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Today is a very big day! klal yisroel has to daven and pray for geullah! any ideas on how we can change for the better?
instead of sitting on YWN say tehillim or something constructive.
Try being mekabel not touching your cell phone during davening, tried it and it has worked well. THe first few days were hard, but it gets easier and easier as the days go by.
Whatshaiches: Your right, i was davening shachris the other day in shul and i saw a guy that was texting the whole davening. The world is crazy.
Why is this a “very big day?”
TURN OFF THE CELL PHONE UNTIL AFTER DAVENING and you will never have a problem.
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yossiea: because the zohar says moshiach is supposed to come today.
yros, source please.
zohar. I don’t learn it but this what people say.
yossiea,
didn’t he say the zohar?
intellegent: What are you trying to ask?
intellegent, that’s not how you cite a source.
If that were the case, the Zohar supposedly says lots of things. I have a spam folder full of emails that supposedly come from the zohar or someother holy man/book.
yros,
I wasn’t trying to ask. I asked.
yossiea,
I just didn’t chap what you meant.
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Today’s the big day.
I heard that Rav Shmuel Berenbaum tz”l used to say that on all other days of Chanuka the bochrim go home early to light but on the last day they stay the entire second seder to learn. “Ah, Zos Chanuka” (This is Chanuka, learning the whole second seder.)
It’s a powerful day!
because theres a full afternoon seder
Zos Chanukah, rabbosai!!
Rabbi Ashear said you are allowed to daven for nissim on Chanukah. (Don’t know the source he used.)
Zos Chanukah is a day full of nissim.
No one will ever forget the neis of Zos Chanukah just two years say with the tzadik Reb Sholom Mordechai.
זאת gematria 3(136)=408 קול, צום, ממון – תשובה, תפילה, צדקה
The current parsha miketz מקץ stands for קןל, צום, ממון but the poor have no money, so it remains קץ שם לחשך.
Zos Chanukah!
We can daven for not open nisim as one’s parnasa because someone seeing the menorah would not know that a neis occurred. Maybe he poured everyday a full pitcher of oil into it. Therefore, it is an obligation on us to publicize it.
Let us not forget extra Torah learning as zos reminds us of זאת התורה.
Among the many other great things Zos Chanukah is known for, it will forever now be associated with the great Neis in our own Dor with the release of the Tzadik Reb Shalom Mordechai decades earlier than the antisemites hoped and expected in line with their corrupt “judgement”.
Soon it’ll be Zos Chanukah and we will, once again, be celebrating our own modern day Zos Chanukah miracle of the pidyon shvuyim release of Reb Shalom Mordechai.
When the shevotim, in Parashas Mekeitz, found their money doubled, Yosef said Hashem your G-d provided a find in your sack and your money came to me. Asks the Ksav Sofer it should have said that your money came to me first? So he explains in great detail that a blessing must come on something already there. By Chanukah the Taz says that some oil was left over on which the the blessing of the additional oil, or long burning of oil came. The Chashmanaim knew that they cannot defeat the Greeks but did their own part. Similarly Ruvein did his own to save of Yosef even though it was not a complete save as snakes and scorpions were there. He figured that they have no bechira, free choice being being in the hands of Hashem compared to human beings.
The Ramban in Parashas Bahalascha explains that when Aharon the Kohen felt bad that he was left out of the chanukas hamizbeach and he was told by Hashem that yours is greater that your will light the Menorah forever (maybe as the view that Chanukah will not disappear at the time of Meshiach being a commemoration of the acceptance of the Oral Law) for Chanukah. The Rokeach has a hint from the Torah in Parashas Emor as after the description of the Yamim Tovim the Menorah is described (Chanukah) and Lechem Hapanim (Purim).
There is an argument in SA O’CH 684 between the Mechaber and the RMA how to lein in the Chanukah for the third person. The Mechaber says to repeat the leinen for the day whereas the RMA says from the Hagahus Maimanus to lein next day. Why when they say that their is no sefaka deyome? Maybe he learns like the Taz that some oil was left over which contributed to the burning of the next day.
Miketz stands for ממון, קול and צום which are ממון, תפילה and תשובה. Why in reverse order rather than תשובה, תפילה וצדקה ? Maybe it is in the order of the amount of effort one must exert to accomplish it from less to more. Each one is 136 together 3 x 136 = 408, Zos as Zos Chanukah, Ches Chanukah (8th day). It reminds us of the ladder, סולם (136) of Yaakov Avinu to climb to spiritual heights from the ground to heavens where the malachim are either above him or below him. One should keep in mind constantly what Hashem told Adam Harishon, איכה, ayeka where are we on the ladder?
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