- (NS) We started with the theme of the period of מקץ being viewed by חז"ל asקץ שם לחושך. There is a חושך in the world as a whole that this deals with, but in the actual events of last week's Parasha we saw the חושך that comes with נכלי דתות. Here this week they are literally unable to see what is in front of their noses. And Yosef himself was two years in jail, and in מיקץ he comes out of jail. The nature of גלות יון is the חושך in מעשה בראשית. Therefore this Parasha must contain the seeds to יציאה מן החושך that happens in חנוכה.
The special reading for the שבת זאת חנוכה relates directly to the issues that רש"י talks about: אחי יוסף עשרה—each one hates Yosef for such different reasons (quote), how could they possible go together? And finally in קרבנות הנשיאים, where the Torah never wastes a letter, it repeats the exact same thing twelve times, and then sums it up! Somehow, they all worked together with completely different intents!
This is the only time in the Torah where we find such a complete integration. This means that the question of the separate intents of each of the קרבנות that were brought are so חשוב, that they have to be mentioned separately before they are summed up. This is why immediately afterward, as the מדרשים speak out and the רמב"ן brings, comes בהעלותך את הנרות which is נרות חנוכה. The חנוכת המשכן was really in כ"ה בכסלו, and was celebrated in ניסן, but instead the חנוכת המנורה was celebrated.

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