Chanukah: The Return of the Shechina

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com thank you for coming welcome all the Torah anytime viewers and uh tonight's the second night of Kaneka and we're all familiar with the fact that Kaz tell us that the miracle of Kana is they came into the and they could not find pure oil all the oil had been contaminated it was all T it was all defiled and of course to do the aod you need to have tahar oil they looked they looked they searched they searched they couldn't find any oil that had not been contaminated until miraculously they were able to come up with one flask of oil unfortunately though that flask of oil was only enough to last for one night and they used it and it kept burning and burning and burning and burning and it lasted for eight nights and that's how we have of for eight nights and there's a very big problem over here and that is we know that that way the way God operates the world is that he doesn't like to change the laws of nature when Hashem created the world he set the laws of nature into place and God does not like to change them unless he has a good reason God likes the laws of nature to work their course to work the way they're supposed to work the sun rises in the east in the morning it sets in the West in the evening this amount of oil lasts for one day that amount of oil lasts for two days that amount of oil lasts for three days and the question we have to ask is why was it necessary for God to make this miracle that this little flask of oil that should have only lasted for one day lasted for eight days why did God do it so you say what do you mean why did God do it he needed to do it we came to the B mdash we needed to to do the aod one of the big services in the temple was that every day we lit the man and we didn't have oil to light the man as the P yua that's not true we didn't have oil to light the manur there was tons and tons of oil all over the so you ask what do you mean all the oil was T says don't you know the the is that if the majority of Cl are T if most Jews are defiled you're allowed to do the aod in a state of defilement it's called so if then why did God have to make a miracle that a flask of pure oil lasted for eight days we could have used T oil impure oil there's why did Hashem have to make them God doesn't change nature for no reason at all what he should have done was we would have uh taken the oil we would have seen the the steel was broken and we should have used it anyway it was T but when the majority of Cl T you're allowed to do the aod since they found the first one was it was just pure so then they cannot they cannot switch from Pure so why did God have to make the miracle why did Hashem have to make that flask last for eight days for what purpose what was the purpose it was for no reason Hally it was not it did not add anything yeah but they didn't know it's going to last so they started that because they were looking and they found one I'm not asking why they they found it so they used tar oil fine yeah but why did God make that pure oil last for two days he didn't have to do it and if he didn't have to do it God doesn't change the laws of nature just for the fun of it for that we have 500 reasons right we have oh we have 500 reasons for why Kaneka is 8 days and not seven days but there's another this is another major question and that is since Tas we're not asking on us we're asking on God why did God have to change the laws God doesn't change law of for no reason you know um you know uh business wasn't doing so well today I need some extra cash the the you know the ceiling opens up all of a sudden pots of gold come down does it happen doesn't happen to me why why because God doesn't just change the laws of nature for no reason so why did God make a miracle that we should that this pure flask of oil should last for eight days we could have used T oil so you'll say you'll say okay you're right we could have used T oil but isn't it better to use pure oil no it's not it's not any better whatsoever the law is hbra means if the majority of the congregation is T using T products is just as good and in no way any worse than using pure products so why did God make the miracle and we'll add to the question says Yeshua we know one of the services in the temple was Minos what areos meal offerings flower offerings now when you make a meal offering a what do you pour into the M Oil let me ask when came back into the and they brought carbon carbon which oil do they use for the the T oil because is when the majority of the congregation is T you're allow to use T products so if they use T oil for the why couldn't they use T oil for the manur if God felt it's it's adequate to use T oil for the why was are not adequate for the manur another question that the nuda raises if you look at number six and this is along the same lines and that is where do they get flower from to bring a well you think the Yan said we're going to go into the temple and we're going to defile every flask of oil that we see well you think they had something against oil they said we're going to defile everything so where do you think they got flour for the car they used tumy flour that they found in the BD when they brought the Libations the right they poured wine on the where did they get wine from t wine right leim didn't discriminate they defiled the oil they defiled the flour they defiled the wine so the same way the Jews use t wine and T flour and T oil why did God say you know what you know I'm really in the mood of changing laws of nature so that the manur that only supposed to last one day should last for 8 Days going along with what you said yeah going along I'm sorry yeah going along with what you said then it was absolutely logically perfect that the oil the pure oil that was stored was supposed to become IRA and supposed to last for eight days cuz everything else was defiled so since everything else was defiled so this was the only one so this was a symbol of that the Purity that remained from from back then and that's why it lasted that long okay but why did Hashem make that last so long why it wasn't necessary days days to make a pure it takes 8 days it takes it it would take that long okay According to some it takes 8 days to process new um new oil but wine how about wine how long does it take to you can make wine in two seconds wine even longer Tak long absolutely right yeah because oil doesn't go inside your body you don't drink it you don't eat it okay and if once you don't bring it in your body it doesn't really destroy you spiritually it me that only after that it's only material so if anything we shouldn't have needed pure oil if anything we should have needed pure wine and pure flour but not pure oil the intention was there the to begin with it was a good intention but because of the destruction what they going to do anyway they knew they going to chase them they're going to find they going to kill them so as a first as a start they looked for that it was a miracle to find the the kadash over there by itself that was already a miracle the question is why why is Hashem making this miracle for what purpose is it we don't need it you need to to know when a miracle happened to it's God give you question okay God hadn't done they found it what do you think they they F hasem only Makes Miracles again for specific purpose for a specific purpose we got to get out of MIT the sea is in the way so God splits the sea God doesn't just make uh Miracles like that this miracle was halachically not required right we could have very well have used T oil the same way we used tum flour the same way we us tmy wine if anything imagine this you know why don't instead of having us find uh pure oil and that oil lasts for 8 days you know what we could have done we could have used T oil every day fill it up with more tum oil and what about the wine oh why didn't God make a miracle with the wine we didn't have enough wine we didn't have pure wine so what does Hashem do he should make a bottle of wine that only lasted that could only last one day lasts for 8 days and then we'll have perm for8 days right we'll drink wine for8 days what what's with oil yeah sorry what I was going to say is according to some of the things I've read it's not a question of how long it takes to make the oil they would have had a travel three and A2 days to get it Unfortunately they didn't have home deliveries back then and you have three and a half days to bring it back plus a day for shs okay good but again they didn't have to get pure cuz they could have used impure oil right so that's what we're going to try to understand another thing I want to come back to the very beginning and that is God willing the shabas we're going to Lan a special ha not the regular ha Mikes we the shabas which is from or in English Zachariah right if you meet if you meet somebody on the street and they're going to try to show you show you verses from Zachariah okay by the way he was he was white the original Zachariah was uh okay anyway it's anything related to the date like C and K because they won the war okay I heard that you know CF it's also in gatria CF it's only 25 but in certain levels it's also Shem AEM so um okay good but these are all true but why this miracle what was the point what was the point what was the point now on and it speaks about a vision of a of in Z talks about now what if they're two shabas very often they're two shabas khakas what do we learn as the of the second shabas we learn from say from about the man of of and you don't have to know too much but who came first Zariah or Solomon who came for Zar or comes before Zar and if so why is it that if we only have one shabas we Le from zakar about the man and zakaria's vision and we leave out from Sho Sho comes before Zar and if there're two shabas because why do we first Lan about the manur in Zak's vision and then the manur of scho we know normally we try to do things in order comes before Z on the first we the and and the second about the in and this is a question raised by the suggest that since the prophecy of zakar is a prophecy about about the days of mhia that idea takes precedence and therefore we lean about the man in zakar even before the man of sh Theo one of another one of the say say that the prophecy of Zak took place during the second mikdash and took place during the second M mikdash and therefore it's a more close in time to the miracle of Kana but we're going to try to explore a different reason perhaps why shaba the laning of the is from because really honestly if you look in that why do we Lan it on because it says the word man oh it says the word man okay so we're going to Lan it on on Kana The Mention Of manora over there has nothing to do with kanah has not the whole half Torah has nothing to do with Kana because it says the word man and if it say you know it's not it's not the the manur was something lit in the in the we don't Trum just because it says it talks about the so why exactly do we lean this on if you look in your somebody can bring some anybody remember where in the Torah does it talk about the what's the par in the Torah about the very good first it talks about talks about talks about it talks about rasher Su does it explicitly talk about PM no obviously not because PM is only M right and yet the saer points out if you want to know take a look in we're on P page page 690 page 690 look in right after the Torah talks about the God spoke to M saying you want to please open the window yeah want to open some window it says you should take for yourself pure oil right take for yourself pure oil says the it talks about all the it talks about talks about where's okaya is only obviously the Torah is not going to talk about nevertheless right after all what does it say it talks about taking the pure oil for the man that's a right after the in other words first talks about the that areal and then it hints it hints to okay says the that we shown him he says look in it says how many candles n one candle and then if you look in candles this is a rem the first night n future nights n says like this if the last yam discussed in the Torah was and the next yam the Torah alludes to is you know why Kana is eight days because just like sukus is eight days and the next y the torah's is is also eight days say just like Su is the only that you say a so you say sh you say a because Kana is alluded to right after suus come on what does Kana have to do with suus well because there's like a hint in the Torah right after suus so therefore they both have the same amount of days and the same regarding saying Hal what connection is there between Kana and suus and we'll add to that RAB on the first night of Kaneka we lit how many candles one tonight we lit two two when Mia comes if mhia would have come tonight how many candles would we light tonight all yesterday we would have L eight tomorrow and tonight we will with seven why because when mhia comes we'll pass like B and B says you go down 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 says the says you go up why you always go up in Kad B says you go down why says b because when you bring carbonos on suus you bring 14 bowls then 13 then 12 then 11 then 10 so just like on sukus you go down so you go down yeah what as they say French what does that to do with the price of tea in China right or what do that got to do with anything oh because the the the the the go down so therefore go down yeah and also when I go to my grandmother's house and I go down the steps I go down the steps so therefore Kana you should go down I mean what does that got to do with anything right since when do we since when do we invoke the Bulls of sukus to determine how you like I mean what do one thing got to do with the other plus if you look in the book of which is not part of was not allowed to be put in t for certain very important reasons nevertheless it has certain it's a historical account of and if you look in the it says that when the finally rededicated the by the way I tell you very something very interesting right there very big Mitzvah right to have jelly donuts right it's very important mitzvah right it's a custom so where does this custom come from because he says you want to make why do you want to make because what did what did the do they they defiled the they they made into idol worship and therefore we want to say that that ask hasem for the restoration of the M now Ben you don't say anything about the we ask God to restore the so he says that's why we eat jelly donuts this way we can make we could in for the restoration of the okay so you have bigas when you have the jelly donuts you want hasem to rest anyway about lus o I don't know if for we could reveal all such secrets in one night much information no okay so if you look in the book of the it says something very interesting that they came out of the caves and they said like this they said were able to dedicate the again you know what we need to do we need to make a y like the Y of suus that's what they said you look at number nine it says we're going to celebrate now eight days like the I mean why don't they come out of their caves and say you know let's make seven days what look what it says let's take our I mean what what did they did they get confused what month it was why are they saying we're going to come out of the caves and celebrate a y like sukus what does sukus have to do with anything Purity it's also the purifying the okay so it's the same idea with the with the pure oil once you're using pure oil you you like purifying again the whole thing after the destruction okay good you're barking up a good tree over here yeah sucus is viewed as a Thanksgiving holiday mhm you know that uh was saying thanks to Hashem for everything that he did for us when they came out of the cave they too would wanted have say thanks you know thanks for what was done okay good suus is a y of gratitude is y of gratitude well we're going to see what maybe there's a core a very important core of suus that's very relevant to Kaneka what did the yanim want to do what do they want to doy to destroy three Mitzvah they were out against three Mitzvah right everybody knows what were theyes shabas and yet if you look in them and that's what it says in M there's also another document called it was not allowed into the tanak communities they had accustom to read it on there's a to I believe that talks about it and if you look look at number 11 it says said let's go up against them we're going to nullify the Covenant the three- parted Covenant and yet if you look at the med now one mention is made of this these if you look in the med the medish says one thing that the did on the that says these are referring to the four the four Exiles refers to Greece in what way was Greece Darkness because they darkened Our Lives by doing what says the they would say to right on the Horn of an ax that you've lost your connection to God that's all the med says the med you see anything about KES here no anything about they said he can't keep shabas no anything about no what did they say take out your Axe and write on it you're not connected to God just on a very simple level you know what that would be that would be like nowadays no when you go outside and you're driving your Lexus your BMW I want you to write on your license plate right you and you and God are you know split X you know that's it you're over right the sh those days that was the way they traveled and this was the greatest advertisement you could it's like putting a sign on your front door you and God have no connection but it's very interesting that while Millan we find that the the Jewish people were forced to abish in the medish there's no reference to that all it says is we have to write on the Horn of an ax we're not connected to God and what we want to try to understand is why does the medish not say anything about chabas and what was the deeper meaning of the yanim telling us to ride on the Horn of an ax that we are no longer connected to God comes okay we might know this but the comes and says like this okay right this this week's para is what m y comes to parro and he says Mr one power to appoint administers over the land prepare says M Supply them prepare them prepare the land says on a deeper on a deeper level y was not just saying to prepare by storing up food but the word Shas y wanted to Institute in and shabas why these three says these three Mitzvah have a common denominator you know what they are these are the three mitzvos that cause God to rest Among Us now what does that mean what is what does it mean what is a there's one God right hashem's everywhere Shem is here hasem is there right even Uncle Mishi says Shem is here hasem is there Hashem is truly everywhere right by the way even though the vill disagrees with that statement ofi but that's a different discussion ising like the bat but the disagrees that is here is there is truly everywhere as the vill says isem in the so the V say not everywhere's in the in the garbage can we say is there this this by the way this this point is the main disagreement between andag but everything in the world is is with the spirit you know everything everything connected together with Spirit without without nothing is going to be disae is B someone go to Bic and do doesn't mean hm doesn't know what's going on over there but the question is where is Hashem there no you're over here I'm here does that mean I can't see you and I don't know what's doing on the other side of the table I'm not there I know it's doing over there I see I understand but I'm not there says is not everywhere but not and this is one of the reasons why the V disagreed vehemently with the early but this is a separate discussion and learns that this is not just between actually between the and some say and some say is only okay but this is a separate discussion anyway that there's a concept of means on a very superficial level God is everywhere but his Divine Providence his his special Love sometimes is concentrated in certain areas for example if you would stay at home this morning you couldn't lean the Torah why not I want to lean the answer is to lean the Torah you need 10 Jews why because 10 Jews brings down the and if you have nine Jews if you have the godar he can't Lan if you have the nine gar they can't Lan if you have nine gar and a a murderer adulterer M he brings down the something that these nine G couldn't do so there's a concept there God's divine presence says there are three specifically that bring down the and that is like we say every what do we say when we go out to greet the new moon we are greeting the could also be when you keep shabas you bring God into your home brings brings that's the common denom of these three mitz knew that what did Hashem tell yov hasem told yov you're going to go down to MIM I will come with you and I will come out with you how could we ensure that God's going to come down to M with us and take us out these are the three mitzah we got to does and chabas this was the institution of Y come the and the also say that if we want to defeat the Jews we got to disconnect them from their God and the way they're connected to their God is by them bringing God down into their lives Howes andab so what did the do they in effect by doing that what did they make us feel a we were not connected to God why they make us ride on the Horn of an axe because who's the axe is called is alluded to by the ax so what the were saying is you take your axe you take Yad and toss it these were not two different things right on the Horn of an axe that you have no share in God and then it was one thing by doing what are you doing you're in effect taking what did this week's and you're removing it okay so that was the intention of the intention of was wanted to Institute the wanted us to feel that we're no longer connected to God how did they do that andabas how do you know these Stu actually bring the to them how did the know the no they know the is the three things how do we know these three things they they make us they definitely knew they actually you know they said going to do the Jewish SP I don't know either you could say that of all the nations in the world I'll just say something very briefly very very interesting when Danielle had vision of the four Goos he saw if anybody remembers we discussed this many months ago he saw the Babylonians as which animal a lion he saw the he saw the um Persians were a bear right the hairy bear and the Greeks were anyone remember leopard says the maral something amazing the maral says why a leopard if you look through the of all the umos who try to makeer against us none try to be from the Torah none try to make us forget the Torah except for the Greeks why why weren't the Persians or the uh Babylonians interested in making us forget the Torah they had no connection to the Torah they had no the Torah was something Beyond them they didn't even understand what the Torah was and if you don't understand what it is what do you care if the people are learning it or not the Greeks were the only nation that had a connection to wisdom like we find the Greeks commissioned 70 sages to translate the Torah into Greek the only language your latter right to say for Torah in other than Hebrew is Greek Yim because of right so the Greek of all the nations of the world they had the greatest wisdom now if someone imagine like you're walking down the street and you see the king you see someone marries the princess you're jealous of the guy no nobody you had no connection to why would why would you ever be able to marry the princess that you should be jealous of someone who marries the princess no connection to her but someone who had the opportunity to marry the princess and he lost that on it to some other guy he's going to be jealous you're only jealous of something that you think you really could have got so the Greeks because of their natural disposition to wisdom that's why they wanted us to make us forget the Torah cuz the Torah was something they could relate to and they understood it was greater than their wisdom and they were jealous of it and therefore why are they compared to the leopard because in order to acquire wisdom which character trait do you need to have someone who's shameful can't learn why because sometimes you hear a you hear you hear something you don't really understand it so either you could say oh yeah whatever yeah basically I get it well I'm going to go asked the rebi explain to me what this word means he's going to think I'm like uh he's going to think I'm uh not smart or something so okay I'll leave it be but someone who is he said that what are you talking right or the Rabbi says something it doesn't make any sense the RAB doesn't right maybe he doesn't know he's talking about so go what in the world did you just say doesn't make any sense if you want wisdom you need to have some even though the mishna inos that says which animal is the most Le the leopard now I don't know if this is uh nowadays scientifically proven but at least in the times of the mishna a num a leopard so I don't know if Le num is really a leopard but at least in MW the num a leopard is the product of a lion and a pig look in Thea on the M it's most animal it's a m and from a pig so it has real it's a real it's a very audacious animal so have you want Torah you need to be bold like a leopard you got to pursue it you can't be shameful even though the mishna goes on to say someone who has is going straight to you knowwhere so how do you reconcile the two the answer is if you're a guy you're going to youare but there's one tiny small amount of necessary and you have to use it in a small whole area and that is pursuing Torah that means like this in every other aspect of life you have to be shameful bashful shy when it comes to Torah there's no shyness you push right ahead you go to the front it's not we're not talking about pushing I don't mean to push other people away it's mean not to be not to be shameful not to be shameful is that's why by the way a Mida what does Mida mean measurement there's no such thing as a good Mida or a bad Mida it's what needs to be measured out in this in this situation normally shameful shyness bashfulness comes to trying to understand Torah so therefore that's why Greek Greece is compared to which animal the leopard yeah okay that's just an aside so therefore what the Jews started to feel Rai that in fact God was with them anymore because they lost and without shab then what happens no and we started to feel that we have no connection to God so Hashem says I got to do something about that there is one part of theik that isos testifies to the world that God's is amongst us says the gar shabas why did they light the manur in the B mikdash what God can't see he need a flashlight in the B of M come on have does God need the light says the gamar and chabas God doesn't need the light but there was a special Miracle on with the manur and the miracle was they lit the the the Western most candle either it was the leftmost candle or the middle candle and that candle was the first candle that was lit and it lasted longer than any of the other candles it was a miracle because all the candles had the same amount of oil and that candle lasted the longest what did that show says the gamar in chabas number 14 the manora represented that God doesn't rest among the Chinese the Japanese the Italians the Americans the only rests on the Jewish people that's the point of the manura the miracle with the manura is God's interest is only with us he's only interested in us increase them his and because what have what the Greeks make us feel they took away shabas mil Andes which are the mitz that bring the and they thereby took away our connection to the they made us feel is not among us so God wanted to do a miracle to demonstrate the is still here and especially the writes that even though we know thei was never extinguished but already right before the period of Kana it started to Flicker and dim and go out at times which increased the Jewish people's feeling that in fact the was no longer among us so because the decrees of the Greeks were to make us feel the is no longer among usally did we need tar oil no the same way we used impure flour and impure wine and impure oil for Theos we've Hally we were permitted and even required to use T oil for the manura but the miracle for the manura was needed for a different reason you know what the miracle was needed to show the had returned because the Greeks since the manur that item in the that testifies the is Among Us and the wanted to abolish that how by being so therefore God wanted to make a miracle to demonstrate the Mir that the returned so now when you make a y to deter to demonstrate that The Returned if anybody remembers we celebrate the yam of suus to commemorate the Clouds Of Glory and the famous question is we should say sit in the Suka in Nissan time in the spring why do we sit in the Suka Suk is time so what did the villain going say since we celebrate Su for returning of the cloud ah so the same way we celebrate kanuka for returning the the flame of the because says the of suus is not commemorating clouds cuz the clouds came in Nan it's commemorating the fact I'm tell that when we left we had clouds that was the the C of who and when we sinned with the AEL the clouds went away and cl started to feel what the was not among us and then mosh went up on the first day of D for God to forgive us and he came down 40 days later on Yer and a God said the magical words you're forgiven and yet did not come back and the Jews were devastated and mosha gave them the command to build a mishan on the 11th of Tish and they brought donations the 12th and the 13th the 14th of they sto bringing and the 15th of the returned and for the return of their how many days of Y did they make eight days with what kind of Hal sh so therefore in the times of kanah what are we celebrating a miracle not tell bring a miracle because we didn't need the miracle right the same way sukus is not a celebration of celebration of the return of the SOA is not a celebration of the miracle the miracle was pointless and useless the the celebration is the return of the ah your subing return of the what kind of Y do we need to enact eight days what do we need to do just like on where is alluded to in the right after the you should take for yourself pure oil pure oil because this is how you bring the or because this is because the is a celebration of the return of the which was which was declared by the fact that a miracle happened with the manur the same way the nari the fact that it miraculously always burnt was a symbol of God's so to this miracle in the man this is very similar to The Miracle of the it was lighting one candle it should have only lit for one night and it lasted for eight nights this was in in effect a return a demonstration of God showing his still Among Us so the of is very much connected to the I just add I was thinking right now that we know the three p is can I get because Abraham why again because right because came to abah on is Con because the chauffer sound of was from theau of and is because the Torah says passed away on suus they mourned Yakov how many days 30 days until they mourned him 30 days and they emomed him 40 days a total of 70 days 70 days after the first day of suus is says just remembering now that the which is which isov nevertheless which is a was the suus is the model of kanaka in other words when they when they enacted kanaka they used sukus as the model how do we make a why because these are both that that what present the return of the connected by the and the final the final 70th day after the of yes right so Cate for returning right so we Cate for returning the the the return of the the return of the the same way the miracle with the the represented that God Among Us similar this miracle is a very similar S miracle to the miracle of the it was in the man and it was also a miracle of oil which really should not have lasted so long continuing to burn so that is why yeah just for for an idea uh so if the oil was the tool of purification and bring the calling the to come and show us that you know we still here I'm coming back what was the tool in the sukus the the Clouds Of Glory that came back to the Jewish people on suus they left by the but here you put a purified oil the miracle came but over there what what's was what did the Jewish people do no no what was the parallel to the oil in the Su the Jews the Jews built the mishan and then the came down they built the mishan and then that made the come now oh so now we could say I believe I one saw this in a saer I think from David Cohen I believe when what is want us to do they said write on the Horn of an axe that you have no we said in the beginning from the that what they meant was y who is the and he instituted they said go take Y and deeper meaning they made us ride on the Horn of the ax what was the sh the AEL the AG called the and they said you think the is among you you guys are just like in the times of the just like when you built that sh The Departed when you're sinning now the has also departed they said go take an Axe and write you have no in God in other words they were bringing up again they were drumming up the sin of the ago that's why they said ride on the Horn of an axe so the same way the yanim were drumming up the sin of the agel when we celebrate the miracle just like after the sin of the they instituted during this period of time we instituted as a parallel to should you go up in the candles or go down in the candles the same way in the carbonos of sukus where you go what does sukus got to do with anything it has everything to do with everything because this is the Y that we're trying to celebrate how do we how do we celebrate the return of the says sh we have to look at suus if we celebrate return of by bringing the par 14 13 12 11 10 so on Kana also we have to go down down down down down and that is the reason why hasem specifically made a miracle with the man Hally was it necessary no did it accomplish anything Hally no with the same way we could have used the same way we used t wine and T flour and T oil for the man we could have used T oil for the manur but God wanted to show something the yanim say you have no share in God Hashem says my is back amongst you and that's why they a simar to 8 days with a sh you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com