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\u201cAnd Aaron did so, he mounted its candles at the front of the lampstand, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.\u201d RASHI interpreted, to praise Aaron for not changing. The interpreters ask, \u201cWhat would I say so he would not observe the commandment of the Creator, etc.?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur sages said, \u2018When Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma fell ill, Rabbi Hanina Ben Tardion went to visit him. He said to him, \u2018Hanina my brother, do you not know that this nation was crowned from above? Its house was destroyed, its hall burned down, its followers were killed and it lost its best sons, and still it exists. I heard about you that you sit and engage in Torah and make assemblies out in the open with a book of Torah placed in your bosom.\u2019\u2019\u201d RASHI interpreted and they declared a judgment about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe said to him, \u2018From heaven there will be mercy.\u2019 He said to him, \u2018I am telling you meaningful words and you are telling me, \u2018From heaven there will be mercy\u2019? I wonder if they do not burn you and the book of Torah in the fire.\u2019 Rabbi said to him, \u2018Where am I with regard to life in the next world?\u2019 He said to him, \u2018Has an act come into your hand?\u2019 He replied, \u2018I mistook coins of Purim with coins of charity and handed them to the poor.\u2019 He replied, \u2018In that case, of your share will be my share and of your fate will be my fate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RASHI interprets that coins of Purim, which I placed for the Purim meal, I accidentally replaced them and I handed them out to the poor. I thought that my wallet was for charity, but I did not pay off my wallet of charity (Masechet<\/em> Avodah Zarah<\/em>, 18a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, it is hard to understand concerning Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma, a man who dedicated himself to the sanctification of the Creator and who sits and engages in Torah, is it still not enough that he should have the next world? If he performs an act that any uneducated person can do, to be generous with his wealth, as he said about it, \u201cof your share will be my share,\u201d doing such an act does not require devotion. So why after he heard about the matter with the Tzedakah<\/em> he said, \u201cOf your share will be my share\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the way of Baal HaSulam, it follows that the most important is to emerge from self-benefit, meaning that a person can perform acts of devotion also on the basis of self-benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, when he saw that he was relinquishing self-benefit through an act of Tzedakah<\/em>, he knew that all his dedication was on the basis of the intention to bestow. This is why he said, \u201cof your share will be my share,\u201d etc. This refers not only to the act of charity, but also to the act of sitting and engaging in Torah, and gathering assemblies out in the open, since everything was on the basis of the intention to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u201cIt teaches that Aaron did not change,\u201d since the making of the Menorah is a high degree, and the pleasure is immense, and the greater the pleasure, the harder it is to work in order to bestow. This is the meaning of not changing, and that everything was on the basis of \u201cjust as the Lord had commanded Moses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 1980 \u201cAnd Aaron did so, he mounted its candles at the front of the lampstand, just as the Lord […]<\/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-12506","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n