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Rabbi Moshe Haber Hanukkah: Hallel and Al HaNissim, Big and Small Miracles 12.15.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  My neighbors just do this I'm just thinking we said just now
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  now in the downstairs and there's 2 positive lot of change
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  how well and all the are how well and all this seem in fact,
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  the Gemini says that we describe this day these days as you may
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  have the Lord, which means literally do we work during
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  Hanukkah? We do we do regular work no
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  problem at all regular work. Do we even have a Quinta a real
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  source to Hanukkah parties and be honest and be the you know,
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  guy who is the Grinch over here. We don't have a real source to
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  Hanukkah parties and that's probably why 25 years ago he
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  never even heard of such a thing at all.
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  OK and we signed your back. The more the merrier.
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  It's all good, but it's all real source.
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  So what is a Khanduka celebration at its core?
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  Khalil and Haadah, that's the whole deal.
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  The entire change of Khandukah is in fact, that's it, right?
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  Everything else is piled on. That's the original.
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  So what does it mean? What is this concept of halal al
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  daah? Here's the unbelievable fact
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  when it comes to the halal that we change for the sake of this
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  holiday. We used to it and we say saying
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  about Akhan halal is a very big deal.
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  How often do we say about Akhan halal?
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  Sukkot and the first two days of Pesach.
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  That's it. And eight days of Hanukkah,
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  right? I believe that's it.
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  I shall what? But if they're not much, you
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  don't say for Halil. The rest of pesos you don't say
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  father And the first two days of court.
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  I believe the 8 days of the first days of Pesach, the 8 days
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  of Hanukkah. Hanukkah and the rabbis and
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  eight days of Hanukkah has been in Hanukkah is the last one of
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  the last holidays made-up of the rabbis from a late story.
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  They're in town about Oh my gosh, and we're saying the full
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  I live. That's one extreme they go to
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  the other extreme in the amida itself.
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  We appreciate and make mention Hanukkah and we mention it's
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  just a lightweight. How so we say all in these seem
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  during Modim and like we said, the law downstairs, the law is
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  that a person victim. He doesn't really go back.
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  I told you that if you want or you sit at the end of the
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  Amidah, but when someone tells you according to all the high he
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  sees the end of the Amidah. What they're telling you is
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  that's not really part of the Amidah and if you miss it, you
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  didn't ruin your Amidah. If they tell you that if you
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  miss it, you go back, look at you all that's an indication
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  it's important. But if they knew you have all
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  fine. But if they tell you that if you
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  miss it, you don't go back. If he just went beyond the name
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  of Hashem, you don't go back. That's an indication that the
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  ani seem is nice, but it's not so significant to our army da.
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  It's not so powerful in the sense that if you miss it, you
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  don't go back. So you have these opposite
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  extremes, how well we add. And if you miss it, it's a big
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  deal. And you need to say the fall
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  over the bracha honest seem we add to the army da, which is the
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  poor. And if you miss it, you don't go
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  back. What's the deal?
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  Here's the idea. And I remember this is a
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  advaituda that I was very excited about.
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  It's coming back to me. Was many years ago that we came
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  up with this. I was very excited.
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  I wrote the whole thing down and I played out for you.
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  The holiday is called Yamay Alel Voda de Vodloda.
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  Is it on ban? Most famous Ramban out there of
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  all time. And I'm banning it by a shot
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  board, sis. And the way it works is
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  sometimes you can, he's talking about technology I'm assigned.
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  But he says sometimes we commemorate the big miracles.
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  And he says only certain times God made the big miracle, he
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  writes. And the way it works is, and
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  we'll get back to our point, the way it works is you commemorate
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  the big miracles and that allows you to appreciate the simple
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  everyday new scene. All right, You commemorate the
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  big ones and that helps you appreciate the small ones.
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  I give it to this point. That's how it works.
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  Says that I'm bond. Once in a while, God brings an
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  open miracle. Once in a while, somebody's open
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  miracle. And the goal is that you see
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  that one, you get excited and then that helps you appreciate
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  all the small miracles in your life.
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  That's how it goes. So play it out, you say halal.
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  Halal is a full out, full blown celebration of excitement at the
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  wild miracle of the Jewish people during that time.
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  That's a big, that's a big celebration.
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  And that leads to a celebration of the basic.
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  And you go to Modim. In Modim, you insert all on his
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  scene. Modim is a place where we just
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  think I should have everything more in our life in there.
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  We add on his scene. What we're saying is that from
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  the celebration of the big mirror from the Halil, now I
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  recognize and I appreciate the small miracle.
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  Now I recognize and I appreciate all that goes on in my life on
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  his scene on the 4th, All that all and you're going it down to
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  all the basic miracles of life. So the idea of the holiday is,
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  hear me Halil days of big celebration, vah da days of
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  thanks of the small things of the biggest things in our life.
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  That's the holiday structure. That's the tifila structure.
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  That's why 1 is a big time changer Tifila with a bracha.
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  The other one is a small development of the tifila
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  without a bracha of its own, without a law.
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  They even go back to being miss it.
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  It's a simple tweak the time because it's a small time
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  appreciation of the basic things in our life and the big
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  celebration, and we have the small thanks.
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  One is called sangha halil big time.
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  The other one's called ho de ah. Ho da means thanks.
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  Ho de ah also means I admit I recognize.
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  So it means indal nissim in the Morden.
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  We insert a moment of admitting. I recognize Todd brought all the
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  small miracles too. Once I appreciate the big, I can
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  notice a little. Once I appreciate the few times
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  in history that Hashem did something out of the ordinary, I
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  can recognize the many times in my life, day in and day out.
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  And Hashem brings small but equally as powerful miracles as
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  Halil. Big time with the Bracha change
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  celebration, singing wild and hold the ah.
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  Small time. Thanks.
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  Appreciation. Recognition 1 is big, one is
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  small. And the idea and The thing is
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  that from noticing the big, you start to recognize the small
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  people want, and we all want, we recognize all the beauty in our
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  lives. We want to be happy.
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  We want to be appreciated. We want to be people of thanks.
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  I cannot talk constantly. The only way that's going to
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  happen is if you open up your eyes toward appreciation.
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  If a person is waiting for the moment to come, it's not going
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  to come. You need to open up the eyes and
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  change that tune toward appreciation.
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  And the way it happens is first, hello, first recognizing the big
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  moments in our lives, the big things that change and saying I
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  cannot believe or not at this moment.
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  And then using that to fill in and using that to filter in to
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  appreciating every single day of our lives, every hour, every
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  minute, every moment. That's the structure of this
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  holiday. So one bar is a big deal.
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  The other bar is a small deal. To me, that's the approach.
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  That's always, this is a that I remember as a maybe 22 years
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  old, something like that. I was very excited about it back
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  then, but I think it fits perfectly to the Tefilla.
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  How is it this morning? Yeah, hello.
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  It's a big deal. Oh, the R is a small deal.
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  But ultimately you finish out the honest scene with the words
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  or the words, I'll call all the things all in the scene that
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  happened by I'm in Mahem Bazmanaze that happened back
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  then. So literally means at this time
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  during the year, during these eight days of the year.
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  But it also can mean Bazmanaze during our time, which was I'm
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  going to appreciate once I start to recognize the big miracles, I
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  start to recognize the big deal, the Hallel.
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  I'm going to appreciate the small, all the small that
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  happened back then, even all the small that happens nowadays in
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  our lives and how to recognize and thank and appreciate all the
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  little day in, day out appreciation and beauty that God
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  gives us in our day life. That's the theme.
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  Who's up? Pardon.