Rabbi Reuven Kigel - Chanukah

okay hello everyone we are about to start Kaneka in the year talad 5784 and I just want to share thought with you being uh an emit college campus Rabbi it's 10 on College you know the people the other side I know the leftist Palestinians I don't know how many of them actually Palestinians but they're marching they're shouting death to the Jews they don't care if we're religious if we're not religious if we're ashkanazi Safar whatever it doesn't matter they want Jews dead unfortunately maybe just rhetoric I don't know but doesn't seem that way if you're out in the middle of them you see them like foaming at the mouth however what's the lesson here so we have in our world two uh different tfas two different time periods sometimes we deal with people who want to kill us spiritually that's what happened during Hanukah the uh hellenists much like the Communists of just last 100 years they said listen oh Jewish we love you just no religion no shabas no Kosher no Torah no Roes no uh BR but oh you could be Jewish great oh you're Jewish speak Yiddish everything's fine so what do we do the soul was under attack and our body stood up for the soul and we fought to the death and we beat them we rededicated the B of mdash and took over again and brought religion back toel that's what happens when the soul is under attack like by Kaneka like by the Communists now there's another form of problems that we have with the G like porm like the Nazis makim they don't care if you're religious or not if you're Jewish they want you dead and that's what we're dealing with right now so what did madak do during pm he said everyone if there's attack on the body the soul has to stand up for the body Let's do toua let's pray let's learn let's repent let's ask Hashem to forgive us and wipe away the decree right now without any judgment there's an attack on the Jewish body no one cares what religion or national or what type of Jew you are so what we have to do is all in our own way do something more than before take on extra mitvah stop fighting with someone you have a a fight with learn a little bit more wake up a little bit earlier be a little bit nicer whatever it is there's right now an attack on the body and our soul has to stand up for it and we will see Miracles Bez hasem