yeah that's what you're afraid about fight him I'm coming the name of God now fight him so don't come up with this stone he takes a stone and lets it go boom hits shot hits go yes right in the forehead what happens to go yes he died he falls over which way to fall over Josh straight down okay if I give you three choices he fell straight down backwards or forwards which was most logical T to fall if a stone hits in the forehead and embeds itself at the forehead strong enough to kill him either backwards or crumple at your feet the meddra says he felt poor at 6 feet tall for where he fell forward and those mouths took out a sword and cut off his head fell forward he pitched forward why why does the med Rouge to saved ummata mouth 12 paces otherwise doubled up mouth put her here to walk all the way over there 12 paces yes six paces and another six paces right he's six paces tall he falls back he's got a he's from here to here so he's got to go back there cause he falls forward right in his feet how quaint though about takes a sword he chops his head off see how he's crushes why was that miracle needed why do you need that miracle of it on my life that would've just got he's a national hero he's gonna marry the king's daughter now that was the promise renovated kills felt gonna marry the king's daughter it's gonna be rich powerful they mean he's got everything so now he's got a miracle you know that one amount would have been glad to float over 12 hours and cut his that'd be a beautiful day for hedge abbey he would he would have been floated over and chopped off his head 90 minutes I think if I told you if I told you by the way out in the hallway over there the whole way over there there's a sec with forty thousand dollars cash in it it's twelve paces away Gil hate when that happens huh now you gotta walk all the way out they're 12 paces oh wow it landed on a day you'd be out there plenty of fish you bout there the only one in the room fancy do be me that's a you know we'd be out of the 12 paces I'll walk 20 by walk a mile for a camel remember that commercial I'd walk up my over at yellow for $40,000 I'd do more 12 paces doubled a mouth to go chop off his head you're the national hero he'd be gladly did somebody get the miracle what do you say where'd you get them hey where is it could be could be it could be the so so but the captain Terry says lyric I'm sure love it says like this imagine a father and then a father he has a wallet full of cash and he loses his wallet $50,000 cash and wallet II can't find my family's in a panic everybody's crying in a panic one of the kids in the house after an hour of searching one of the kids the seven-year-old crawls under an impossibly narrow area the thing sticks his hand under and he finds the wallet so everybody up singing and dancing every the whole family is a the whole family it's a big simple but then the father grabs a seven-year-old have found that he gives him a kiss why does he give him a kiss of nobody else the answer is we're all happy it was that it was a deliverance for the whole family the whole family was saved but you I mean you're the one who did it you're disels you're special so mm Ella kills the play okay it's the deliverance for the entire Jew it's a celebration for the Jewish people how do we see that Duffin amount is just you know like George Orwell might have said everybody is special but some are more special than others right how does how does double amount where that's a shut up I couldn't show the double amount was just that much a zone he gets his own little private miracle your own little they have in Israel you've ever gone through the store they have like they you could get a cinnamon thing a cinnamon or a Ruby Krug Allah they caught it as wrapped in plastic Kostya costume worn it should but it's wrapped up I said it cost it's called amanaki a personal portion that Rugal is called a man that you see it's a personal portion and it's wrapped in plastic so it tastes better obviously a man that you see right so double amount has what's called a nice a she personal little miracle just for you you know why just to show you that you have a certain level of belovedness of the isolation that's why he gets his personal little miracle what happened on Tonica jews people are saved we had to be saved you know why because God promised the Jewish people that the Jewish people never gonna go lost we had to be safe did God save us because he had to or God saved us because he wanted quote-unquote he wanted to why didn't God save us he had to or he wanted to because of the beloved as the Jewish people the miracle of the oil shows you that he wanted to its young little personal miracle unnecessary he had they not have they don't know they would have lit Tommy or put have been a breath it would have been fine that just shows you that right now your beloved you're a little cherry on top so to speak and therefore on Hanukkah we like the menorah to commemorate the miracle is that just the miracle away isn't murder the belovedness the Jewish people are beloved that God is were whole so we're lighting that menorah to show the belovedness of the Jewish people that's the idea that's the kind of comin over the miracle of the oil worker meant yes there was a war I mean if we would commemorate every would military victory to do every time we've been saved you know we know we didn't we had of a hundred Prague's in the menorah the miracle of the wort the miracle of Hanukkah is that little thing that shows that the beloved ants the Jewish people are beloved that goes broke oh that's the base of the oil that's the miracle of the oil so they had a they had I told you of my favorite incident here one of my favorite in Israel I was once reading the there's reading the they they had I saw in the morning paper a guy got arrested here in Israel what happened he was a sutler living out in the settlements and he was driving his car a bunch of Arabs up on a hill were pelting his car with stones so the guy got out of his car and he shot up in the air he shot he to get he shot up in the air and he ended up killing one of the Arab they hit him in the forehead the bullet the guy got a guy got arrested I'm reading this in the morning yeah I got arrested you can't go first well you know the fire warning shots they certainly can't go shooting them exactly of a warning shot it's a warning shot from three paces away yeah the guy gets arrested about a week later I'm sorry breakfast again same time later because I mean the paper they deliver the yeah take them on free there's a free copy once a week that's what I get and Jewish and the the the got me and Warren Buffett so they they they they do they deliver the what he called lately since I'm readin or any paper and I see then a corner of the column the sutler was released by the police as a week later it's very strange guy killed where they don't release they put him in jail and kill time reading the cop and I said reading I actually started laughing I was holding my coffee and actually started coughing on my coffee as I started laughing what happened wasn't his bullet that killed the Arab the Arab is the car was speeding through his stone at the car it hit the tire and shot right back at the Arab who threw it and hit him in the forehead killer right that's a keypad of Usher's oh do I lay him that's what killed him thank you that best shot I remember think myself best shot since Devon L Goliath write that best hit on a Palestinian in the foreheads a double kill the village killed go yeah stop you know you know is it you know is there Goddard her isn't a guy is a shot you couldn't do it if you wanted to you couldn't hit that shot if you want he threw it at the thing shot right back in he killed oh that's this celebration that's a celebration now the third point is the point that most people are not aware of you have the thing is that I wouldn't call it a Miss a Miss what do you call a misconception you're just something people don't pay attention to how do you know about the Hanukkah miracle how do you know about the kind of a miracle how do you know about what happened to that menorah how do you know why are you smiling yo I'm ask you how do you know if there's a little tiny camera honey the Maccabees wrote right then how do the Maccabees though I don't what's that there's a big illa it's in how long that's how we know how did they know how did the Jewish people know in that generation but they were there good I'm glad you said it you stepped right into it they weren't there you know why because the menorah was in the kodesh where nobody's allowed in except Kohanim how many people saw this miracle a handful people handful of people together you're not gonna believe it I lit the thing in a burn for eight days you're not gonna believe there's only enough eleven okay if you say so gambling imma go ahead and now you're all going home and lighting menorah is celebrating a miracle that you feel in your in your kitchens even though it's all based on my word of mouth you know there's an expression you can't compare hearing to seeing you know dumbest Miller yeah I'll believe it when I see it people say they'll believe it when I see it right and this one nobody sucks up the Kohanim interesting no coincidence there's no coincidence so Court says you know why that is what were the Greeks against what if all reformers all through history always been against that's for sure that's for sure the liberal Jews say were Jews are no better than anybody else practicing Judaism which based on what specifically Tory Shabaab Pat Torah Shabaab Pat the oral torah reading Torah everybody agrees is really even the Christians believe those written by is a testament because there's a New Testament I always wondered why did the Christians but they couldn't come up with their own story did a new an Old Testament in a New Testament and make up your own religion what are you gonna instead of a flood there was a there was an earthquake you know instead of 10 plagues there were you know you know a hundred stampy's and I make up something make up a story wait at imagination right the answer is everybody knew that there was an Old Testament everybody knows there's a written Torah nobody in the right band with the neither in the Christians the Muslims are Endora the Oral Torah that's a problem you're all now you know what the written written throat doesn't do anything testers there doesn't it's not binding at me doesn't stop me from doing anything all the written services honor your parents it's all said I do I do I call them once a month a dance for money I think that's pretty hiring a rule right I think it's pretty honorable that's how I honor my parents jurcins don't wear chaton is okay I don't any time I'm really really hot I don't put on a coat that's why I'd say I call shining prove that sunshine is so big through that sunshine wool and linen okay I won't wear wool or linen alone who says you get where of you it doesn't give you definitions doesn't give anything so you must slaughter an animal before you eat it doesn't say how to shovel it doesn't tell you keep Shabbos don't desecrate jobs okay what does a great job well does a great job is fine I'm not desecrating Chaves I'm driving my car I'm not that's a great shot I don't think it's a desecration at all anything that you come up with okay there might be exceptions one or two exceptions for the most part the Torah is not binding unless there's an oral torah if we could do away with the oral torah then we do away with any of the block anything binding in Judaism it's always been the Battle of the Reformers in all generations let's get rid of the Oral Torah there even been willing to take out the literal meaning of the written Torah and to bind themselves in certain areas because see we take the written Torah literally which means we deny the Oral Torah which means that we're free to do whatever we want that was the fight that's always the battle what's the way you rectify that you strengthen the oral tradition where does the strengthened oral tradition begin the coin comes out and says to you hey guys I saw a miracle in there and now you have to accept him at his word because the entire oral torah has been transferred word of mouth it's word of mouth coming from a previous owner you know his story the guy comes into Hillel said still okay I believe you I want to convert I believe you that there's a written Torah but no oral torah Goren javis one of the cameras he comes he'll he says I believe you about a written to write I believe there's an oral torah so it'll says okay we'll convert you but now it's time for our Torah lessons so he says here's an Aleph here's a BAE's there's a gimel here's a dollar guy he memorizes LFL with BAE's babe you own valid okay the next day he'll comes over and he says Tim well that's a dollar a gimel a base amount that was exactly the opposite he says hey yesterday you told me it's an alpha is given with valid is it right you believe what I told you yesterday she could always also believe me there's an oral tradition what is it what does that mean what did Hillel really tell him but it he'll really tell him Presi really telling him ultimately everything in life he has an oral tradition there he stab you know there's an oral tradition sure it's a written Torah and how do you know how to pronounce the letters who told you an owl said Alice who told you a tuff is a tough how do you know there has to be an oral juicer for everything in life in every Jewish home that you go into every Jewish home that you go into every piece of electronic equipment he has an oral tradition how do you work a washing machine in a Jewish home well you push down the second button in the third button and wedge a comb in between the two of them right without a comb that's not gonna work right it doesn't worry every every piece of equipment in Jewish home there's a there's a cuts to it you know push a button push your button or push down two buttons at once then put it and wedge something in how do you get the move away we go well you got to kind of flick it you know you got to kind of flick it with your elbow to hear the click it's gotta be a click was your click no click okay all right well how do you know there's an oral through there's an oral torah there's got to be an audit or even starting your car has an oral tour everything's got an oral torah to it it's not gonna be that torah doesn't have an auto that's what it's all you you play Monopoly you play Monopoly don't you have an oral tradition in your Monopoly what are you doing free parking what is the written Torah say about free parking you know what the written Torah says what happens in free parking sale you'll land there that's it you don't even lose a turn it's just a space but no Jew plays that way well waste space Oh wasted space not one Jew that I know plays it it's either you put in the tax money or you put in some other buddy I'm not gonna waste the perfect good space on the board something that's the oral tradition that's the oral tradition everybody's got in everything in life has an oral tradition Torah has they have an oral tradition Torah yes they have an oral tradition that's iconic is there's an attack against the misssara there's an attack against Jewish tradition we have to show that we go the opposite we accept oral torah we accept the ruling of the Cohanim America - plays leash or loyalty okay one more point you take a look at a menorah menorah is made of three components what are the three components flame oil and awake three components in the menorah okay now what is a flame always represent every time and tour you see a flame what is flame represent flame okay cue caught the flame always represents the presence of a chef moshe rabbeinu sees the burning bush the flame the jewish people get to tour at her seen a flame the Mishkan on top of the michigan the presence of god there's a flight guys always appearing in a flight a fire this is a her bolt air but ash the mountain was it's a puzzle key to torah and the big blue it says that her boat air but it was a flame on the mountain or the mountain was our flame the flame ion but says openly our blower bike okay the fire always represents the defendants presence what does well represent the Jewish people yeah really the Jewish people can wear the olives and oil everywhere they're sure because an owl is the best part of the olive is the oil oil is the Jewish people because the oil floats to the top oil always floats to the top you take a look at Time magazine Time magazine is like who's who in the Jewish world finance all budges entertainment industry all about Jews what do you call it politics all about Jews sports all about Jews the Jews are everything in sports they're the owners and the land of the agents they don't think they don't do is play because I don't want to get dirty they're the only they're the owners in the early ages crime usually Jews right at least if it's a good one that's a Jew Madoff is Jewish right at least if we're gonna do it we do it right what'd he call it a science are you science you know what do they got what percentage of the bail prizes have been won by Jews what is about 25 percent or something like that completely I would have project in all society juice oil floats to the top Jews are always going to be heard from no matter where you go Jews are good I saw it in two they once showed here in North Samantha they had a video yeah like a they took they were interviewing people on the streets of Toronto nine Jews on the streets around are they asking them they were injured how many Jews do you think there are in the world so one guy says I don't know about fifteen million other guys says Ted money guys you know you know well get is about 500 million five hundred million Jews half of India half of India 500 million Jews you know 500 million Jews in Jersey where would a guy given a deal like that 500 million dudes it's this one in 2/3 the size of the United States 500 million Jews that so the guy said well think about it his doctor is for sure Jewish right guys doctors gotta be Jewish his dentist is probably Jewish the guy owns a department store where he shops is Jewish his employer is probably Jewish the guy suing him is probably Jewish his lawyer is Jewish everywhere he goes to juice a he's got a son everybody around me is Jewish the whole world is Jewish uh so the guy thinks Jews are always heard from far out of proportion in him that's the oil the reason it comes to the olives by the way how do you get the oil out of the Elif you gotta crush the olive yeah there's something unpleasant to the olive to produce the best part of it when the Jews do better when Jews are when Jews it when things are going smoothly where does Jewish loyalty go and things are doing smoothly when Jews are a little under the gun unfortunately there's a pussing that says the eesh man you shuuran beiieve that you sure which is the Jewish people you sure and waxed fat and rebelled when the Jewish people are doing well unfortunately if we were doing well and then we would apply it so we could do a problem is that what we're doing well that we start getting enjoying enjoying the the material pursuits the Jewish people whenever they've been under the gun when things have been rough this and off son Jewish that what they call the pit delay it the spark of the Jew comes out you know the famous story well I think it was the the the Khoisan burger ribbit plug the burger Rebbe after the war he was in the doing the DP camps this place with displaced people's camps in the Holocaust the clothes of our Abbey who himself lost eleven children he was on to death march he was in Auschwitz before he'd been through the whole thing no close burger was through dole the-- so he's in the in the displaced person camps and he's trying to get a minion together form info he goes around he says could you join us for men pick you to join us from my driver it's going to get me a few people together from there's one elderly man says rabbi ain't domine mental with these people just ask you why not he says yeah and I'll tell you exactly why not and my barracks there was one man in my barracks at a sitter once you had a sitter and if anybody wanted to use the sitter they had to they had to give up an entire day's portions of food which wasn't much anyway they give up their day's rations and hard for him to use you charge a day's rations use the sitter that's how it would you behaves I'm not dying so close the program said to better understand you're right that man did something very nice but why are you looking at the man who charged the rations for the sitter why don't you look at the people gave up their rations for the sitter aren't you the people gave up the rest look at all the people give up their razors or the man got up and went down all right so some things under the gun that's when you see Jews Jews start becoming more loyal unfortunately that's why the oil is comparable to the outlet the olives the oil comes to Alvey crush the olive to do something unpleasant in the Alex out comes the oil once a week I would say Hebrew word for a wick a Teela Teela paid tough your lemon haze of patella she lies awake rearrange the letters of the word feel out would he get Fela its feel a prayer how does the oil get to the flame how did you get close to the tree know the climb climbing claim and prayer that's how it goes alright a listing of Chanukah you