June 1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is the making of the menorah.\u201d RASHI interpreted that the Creator showed him with the finger since he was perplexed about it. \u201cOne-piece work\u201d: \u201cIt was one talent [piece] of gold. He would strike with a hammer, etc., this is how he made the menorah.\u201d Elsewhere: \u201cIt was done by itself by the Creator.\u201d \u201cHe set it up outside of the curtain of the testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should understand what it means that Moses was perplexed about the making of the menorah, and what the talent of gold implies, and that he struck with a hammer, and also what it means that it was done by itself by the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By intimation, the menorah means man\u2019s body. When the light of the Creator is dressed in it, the man shines like a lamp. This is why Moses was perplexed, how a man\u2019s body could clothe the upper light when there is disparity of form between the light and the Kli<\/em> [vessel], which is man\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To this came the answer that it was a talent of gold. The body is called \u201ca talent of Ze-Hav<\/em> [English: gold, Hebrew: give-this],\u201d meaning the will to receive. Striking it refers to Zivug<\/em> de<\/em> Hakaa<\/em> [coupling by striking] where through the striking, a person overcomes, for two opposite things are called \u201cstriking\u201d where each strikes the other and wants to cancel it. This is the meaning of hammering his will to receive in order to cancel it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, \u201che was perplexed about it,\u201d meaning it is not within man\u2019s power to invert the will to receive so it works in order to bestow. To this comes the answer, \u201cThis is how he made the lamp,\u201d meaning that through the Creator, it was done by itself. This is the meaning of \u201cHe who comes to purify is aided.\u201d However, it is true what the body tells him\u2014that it is not within man\u2019s power to invert it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, the difficulty to do the thing is called Kli<\/em>, which is a lack. Afterward, the abundance, which is called \u201cfilling,\u201d can come and fill the lack. But if he has no questions then there is no place to receive the filling for the lack. This is called \u201cassistance from above.\u201d Hence, it means that without questions, if a person does not begin, there is no place to fill the lack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what the words \u201coutside of the curtain of the testimony\u201d refer to, that it is a testimony to the people of the world that the Shechina<\/em> [Divinity] dwells in Israel. The question, \u201cDoes He need its light? After all, they walked by His light forty years,\u201d and what fool would think that the menorah would illuminate for the Creator, if one of the thirteen tenets is that He has no body? Thus, how can it be said that the menorah is for Him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather, this refers to the light of the lower ones, meaning the awakening of the lower ones. He brings evidence to this that in the desert it was only by an awakening from above and not through the work of the lower ones. But there it is the testimony. Although he said that a deed was done, it was only a miracle, and a miracle means that it was not done by the lower ones. This is the meaning of \u201cRewarded, I will hasten it; not rewarded, in its time,\u201d that the whole of the \u201chastening\u201d is for the lower ones, so they will think that they are doing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 1979 \u201cThis is the making of the menorah.\u201d RASHI interpreted that the Creator showed him with the finger since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-12505","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n