MyLife: Chassidus Applied

Ep. 429: What Is Chanukah’s Message For Us Today?

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Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:

Chassidus Applied to Chanukah

  • How does Chanukah personify eternity?
  • What is Chanukah’s message for us today?
  • Which miracle is greater – winning the war against the Greeks or discovering the oil?
  • Why is the number eight so significant to Chanukah? Would the miracle be less if the flames burned, say, for six days?
  • Why is the Menorah on the left side?
  • What is a short synopsis of the Alter Rebbes maamar Ki Ner Mitzah in Torah Ohr where he explains why we put the mezuzah on the right and the menorah on the left?
  • Why do we light the Menorah facing outside and after sundown, unlike the Menorah in the Temple?
  • Why don’t we light a flame every day?
  • Why can’t we use bulbs for the Chanukah lights?
  • Is Yud Tes Kislev connected with Chanukah?
  • Is there a connection between Chanukah and the yeshiva students of Tomchei Temimim being called lamplighters?
  • How do we apply the lessons of Chanukah in the winter to the Southern Hemisphere?
  • Are women included in the mitzvah of Chanukah?
  • What is the concept of the shamesh of the menorah according to chassidus?
  • Why don't we have a shamesh for shabbos candles?
  • Are we allowed to read the book of the maccabees?
  • Why are we allowed to use a dreidel considering that its origins are from a spinning top, called a teetotum, used in a pagan gambling game?
  • Is there a significance that the letters on a dreidel nun gimmel hey shin are gematria 358 which is the same gematria as Moshiach?
  • Can spinning a dreidel for fun somehow make Moshiach come faster?
  • How can eating a meal be an offering to G-d?
  • How do I keep my eye on a destination which I don’t know?
  • Follow-up: Why do I ask irreverent questions?
  • Vayeishev: Were the ten martyrs punished for Joseph’s ten brothers selling him into slavery?
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