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Not Sure About Nature: How Chazal Viewed Miracles

Speaker:: Rabbi Yonatan Kohn
Date:: December 28 2016

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Halacha:

Brachot

Machshava:

Chanukah

Description

When we light Chanukah candles, we explicitly bless Hashem as the "One Who performed miracles for our ancestors." What kind of beracha is this? How did Chaza"l feel more generally about nature and its suspension in miraculous events?

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Halacha:

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