מִקֵּץ - Miketz Torah Portion

The portion of Miketz takes place in Hanukah. Both the holiday and the weekly portion are moving in parallel lines. During this time is there is the invitation, the question: “what is the actual connection between spirituality and existence/corporeality”? How can those two opposites states meet?

The Talmud is asking: What is Hanukah? Why is this a question?

This is a question because there is a problem with what we are celebrating. If we are celebrating the small believers that overcome the great empire of that time – the Greeks – not only through the language of power, then this rebellion sustained itself for only 70 years.

So, what are we actually celebrating in Hanukah, if it’s not the historical movement? The miracle was that although there was a heavy oppression on consciousness, they were able to find one canister – one pure olive oil canister that was untouched. If we translate this, it means we are able to find the belief in the one.

Above and beyond the peak of philosophy, they could find belief. And they could unite it as a belief in the one.