Reply To: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

The Meiri says that the finding of pitcher in itself was a neis the first day. This encourages us to learn Torah which is compared to the lighting of the oil. The Chasam Sofer explains that we are mechadesh new findings hidden in the Torah. The Hafloah says that a kashye is heavenly intervention. He compares this to a simple person who finds a diamond. He goes to a goldsmith telling him to cover it in gold as he enjoys seeing gold. The goldsmith is not an expert, so he lives some holes. The simpleton only sees the gold but the smart one sees the diamond besides the gold. Through the kashye the diamond gets revealed. This can also be compared to the well that was bitter and they added a bitter tree and it became sweet. The Torah sometimes is bitter because of lack of understanding. Through Hashem’s intervention we throw in it a bitter tree, a kashye, which is bitter without an answer but when we find an answer, it becomes sweet. Reb Moshe ztz’l says that the fact that oil burns is the neis.

The Ksav Sofer explains that whether by Chanukah we are obligated to relight it when the candles go out is dependent on the two answers above of the Beis Yosef. If we say that they divided the oil into eight parts, we are obligated to relight as an eight can burn a little, so the neis was that it burned longer. In order to commemorate the neis we must make it burn long. Whereas if they poured in the whole oil for the second they it could not have burned even a little if something was not left over, so even burning a little is a neis and therefore we commemorate the neis by not relighting it.