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CHANUKAH TREE - CHUKOT HaGOYIM OR IDOLATRY❓❓

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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[Music] thank you when most Jews are celebrating with the goaim [Music] generation after generation when holiday becomes another Fourth of July becomes Thanksgiving Thanksgiving eventually becomes Easter or Christmas and unfortunately many of the Jews have gone so far from hashemite Barack that they feel 100 comfortable having a Hanukkah tree [Music] thinking that this is just nice thing to have I first heard about it that was around 11 years old the American Jewish friend told me oh yeah I'm so excited Hanukkah is coming yeah sure we weren't really so excited about Hanukkah coming other than the fact that we need some souvenir at the little Donuts I wouldn't call it excited it's one time a year we have these Donuts it's delicious it's great but it's not exactly the highlight of my life so I asked them why are you so excited oh we get so many presents around the tree and I said excuse me what do you mean you get presents I didn't ask about the tree first that's the presents first just to see what the secret is I was 11. so what do you mean you get presents because we get presents we get a present for every day [Music] every day no concept of presence on Hanukkah was not necessarily an Israeli thing it's an American thing similar to the going because they get presents on Christmas the only thing I could hear about from this agency progress I became is what they give their kids is maybe some chocolate on Hanukkah but there's no stories of presents at least not that I heard of maybe there is but I never heard it so I found about this eight presents in America I said wow your parents must be rich because yes our tree is amazing it's all white I said okay yeah back to this tree thing what do you mean you have a tree cause here we have a Hanukkah tree he said what's a Hanukkah tree I'm 11 years old I've celebrated Hanukkah my whole life I remember about five or six years of it I never saw a tree what is this Hanukkah tree and he described to me something that I saw in the mall only there they called it a Christmas tree and although it was disturbing I quickly forgot and went back to the business of how to figure out how to convince my parents to get me some presents but years would pass and eventually I would learn from a Torah then not only is this Hanukkah tree not part of our tradition not truck not part of our Soviet but it also is against the Torah such an extent that is the equivalent of idolatry it's 100 idol worship it's mentioned in it to us several times one of them by the Prophet Jeremiah one of them by srimid bar himself saying when you get to thee land cut down the Asher trees cut down these trees so you're sure I've been doing asthma what do these trees do I think stole one with a different tree violates what do these trees do the tree stays there you know someone worshiped this tree the Nations that lived here before they worshiped the tree so how's this Patrice fault what the tree told me come come here I'm I'm good it's a good spot come come worship me what the tree do it's irrelevant anything that was ever used for idolatry has lost its right to exist it's called Hashem it's called disgusting tuition we are not allowed to benefit from idolatry in any way shape or form there's also the reason and the argument we add to the whole issue of Wix today that come from natural hair unfortunately there's not one human being on Earth that can look me in the face and swear on their olamaba that they know for sure 100 that the wig they bought from the store did not come from adultery [Music]