Chanukah: Zos Chanukah Eight Above Teva

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why could Yavan make the Beis HaMikdash tamei when other nations could only destroy it? In the text read, Heichal is 65 and Yavan is 66, so Yavan could rule the Heichal but never the hidden kedusha of the Kodesh HaKodashim. The pure pach, sealed by the Kohen Gadol whose kedusha flows from there, carried that hidden kedusha. Eight stands above teva, and that is the koach of Zos Chanukah.

Key points

• The text read teaches that other nations destroyed the Beis HaMikdash, but Yavan ruled it through tumah.
• In the text read, Heichal is gematria 65 and Yavan 66, one above it.
• The text read calls the kedusha of the Kodesh HaKodashim hidden and higher, beyond Yavan's reach.
• In the text read, Kohen is 75: the Heichal's 65 plus its silent hidden yud.
• Seven stands for the natural world, and eight for what is above teva.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Yavan's power over the Beis HaMikdash
2. 4:45What the Heichal was
3. 6:45Gematria of Heichal and Yavan
4. 9:51Hidden kedusha of the Kodesh HaKodashim
5. 14:27The pach sealed by the Kohen Gadol
6. 16:27The hidden yud in Heichal
7. 20:24The Gemara's story of Yochanan Kohen Gadol
8. 22:52Eight days above teva

Topics

• Chanukah
• Kodesh HaKodashim
• Zos Chanukah