00:00My name is Rabbi Eli. There's another Rabbi Eli who's dead today, who was here on Sunday, gunned down, who for the past 20 years put up a big menorah in this very place to spread light.
00:13Chanukah, we're celebrating Chanukah now. Chanukah is the holiday of light. We light a candle, and then we light another candle.
00:19And there's only one way, as Rabbi Wolf said, there's only one way to stamp our darkness, and that's with light.
00:25Rabbi Eli was like a brother to me. He's got the same name. He was like a brother to me. I knew him for 25 years. I studied together with him when we were teenagers.
00:33What he would say right now is add in light. Do another mitzvah. If you're a Jew, be more Jewish, as Rabbi Wolf said.
00:41Wear your kippah. Wear your star of David. Be proud. Don't let the buggers win. We're going to be proud of who we are, and that's what good Aussies would say.
00:48Be proud of who you are. Don't water down your identity for the sake of being scared of what other people are going to say or do.
00:56But in addition, what Rabbi Eli would say is that not just for Jews, but for every single Australian, be more godly.
01:02Act it. We're created in the image of God. Let's all act in the image of God. Let's love each other. Let's care for each other.
01:07And finally, I'd like to say something, and that is that he's got a widow. He's got children who don't have a father today.
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