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Chanuka and Portion VaYayShev
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Chanuka and Portion VaYayShev
A quote from Rabbi Carlebach
The sweetest laws and teaching from Chanuka))
I want you to know, sweetest friends, when I see someone else putting on tefillin, I don't have to say a blessing over it. When I put on tefillin, I say a blessing, but I don't need to make a bracha over someone else fulfilling the mitzva.
And the same thing is true of all the commandments except one - Chanuka.
If I go for a walk on the street and I haven't yet kindled the light in my own house, and I pass by someone else's house and I see his Chanukah candles, I have to make a bracha.
Do you know why? Because, to be honest, all year long. I don't really care if somebody else puts on tefillin. I pretend that I do, but I don't really care.
But on Chanukah, when I see somebody else serving G-d, it blows my mind.
I say to myself, "I knew my neighbor was beautiful , but I didn't know he was shining so much.
When I already kindled Chanukah lights in my house,I could think " but how does my light compare to my friend's? He is even deeper." So I make another bracha over my neighbor's light"
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and his students make Chanuka relate to the brothers of Joseph and his trials –
And here I am in a bus trying to get home to light candles
In the middle of a major traffic jam
But I know – that
All those honking horns are just drivers announcing the happy beginning of Chanuka!
And Shabbat Shalom to All
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz