Oil Your Potential

Why is olive oil the best way to light the Chanukah candles? Why was oil poured on every new king, on Aharon the Kohen Gadol, and on the vessels of the Mikdash when they were first put to use? And what do the letters of the word shemen share with the neshama and with the number eight? Rabbi Asaf Prisman shares his own idea about what oil stands for, and why it was the very thing the Greeks fought against. He ends with a mashal of a man lost on a pitch dark night in a raging storm, where every flash of lightning hands him a choice. It is a challenge for anyone who comes out of a Yom Tov asking only how it went.