YUTorah Online

Is the holiday of Chanuka eight days long because of the miracles or because of our commitment?

00:00 / 00:00

1.0x

speed

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

More from this:

Yitro and Moshe: Two Lonely Men of Faith
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Jan 8, 2026
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Parsha:
  
  Shemot
- Duration: 25 min
Rav Kook, Rabbi David Miller and Mikvaot at Home
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Jan 8, 2026
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Halacha:
  
  Mikvaot
- Duration: 15 min
Converting a child of a Jewish egg donor and non-Jewish surrogate when the parents are not shomer Shabbat
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Jan 8, 2026
- Series: Five Minute Halacha
  Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Halacha:
  
  Geirut, Medical Ethics, Science & Medicine
- Duration: 4 min

107a: David after the sin of Batsheva
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Jan 7, 2026
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Gemara:
  
  Aggadeta, Sanhedrin
- Duration: 14 min
Vayechi 5786: Stretching Without Breaking: Yaakov Avinu’s Model for Religious Growth
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Jan 4, 2026
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayechi
- Duration: 8 min
Can you be both a good Jew and a good American?
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Jan 1, 2026
- Halacha:
  
  Dina d'Malchuta Dina
  
  Machshava:
  
  Tikkun Olam
- Duration: 24 min

Vayigash\ Vayechi 5786: Yehuda vs. Yosef - אנכי אערבנו - and the Deep Relationship Between Ner Chanuka and Asara B'Teiveis
- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Rubenstein
- Date: Dec 30, 2025
- Machshava:
  
  Chanukah
  
  Holidays:
  
  Taaniot (fasts)
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayechi, Vayigash
- Duration: 43 min
A Ramban for Vayechi: Usurping The Throne; Separation Between Religion and Politics; We Brought Rome to Yerushalayim; The Battle of Chevron...During Ya'akov's Funeral
- Speaker: Rabbi Moshe Taragin
- Date: Dec 30, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivat Har Etzion
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Galut, Ramban
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayechi
- Duration: 15 min
Staying Connected to the Torah is the Path Out of Galus
- Speaker: Edan Friedman
- Date: Dec 30, 2025
- Series: Five Minute Parsha
  Venue: YU Wilf Campus
  
  Machshava:
  
  Assara B'Tevet, Chanukah
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayigash
- Duration: 4 min

Heartfelt Tefillah Fuels The Lingering Flames Of Chanukah
- Speaker: Rabbi Aryeh Cohen
- Date: Dec 26, 2025
- Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Emunah, Tefillah
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayigash
- Duration: 41 min
VaYigash: Father & Son- Yaakov, Paroh, and Yosef
- Speaker: Rabbi Daniel Eisenberg
- Date: Dec 25, 2025
- Series: Fifteen Minute Parsha
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Non-Jews
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayigash
- Duration: 21 min
Three Short Parshas Vayigash- Post Chanukah- Pre Asarah B'Teves 5786 With The Rachmastrivka Rebbe
- Speaker: Ari Mirzoeff
- Date: Dec 25, 2025
- Machshava:
  
  Assara B'Tevet, Chanukah, Chassidut, Emunah, Simcha/Happiness, Teshuva
  
  Holidays:
  
  Kislev
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayigash
- Duration: 12 min

Comments
0 comments Leave a Comment