Dec. 14, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Light and Mitzvah in our lives through the Chanukah Story

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Season 6

Have you ever wondered how a single candle can dispel a roomful of what's? That's the power of limit, and it's not just about physics; it also resonates on a spiritual and symbolic level. The darkness of our world can be overwhelming, but just as a Chanukah candle can illuminate a room, a single good deed, a mitzvah, can bring light into our lives and those around us. This episode is a profound exploration of the metaphor of light and darkness in the Chanukah story, reminding us of the enormous strength in our most minor acts of courage, kindness, and devotion.

Picture the slightest flicker of light dispelling a world of darkness - that that's a single mitzvah, a deed done not just with intention but with wholehearted devotion. This episode is not just a dialogue but an invitation to rethink the 'all or not' mindset, 'to understand that every moment spent resisting negativity and fostering positivity has immeasurable value in the eyes of Hashem. We delve into the symbolism that extends beyond the glow of the menorah and permeates our day-to-day lives. Tune in and rediscover the radiant strength within your most minor acts of courage, kindness, and devotion.

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Since the very opening line of the Tyra it was foretold that the Jewish people would go through gullisum exiles, would live in a diaspora, and when the medrists mentioned that there was just choyshech al-pinay to home, that was referring to the gullisum, the Yavanim, the Chanukah story, choyshech darkness is a Yavanim, and it isn't hard for us to fit in where chazal found darkness in the Chanukah story and why they're represented by the Yavanim.

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And it isn't hard for us to imagine that the opposite of the Yavanim is represented by, or light, the sun, candles, miracles, the glorifying of the invisible, how we celebrate it, the menorah and its light.

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But you know, there's an interesting property that will be true by all darkness, most definitely this kind of the Yavanim's darkness, and that is that it isn't quantified by the volume of darkness, no matter how many pounds of darkness you shovel in, keep adding darkness.

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If you could do such a thing, it still would immediately fall prey to even one tiny Chanukah candle.

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A little bit of light will dispel immense amounts of darkness.

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Even my young daughter's pink wax Chanukah candles will dispel darkness for miles.

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And we celebrate that in just a little bit of light in one family's misirah Snefesh, in one person's mitzvah, in just a family staying home and be Mikadashem Shomayim that shows up on the map from heaven, that it is so beloved in the eyes of Hashem and we know we don't need to be in Einstein that, living in America, so many thousand years from our sea night, that we live in a Khoshchach, in a darkness, where it feels like the bad days outweigh the good by a thousand times, and that concentration through an entire Shmone Esra is so rare and connection to Hashem throughout one entire whole day seems to be just a dream.

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It's because we've been tricked, though, ladies and gentlemen, and perhaps we don't recognize that all of the G'daylim they are yelling and they are preaching, that me'at'or is a ha'arbei khoshchach, that when a person does one mitzvah the tiniest, smallest two-year-old pink Chanukah candle, if it's done with effort and misirah Snefesh, then it will dispel darkness from blocks and blocks away.

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Every single time that a person holds off on us in for a second, it is so beloved in the eyes of Akkadash Baruchu.

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We are taught that every single second that a person will close his mouth from speaking Lush and Harah al-Korega, ve-rega that he's zo'iche, le-or aghanuze he's zo'iche by not speaking Lush and Harah to see this hidden light that's only put aside for the tzadikim.

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As the Chavitz Chaim says, in the end of that measure this person actually ended up saying Lush and Harah.

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At the end of the day he fell.

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But the measures he's teaching us, that every second of holding off is so brilliantly illuminating.

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It is deiche, so much ch'ochchch and is so beloved in the eyes of Hashem.

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And we fall prey to the ch'ochchchch and the all or nothing mahalich.

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One good bracha, one strong mitzvah, with intention, one action, one smile, one second of learning Torah with intensity and devotion.

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This deiche, so much ch'ochchch, don't fall prey to the all or nothing.

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Know that in the slightest action, in one good tefila, it is so beloved in the eyes of Hashem.