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ויצא בס" ד There is no פתוחות or סתומות in Parshas ויצא which is a רמז that Yaakov is going into Galus. At the end of the Parsha, Yaakov is coming back, and in the middle of the Parsha, Yaakov is dealing with Lavan. This is the place in the Torah that לשון ארמית entered the Torah, of course with רצון ה". Lavan calls the place of their covenant יגר שהדותא, while Yaakov calls it גלעד. The חתם סופר says that this happened on ז אב, the date that the goyim entered the with the intention to destroy it two days later. Because the בהמ"קtwo words of Lavan entered into the תורה this led to the unlawful through – ארמי עובד אבי It says .בהמ"ק of the goyim in the פרצהinserting the תרגום into the Torah, which is the opposite of לשון later in the time of Chanuka, the Torah was translated into ,הקדוש The .בהמ"ק leading to the Greeks entering into the ,לשון יוניתpurpose of the יונים, was to contaminate the Torah, the לשון הקדוש. Yaakov made the tikun by translating this Targum back into לשון .גלעד the place יגר שהדותא by calling הקדוש

The Mittle Rebbi of Chabad says that גלעד is where לג בעומר is hinted in the פרשת ויצא. Also the שם ושמואל says that Yaakov leaving is like the yidden leaving מצרים, and in between Pesach and Shavuos is לג בעומר. Both לג בעומר and Chanuka are a blast of the future light. The Zohar represents the hidden light, where was חנוכה of Torah, and פנימיות revealed the רב שמעון בר יוחאיwhen the פך שמן that was hidden under the ground, was revealed-

=לג בעומר חנכה434משיח בן דויד= .

The word גל means revelation, and עד is דע, representing the מלא הארץ דעה את הויה - פנימיות התורה . Chanuka is 74- עד days

after יה"כ. The משנה says in עד לו מי שאבד חותמו ממתינים -שקלים talking about tickets bought for the bird offering, which were ,הערבlost and they had to wait until the night for the קופה to be checked if he was to be reimbursed. The inner meaning is that someone who lost out on the חתימה of יה"כ, who did not do the proper תשובה, he has עד, another seventy four- עד days till יה"כ עד חנוכה) חנוכה is seventy four days). Chanuka is the time of ערב, when the nights are the longest, and the time a yid lights נר חנוכה. The מאור עינים brings a pasuk by the עד כה ונשתחוהאני והנער נלכה and makes a similar point ,עקידה

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refers to Chanuka. Most opinions say that כה where ,ונשובה אליכםthe עקידה was on יה"כ and so seventy four -עד days after יה"כ is Chanuka-

=ונשתחוה775לו נרות חנכה= , and the חשמונאים instituted thirteen ,יה"כ days after עד -There is going to be a revelation 74 .השתחויותand that is גל-עד. The first pasuk of שמע has twenty five letters, referring to חנוכה. In this first pasuk, there is a large ע and ד.

Parshas ויצא is a continuation from the end of Toldos - מחלתוילך עשו אל ישמעאל ויקח את .. One peshat in Rashi was that

Esav was looking for a מחילת עונות. Then comes ויצא יעקב, Yaakov is also going out to look for his soulmate, and this search results in Yehuda and Yosef being born (משיח בן דוד משיח בן יוסף), to combat the union of עשו –left and ישמעאל –right. Yaakov is a combination of Avraham- right and Yitzhak- left. Because of the trick of לבן Yaakov is delayed coming back to א"י. Yaakov was punished with his mourning for Yosef for twenty two years, for the lack of כבוד אב that he hadn’t fulfilled for twenty two years. Instead Esav ואםfulfilled the mitzva of כבוד אב ואם, and thus had the power to destroy the בהמ"ק in the month of אב. All in all, it was Lavan who brought the restraints of Galus- the left וילך חרנהויצא יעקב . The mitzva of Chanuka is unique in that it lights up the left and the outside. חרן is נר ח Yaakov is lighting the נרות חנוכה, and is placed below ten tefachim. The מנורה where the ,וישכב במקום comes to every yid that lights בהמ"ק of Chanuka is that the חידושthe מנורה.

Reuven found the דודאים (Jasmin), and gave them to his mother Leah. She made a deal that Rachel would take these flowers, a .for birth, in exchange to be together with Yaakov that night סגולה

שכריש was conceived that night, which the בני יששכר says was Shavuos בימי קציר חטיםוילך ראובן . The Gemorra brings a pasuk in

הדודאים נתנו ריח –שה"ש which is ראובן שהציל את יוסף מן הבור, then ועל פתחנו כל מגדים which is נר חנוכה. The connection, says the בני יששכר is that Chanuka is Yosef, as we see that we always read the Parshios וישב and מקץ on Chanuka. The says that Pesach is Avraham, Shavuos is Itzhak and Sukkos טור ש"עis Yaakov. Chanuka which is the extention of Sukkos, refers to Yosef. Yissacher was conceived on Shavuos and born on Chanuka, both falling in the third month from Nisan and Tishrei respectively,

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both being times of revelation of Torah, and both being times that we eat dairy. This is hinted in the pasuk כי שכר שכרתיך – ל: טז

בניבדודאי where =בדודאי בני89חנוכה= , and in the same pasuk -וישכב בלילה הואעמה where =בלילה הוא89חנוכה= . Yissacher is born on

Chanuka and according to the Ari Tzal, he represents חודש אייר the month of לג בעומר. The month of כסלו represents בנימין זאב. A wolf grabs and goes into other’s boundaries, like Chanuka which goes into the boundary of Esav- טבת. The miracle of חנוכה was in the בנימין זאב יטרף471הר המוריה= - בהמ"ק= . The פסוק in ויחי

שלל ולערב יחלק עדבבקר יאכל - מט:כז where both שלל and =שלל עד434לג בעומר חנכה= - are two words for booty עד .

The י"ט of חנוכה is a המשך of לפני ה" 816לערב יחלק שלל= יה"כ= Chanuka is the 620th תטהרוmitzva 613- T. and 7-R. =תטהרו620כתר= . The טהרה comes to its completion on Chanuka. Lavan wanted to מטמא the Torah with יגר .עם הקדוש the מטמא also wanted to יונים and the שהדותאChanuka is the טהרה. Chanuka, on the twenty fifth of Kislev is remedy for their twenty fifth of December, the רפואה before the which falls during the grace period ויצא of Parshas הפטרה The .מכהtill Chanuka, is partly the הפטרה of שבת שובה, the Shabbos before Chanuka goes into the boundary of Esav, into Teves, which .יה"כthe Ari Tzal says represents דן, whose son חשים killed Esav. חשים is the acronym for ילהמבת שודש ח the גזירות of the יונים, who attempted to nullify the פנימיות of the yidden. חשים are the letters of משיח, the acronym of - נוכהחמי ימונה שדליק מ and זוזה מ

מאלשנוכיה חמין י . Mashiach will break all barriers, and rectify the breach of the Greeks to the בהמ"ק,- מה פרצת is what we read on .שבת חנוכה

When Yaakov woke up after the first night with Leah, he was shocked. The Midrash says that Leah said to him that he had also tricked his father Yitzhak. Yaakov said אנכי בכורתך עשו, now Yaakov is Esav, and so Leah did marry Esav. If anything Rachel is worried that she has to marry Esav. Lavan was really bringing משיח in the world, by giving Leah to Yaakov. Leah and Rachel unite in the Parsha, and Yehuda and Yosef are born, from whom the future come. Lavan was trying to help Esav by delaying Yaakov משיחים

=לבן עשו458המלך המשיח= . When משיח comes Lavan and Esav will be cleansed. Lavan and Esav are both fakers. The Gemorra says that

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the 74 days ,חנוכה of גלוי the ,גלעד is to bring the ויצא the ,ויצא יעקבfrom יה"כ till Chanuka =ויצא107גלעד= . Naomi and Avimelechalso went out, to bring Ruth back- משיח. This took place דוקה in of ענין outside, below ten, and on the left side. The whole ,חוץ לארץ comes from a hidden place- the story of Lot and his two משיחdaughters where it says לא ידע, then with Yehuda and Tamar where it says כי כלתה היאלא ידע , then by Boaz and רות where it also says when Yaakov doesn’t know ויצא and then here in Parshas ,לא ידעthat he is with Leah, where the two משיחים comes from two sisters. The unity of Leah and Rachel, and Yehuda and Yosef is what is needed to combat Esav and Yishmael. On Chanuka, left and right come together, the מנורה being on the left, but we light from right, Kislev- בןימין runs into טבת=411משמאל= , and the position of ב"ה against פדיון שבויים518להדליק נר חנוכה= - ב"ש= .

The date ד כסלו in זכריה ז is where it says all the fasts will turn into Yomim Tovim. It wasn’t until the חשמונאים that they stopped fasting. The first two hundred and fourteen years of the בית שני (thirty four years- פרס and one hundred and eighty years- Greek) was before חנוכה, and so Chanuka was also the י"ט we stopped fasting, where כלל ישראל was free until the Romans. The only other time that כסלו is mentioned in תנ"ך, but w/o a date, is in נחמיה. The birth of כלל ישראל was דוקה outside א"י.

The root of the word כסלו in Tehillim is כסלם which means- their faith- בטחון. The מזל of Kislev is the קשת. Yaakov blessed Yosef

קשתוותשב באיתן meaning that Hashem’s brow was firmly placed, and Rashi says that Yosef had strong faith in Hashem. It says that Yaakov conquered שכם with בחרבי ובקשתי. Bitachon and tefilla goes hand in hand and depend on one another. קשת is also the acronym of חנוניתול קמע ש . The קשת also represents ישמעאל, who is also big on tefilla. They kidnapped the five tefillos from our יה"כ. In order to counter the קשת of מאהוט , we have to intensify our tefilla and בטחון. Chanuka is the י"ט of תפילה and - ו לבן נכובטחון

ך סמוה בהויחבט is ס"ת חנוכה. The חשמונאים had to have great in fighting the Greek army. Moshe blessed Levi, of whom the בטחוןיב says that רשי where מחץ מתנים קמיו come from with חשמונאים against tens of בטחון fought with tremendous חשמונאי ואלעזרthousands in the Greek army -

=מחץ מתנים קמיו834=שמן זית זך=834אות ס בשינה= . Inתהילם נה:כג

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it says to throw all problems on Hashem השלך על הויה יהבך והוא=השלך על הויה יהבך518להדליק נר חנוכה= where יכלכלך Chanuka, the fifth and final י"ט which has to last until משיח, is the source of became a מעריב and so כנגד יעקב The last part of Galus is .בטחון which is strongest at the end of חשך To counter the great .חובGalus, we have the י"ט of Chanuka to light up the darkness and give us חיזוק. The light of בראשית is the אור הגנוז which shines on Chanuka- =את האור כי טוב=660אור מלך המשיח=

=סתר660 . Chanuka extends into the month of Teves, the month of Dan, to light up the lowest נשמות. The פנימיות of the חשך is really the greatest light.

ךכין שית ח=878ית=חוד יין שמ מ=878הדלקת נר חנוכה= .

Yaakov goes out to חרנה. There is חרון אף in the world when the yidden fall into sin and decadence. A yid has to put an end to the - קדושה and transform it to ,חרון אף

=חרון אף של מקום861=בית המקדש=861מתתיהו= . On Chanuka, the - מנורה comes to us whenever and wherever we light the בהמ"ק

במקוםוילך חרנה—ויפגע where המקום is the בהמ"ק, which was uprooted and came to Yaakov. כי בא השמש - -Rashi says ששקעה לו after sunset וישכב במקום ההוא and then חמה פתאם כדי שילין שם it טז to Chanuka. In pasuk רמז below ten tefachim, all a clearוישכבsays Yaakov felt like he was in the אכן יש הויה במקום הזה – בהמ"ק . The first time the חומש speaks of שמן is here in Parshas ויצא. The Gemorra says that oil is a peaceful oil, that doesn’t mix with other liquids and rises to the top. This denotes the mida of בטחון where a yid that has בטחון can sleep peacefully. The mode of Kislev is

בטחון – שינה . Even in the worst times, a yid has to have בטחון. When Yaakov went intoגלות , he lay down and went to sleep. Similarly, חזקיהו went to sleep when י"ם was surrounded by Sancheriv, showing his tremendous level of בטחון. The יונים wanted that the yidden forget להשכיחם תורתך, and the antidote for this

חשך –שכחך is שמן זית. The miracle of חנוכה is rooted in בראשית - =ויצק שמן על ראשה1202=בראשית ברא אלה-ים=1202כי לא תשכח מפי זרעו= .

Chanuka is the only י"ט that happened in א"י and more so in the כסלו.כה hinting to אור The twenty fifth word of the Torah is .בהמ"ק

represents the Jews of our generation that are במקוםוישכבdowntrodden.

The מנורה in the בהמ"ק was on the south, the right and had seven

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candles. Chanuka, which represents the future light, is on the left and has eight candles, in order to influence those yidden that find themselves on the left side and below ten. Yaakov goes out of the world of seven שבעויצא יעקב מבאר - in order to elevate the world into וילך חרנה – שמיני where חרן is חנר and שמן is שמיני. The יונים breached the סורג, the boundary between yidden and goyim, and made thirteen פרצות. The חשמונאים repaired the breaches and decreed that a yid had to bow when passing any one of these thirteen places. The גל of אבנים was to keep Lavan out- separate.The Greeks didn’t plan on killing the yidden, but they wanted to mix with the yidden and push their philosophy in them. The נס of Chanuka separated the yidden from the Greeks את האור כי טוב are lit up, including נשמה On Chanuka, the five parts of the .ויבדלthe pintele, the יחידה the level that the משיח will reveal. The true is Chanuka. Yishmael holds that ישמעאל to witness the fall of י"טthey are the יחידךקח נא את בנך את – יחידה ..To battle ישמעאל we need to light up our יחידה, which is אמונה, the level needed to deal with the thick darkness. The ספרים say that the pintele of the yid is שמונה עשרה- in the first Bracha of מרומז

=ואמונתך 1001=ברוך אתה יה-וה מגן אברהם=1001מפלת ישמעאל=.בלילותIn the time of חשך, we have to intensify our אמונה in order for that occurs when the moon is י"ט The only .מפלה to have a ישמעאלcompletely hidden, is כט כסלו - חנוכה . On ר"ה, the first of Tishrei, there is a little sliver of light of the מולד.

The עשרת הדברות has 620 letters, כנגד the 613 mitvos Torah and the 7 mitzvos מדרבנן. The last of the 620 mitzvos is חנוכה, where the last letter in the עשרת הדברות is the ך, representing חנוכה which descends below ten tefachim-ך. Chanuka is a revelation of T.B.P. - Chanuka is the eighty .מאי חנוכה תנא רבנן as it says תורה שבעל פהfifth day of the year- פה. The T.B.P. begins שמע מאימתי קורין את בערבין

=שמע בערבין744נר חנכה משמאל= . The שמע ישראל has twenty five letters, and the תנ"ך has twenty four books, the twenty fifth being T.B.P. The 148 pesukim of Parshas ויצא are one פרשת סתומהof which the בעל הטורים says represents the yid in Galus. The פך This .משיח was supposed to stay hidden until the coming of שמן .אור משיח the ,שמן המשחה is the קב הישר according to the שמןThere are many questions to this, but at least this שמן that the

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כי תשא In Parshas .שמן המשחה found was rooted in the חשמונאיםit says that one of the ingredients of the שמן המשחה was שמן זית הין –

=שמן זית הין872הדלקת נר חנכה= .

The end of the Parsha speaks of גלעד which as we said hints to Yaakov reveals this by ,כט:י the hidden light. In pasuk ,לג בעומר

באר which is also the revelation of the את האבן מעל פי הבארויגלwhich is hidden. The בעל הטורים brings another- ויגל in Tehillim- the glory of Hashem will be revealed. On Chanuka we ויגל כבודיtaste this hidden light from the future. In Parshas ויצא we find the word אבן written many times. Yaakov was considered an אבן as he was unwavering in his devotion (steady as a rock). The word אבן also represents the יצר הרע as it says that Hashem will remove our hearts of stone in the future. The job of yidden today is to remove their hearts of stone =ויגל את האבן מעל פי 946עיקבתא דמשיחא=הבאר

Parsha being called ויצא hints to Chanuka which is the only י"ט that we bring the light outside, to counter the יונים that brought the

הטומא into the the בהמ"ק. Most mitzvos are preformed inside, in the רה"י. In the future there will be no difference between outside and inside, left and right, below ten or above ten, or the first part of the month and the second. Gemorra תענית brings a סתירה in pesukim. In Mishle it says ויפוצו מעניך החוצהand חכמות בחוץלך לבדך that one has to spread wisdom out- - and the pasuk ,תרונה which means to learn for oneself. The Gemorra answers לזרע איתךthat for a תלמיד הגון one can spread the hidden wisdom, but generally no. After Yaakov woke up, he said אכן יש הויה במקום הזה

אכן- is the acronym שרנרוב כריה א images in the מרכבה. When Hashem gave the Torah- אנכי, all saw the images of רוב כשר נריה א

עקבי . The image was originally an ox, but then it changed to יעקב. Yaakov saw the מעשה מרכבה in his dream, and was shocked when he saw that he was the fourth image לא ידעתיאנכי . Yaakov experienced this great level of Torah in חרן and on the floor, which is a metaphor to the דוד אחרון when all yidden are רחוק and down in the dumps. Chanuka is so powerful that the בהמ"ק comes to us. Chanuka was brought about by בית המקדש= - מתתיהו

=מתתיהו861 . A yid could encounter such levels anywhere. The Greeks were פורץ גדרים in the בהמ"ק, and on Chanuka we break the

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barriers of Galus, and enter into the boundary of Esav to bring light also there.

The Torah is compared to various liquids, and the highest of all, is of Torah. The olive oil fights the פנימיות which represents the שמן that the Greeks wanted to instill in the yidden. The Chumash שכחהbegins- על פני תהוםוחשךוהארץ היתה תהו ובהו all terms that represent the גליות, where חשך is the Greek empire- החשך are the letters רבי שכחה. שמעון בר יוחאי was the first that said that the Torah will not be forgotten. The Gemorra says that שמן זית is a segula for memory- =ויצק שמן על 1202כי לא תשכח מפי זרעו= .ראשהYaakov already prepared us for Chanuka, the י"ט that occurs at a time of concealment, at night and on the left. Yaakov is preparing that the Torah will not be forgotten, which we see on Chanuka. We take פך שמן that was concealed under the ground, and Hashem gives us light of לעתיד לבא for eight days-

=ושמן זית813ויאמר אלה-ים יהי אור ויהי אור= . Rav Shimon’s whole life was - - לעתיד לבוא553שמעון בן יוחאי=לעתיד לבא= .

When lighting the Chanuka candles do we look at how many days already passed, or do we look at how many days are coming? According to ב"ש, Rashi says we follow days - לעתידים לבא in the future. During the ב"ש The Halacha will be like .(לעתיד לבא)eight days of Chanuka, we are permitted to taste the future, the secrets of Torah which are concealed today except for choice ,ביד רמה will reveal. We went out of Galus משיח but which ,צדיקיםwhich Rashi says is בריש גלי. The word בריש is the acronym of the for example ,פנימיות התורה that revealed to the world the צדיקים

וחאייר במעון שבי ר , and ם- (בעל שם טוב)שעל בשראל יבי ר , and למהשן בצחק יב ר –(Ari Tzal). Chanuka is the י"ט that ushered into

the world a taste of לעתיד לבא, and the secrets of the Torah that usually stay inside, but on these eight days go outside for all to see

=בריש512להדליק נר חנכה= . The whole world can see the light of the future גליבריש , the גלי means גלוי –revealed.

Lavan לבן is נבל, the greatest קליפה, who wishes to uproot everything. Lavan has עזות דסטרא אחר as it says ושלחתי אש בקומה

=לבן82עזה=עזה- On the outside he’s white, however inside he’s the darkest black. Chanuka on the other hand, is the י"ט of עזות

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=עוז83חנכה= -דקדושה . Chanuka is the י"ט of the אחדות of כלל is made of one piece of gold, one unit. The מנורה The .ישראלproblem we have today is a lack of אחדות. Lavan and Yishmael don’t care what type of Chassid one is ויד כל בובכלידו and בקש לבן

הכללעקור את - they want to destroy it all.

Chanuka is the חינוך of the בית שני. During the בית שני, the first thirty four years were under Persian rule, then one hundred and eighty years under Greek rule, then one hundred and three years under the חשמונאים and then another one hundred and three years under the Romans. So for one hundred and three years the yidden had total freedom. The Greeks contaminated the בהמ"ק, and so the a new ,חינוך and inaugurated a new מקדש purified the חשמונאים a preparation for ,בהמ"ק which we could call the third בית המקדשthe future and final בהמ"ק. If the yidden would have been זוכה, this would have been the real third and final בהמ"ק. Amalek also tried to make yidden forget יד על כס י-ה. Hashem’s name is not complete, for it is missing the א in כסא, and the וה in the שם הויה. On Chanuka, Hashem’s complete name is reinstated -

=ויצא107=כסא הויה=107=גלעד=107אנכי הויה= . The Greeks wanted to awaken the קרן השורחטא העגל-כתבו לכם על , and מתתיהו was the tikun =מתתיהו861קרן השור= . On Chanuka, we experience the on the outside and below ten tefachim. Just as the sun set כסא הויהsuddenly with Yaakov, the Geula will come suddenly. Yishmael attacks the yidden unexpectedly and suddenly- בהיסח הדעת (they are the עקרב).

Parshas Toldos ends with Yaakov escaping to פדם ארם from the wrath of Esav. Why does ויצא begin with that יעקב left -באר שבע as we know this already. Maybe we could say that this is where א"יבא שם are the letters מבאר שבע -learned for fourteen years יעקבמבארות של is מבאר שבע There is a Midrash that says that .עבר that Yaakov established ויפגע במקום learns from גמורה The .שבועה ,Yaakov entered Galus, and when the darkness enters .תפילת מעריבphysically and spiritually, then we must turn on the mode of אמונה. This is why after שמע in מעריב, we say ,ואמונה כל זאת

=ואמונה כל זאת וקים עלנו878הדלקת נר חנוכה= , the tefilla when we don’t see clearly. When Yaakov leaves א"י, he is leaving the boundary of קדושה, where he has to deal with the חשך. First Yaakov had to get charged with holiness at the ב"מ of עבר. Shem

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passed away when Yaakov was fifty year old. At the beginning of Parshas תולדות when it said that ישב אהליםויעקב איש תם , this referred to the אוהל של שם והאוהל של עבר. Now Yaakov, having to deal with the ערב, the darkness, the רה"ר, the left, and below ten, went to learn by עבר the same letters as ערב. For sixty three years Yaakov didn’t have to deal with the outside. The עבודה of Yaakov enables כלל ישראלto be able to endure the long Galus. For these fourteen years, Yaakov learnt the Torah of משיח, the Torah of חנוכה, in order to be able to deal with this level of חשך, the union of Esav and Yishmael. This required the Torah that’s compared to שמן.

The oil found by the חשמונאים was oil that was hidden and then revealed by the רשבי and the Ari Tzal and the בעל שם טוב. Nowadays it’s a mitzva to learn these areas in Torah, since the generation is so dark and we need a high level of light to survive. Every yid has to be enlightened. The Mishne says that the candles and wicks that are not permitted to use on Shabbos since there is a fear that some yid might come to adjust them since they are of inferior quality, may be used on Chanuka. A deeper meaning is that the נשמות, the נפש the acronym of מןשתיל פר נ that are not turned on by Shabbos, are affected by Chanuka- (מאור עינים). Shabbos is connected to this world of seven, being the seventh day, whereas Chanuka is connected to the future world of eight- למעלה מן הטבע. The יונים battled mostly against ברית מילה, the eighth mitzva given, and on the eighth day. Chanuka is the only י"ט that is a total unit of eight, and so Chanuka is a י"ט that goes farther than any other י"ט. This is like משיח who is called the פורץ, as he will breach all the .all the barriers of Galus ,גדרים

When the yidden fall so low and the חשך is so thick, we need a stronger force, a new revelation to get us on top again. Chanuka which falls in the second part of the month, is lit on the left, and on the outside, and at night all in order to affect the נשמות that fell into these places. As we mentioned already Kislev is the month that represents בנימין, who is compared to the wolf -

שלל ולערב יחלק עדבבקר יאכל . In כסלו the עבודה is that of - משיח =שלל עד434=חודש כסלו=434משיח בן דויד= . The מעלה of שמיני is

that it could reach much lower and breach boundaries. חנוכה is the last י"ט, but is rooted in the -מה 945שמונת ימי חנוכה=אור הגנוז=

עליך פרצת .

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,שבע -Yaakov left the world of seven ויצא יעקב מבאר שבע וילך חרנהas 7 =יעקב x 26, שם הויה, and Yaakov works seven years for Rachel. He now entered into נר ח-ה הרנה , the world of eight, which he was proficient after learning the תורת הנסתר for fourteen years ( Before .בארות של שבועה is the באר שבע says that מדרש The .(נטמןa yid is born, he swears that יהיה צדיק ועל תהיה רשע. It’s simple that if one will become a צדיק, then he won’t be a רשע. The Midrash says that there are מעשים של צדיקים which are light, and which are darkness. Hashem wants the actions to מעשים של רשעיםbe of צדיקים, as it says ויאמר אלה-ים יהי אור. The שם ושמואל and the שפת אמת say that מעשים של צדיקים are the צדיקים גמורים and of רשעים are the רשעים that did תשובה. Rashi says בבקר יאכל from Binyamin, and Rashi quotes from שאול המלך refers to עד .וכל אשר יפנה ירשיעה that King Saul grabbed the kingdom שמואל אCould we say שאול המלך was a רשע? He was very pure לא טעם of King Saul was to elevate the עבודה The answer is that the .חטא and צדיק עליון The Mittle Rebbi said that Yosef was the .רשעיםBinyamin was the צדיק תחתון, the צדיק that had to deal with the This .רשעים There are generations that have to deal with the .רשעיםis the הוה אמינה of תהיה צדיק ועל תהיה רשע. We should be the צדיק and not have to deal with people who sin. Yaakov went out of this in order to deal with Lavan and ,קדושה out of the realm of ,שבועהEsav and Galus and חרון אף. This is where Yaakov encounters the .בהמ"ק

In the beginning of perek כט, it says וישא יעקב רגליו hinting to that even the נשמות that are low, the עקבof the yidden, Yaakov picks them up. The פני מנחם, the son of the אמרי אמת says that every Parsha has a פשט רמז דרש וסוד, however Parshas ויצא has mostly

גלעד … סוד - עקודים ברודים hinting to לג בעומר, the hidden Torah. =אמונת497זאת חנוכה= – אמונה is the Parsha of ויצא where even when the sun sets and we don’t see clearly, we have אמונה. It’s in this Parsha that it says ויצא יעקב מבאר שבע, since now Yaakov has the כלים to deal with the ערב, after learning the Torah of משיח. Yaakov can leave the בארות של שבועה and deal with the lower .like Yaakov צדיקים which is set aside for only great ,נשמות

Chanuka was a controversial י"ט a few hundred years ago. However as the generations fell deeper and deeper into darkness, we need the

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of Chanuka more and more. Wherever a yid lives, he could חיזוקencounter the שכינה as it says חרנה ויפגע במקום. In חרון אף של מקום in America or Australia, Hashem will be with him -

=ויפגע במקום וילן453 לכל הנופלים=סמוך הויה . Chanuka, as we said is the 620th mitzva חרנה ויפגע במקום620א=הף כון נת ח= . Every yid that lights the Chanuka candles, is like Aharon lighting the מנורה in the בהמ"ק. Rashi says by Aharon לא שינה - שלא שינהלהגיד שבחו it doesn’t matter what brand of Yiddishkeit one practices, all the yidden are מקשה אחד, one unit.

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