This evening, the night of Zot Chanukah, during the lighting of the Chanukah candles, all of the House of Israel are sealed for a good life and peace. Before you is a new prayer written by our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Zot Chanukah:

The Fifth Seal

Today, at the time of lighting the 8 Chanukah candles, the secret of the fifth seal 'seal within a seal', as the jar of oil was sealed 'seal within a seal' [Tosafot Shabbat 21], which is the secret of the fifth seal, because the first seal is on the eve of Rosh Hashanah during the Selichot. The second seal is on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, when true tzaddikim are immediately sealed for a good life and peace, they and their wives, their children and their children's children until the end of all generations. The third seal is made on Yom Kippur at Ne'ilah, and Zot Chanukah is the secret of Yom Kippur. And Hoshana Rabbah is the secret of the fourth seal, when all are sealed immediately for a good life and peace. And the fifth seal is made on the night of Zot Chanukah at the time when the eight candles are lit, and then even complete wicked ones who do teshuvah are sealed, they and their wives and their descendants forever, in the merit of 'the hidden intellect from all thought, the broad rivers of emunah', all of them and all generations are sealed immediately for a good life and peace, for years of salvation and mercy, revealed miracles and wonders, as in the time of Mattityahu the High Priest and his sons, all of whom were sealed for a good life and for eternal generations, and the descendants of Mattityahu and Yehuda the Maccabee and his other four brothers, and they never went into exile, but always merited an abundance of good life and children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren until the end of all generations, and all of them walk in the way of Hashem, on the path ascending to Bethel, and they merit the one eye of mercy, as it is written "for eye to eye they will see when Hashem returns to Zion", the eye of Atika, the one eye of mercy.

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