Chanukah With Rebbe Nachman – Shiur in Efrat – Importance of Community – Key to Education Is Respect – What Is Yirah? – Life is Growth – Chanuka Lights – Beit Hillel vs. Beit Shammai – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Introduction. The importance of community.
02:32 – Miracles of Chanukah.
09:47 – The concept of Tzaddik. Yosef HaTzaddik and his brothers.
21:06 – Written Torah and Oral Torah.
*23:39 – The plague of darkness in Mitzrayim began on the 25th of Kislev.
25:00 – The key to good chinuch is respect. Why was the Torah given amidst fire?
27:00 – The second half of the Yirah is the first half of the word Ahava.
33:34 – Chanukah: the miracle of the oil.
35:55 – Living vs. surviving. Life is growth.
41:45 – Closing blessings.
42:00 – Q&R about differing opinions in halakha and disagreements between Torah authorities.
45:08 – The importance of prayer in one’s search for a rabbi: “vetakhneynu b’aitza tova milfanecha” in the paragraph beginning with “hashkiveynu HaShem” in Maariv and in Kriyat Shema.
45:56 – Q&R about lighting the Chanukah menorah – Beit Hillel vs. Beit Shammai.
48:42 – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal strove to open Torah study to everyone.
51:50 – Closing blessings.
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