Is Chanuka Hinted to in the Torah? Lessons Learned with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome back to the edmund of dave midrash this is hanukkah it's the week of hanukkah so normally this is parashat's meekats but we're going to skip to a portion of the torah that deals with hanukkah so you may ask how can that be hanukkah is a rabbinic holiday that came about like eleven hundred twelve hundred years after we left egypt after we became a nation so you'll see a little bit of a we'll call ramazine hints to the torah that's not the goal the goal of the torah is to speak about the holiness of hanukkah for sure it's not to prove anything but i do want to show you an idea now i always encourage those in the sheer to go to the link the link below which gives you the source sheets okay to the source sheets and i want you to go to the source sheets why so you can follow and pay attention and learn a little bit of hebrew so there are a few ideas i just want to mention that we're not going to talk about tonight in depth but it's like an amazing idea um and that is we mentioned the word kislev which is the month we're in now for another day right that's how hanukkah begins at the very end of the month of kislav and the word kislev as according to the hasidic masters is like the word kise like to cover lamid not lamidbad it's to cover over the 36. the gamachi of la la midva is 36 and i'm going to put below also a share that i gave you the last year the year before on all these mystical ideas because today we're not going to talk about these far-flung mystical ideas we're going to talk something more practical but in the meantime god hid it's called news he hid that 36 hours of the supernal light that man himself got to experience on friday when he was created 12 hours plus shabbos was another 24 hours 24 and 12 is 36. there's also an opinion that before the sun and the moon were created the lights were created on the fourth day you had three days of this also super light they were unhindered and also it that is 36 hours because number 12 hours times three during those first three days when this really is a big idea on the oral torah in other words what are we celebrating here we're celebrating the continuum we're we're celebrating the ability to transmit that we were that we were saved right because what did they want to do they wanted to knock out the torah they didn't want to exterminate the jews like the romans did or like the nazis but the the greeks wanted to knock out the torah the spiritual lessons that we had and therefore since it represents our ability to overcome and keep the transmission going we're celebrating the oral torah in fact right as we mentioned already that you don't really have too much in the written torah to explain anything about hanukkah that's for sure but even the orator itself because it was oral it came about much later meaning hanukkah took place after what after the end of the prophets so you don't have the prophets discussing it right and even in the orator itself you don't have much said and the truth is the jews were already keeping hanukkah from the year after right the following year they were already keeping the all these mitzvahs of of hanukkah so obviously it's part of the oral torah the sanhedrin are the eyes of the jewish people and when you have this dictum you have a command to follow the majority of the sanhedrin right remember if you have any doubts you go up to the place of hashem will choose for you to go and you'll have a revelation or a let's say the the education of what the doubt how you to pro proceed to get out of a doubt and you follow the majority what's the majority of the sanhedrin it's not 3535 there's 71 members of the sanhedrin so utah majority is 36. plus keep in mind right behind me we have the talmud bob lee on the shelves here how many tractates are there altogether there's in the 60s but when it comes to the baby there's only 36. there's only 36 tractates these 36 lights that we light are just unbelievable and we're going to see the insight to a certain extent tonight that this represents the godliness the spirituality that hashem himself instilled into the world and wants us to bask to bask in not in the sense that we're going to get any pleasure from in this world but that we will get pleasure from in the world to come okay so again i i remind you or i implore you to go to the link below to hear that whole share it's over an hour and i'm not going to spend any time on that now what i want to spend time on and believe it or not we're going into parties bahalo we're talking about uh chapter eight in numbers and this deals with a very fascinating thing because how to make the menorah is already dealt with in in leviticus okay during those five parshiot that deals with the tabernacle some of them go into depth with different vessels and here at this point it's unbelievable listen to what we have we're in parches balos which i mentioned is in numbers chapter 8 verse 2. it actually starts with this idea that is very odd because i just mentioned what do we need to know this in in numbers for hashem spoke to moses saying speak to aaron and say to him when you kindle the lamps toward the face of the menorah shall the seven camps uh lamps cast light arun did so toward the face of the menorah he kindled its lamps as hashem had commanded moses this is the workmanship of the menorah hammered out of gold from its base to its flower it is hammered out according to the vision that hashem showed moses so did he make the menorah and that's it how many verses four verses that seemed totally out of place because what did we have before we had the twelve naseem they actually when do we read this we read this also on hanukkah besides other times of the year every single day we're reading the portion that comes right before in fact on uh we're going to mention on zos hanukkah so we're going to end right here as well right this has to relate to hanukkah in a certain sense so and then the rest of the parsha does not really deal at all with the menorah it's just these four verses which seems totally out of place now i want to just skip to that first rashi and again we're not going to talk about this much it will come up the first part of rashi mentions why is there a juxtaposition why is there a smith why is this part these four verses dealing with the menorah juxtaposed to the to the princes or the leaders of each of the tribes bringing corban notes for what what are they bringing it for and if i say the word you're going to say ah now i see the connection it's called the hanukkah mizbayach the inauguration of the altar which is really the truth is it was the end of a seven day process it was yom hashmini the first of nisan which is the first of those 12 days it was kind of an overlap between a inauguration for the tabernacle and the first day of these 12 days in which the princes brought gifts in order to inaugurate i'm using that word loosely in english it was a hanukkah you hear the word so now we see a little bit of insight on why there is this connection but what did aron himself feel aron himself is the leader of the levites right the coming were part of the levite tribe and he saw the dedication that each one is is bringing and it says that he felt distressed he was pained over the fact that he was not asked or there was no injunction for him to bring any kind of dedication on behalf of his tribe but god said to him by your life yours is greater than theirs for you will light and prepare the lamps now when we read that rashi what are we thinking that okay god's given him the opportunity to prepare these lamps that may be true but we're going to see on a deeper level that god is already hinting to him that you will be involved as the khoanim the hasmoneans or whom khonim are going to be involved in a special idea of the the the candelabra we'll call it the hanakiya we'll call the menorah being lit forever even when their temple does not exist now i know you don't see it in the words but eventually it'll come to to to it'll become somewhat obvious so let's now go into the clear car and by the way for those who are not familiar we use the clear car as the basis for our discussion so i want you to pay attention put your finger on the place that we're at and the first it begins by saying our verse in hebrew now keep in mind means when you raise up now we're talking about the flame when you raise up the nerot the flame on the lamp el mu menorah now we don't even know what in the world is the face of the menorah it's going to be toward the face of the menorah so we'll see i don't want to give too much away but we will see that the wicks were faced towards the center branch okay now we're going to have a dilemma because there are seven lights only six branches and yet the the verse actually says when you light the lamps the seven lamps shall cast their light toward the face of the menorah which is a mathematical problem because if you only have six branches and the middle branch is also a lamp and it says that all seven all seven are going to face the middle according to rashi look at rashi it's the third rashi down on page one what does it mean towards the face of the menorah toward the middle lamp which is not one of the branches but the menorah itself so you're really talking about six shall illuminate the middle but that's not what the verse says the verse says that seven lamps shall cast their light on the middle one on the face of the menard so we have to deal with all this we have to try to understand what in the world are we talking about so let's now go into the clear card top line hook elem of forshim this bothered greatly this was a difficulty to the commentators [Music] after the fact that we just made this unbelievable claim that the the face of the menorah is actually the middle branch if that's the case according to the clear car what the torah should have said was the irushes haneros the torah doesn't say that it should have then said that shall illuminate the six branches the six lamps onto the middle or towards the face of the menard meaning to say hashish that the six all turn towards the seventh the omer ani so the clea car says but i'm going to tell you that statement towards the face of the menorah is kaye isha lamala is somehow talking about something that was before now it's talking about what he's going to tell us it's actually going to be talking about the lighting it's the lighting part but okay meaning the wick should be towards the center but we don't know that yet but if that's what he's saying lokasha media then there's no problem at all listen to how he explains it shalom for those that are not aware of hebrew right you have like in any language some words are a command form you shall do this as an obligation some it may say it may happen as a result which is a called hold out the varim which means that it's just informing you of the consequence of the results not that you're obligated to do such a thing so the clear car is explaining that you do not have a tivo you don't have a command form in the verse i'll read it again when you light the lamps the seven lamps will as a result perhaps cast their light toward the face of the menorah so you don't have a command at all anywhere not in the beginning and not in the end we'll see why so he claims that the ver the words usage is not todd liquem which would mean you must ignite or light o ta'alem even the word baloseka which means when the light is ignited it goes up on its own but ta'alay means you shall raise up the the the light it doesn't say that and not only that he claims is the word if you want to try to make a claim that that is a command that the the candles themselves shall as a command uh illuminate onto the middle can you command a a candle a candle is an inanimate object inanimate objects are not commanding anything in this world let alone by god right so he says a note that's also not a command he ains because you cannot it's just it doesn't it doesn't work in this world we don't command inanimate objects and not only that he also says what in the world towards i think it's verse four verse three i'll tell you one second um right it's verse three it says aaron did so the torah says vias came around now aaron was a pretty decent holy guy right so why would the torah tell us go out of his way that to tell us aaron did it aaron did it i need to know aaron did it that's crazy of course aaron did it what if god said to do it again maybe ah maybe because it's not a command arun did it aro went ahead and did it anyway so that's the first thing he points out my my rebu say what would the words arun did it come to add and not only that mika mohu make hashem who in the world is like our own who follows the word of god to the to the umph degree right you cannot think of too many people like our own omaha so what's the big deal why why is the torah going out of its way to praise our own for not making a change where would you ever have come to think that he would change this is our own aron is such a big sadiq he follows the word of god ella but rather what is god actually trying to convey elisha ruts god wants to teach something and that lesson is like this and now this lesson is a little bit um it's counterintuitive to a certain extent perhaps we wouldn't have thought like this but many people would apparently and that is to teach us that god did not command us to put a candelabra in this room in the holies we're not quite the holy of holies but in the outer room the hekha why would he ask us to do this obviously it's for light correct that's what you would think but guess what it's not for the light and certainly not because god needs that light so how people who worship idols or pagans or heathens think i have no clue but apparently people would think that and this is too upset to mavatel to get rid of this faulty thinking that god needs light and how is it done let me explain a few more things when you have track lighting and you have individual lights coming out of the ceiling right it doesn't have to be one track but when they're when they're all pointed in different directions you'll get the maximum light in the room but if they're all pointed in one direction like you have an exhibit and all the lights are prese are let's say shown onto that exhibit what do you what's the result the result would be that only that would be lit and the rest of the room would pretty much remain dark or shadow like correct okay also in the beta so now you know in the bait to make dash all the wicks were pointed towards the center except the center one which would be pointed towards the holy of holies so you didn't get the maximum light so this was one way to show you that it was not for the light god did not need the light in that room that's one idea the other idea is that the windows here in jerusalem we have window sills depends how old the building is that are sometimes half a meter or a meter thick the walls themselves are very thick now in order to draw a light into a room you would want to have inside the room it would get wider and wider in other words towards the outside you may have a thin opening whatever thinner than the outside but as you can scale the walls down and it would draw the light in in the base hamikdash it was the opposite believe it or not in the base of mikdash the walls were from the inside let's say narrow and towards the outside it got large because the the the let's say the supernal light whatever light was inside the temple compound would actually be drawn out into the world this is a very important lesson right we must become teachers we must tell the world the truth there's a lot of fake news out there right and the torah is the truth the torah is god's signature of emis of truth and there's so much which the kandalaba actually represents wisdom this is what we need to proclaim to the world and now that we have the internet we have social media with all kinds of good opportunities unfortunately you know it can also be used for bad so going back into this idea he says that this is an order that god wanted people to know that it was not for the light that it was necessary and that's the reason god wanted all the wicks to face the center of the menorah la hoytsim in order to remove from the hearts of those who are mistaken people who are i'm going to call them ignoramuses for the time being but people that would come to the wrong conclusion but nevertheless god did not want to make this a clear-cut command if you don't see that god says you must place the wicks this way he infers it through the words that when you kindle the lamps towards the face of the menorah seven lambs shall cast light is it a suggestion well it's not a command the pesse god is convinced the only kind kind of person is going to make a mistake in this is someone who is crazy and foolish and there's a principle the torah is not here to create rules for all the foolish and crazy people right most people on the planet i certainly hope are awake in the true sense really woke in the truest sense right and can they comprehend simple instructions and would follow simple instructions so it's not going to go out of its way just because people would make certain people would make these crazy people or these mushroom or fools would make the mistake because of a few crazy people who would make a simple mistake that um well maybe not so simple but it would ruin things yitzhav and mitzvah pratit that god's going to make up we already have 613 mitzvahs he's going to make a whole another one for a group of people because they're they're imbeciles because they they have a cloud over their head but rather this whole these four verses these ideas god is coming to inform you he's not coming to command but rather to inform in fact he's coming to inform you or you become known from what he says at first whatever it is you need to know at the end and how did it begin it said balosaka es hanero's menorah that when you raise up the flame towards the middle of the the branch the middle branch of the menorah titan malcolm the towing this does not allow it won't give any room for anybody to make such a mistake but this is fantastic what he's about to say god is telling aaron when you do this i in response it's an amazing thing god responds to what we do in this world i know for those who are watching the first time might say this rabbi is talking about god in such a fashion god is saying aron cohanim even jews you do this i will respond and i'm going to do the same thing that what she iru shivas neros lay olam you do what i'm telling you should be done even though i'm not commanding you the result will be that i god i'm gonna do this for you that i'm going to illuminate seven candles forever seven candles forever the uram shall you live life these are god's words saying to the jewish people you do this and i will not extinguish their light and what is the light we'll see the light is the torah the wisdom of the torah god's presence we're going to see that it's actually god's presence as well that it will always be for you continuously non-stop now the next three lines i'm going to say a little out of place but i think it's important to hear he's going to over emphasize this idea of it's not necessary for the light that it was created for so included in this is actually like you you get from this negative commandment you would understand a love it's mash that if you don't do what i'm suggesting for you to do to put the wicks towards the center tits you're actually allowing people to make a mistake and think it's for the light because remember the wicks would be out the mix would be in the direction of of the room which is normal what normal people would do well we're not normal right we listen to what god has to say and people would say oh it's because god needs light as lawyer the god will not consequently result in igniting these seven lights for us forever again i am insinuating and i am alluding to the to the idea that there were at least in the temple right we have as a hanukkah as eight candles but in the temple itself god created a miracle of the seven narrows that lit beyond just one day okay so but and until this day we in every jewish home light hanukkah candles but we're not there yet we're getting there he says hey now you decorate now how am i god going to create this way that if you don't do what i say i won't do it meaning there's a possibility that if you don't do the right thing that the likes would not be forever and that would be one way through the destruction of the temple that's one way or even if they are even if the temple is built shigambiota no lo iruvalo yatsir zevoram there's still a possibility that you can have a temple without a candelabra without the miracle of well not even miracle just this the regular candle you know in the second temple towards the end of the second temple we didn't have the continuous light gamlig okay that's not a threat it's just saying that if you don't do this the result would be that i won't do this either now the next paragraph says the siyua le feruzet in order to assist in understanding this lesson in order to assist to explain this point mama shamrob there's an important measure that explains as i did allude to in the beginning and rashi said this paragraph that deals with the candles there's only four verses right that deal with the candles here are connected or parallel like which proc in proximity to the prince's bringing the gifts for thee or inauguration of the altar lefician is and that came as a result meaning there's a juxtaposition because arun felt disappointed or a pained over the fact that he was not participating in the gifts for the inauguration of the altar god says to him you are on you have something coming to you that's even greater than what these 12 princes are doing these pre-twelve princes are bringing gifts for the hanukkah mesbah but i'm going to give you something that's even greater listen to these words the carbon is that's the sacrifices and that's what these people brought we call them offering the offerings that were brought right in the ones not only that they brought the we continually to continue are brought the entire time that you have an a a building that you have a beta mikdash but the narrows they are forever okay even when you don't have a beta mikdash as the verse said towards the middle branch right towards the face of the menorah shall illuminate the seven the sev remember we said it doesn't make sense should say six the seven shall illuminate and you can see in the yokotrimoni and nusar there according to the version over there he's telling you listen very carefully the habit you mean look or glance to the right and see he wants you to see the truth and he wants to bring it to you so you have to be ready to receive it where do you get the impression where is it inferred that these candles are forever from this verse it just says towards the middle menorah towards the middle branch let's say towards the middle lamp shell shall illuminate these seven lamps there's no doubt in his mind that the intent of the author of this madrish's intent was life alzheimer in the following way she's that if you do what i say god's talking if you put the lights towards the middle as sashiro shiva cenarius then i as a result will also will then illuminate the seven candles forever ah even at the time there is no base in mikdash meaning even at the time there are no corbanos just like the nasim brought don't worry what i'm giving to you is much greater because this will last forever and this is going to comfort our own who's feeling left out god says i have something greater in store for you just imagine we know the whole torah right and you have balloons these four verses that are totally out of place and they're juxtaposed to the the kerbanos that the nasim the the princes are bringing for the hanukkah you hear the word now the ramban the ramban has a very good question that could be asked on this madrish hooray bismancha carbano's battalion isn't it true that if there's no base of mikdash there's no offerings gamneros battalion you also don't have a menorah right in the temple there's no temple you have neither you have neither carbanos nor do you have the menorah so why would you say the menorah lasts forever it's got to be clear according to ramban and we'll see shortly why that we're talking about the hasmoneans right the maccabees we're talking about the candles that they are involved with now if that's true of akasha leo duvara according to the cleocard it's very nice the ramban who lived before him i'm still finding some difficulty with these words this is the beauty of judaism we encourage questions right you want to say something well if i can shrug you up you should be happy right because there's some you find some fault in your your stance but what you do is you're causing each person who's having a respectful conversation to sharpen the wisdom if you can come back with a better answer right let's make sure you really know like i mentioned in the many of my other classes the rosh shiva of you know weinberg said you have to have five finger clarity you know that you have five fingers on one hand this hand is five fingers just like i know that just like i know my sister's forbidden to me i have to know whatever it is i have to know i have to know the truth and it has to be clear okay so he says like this we're also discussing the ideas of daenerys the hasmonean candles mithrila it's true when the assyrian empire or the greek assyrians took over the temple and they desecrated it you had neither you had neither carbanos nor did you have candles when the wars let's say settled down i'm not sure it was a long war but when they um when nacha shakta went quiet rested on the land named then both of them re resumed together with the same day that we found the pak shemin we offered the corbanos right the midhoff ring things began working like clockwork again so just like both of them were void and negated when the assyrian um the greek assyrians took over so too that when we cleansed the temple they both resumed again so the question and needs to be asked [Music] you thrown the neros what is the advantage or what is the benefit or why is one greater than the other why are the neros on a higher level or somehow greater than the offerings so he says nira lafaresh it sounds like we're on the next page page 2. you're going to take proof from the hosmoniums themselves right and their family beneros obviously there was a greater level of sanctity to the candles than was to the kerbanos what could that be what could it be wait to hear this when everything got resumed again meaning when the day that we entered the tavern the temple a compound and cleansed it guess what happened there was no miracle that took place for the carbanos but there was a miracle that took place with the with the with the oil the narrows that's what he says alkane kibalaron tantrum was not this kind of prophet that saw into the future but he saw what god was trying to relate to him that the the your ability to light the candles will be forever and that was enough of tanhumming to him just like over here therefore arun was able to receive this consolation knowing that the lighting of the candles was more important shahid godola carbanos even though this is something that happened later on he sensed it the very fact it says kerbanos ain't non bismanchabais that the actual offerings were only in existence as long as you had a temple vanero's lay olam but the candles are forever kak perusha what does that mean ha carbon knows the fact that we talked about these ideas of the offerings now i want to mention i think it's over here in gamora sota i'm sorry more shabbos um yuma it's in yuma 21a so it mentions over there i don't know if i have the right sheets with me it mentions over there the differences between the first temple and the second temple there were five there were ten constant miracles in the first temple five of them were missing in the second temple and so basically towards the end it mentions these are the differences you didn't have the ark we didn't have the ark of the covenant we didn't have the cover the coporus and we didn't have the kharovim but also the fire you didn't have the fire we also didn't have the divine presence uh nor did we have the origin in the second temple so this thing we're calling h minus so that would have been something that would have been miraculous if that would have happened in the second temple so maybe we could say that there's there's equal but here we had this unbelievable miracle with the with the candles and the oil so let me just go back to the last name we just read so we say like this how in the first temple at least and the tabernacle beforehand you had fire that came out of heaven it was not just revealed and open but it was on a constant basis on after the first temple was destroyed shuv loyo and aish the h never came down from heaven qibla by ashani khasrem during the time of the second temple we had a lacking of five of the ten things well mccloud minister miami one of those things that was lacking was the fire from heaven which has to do with the corbanos of the caduceus haneros but when it came to the holiness uh the sanctity of the candles lo sauro that holiness that sanctity was never removed now he's referring even though he says even though the temple was destroyed twice he's referring to the first two times i.e the times that the babylonians destroyed it and the times that the um this greek assyrians desecrated it and the second was the greek syrian leader antiochus mccoma nevertheless uh a miracle was performed with the candles the mora of godot caduceus and arrows and this reflects this teaches us about the greater sanctity that the the candles had over the carbons [Music] and we're going to learn this from the necessity of the questions we've already mentioned above the nerolo it seems this is going to be the explanation of the clarity of the verses drum roll please i know steve loves that balosaka go ahead go ahead drum roll please okay menorah remember we said the word means when you raise up the candles or the flames towards the center this again he repeats lot low titan muck on the toeim lomar this does not allow this does not give any space or place for people to make the mistake by saying that god needs the light says that because of the sanctity the greatness of the sanctity of the candles i'm going to do this for you hashem is going to do this for us shiva's narrows that he will illuminate these seven candles for us forever even in a time after allah that's what it means even when all you have is enough oil for one day i'm going to allow it to last for seven full days ah after that hine it's through a miracle that god will allow make sure that those lights illuminate during those whole seven days during the days of the hasmoneans zechronim lo yosuf mittog bene israel ledore doros and their memory their memory would not be forgotten forever by the jewish people for generations and generations wow but wait this is going back that if you don't do what i tell you to do the lambo panamana if you don't put those wicks towards the center as layalam then i will not and they will not illuminate forever. because then god will not create that miracle for us by let's just say he would not create for us this well-known miracle in order that you will not find amongst those people who make this mistake to strengthen their mistake by saying again what would they say about worship oh yeah god needs light not understanding even the nature of god god is light god is all that energy alkane and this is why god created the miracle by the candle by the the oil uh more than any more than the kerbanos more than anything else well if he's there ain't again going back to a little bit of a grammar lesson there's no command in these verses it's just simply a conveying information alchemy and now we understand why aaron is praised because it wasn't even a command and he did it anyway and it says the yaas kenara and aaron did it but one second doesn't it say at the end kashiratsi mashem [Music] as if god commanded explicitly no god did not command aaron did it there is no command here did it as if this is the most beautiful thing about the jewish people we take on all kinds of hormones we we take all kinds of segulas we do things that are called beyond the letter of the law and you know the reason why is because god goes beyond the letter law he's a rav hesed he's full of mercy he loves us so much he also goes beyond the letter law we have to follow in his footsteps and this is a praise to jewish people by the way anyway that that's how that paragraph ended it's the most fascinating thing because you look in the verses there is no command and afterwards he actually gives a reason from where this possible mistake would come from menorah do you remember it says this is the construction look what it says in number four this is the workmanship of the menorah hammered out of gold from its base to its flower it is hammered out according to the vision that hashem showed moses and i want you to look in the english even an art scroll it says so did he make the menorah who's he it says h e and it's not capital it's not a capital h e who do you think made the menorah well according to the vision that god showed moses so did he make the menorah i just want to show you in we have it here in art scroll at the bottom it says so did he e without capitalization exactly who made it is not clear meaning it's not clear from the text according to the medrash moshe threw the talent of gold into the fire and the finnish menorah emerged miraculously according to the ramban moses made it and the torah credits with him doing so because he was devoted to carrying out god's plan revena bakayan notes that the making of the menorah refers to the inclusion in the physical candelabrum of all the spiritual connotations god intended it to have that the spiritual feat could be done by human beings is the phenomenon to which the torah calls notice by saying that he finished the menorah confirmed that the finnish menorah conformed to the divine vision we're going to go with the idea that hashem made it okay according to the first opinion menorah every vessel that's in the tabernacle it was made it was constructed by betsal and his assistants his staff mankind khus min except for the menorah hashem himself made the menorah with one piece of metal kamara hashem et mosha kanasa again the word kainasa he made capital hg according to the vision which he showed him moshe kama thus he made it meaning to say it was hashem who created who who who manufactured the menorah and the and this could be a reason why people would also make a mistake if they think that god made it which we do believe not everybody that what shiloh this is why because god needs the light that's what he created on his own he obviously needs it he himself created it he must need the light and this is the reason the arrow went ahead because we asked the question why what's the praise that aaron went ahead and did it aaron went ahead and did it as if he was commanded because he wanted to show you by making sure that the wicks were all towards the center and it was not for the light that god needs now yeshua marine masha shiba khasara why would myron be praised because he didn't change he didn't make any uh you know disturbances from what he knew should be done he didn't make any changes that's because god said to him what towards the middle towards the face of the menorah shall illuminate the seven lights now what's the word says now look at the words again you have the words ballo which means to raise up you also have the idea of ya'iru is that the the means to illuminate or to light so listen to the word low hickpit if the person like aaron was not concerned so much about the raising up that it should be towards the middle and also that if he was only concerned about the actual illumination that he would be that it should be facing the middle lohiqvilla or if he was only worried about the original lighting well guess what arun did both he made sure that when he lit it it went up on its own which we're going to see is very important as well he raised the lights he raised the you take the match and you leave it next to the wick until it grabs and and raises itself up he did that as well as made sure the wicks were all towards the center commotion ammar as the verse says menorah that's it's actually says this is what he did allah naruto it actually says that he raised up the wicks um that's in verse 3. look in verse 3 in the hebrew as we said the yaas kenaron a muppeney menorah he did both he was doing the aloha properly and the iru by making sure that they were all facing the the correct direction so for that's good for to learn a little bit of hebrew the itake and the tharesh we're on the last few paragraphs it's very possible to explain that the praise that was given to him was the following that even though the verse in chapter 27 verse 21 says you can find that on the english sheets as well to arron arun arranged it i'm sorry that aaron and his son should arrange it but who did it our own so if the command is for any cohen to do it not just the kangaroo and yet aaron himself did it what does that tell you wait till you hear this makkah mccomb nizaris who live in mitzvah even though any cullen could have done it as it the verse says aaron himself did it the yasa because aaron himself saw the unbelievable holiness of doing this of lighting them in nora how did he know what made our own conclude that this was such a holy act and i'm going to do it myself and not rely on my kids i saw hashem do it himself hashem could have relied on bitsale and the whole staff of of artisans but god made it himself so god obviously could have had anybody do it could have just told him to do it but he made it so difficult okay so he did himself just like god did it himself aaron said i'm going to do it myself i see the holiness involved i see the the level outside our rem is yeah now from another level called remez we can explain like this towards the face of the menorah we already explained that as what towards the center wait to hear this this is god the the center of the menorah represents the total unity that represents god oro because he is the light of the world hakadosh the almighty he is the ultimate light of the world yerushivasaneros and the verse says shall illuminate seven candles that each one of these six branches or or what or face the middle should be now as i mentioned there's a mock locus whether or not the menorah faced east and west or north and south it doesn't matter according to all the opinions the six branches all faced the center the only one in the middle is going to make a difference which way did that face and that face toward the holy of holies so in a certain sense it represented hashem who's in the holy of holies and therefore all of them are really facing whatever we're going to signify as the face of the minority which is god himself the shrina the menorah pure and simple or you'll say like holy name because that he is the light of the world hashem is the light of the world as i expressed before that the windows of the base of mikdash protruded inwards no outwards we right because the light emanated from within and that's where god is and that's what god is okay now the last few lines are like this um what is aliyah aliyah means ascension going up okay so the very fact that it says when you raise up how did they translate it here when you kindle the lamps i don't like that translation but it's okay when you raise up the light lush and aliyah shiyadlik the idea is to take the match or the candle the charmish and to attach it to the wick it's lit and allow the light to raise itself up think about this we're going to see soon and a very important verse because i'll tell us in the medrash smaller the the candelabra was made on its own as we already discussed god through right the our own or moshe through the the the gold into the fire and what comes out the candelabra all on its own the moist godo remnants are what this is an unbelievable hint to a fascinating idea that what you can find this in psalms 20 verse 27 which says like this ner elohim the the lamp of god is what the lamp of god is man's soul again man's soul is the lamp of god man's soul is an image we're creating the image of god not the physical body but the soul okay it's like a helix it's like a portion of that which is above so it the soul is like a flame of god it is always what does the flame do it's always going up up up right that's how it just moves forward i don't i don't know the the uh the the science behind it but i know that when i look at a a candle that can't unless there's a wind whatever it might be going to the side but it's always going up explain it i can't explain it but that's what he says that the nare is always moving up now he's comparing this to the soul the soul only wants to go heavenly word he wants to go towards hashem he wants to go up and guess what the only thing that will prevent it from going up are as he says from some aspect of some hindrance through our sins what i want to say and clarify this is just like we talk about gehenum or any kind of purgatory where the soul needs to be refined you take metal and you put a very uh what's the word uh heat so then you um you get the dross or whatever it's called the the scum off the top all the the impurities are removed so this dross whatever impurities you need to get rid of so that's what argenium is like so he says that the salt always wants to go up the only thing that's holding it back from going up are the impurities from clothes from our sins he might hashem meaning the soul itself is the creation of god now if you look at the last page i explain over there what the gomorrah says in neither that it says there are three partners this is the holy jewish trinity there are three partners in the formation of a child that would be hashem who's the father you have the mother i'm sorry you have hashem and you have the father and the mother the father contributes the white and that goes towards the bones the sinews the nails the brain and the whites of the eyes i guess the brain they call gray material anyway the mother contributes the red okay the the the blood and the skin and the flesh and the hair hashem what does he do he gives you the ruach he gives you the spirit hashem places in the shama the radiance of the face the sight the hearing speech the ability to walk understanding and knowledge of course when a person passes on hashem takes back that which was his that's what he gave okay now i just want you to go through this gematria the word adam aleph is 45 okay you have the father you have the mother and you have hashem so the father is of aleph bet which is three aim which is aleph men which is 41 41 and 43 and 41 and 3 is 44. i just told you the name of them is 45 because you have an aleph the aleph is one olive voice represents one by the way it represents hashem because it's one aloof means like the master like the the best and the word the letter alif is like of it's not like above it's above with two yards each year represents ten the vote is six that's 26 the gamachia through the letters that form the aleph is 26 which is the same gemachia for yud and the hay and the and the hay so this represents the the three partners in man and that's meaning god created your soul since the three partners in man kevarbianu lamala pastrum uh he just says that we discussed this in depth in an earlier parsha um this is very clear and proper and now we understand the smiths and now we understand the the raising the raising of the flame on the candle to the making of the menorah which is we said it was in verse three and four kigam he hashem because not only was the menorah the the the creation of god so too obviously the whole world's creation of god but that he personally made it he's personally involved even though he allows nature to run its course so you have the production of man the mother and father but hashem places the soul like it says cain also as a menorah that's there and we said who made it it's h e is it a capital h e or is it a small h e so we understood it hashem made the menorah just like he made the soul which is the aliyah of the flame okay so with that i hope we had a little bit more insight this year i i again in the description box below i will put the link to you'll find the link to a previous year with other information and we just hope you all go from strength to strength from aliyah to alya from one madriga to the next hopefully it's all in the right direction going up and i wish you all for you know an unbelievable hanukkah an inspirational hanukkah and we should see bazrat hashem soon our lifetime the coming of the shaykh kenu the rebuilding of the base of mignash and the in gathering the exiles and a truly a righteous government when we pray all the time that the uh the governments that are corrupt should be complete and finished with and we we shall see that sooner our destruct hashem see you next week [Music] is [Music]