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12 December 2023

Chanukah Insights

 

Rav Chaim Vital writes that גלות ישמעאל is the fifth and hidden Galus, and the worst part of the גלות is when Esav joins with Yishmael. In the מעוז צור that we have a custom to sing on Chanuka, all the different גלויות are mentioned- קץ בבל and אגגי בן המדתא – פרס  , יונים נקבצו עלי – יון and   דחה אדמון בצל צלמון – אדום. On Chanuka, the last י"ט, we receive a light of the future, whose purpose is to light up the darkness of the Galus -  הדלקת נר חנוכה=878=ממ שין יוד חית .  The פרי צדיק says that the word חשך is the acronym of חמור –Yishmael, שור –Esav, and כלב – Amalek. This is the power of the thick darkness at the end of the last Galus. The יונים encompass all of this רע combined. This is the fifth Galus that ר" חיים ויטל writes about- חמור שור כלב=812=גלות החמישי. It is necessary for Esav and Yishmael to join together, in order to bring the final גאולה.


The גלות אדום is intensified when the עם ישראל are having a low, and the opposite is also true. So really the joining of Esav and Yishmael ultimately is to our benefit. The ישמח משה says there will be a time where our only זכות will be ברית מילה. Yishmael also has some form of ברית that is w/o פריעה, but we have the עקידה. According to ב"ש, we light Chanuka candles in decrease mode כנגד the פרי החג, which decreased by one every day- 13 bulls then 12 …and so on. This symbolizes that חנוכה is the י"ט of the מפלה of Esav and Yishmael- קץ שם לחשך. The way to fight ישמעאל is to be like יששכר who is חמור גרם, which is "עבודת ה. The חמור also represents משיח בן דוד  -עני רוכב על חמור, which we wouldn’t have to come on to, if there was no גלות ישמעאל. The מאור עינים says that Avraham saying to Yishmael שבו לכם פה עם החמור ואני והנער נלכה עד כה “You ישמעאל when you are giving the yidden hard times, we have חנוכה - כה כסלו to protect us.


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In the dream of Daniel, the רגל represented both אדום and ישמעאל, where Yishmael is the bottom of the foot, the עקב, the main force to reckon with in the עקבתא דמשיחא. The בעל הטורים says that על פני כל אחיו נפל, when ישמעאל falls then הנה אנכי שולח לכם את אליהו הנביא=1096=ואלה תולדות יצחק


When these two powers join, it seems we have no hope, however we have the great י"ט of Chanuka-  גלות ישמעאל=890=נר חנוכה משמאל ולמטה מ-י


The נר חנוכה being on the left, and below 10 tefachim, means that the light could descend way into the קליפות, and be the force to eradicate the גלות ישמעאל. The מזל of כסלו is the קשת which counters the קשת of ישמעאל. The עקרב and the קשת also refer to יון, the force of טומאה in the חנוכה story. After עשו joins with ישמעאל which brings עמלק (the רע part of עשו), the חמור שור כלב, the third בהמ"ק will be revealed -  בית השלישי=1067=עשו ישמעאל עמלק.


IY"H



Source:  http://dafyomireview.com/orchards2.php?docid=30

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