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What Happens on Chanukah's Final Day?

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The eighth day of Kaneka means is considered one of the holiest days of all of Kaneka. When we get to the eighth day, we know especially in they speak a tremendous amount about the specialness of this day and we have to figure out what it's all about. I would say on the contrary because if you think about it the whole question of the famous bev question is why do we celebrate eight days the whole holiday should be seven days one day was natural the first day was natural and then the extra seven days that was miraculous so the whole holiday he says should be eight days 101 answers but in the end of the day whatever answer you give why is the eth day so special it should be the least special that was the natural day. That's it really should be a seven-day holiday. We have to give answers to figure out why it's the eighth day. So, you should know Zaneka always comes out on parash. It's no coincidence because it's an incredible story. And listen to this incredible idea. I'm sure we're familiar with the whole story. But if you really think about it from the brother's perspective, think two minutes from what these brothers are. They don't know what is going on here. Yes, they were jealous. Yes, they sold their brothers and it ended up being 22 years of suffering as a result of this, but what in heaven's name is going on here? The whole entire world is congregating in Egypt. Everybody's coming to Egypt in order to pay arms to this great king because they realize that he is the only source of food and we're the only ones being in charge of being moragal, of being spies. It just doesn't seem just. Of course, anti-semitism, but how much anti-semitism was around back then? It doesn't make any sense. But the whole thing is queer. And then they end up he ends up being friendly with them and sending them back. And then he ends up giving back all their money inside of the inside of their bags. Why is he doing this to us? Why does he care about seeing Binyamin? Why does he have to see Binyam? What difference does it make? If we're 10 brothers and 11 brothers, what was the sign that we're spies in the first place? The fact that we came to ask for food. We're so innocent. We're just coming to find. He keeps asking about their father Yakov. Is he okay? Is he not okay? And even when they come back finally after all the distress that happens in the house and they come back with Binyammen suddenly favorites giving him extra portions being so nice and he knew the whole entire shebang. He knew exactly whose brothers with who. He knew that Beinyammen doesn't have a mother. WHERE DID HE GET ALL THIS FROM? Where's this coming from? They didn't understand one word and they had so many questions and questions. Finally, he's being nice to us and before he wasn't nice to us. Shimon he puts in the jail and then when they leave he they take him out he takes him out of the jail and gives him food and and and and spoils him and takes care of him. It's not just that there's questions but it's questions without any type of solutions. This is going to require a whole migilla to be able to answer these questions. It just doesn't make sense. Everything's a contradiction. After being nice to them, he finally sends them home on the second time and lo and behold they were rigged. They were pushed rigged with a goblet inside of Binyam the one he liked in the first place. Why is he the one being rigged if anyway? Everyone knew it was a big farce. But what's going around? Hundreds of questions. This is not going to this is not going to blow over with a couple answers. I want to know bottom line what is going on here. Figure it out. The real solutions is as we know a couple of the Ramban answers that Yseph needed those to be there were a dream is a type of it's a certain type of prophecy and he needed those prophecies to be fulfilled. That's a and B and even more than that is they did they had to do chuva. They had to do chuba for selling their brother by being moser nephesh for the other brother binyamin his brother by going ahead and going and giving over themselves [clears throat] to as we call it chuva to mishko to repent for what they did to yadic that would be a true kapara it was completely in their best interest everything that was done and of course who was the one who decided to sell yph in the end of the day it was yehuda he's the one who pulled him out of the boar and ended up saying let's sell him Yehuda could have saved D him if he really wanted to. As we know, the brothers actually were upset at him afterwards. He could have been the one to save him and he didn't and he sold Joseph. So it needed to be Yehuda himself to be the one to be Moser nephesh for his brother Bin Yammen. And by doing that he would have he receives a chuva to Mishk about everything that would occur. All these solutions are beautiful cuz we read it in the books. We already know that Butler did it. We already know the end of the story. But the brothers didn't know this and they wanted answers. I don't understand what's going on. You know how many answers they got? They got two words. Finally, Ysephic appears to them and says, "Ani Ysef." Two words answered all the questions. Absolutely incredible. Two words made them realize everything I just told you about the dreams, about the chuva, how he knew everything, why he cared so much about Beyamin, why was he rigging Beyamin? What was the whole reason of going out and being moish for them? Why was he asked everything, all the problems were answered. It wasn't just that there were questions with answers. But the questions themselves were the answers. The things that look so negative, so decrepit, so cryptic and odd, not understood. The things that I wish didn't exist, I'm so happy it happened. They realize that that was the best thing in the world that happened to them for doing this to us because we just got a full chuva for the horrible and horrific thing that we did out of our jealousy that we did over our brother. Everything that looked like a problem ended up being the actual solution itself. The in the itself ends up being the or itself. The darkness itself ends up being the point of light that we didn't think even exists. That's exactly the nakuda about what happened over here. And that solution has everything to do as the writes about when Msiah comes because when Mashiach comes you think he's got to answer a lot of questions. There's a lot of inquisitions, a lot of pagrums, a lot of terrorist attacks and a lot of attacks and a lot of holocausts, a lot of anti-semitism and a lot of things I just can't get my finger on. I don't understand. I've got a lot of questions for you. Why are good things happening to bad people etc etc two words ani hashem ani mashiach mashiach comes with those two words being mgala the words of and it's all answered no problem they will all questions that we had and again it's not that there was a problem and now I'm giving you an answer the problem itself will be the solution that will metamorphosize to make us realize that we are so little that we didn't even realize what happened and you know why you know why we have trouble figuring these things out. I'll tell you why. Because in the end of the day, there was a nice Jewish boy by the name of Albert Einstein that invited us and told us about something known as spacetime. That means that time is a creation. It's something that was actually created. If it was before creation existed, there was no time. I remember when I was in second grade that one of my friends asked the teacher, you know, we were in a modern day school and he asked a teacher a funny question. He goes, "What did God do before he created the world? He must have been very bored." Okay, I don't know what I would answer to that, but she answered beautifully. She said, I don't know how the second grader understood this, but anyway, she said, "Before God created the world, there was no time. And if there's no time, you can't be bored. Boredom comes when there's time, and that's when it starts." So, that's a beautiful answer. No, I don't think I understood at the time, but okay, I somehow I still remember it. Anyways, this idea of spacetime means that time is relative as we know it's a creation. They tested it with NASA clocks that people who go up to space and come down are off the t the clock is not exactly to the second. It comes off when you spin around the world. If you travel the speed of light 262,000 miles per second, which is not physically possible to do, but if you would travel at that speed, you will be able to go back in time. That means that time is relative. Stands above time and there is no time and therefore all perfection stands in front of him. We are one little pawn in a piece of time and therefore we don't see all the results right now. At the end of time, we'll be able to see the whole puzzle, the whole picture and figure it out. Then we'll be able to see that. When you are above time, then things look different. How do you get above time? By traveling the speed of light. Guess what? We live in a land of of darkness. And here on Kaneka, we light the candles of light, the speed of light. And when we do that, we go above time. And the candles last for 8 days. They last over and beyond nature's requirement. We were able to go above the the the the rules of nature for one reason because we went the speed of light which went above time and we went to an extent that we were above time to be able to see everything in the yad of when you go to the higher worlds and you're not limited to this world. When you go to a place that is up in Baraku's world then the lights last eight days. Then miracles happen when you fight the wars and things go above nature and all your questions have solutions to them like we saw by Yseph and his brothers. And that really is the answer to the question we just asked. What was it about that eighth day? Think about it. Really this holiday should be seven days. The B Joseph asks because seven days was unnatural. That was above tea. One day was natural. That is the most kudesish of all days. The most holy of all the days is the day that has to do with natural. We celebrate the eighth day on purpose because the eighth day, yes, that's a special day because we're trying to prove what the were against. They held everything has to do with mother nature. Everything has to do with tea. We focus on everything that we see, we believe. Anything that is you don't see with your senses is nonsense. There's no sense. It doesn't exist. And therefore we celebrate on purpose an eighth day. We da cherish the last day of zanek because that is the day where it is discussing the realm of the natural. And even the natural we point our fingers and we say that's also that's also unnatural. Even the things that look like it's just run-of-the-mill. It's just something that happens all the time. No, we know the address where it comes from. And when when we do that, when we're willing to become a vadim and answer and see with our eyes specifically in those places, then the unnatural opens itself up to us. When did Ysef appear to Abra to Yehuda? When did Yseph come out? And he'll say that'll come out. It's when he said I am your I have to fight and I have to do what's wrong. When you become an then there's no more quiet hold back will not hold his mouth back anymore. If you know to make yourself a real e to au to be to hem and say when it's going to happen then you should know then you will get to the skies then who will let the gula happen and that's how the solutions everything I'll end with a quick story from zilberstein he brings an alwitz of by the boy of yeitzki that he put his daughter his sister in a in a boar in a in a small pit and the two of them used to stay there the whole entire time in order to avoid the Nazi regime from finding them the whole time. This was uh nearby Awitz. It wasn't in Awitz, but it wasn't far from them. And he would go in the middle of the night every night and run out and try to steal some food, try to get a hold of some food and water and bring it back for him and his sister. One day after a few weeks of this happening, it was actually a few months, 3 to four months out of this happening, he came back after running and looking and searching for food with food and he saw that his sister wasn't there. He checked around. He was furious. He was said, "I'm not going to give up. There's no way I'm going to let this happen." And it ended up that people told him she was in the SS office by the Mishtar. He went to the police station with actually conviction with full bread and he said, "Give me back my sister, this cute 16-year-old. She was 12 and he was 16. He said, "GIVE ME MY SISTER NOW. I want her." And he was very strong about it. Everybody chuckling, laughing, giggling at this, the impudence of this little child. And they said to him these words, "If you could show us hair on the palm of your hands, we'll give her to you." [laughter] Believe it or not, he said, "Yeah, are you serious?" He said, "Yeah, sure." He opened up his hands and there was hair growing on the inside of his palms. on the inside of his palms. He had things. Believe it or not, I found out afterwards that the Nazis, the Germans believed that when you have hair on your palms, you are an extension of Satan. You come from some type of satanic thing. And that's why immediately out of absolute fear, they gave him his sister and he actually exited. An incredible story and he was able to save her till the end of days till the end of the war. And he's speaking this story out when he was older. The question is how that came. So you know what he explains? He says when he was a child of about 10 years old, he burnt himself on a frying pan in a very he touched the frying pan with his hand and he completely burnt his skin completely off. Now, grafting was in its beginning stages back then and they were able to find some skin in order to graft it on top of the palm of his hands, but it was a hairy piece of skin. And he was always embarrassed as this cute little 10-year-old with a little bit of hair always on his palms. But his mom told him just keep your hands closed. The kureshbaraku decided and he knows best and that's it. And he said this is the rest of my life. I'm going to live with his hair on my palms. And guess what? That's what saved his and his sister's life. Those hair on his palms stands above time. We stand above time. We are ending Kaneka, but we leave Kaneka and the of nighttime. And we start light with the last candle that we light going the speed of light in order to make us go above time and realize the greatness of a baru in the greatest of times but also in the lowest of times in the most unnatural scenarios but also and especially in the natural scenarios that we are surrounded by now that we're going to go through from day to day.