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The miracle that we celebrate on Chanukah was the finding of the one pure jug of oil while all the others were contaminated by the Greeks. The Greeks wanted to prove that nothing exists beyond our sensory perception of the world. They wanted to show us that there is no difference between a sealed jug of oil and a jug that has been opened; there is no such thing as impurity; if you can’t see it, it’s not there. However, as Torah observant Jews we believe just the opposite. We believe that G-d and thereby Halacha determines reality. We discussed many different examples of this including an ox becoming a Muad on the same day of the month even though some months are Malei (full - 30 days) and others are Chaser (29 days) as well as a case where R’ Akiva was feared to have drowned but showed up on the shore alive because of how a certain Halacha in regards to Agunas is learnt and a few different cases in Chazal where the Halacha is what determined the reality not what would have been considered common sense.
We were also told a story with the Klausenberger Rebbe where a boy was feared to be deathly ill and his parents came to the Rebbe and instead of the Rebbe davening and saying Tehillim for the boy he sat and learnt for 2 hours and because of how he learnt the Halacha of a Treifa, determined that the injury to the boy’s vertebrae would heal contrary to the opinion of all of the doctors. Obviously, the Rebbe’s diagnoses was correct!! The shiur closed with a fascinating presentation of how the audible letters of the Aleph Beis, using Electrograhic equipment, produced visible representations of the letters that we know. This gave us a fantastic understanding of “הקולות את רואים”.
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