Special Edition: See The Light With Dr. Benjy Epstein | Presented by Pause

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🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Here's something a bit different!

Listen to or watch this video as you sit by your Chanukah candles and experience the light.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Ben Jepstein, and here is a Hanukkah meditation from pause that I hope you
0:08.0	will find the time to sit and be with the candles.
0:12.8	The more time you're able to practice, the deeper you will be able to go with this.
0:20.0	And of course, as always, please share your feedback.
0:24.9	In Hanukkah, the Friediker, Rebi, the previous Labavach Rebi would tell his Rasidim, we must
0:31.3	listen carefully to what the candles are saying.
0:35.7	Our entire practice for the holiday of Hanukkah revolves around the lighting of, but more importantly
0:43.4	sitting by the candles, being with the candles as they burn, without any need to do anything
0:51.3	other than be in the presence of their light.
0:55.3	Not only are we adjured to sit in front of the candles, we are forbidden to do anything,
1:01.7	anything to derive even the slightest benefit from these candles.
1:06.8	Even their light, we are simply tasked to just see them.
1:14.8	To pay attention, that is our endless and proper work.
1:19.7	This candle, this near meditation, is a meditation of mindful presence.
1:26.0	It's a practice of settling back in steadiness, of seeing clearly and of letting go.
1:36.4	To let go is simply to release any thoughts or emotions, fears or expectations, clinging
1:44.8	disappointments that bind our Nishama, that bind our soul.
1:49.2	Like emptying a cup, letting go leaves us free to receive, refresh, sensitive and awake.
1:57.7	Letting go means also recognizing that we are not in control.
2:02.5	When we're trying to control our lives, rather than acknowledge that there is something
2:09.3	so much greater, suffusing all of our being, then we aren't really experiencing our lives.
2:21.5	What use is a candle in the middle of the day, ask the Talmud?
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