24 Dec CHANUKAH ALL YEAR ROUND (PARSHAS MIKETZ)

The Beis Aharon
(p.45:) said, “Once,
on Zos Chanukah,
my father [Rebbe
Asher of Stolin zt’l]
asked his chassidim to
sing, ‘We will return
to you, masechta
Chanukah, and return
to us, masechta
Chanukah.’” The Beis
Aharon adds, “Who
am I to explain my
father’s words?”
We certainly aren’t on the level to grasp
the depths of Rebbe Asher of Stolin’s
ideas and lessons, but one aspect of it
could be to draw the impression of
Chanukah for the rest of the year. At the
end of Zos Chanukah, we have completed
all the mitzvos of the holiday. We pray
that the light of Chanukah should return
to us. The spiritual impressions we
gained on Chanukah and the miracles we
attained should return and remain with
us all year long.

The Sfas Emes (Chanukah 5637)
teaches that the purpose of miracles is so
we can never forget that Hashem loves us
and leads us in a special, unique way
beyond the rules of nature. Hashem could
save us from all troubles without
performing miracles, but Hashem prefers
to perform miracles at times so we can
remember our special connection with
Hashem. When the impression and
inspiration from a miracle weaken over
time, Hashem brings on another problem
and then another miracle and salvation,
so we will always remember Hashem’s
love for us.
The Chanukah miracle is the final
miracle (see an indication to this from
Yoma 29.). The Sfas Emes says that this
means we don’t need another miracle to
receive inspiration. There is enough
inspiration and awareness of Hashem’s
love for us from the Chanukah miracle to
last us throughout the long galus.
We quote the Sfas Emes:
“Hashem doesn’t necessarily need to
perform miracles to save us because

Hashem can make that the
enemies don’t harm us…
Rather, the miracles’ purpose
is to show Bnei Yisrael that
Hashem leads them…above
the rules of nature. The
miracles are uniquely the
portion of Bnei Yisrael. The
four malchiyos (galus) are so
that Bnei Yisrael will always
need miracles. And when
Hakadosh Baruch Hu
performed a miracle for our
forefathers, they received
chiyus, inspiration, from it.
[They recognized that
Hashem protects them and
leads them with rules above nature.]
When the inspiration from one miracle
wore off (the miracle became old to them
due to the heavy galus), they needed
another miracle (and Hashem performed
another miracle for them). This was the
pattern that recurred repeatedly in galus.
After the Chanukah miracle, Hakadosh
Baruch Hu didn’t perform another
revealed miracle for Bnei Yisrael. This

proves that the inspiration from the
Chanukah miracles continue to shine…
The miracle of Chanukah has new
inspiration for us, until the coming of
Moshiach, speedily in our days, when
Hakadosh Baruch Hu will perform new
miracles for us. Chanukkah, from the
word Chinoch means newness, because
this miracle is always new to us until
Moshiach comes, speedily in our days.”