The Significance of Pirsumei Nisa

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November 27 2016
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רמב"ם and ש"ע have דין that מצוות חנוכה חביבה היא עד מאד and therefore we have to be careful, so careful that one is obligated to fulfill נר חנוכה even if he can’t afford it. One should knock on doors or sells his clothes or do whatever he has to in order perform this מצוה. כתובות נ says (in reference to צדקה) that one should squander more than a fifth of his money to צדקה. Building on that, רמ"א says this is the limit for מצוות עשה as well. If this is true for מדאו', why should you be obligated to go way beyond this for חנוכה which is מדרבנן!


מגיד משנה says we do this by ארבע כוסות. The source for this is פסחים which says אפילו עני הלוקח מן התמחוי, לא יפחות לו מד' כוסות. The common dominator is פרסומי ניסא.


So, the questions becomes - why do we do this for פרסומי ניסא?


1.    ר' שכטר quotes the Rav that פרסומי ניסא is a תפילה – You’ve done ניסים in the past and we would like them to continue.


-      So, it would be incongruous for us to say that we want miracles but we’ve only allotted a specific amount of our budget. If we want ה' to go out of His “budget,” we also need to go outside the budget


2.    אבני נזר says המבזבז אל יבזבז יותר מחומש is a reflection of אונס. More than a 5th is viewed as too much. אונס means you get credit for something you wanted to do but couldn’t do. But this only works for בין אדם למקום. But for בין אדם לחבירו, if you don’t do something, there isn’t any benefit.


-      פרסומי ניסא is בין אדם לחבירו because it’s about the message. If you didn’t do anything to commemorate the נס, someone walking by wouldn’t be able to think of the נס. (Even though פרסומי ניסא might be less important than a דאו', there is a greater need that it actually happen.)


מגילה says מקרא מגילה is דוחה עבודה. Most ראשונים say this mean you do מגילה before עבודה, but if you had to pick one, you pick עבודה, as that is מדאו'. But there is a minority view that you would pick מגילה. Perhaps this can be explained by אבני נזר’s כלל. Even though מקרא מגילה is less important than עבודה, there is a greater need that it actually happen because of the פרסומי ניסא aspect.

Series: Daily Shiur

Venue: YU Wilf Campus YU Wilf Campus

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