The Pure Oil Flask ◇ The Holy Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in the Blessing of the Oil for the 'Union of Avrechim'
Last night, Wednesday, the eve of the 21st of Kislev, the event of the blessing of the oil for the Avrechim of the "Union of Avrechim by the Shuvu Banim Institutions" took place. In preparation for the Chanukah preparation conference that will take place tonight, Thursday night, the eve of the 22nd of Kislev.
At the event, our teacher the Rav shlit"a blessed hundreds of oil flasks that will be distributed to the Avrechim at the conference. He also added from his own words of the Living God about the matter of the pure oil in Chanukah. Here are the words delivered at the event:
One flask remained, for one hundred and eighty years there were Greeks, Antiochus defiled all the oils, the Greeks did not touch the oil, only Antiochus. For three years he defiled all the oils, and he placed an idol in the sanctuary, and then the rebellion broke out, when they slaughtered a thousand people, people hid in a cave, then they lit the cave from outside and were suffocated by smoke.
The questioner: Who hid the oil flask?
This is the oil flask that descended to Yaakov, therefore he went to take the small flasks, he wrestled with the angel. How much is an oil flask worth, 2 shekels? For this, one goes to wrestle with Yaakov? Take two shekels and buy an oil flask, he has endless money, he has a hundred thousand sheep, a hundred thousand goats! Rather, this is the oil flask that Hashem threw to him from the heavens, it is written that the moment he prayed at Mount Moriah at the Stone of Foundation and Hashem said to him, "Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go," {Genesis 28:15} as soon as he left Mount Moriah, an oil flask fell to him from the heavens, as it is written in Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer, and this remained until the Second Temple, this flask was preserved, and throughout the First Temple they poured and anointed the kings and the high priests with it, and this was the oil flask that the oil did not run out, whoever finds it, the oil will not run out, now it is hidden, in the Second Temple they hid the oil flask. So this is the oil flask that descended from the heavens and for this oil flask he wrestled with the angel, these are the small flasks. R' Natan brings it all in Likutei Halachot.
