4 Ideas of The Sfas Emes on Chanukah
1. When the Inside is Outside. 2. The "Revenge" of the Jews: No Outside. 3. The Greeks Despised Our Understanding of Human infinity. 4. The Miracle of the First Day
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Chassidus: Sfas Emes Chanukah
- December 14, 2020
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- 28 Kislev 5781
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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This class will be presented on Monday, Parshas Miketz, 28 Kislev, 5781, December 14, 2020, live from Rabbi Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY
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Chassidus: Sfas Emes Chanukah
Rabbi YY Jacobson
- December 14, 2020
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- 28 Kislev 5781
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Heshie Klein, MD -3 years ago
Tzara’as in Today’s World
Dear Rabbi YY,
You taught, tonight, thatThe Sfas Emes (S.E.) says that there is no Tzara’as today. The Torah says “Adam ki yihiye v’ohr b’saro s’eis oh sapachas . . . and, Nega Tzaras ki sihiyeh b’adam, v’huva el ha’koehin.
There are 4 names that man is referred to as: Adam, Ish, Gever, and Enosh.So, the S.E. says that Tzaras only occurs when a person is a complete “Adam”, and there is an imbalance inside of him, then because he is a complete ”Adam”, that imbalance has to come out on the skin.
Today, he says, there is no complete “Adam”. Since the destruction of the Batei Mikdash, there is no “Adam” who is so holy that he can’t function with conflict within.
I humbly and respectfully disagree. There is, in fact, a form of Tzaras today. We call it sciatica, back pain, torn meniscus, Parkinson’s, Cancer, Depression, Chron’s, et al.
When a person has stuck, unresolved emotions, these emotions fester, and eventually work their way out as an illness, a pain, a disease, etc.
I would call these body, mental, emotional (depression, etc.) and spiritual manifestations of inner turmoil, a modern form of Tzaras.
The CDC said that 85% of all illness, including cancer, is caused by emotions and stress.In my experience, they were short 13%. It’s closer to 98%. The proof is found in Parshas Bereishis . . . if you know where to look.But it’s too long to write in a comment.
A Freilichen Chanukah!!!
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Please Do More Sfas Emes
These Sfas Emes shiurim are incredible.
Please continue to do more on the Parsha, thanks!
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
The yidden won the war and then used that victory to glorify Hashem
And not like lowly blood thirsty nations that gloat in victory
Notice that our "Medina shel chesed" after winning WW2, also did not gloat or dominate or subjugate the losing nations. America's Marshall Plan, perhaps also a G-dly thing, actually rebuilt the losing countries of Germany and Japan.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
We were partners in establishing the new month
So why did Chazal take that partnership ability away from us by fixing the calendar? We're still partners for Shabbos and bris.
Sure, the Sanhedrin no longer existed but was that the only way for yidden, i.e. witnesses, to testify that they saw the new moon, thereby establishing the new month, fixing the date of yom tov and being partners?
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Sara Metzger -3 years ago
Someone asked...
How can people desire to opress another human being?
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Sara Metzger -3 years ago
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Can someone please tell me where I can find the story of Rabbi Lau's Bar Mitzvah that Rabbi YY shared?
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Who was the first one to take inside light to the outside?
Hashem.
He took his infinite inner light and began to create the world, first with the great light that was created even before the sun, that was hidden away the future. Then He created the sun.
Both were the extraction of inner hidden light to the "outside".
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
So the Sheloh Hakodesh says the 25th of Elul, the date of the beginning of creation and the date of the creation of that first pre-solar light was created was followed 3 months later by the 25th of Kislev.
And what occurs on one specific date in the Jewish calendar reoccurs on certain ways on the anniversary date each subsequent year. E.g. yortzeit.
But, there's another opinion that the day of the beginning of creation was the 25th of Adar. That would mean not 3, but 9 months later came Chanuka, exactly the length of normal human gestation.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Menorah inside or outside?
Notice that the common custom of placing the menorah in front of the transparent window we actually are doing both. The menorah is technically inside but visible to the street.
Notice that we say that the mitzvah of sukkah is in the fall when the temp turns colder (in the northern hemisphere) so that the nonjews would takke see this and NOT say that we are just dining al fresco (outside) because its warm. I.e. There is an aspect of publicizing the mitzvah of sukka. Also we walk in the street with our lulavim to show victory.
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