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The World Did
Ha-Foke-bah
Hey, one of the challenging things about the Chag Molad season and one of the challenging things about the Chag Molad story, is in fact, the Chag Molad story. The Chag Molad stories that relates to the birth of Yeshua. Because there's so much miraculous. There's so much amazing. There’s so much promise.
There's so much that's really unbelievable about it and a lot of people just don't believe it and I understand that. And, maybe the thought is, "Hey, they had to come up with some myth about the birth of Yeshua to give him street cred, later on." Maybe, that's where that came from.
It's interesting because Matthew gives us a version of the birth of Yeshua. Luke does but Mark and John, they don't even mention it. A lot has been made of that. So, before we jump in, I just wanna say one thing about that whole thing. You've heard me say, some version of this a million times, so this will be old if you've been around for a while.
But see, if somebody could predict their own death and then their own resurrection, then we should care a lot about how this person came into the world. Because, the whole resurrection thing is so amazing and so much of our faith hinges on the resurrection, the stories around the birth of Yeshua should matter to us.
A person who rises from the dead! What is his origin story? Who were his parents? Where did he come from? Was it a surprise? Did anybody anticipate this man would rise again from the dead when he was born? Did he know he was destined for this? Why would he born to die and rise? These are important questions that if left unanswered make the resurrection of Yeshua too opaque, too detached from the Hebrew Bible, too removed from Israel’s origin story and in the end. too strange to believe.
And, yet, as unbelievable as this birth narratives are and as unbelievable as the accounts are that we find in Matthew and Luke, when you get the back story, when you get the whole story, this unbelievable story actually becomes a remarkable story.
Because the story of Chag Molad doesn't begin with a couple who's trying to figure out how to get pregnant. The Chag Molad story actually begins with a couple that surprised by how they got pregnant. It doesn't begin with a couple trying to figure out, "Will we ever have a baby?" It begins with a couple that's ready to split over “how they got pregnant.” It is not a made for Hallmark movie, this is HBO level. It is scandal, intrigue, and, in the end, the kind of story that will not be easy to believe, because it is so unbelievable and remarkable. The back story of Chag Molad is what makes... 'cause this Chag Molad story is so incredibly remarkable. And, it doesn't begin with angels announcing in Matthew or Luke. It actually begins with God making a promise in the Book of Genesis. And, not just any promise. An unbelievable, inconceivable, impossible promise that is, when this promise was made, the person who received the promise, this could not have made any sense, whatsoever, in his cultural context.
That as we look at this promise, it was absolutely impossible for it to come true. And, yet, this promise set up the events around Chag HaMolad. And, in fact, this promise, and the remarkable story around this promise, is really what makes Chag HaMolad so believable.
And, the story around the birth of Jesus so believable. The promise was made about 5,000 years before Yeshua was born. In fact, around the year 1 or 2 or 5889 years ago according to Jewish dating, is about the best way we can estimate this. And, it's found in the Book of Genesis. But, for just a minute, especially if you're new to faith or you've been out for a while or you're not so sure about the Bible, don't think, "the Bible." I want you to think about this document that the Jewish people entitled Genesis or Bereshit, that's over 3,000 years old. Some say it's way older than 3,000 years old.
But, this document called Genesis that tells us how life began, where evil came from and it tells us how the Jewish nation began. So this book is very important to Jewish people but to all people in the world. So, they copied it meticulously and they handed it down through the years and eventually, it became part of a lot of Jewish literature and eventually, it became part of what we would call The Jewish Scriptures. Then, eventually, the early followers of Yeshua did an incredibly bold thing, they went and added the writings of the Apostles and the Gospel Writers to the Jewish Scriptures, that took a lot of nerves, and low and behold, we have a Bible.
But, the Bible didn't give us Genesis. AT one point in time Genesis was the Bible. While Moses was writing down Exodus, etc. If you were to ask have you read all the Bible? People would say, “Yes, I read all of Genesis.” Talk about an easy reading cycle.
And, in this document, this ancient, ancient, ancient, Jewish document that we know as Genesis, we find this extraordinary, unbelievable, literally, inconceivable promise that God made to a woman named Eve. No, the story does not begin with a man but it begins with a woman, the first promise. So here is how Chag HaMolad began.
Adam and Eve both ate from the tree God commanded them not to eat from. The result of transgression was immediate, they felt shame, they felt distant, they felt like foreigners in paradise. The lies of Satan became shameful leaves covering their bodies.
Though the consequences are sever for their transgression, God gives an amazing promise to Eve, the Lord says, Genesis 3:15
Genesis 3:15 HCSB
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
God says to Eve, Satan will make war against all of humanity that is between your seed and her seed. But in the second sentence. Moses does something peculiar. We notice it better in Hebrew but I have highlighted in Yellow for you. Notice how he now adds a 3rd person singular pronoun. This serpent crusher is not a “group” of people but an individual. There is one individual who will crush or strike the head of the serpent and this individual will also get struck in the heel by the snake. This means both parties will be fatally wounded at this encounter. Skull crushing and and heel biting will result in death. I want you to see something, that in the context of this one prophecy is a long history of warfare between the serpent and all of humanity. This one seed is coming not just for one tribe, but to crush the head of the serpent for all tribes.
The rest of the Hebrew Bible and the Brit Chadashah fill out the other parts of the story.
The Lord would speak to Abram, that, eventually, we know as Abraham about this one unique individual seed. The Lord said to Abram, eventually, we'll call him Abraham, the Lord said to Abram, Genesis 12:1
Genesis 12:1 TLV
Then Adonai said to Abram, “Get going out from your land, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
Now, we're not sure why God chose Abram, instead of say Tom or Chris or Jerry, any more than we're sure why God chose Joseph and God chose Mary/Miriam.
And, he tells Abraham or Abram, "I want you to leave everything you know," which was very, very dangerous because security and safety in ancient times, had everything to do with your clan, your tribe, your family, your relatives. So, he's asked to do something that's extraordinarily dangerous. "I want you to leave everything you know, everyone you know and the security of your home and I will tell you when you get to the place I want you to go." And then, the promises began. And God says
Genesis 12:2 TLV
My heart’s desire is to make you into a great nation, to bless you, to make your name great so that you may be a blessing.
Now, Abram's about 75 years old at this point. He doesn't have any children, so he may have thought to himself, "Great nation? I don't know about great nation. Maybe we could just start with great grandfather. I don't know think I'm gonna live long enough to know that I became a great nation." And, the promises continue. "And I will bless you and I will make your name great," which means, "Abram, I'm gonna make you famous." To which, he probably thought, "No, I'm not gonna be famous. I'm gonna be forgotten because if I leave everyone I know and if I leave everything I know, chances are, no one will ever know that I even existed." And then the promise continues. "so that you may be a blessing."
Now, this is when, within the cultural context of these ancient, ancient times, this didn't even make any sense. Because this was a time of extraordinary, extraordinary violence. In fact, one of the things that kinda bugs you a little bit, if you read the Hebrew Bible, is all the violence and all the bloodshed. People weren't in the habit of blessing anybody other than their family. Ancient people made covenant, but just blessing people. Not heard of too much if at all. And yet, God says to Abram that, "You are gonna be a blessing."
Genesis 12:3 TLV
My desire is to bless those who bless you, but whoever curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.
And, he says, "I'm telling you, nothing's gonna get in the way of this happening because I will bless those... " you may have heard this before, "I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse." In other words, "Abram, I'm gonna be a part of your story and I'm gonna be a part of the people who follow you story. I'm gonna be a part of your children's story, your children's children's story. I'm gonna be a part of this story until this story is completed and nothing is going to stop it."
And then God gets to the completely unbelievable, inconceivable, absolutely impossible part of the promise and he says this, "And all peoples... And all peoples... " In other words, every people group, every tribe, every clan, every gathering of families; they didn't really have nations the way that we think of nations back then. But every group of people, everybody that speaks the same language, every nation, all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. That is, every person on the earth will ultimately and eventually be impacted by your life, Abram.
Everybody on the planet is somehow gonna know your name and is gonna be touched indirectly through what I'm about to do through you. Now the thing that was so strange about this is in this culture peoples did not bless peoples. And nations did not bless nations. Nations conquered each other, nations enslaved each other and nations plundered each other; but nations didn't bless nations, tribes didn't bless tribes, clans didn't bless clans. This made absolutely no sense in that culture. And yet, Genesis tells us that Abraham chose to believe the unbelievable, inconceivable and impossible.
That he said to God, "I don't know how this can possibly work. I don't have any children. I won't be around to see whether or not I become a nation." But because this is the promise you've made me, Abraham chose to believe this unbelievable, incoherent, literally impossible to fulfill promise. Now, if you grew up in church, or if you're Jewish, or if you know anything about the Old Testament, you know that eventually Abraham and Sarah did have a son. His name was Isaac. And Isaac had a son... In fact, we'll put their whole family tree up here. Abraham had Isaac, and Isaac had a son named Jacob... In fact, Isaac had two sons: Esau and Jacob. Esau was the oldest son. Esau's name should be up here except Jacob was sneaky. In fact, there is so much family dysfunction and so much chaos you should read this part of the Bible. It will make you feel better about your children, and your grandchildren and even your parents, and even your adolescence, okay. It was unbelievable, because Jacob stole the right from his older brother to have the blessing of the older brother. If he hadn't, we'd have the name Esau up here instead of Jacob.
Abraham lied about his wife... Imagine this ladies. They get to Egypt, Abraham's afraid that Pharaoh's gonna wanna put Sarah in his harem and kill him... Kill the husband, steal the wife.
And so Abraham says, "Hey, let's just tell everybody you're my sister." This is the guy that God chose to bless the entire world. There's so much dysfunction, there's so much chaos. Well eventually Jacob has 12 sons, and 10 of these sons don't like their brother Joseph... And you remember this story... So they decide to throw Joseph in a well and they're trying to decide, "Do we kill him or sell him? Do we kill him or do we sell him?" And you think you have some sibling issues in your family. "Do we kill him or do well sell him?" And they decided, "We don't profit if we kill him, so let's sell him." So they sell Joseph, he ends up in Egypt, and consequently the entire family... All of these children, all these kids and all their families... They eventually migrate to Egypt where they do in fact become, as God promised, a nation. But they become a nation of slaves. And for several hundred years the people who came from Abraham that God was supposed to bless the world through, lived in Egypt as slaves. A slave nation. Not feeling very blessed and certainly not in a position to bless anybody else. And after hundreds of years... And this is the part we can't imagine because the story, the promise of Abraham was known to these people. "Father Abraham", perhaps they talked about.
God promised Abraham we would be a nation, now we're a nation and the kids are like, "Yeah, but we're a nation of slaves. And God has promised to bless the whole world through Abraham and through this nation." They're looking at each other and thinking, "Well that part of the promise can't possibly come true."
And then God sent a deliverer, Moses. And without telling you the whole story, perhaps you know enough to know that by the time Moses got finished with Pharaoh and by the time Moses got finished with Egypt, nobody in Egypt was feeling very blessed by the descendants of Abraham. And then they make their way across the Red Sea and they make their way into the promised land, into the land of Canaan. And the inhabitants, the Canaanites that lived in that part of the world, they weren't feeling very blessed by the presence of Abraham's descendants either. Again, you read those parts of the Hebrew Bible and there's so much violence and there's so much bloodshed, and at times it's so offensive you think, "How in the world could this be part of the story of God?" And the short answer is, what offends us was so normal to them. And one of the reasons we are so offended by all the violence in the Old Testament is this.
We are on the other side of Chag HaMolad. We see the world in a completely different way, but this was part of the journey. And this was part of the story as God unfolded the story of Chag HaMolad to fulfill his promise to Abram. So about a thousand years go by after God made the promise to Abraham. Abraham became a family, the family became a nation and ultimately the nation became a kingdom. We know it as the Kingdom of Israel. And under King David there were peace treaties made with all the surrounding nations around this part of the world. And because
David was the "warrior king", he settled all the disputes and suddenly, for the first time, the nation of Israel, the descendants of Abraham, are in a position to do something significant in the world. David is followed by his son Solomon. Solomon was extraordinarily wise. Solomon was the "builder king." And Solomon just expanded the reach of the nation to such a degree that people from all over the world would come to see the wonders of Solomon's construction and to listen to his wisdom and to sit at his feet.
And for the first time, for the first time it looked like Israel may be in a position to be a blessing to the rest of the world. They were wealthy and they were influential. But instead of blessing the world, Solomon chose to marry the daughters of the foreign nations and the surrounding nations. And not only did he marry their daughters, Solomon chose to worship their gods, as well. And so as a response, God actually kept a promise, but not his promise to Abraham. God kept his promise to Solomon because he had warned Solomon, "If you forsake me, and if you go after other gods, I will divide the nation and I will tear down the temple that you built in my name." And sure enough after Solomon died, the nation was divided. The kingdom of Israel was divided. Opportunity lost. In fact they would never have an opportunity like that again to be a blessing to the surrounding nations.
The Kingdom of Israel was Divided.
As a result of the nations splitting in half... It didn't quite split in half but as a result of the nations splitting there was a divided economy. There was a divide military. For the next two or three hundred years there was chaos in both kingdoms. And after about 300 years, the Northern Kingdom was invaded by Assyria. And if you read this in the scriptures... The scripture writers refer to the Northern Kingdom as Israel. So, the Northern Kingdom is invaded by Assyria. Assyria, carts off all the leading citizens, and spreads them out all over the Assyrian empire, and imports a lot of other people. Essentially, the Northern Kingdom no longer exists. This is 300 years later. Then the Southern Kingdom which is known as Judah, if you read the story in the Old Testament. Judah is on the verge of implosion, and Judah is on the verge of invasion, as well. Israel can't even bless herself. Israel can't even take care of herself much less anyone else. And in the midst of all of this chaos, as Judah prepares to be invaded by Assyria, as Judah watches the world around them change they have no position of strength, no position of authority in the world. Right in the midst of that, God sends a prophet, the prophet Isaiah to speak to the people. And he writes down his prophecy and once again this prophecy was preserved and has been preserved to where we have it as part of our English Bibles.
And imagine this: All this chaos, all this lost opportunity. They're on the verge of implosion, they're on the verge of invasion and God speaks through Isaiah and here's what he says to the nation.
Isaiah 49:6 ESV
he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
"I will make you, I will also make you a light for the Gentiles." "I'm gonna do something through you Israel so that all the Gentiles, all the non Jewish people look in your direction and you are gonna be a light to the rest of the world." And they're thinking to themselves... They had to think to themselves when they heard this prophecy, "That's a joke. We're not gonna be light. We can't even light up our own lives. We can't even light up our own world. Nobody is attracted to this part of the world. For the Gentiles that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. Salvation, you're kidding. We can't even save ourselves. How in the world are we gonna be a part of salvation as it relates to any other nation, any other family, any other people group." And soon after this prophecy... "You're gonna be a light to the Gentiles. You're gonna bring salvation to the nations." Soon after that, sure enough, the Assyrians, did invade. And consequently the Southern Kingdom Judah, became a vassal state to the Assyrian empire. Another 300 years of chaos go by.
The Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar come to the city, tear down parts of the walls, destroy the city. The whole city was sacked. Solomon's temple was destroyed just like God said it would ultimately be destroyed. The best and the brightest, the royal citizens, the most important citizens of the country are carted off into captivity. The economy is in complete shambles. There is no military. The military was completely decimated. And right in the midst of this chaos, over these next 300 years, God sends another prophet. The prophet Malachi, and his words again as we read them, they're just impossible. When people heard these prophecies they must have thought, "You're just trying to encourage us." It's like talking to your son or your daughter after they fail and you're trying to find anything you can to say... To prop them up and, "Hey, it's gonna work out. Better luck next time, and you can do whatever you set your mind to." And all those things parents say to their kids. In the back of their minds they're thinking, "I hope so, I hope so."
16:32 Speaker: That's what these prophecies sounded like. There was no traction. There was no reason in the world to believe any of this, and they certainly couldn't believe that is was coming from the mouth of God. Here's what God said to the nation, during this difficult time, through the prophet Malachi.
Malachi 1:11 TLV
“For from sunrise to its setting My Name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to My Name with a pure grain offering, for My Name will be great among the nations,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
"My name," he says, "My name" talking about the name of the Lord. "My name will be great among the nations." To which they thought, "No it won't. Your name is being mocked among the nations. Your name is a joke among the nations."
Nobody looks at us and think, "Oh, I wanna worship their God." Our God from the standpoint of the other nations, our God is pathetic. Our God can't take care of his own people.
There is no way in the world that your name is gonna be great among the nations. We can't feed ourselves. We can't protect ourselves. So come on, let's stop with all the empty promises. Let's stop with all the hype. The truth is we are never, ever gonna be a blessing to any other nation. And the name of our God is not gonna be made known throughout the nations. Maybe the name of Zeus will be great. " And if they'd known they would have said, "And buckle your seatbelt, because
Alexander the Great is about to unify all the Greek city states. And he's about to essentially become the King of Greece, and ultimately the King of all the other surrounding major nations and influencers in the world. The name of Alexander the Great is certainly gonna be great, but not the name of our God."
But he wasn't finished. Malachi said this, "My Name will be great among the nations from where the sun rises to where it sets." In other words, "My name, God says, will be known throughout the world." And he goes on, he says this, "In every place, in every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me." Essentially, what this meant was, anywhere people were worshiping, any place in the world people were worshiping, there would be a group that recognizes me. "In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me because my name will be great among the nations," says the Lord Almighty. But the people of Judah couldn't hear that. They couldn't listen. How could they? They'd already been overrun by Assyria, Babylon, Persia and now the Greeks were coming.
And then to add insult to injury, in 63 BC, Rome sent Pompey, who we would know in history as Pompey the Great, to the area of Judah in Galilee. He would conquer village after village, town after town, and would eventually end up outside the walls of Jerusalem.
He would breach the walls, conquer the city, annex that whole area into the Republic of Rome.
Tradition tells us that when Pompey was inside the city, he actually rode his horse up, potentially the southern steps, on to the Temple Mount, which was an extraordinary offense to all the Jews, slaughtered many of the priests, got off of his horse, walked right into the temple building and walked right into what he would have considered the temple or the God vault. Every temple in the pagan world had a God vault. We know it, if you grew up with religion as the Holy of Holies. The place where people would keep their idol, would keep their representation of their god. And on festival days, on certain times of the year they would roll their idol out and worship their idol. And so Pompey apparently wanted to see this great God that the Jews fought so valiantly for to defend. What's up with this Jewish God? He walks into the Holy of Holies, tears open the curtain, or pulls open the curtain and the whole room is empty. Because the Jews have no idol. The Jews had no image. The Jews had nothing to worship, and from a Roman perspective, what a pathetic religion. What a silly little religion this is. And so began the occupation, the Roman occupation of what we would call the Holy Land, Judah, Judea, Galilee, that whole world.
So in fact God was partially correct. The descendants of Abraham would in fact become a nation. But this unbelievable, inconceivable, impossible promise would end there. Because all the nations of the world, all the nations would not be blessed through Abraham. Israel must have thought, there's no way Israel would ever become a light to the non-Jewish people, the Gentiles. And the Jewish God would certainly not be worshipped throughout the world. Maybe Jupiter, but not Adonai. Because nobody's interested in a God who can't take care of his own people.
And that's what makes the story of Chag HaMolad so remarkable. Because when things were as hopeless as they could possibly be, when things were as hopeless as they could possibly be, when God's promise to Abraham was as out of reach as it could possibly be.
The Apostle Paul, years later looking back and putting this whole story together, wrote it this way, Galatians 4:4
Galatians 4:4 TLV
But when the fullness of time came, God sent out His Son, born of a woman and born under law—
"When the set time, when the set time had fully come," in other words, when God had everything just the way he wanted it, an expanding empire, exporting a common Greek and Roman culture and a common language. A highway system that was unlike anything the world had ever known. A port system unlike anything the world had ever known. A port system that connected all the major population hubs all around the Mediterranean rim. The peace of Rome, where peace had been made between nations that had been warring for generations and tribes that had been warring for generations. When at last there was a mechanism. When at last there was a way for God to actually get the undivided attention of the world and to export the message that was to ultimately bless every nation on the planet. When things were just the way God wanted 'em, when everyone had lost hope and no one was even beginning to dream that God would fulfill his unbelievable, inconceivable, impossible promise to Abraham. When nobody was expecting it, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth. Whew!
Luke 1:26–33 TLV
Then in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by Adonai into a town in the Galilee named Natzeret and to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Miriam. And coming to her, the angel said, “Shalom, favored one! Adonai is with you.” But at the message, she was perplexed and kept wondering what kind of greeting this might be. The angel spoke to her, “Do not be afraid, Miriam, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you shall call His name Yeshua. He will be great and will be called Ben-Elyon. Adonai Elohim will give Him the throne of David, His father. He shall reign over the house of Jacob for all eternity, and His kingdom will be without end.”
A town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. And the virgin's name was... And you know what, everybody in the world knows the virgin's name, don't they? How did that happen? Today, in this month, all over the world, people are gonna tell this story. And they know who Mary is. How could that happen?…read passage... And then here's the clincher. And again, just like God's promise to Abraham, this for Mary could have and probably made absolutely no sense. "And his kingdom, his kingdom will never end." So in the end, God kept his complete promise to Abraham. In the end God did exactly what he promised Abraham. That through Abraham every single nation in the world would be blessed through him.
As it turns out, all the nations would be blessed through Abraham. Israel would in fact be a light to the Gentiles. From that part of the world, God sent his son Yeshua and through his life and through his teaching and through his death and through his resurrection, this part of the world has become a light. Every year, tens of thousands of people from all over the world visit this part of the world from all over the world visit this part of the world from where this light began to shine from where it emanated.
They in fact, the Jewish people in fact became a light to the Gentiles. In fact, most of you listening to this or watching this were Gentiles. And who is it that we worship? A Jewish Saviour. And in fact, the Jewish God would be worshiped throughout the world. Because the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has kept his promise to Eve, to Abraham, to Israel and to the whole world.
And the reason that the Hebrew scriptures are so precious to us, the reason people decided let's combine the old Jewish scriptures with the Brit Chadashah documents is because the Jewish scripture, the story of the Jewish people, the history of the Jewish people was the cocoon, the birth, the hope of the world, the light of the world, the Saviour of the world whose kingdom would endure forever.
And the thing that makes the Chag HaMolad story so believable is the fact that the entire story is so remarkable. No one would of made this up. No one could of made this up. This stretched out over so many years that the thread was not always evident and people lost track and people lost sight. But during that entire period of time God was behind the scenes working, getting the world ready for the thing that he ultimately decided to do once sin entered the world.
Application
The Chag HaMolad story really did begin 5,000 years before the Messiahcame. And the story continues to unfold 2,000 years after that first coming morning. So who needs Chag HaMolad? Well the answer to that question is simple. God decided the world needed Chag HaMolad.
And he would work out the story of Chag HaMolad on the world stage. Involving some of the most significant people ever known in history. Many of whom would become footnotes in the story of the birth of a Jewish carpenter that would ultimately change the world. That through him the Jews became a light to the Gentiles. That through Yeshua the Jewish God would be worshiped all over the world. That through Y salvation would in fact come to every nation, every tribe, every people everywhere.
Through Chag HaMolad we are reminded in the most remarkable way imaginable that God is active even when it seems like he's not. That God, even when God is silent, that God is not still. And through this remarkable story we are reminded on a personal level that God is interested in the affairs of men. That God doesn't think just in terms of nations but God thinks in terms of individuals. And that God sent his son not simply to be the Saviour of the world but the Saviour of you in your world. The Saviour of me and mine. And it's a reminder that even when circumstances argue to the contrary that God can be trusted. That even when circumstances are such that it seems like there's no way possible that God cares, that God's listening, that God will ever come through for me, we're reminded that our Heavenly Father keeps his promises. Because why Chag HaMolad?
Because the world needed God to keep promises. The world needed hope. The world needed the light of the world.
As it turns out it wasn't just the world that needed Chag HaMOlad. As it turns out God needed Chag HaMolad as well. And we're gonna pick it up there next week.
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