726) \u201cFor a candle is a Mitzva and Torah is light, and reproof for discipline is a way of life.\u201d \u201cFor a candle is a Mitzva.\u201d Anyone who exerts in this world in the Mitzvot of the Torah, a single candle is set up for him in each Mitzva, to illuminate for him in that world. \u201cAnd Torah is light\u201d means that one who engages in Torah is rewarded with the upper light from which the candle is lit. A candle without light is nothing; a light without a candle also cannot shine. It follows that they both need each other, for the work of the Mitzva to establish the candle is required, and the engagement in Torah to light the candle is required. Happy is he who engages in her in light and in a candle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
727) \u201cAnd reproof for discipline is a way of life,\u201d a way of life by which to come into the next world, which are the rebukes that a man receives to remove himself from the bad way and walk by the good way. The way of life are those reproofs for discipline that the Creator brings upon a person to purify him from his iniquities with these rebukes. Happy is he who accepts them willingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
728) \u201cFor a candle is a Mitzva\u201d is a candle, David\u2019s light, which is a candle of Mitzva, the oral Torah, Malchut, which must always be corrected, and which illuminates only out of the written Torah, ZA, since the oral Torah has light only out of the written Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
729) He looked behind him and saw the daughter of the inn\u2019s owner standing behind them. \u201cFor a candle is a Mitzva\u201d is a candle, which is a Mitzva with which women are rewarded. It is a Sabbath candle. Although women are not rewarded with the Torah, since the men are rewarded with the Torah and illuminate for that candle, which the women correct with this Mitzva. The women with the correction of this candle, the men with the Torah, to light and to illuminate this candle, which is a correction of a Mitzva to which women are obliged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
730) That woman heard and cried. In the meantime, the father of the woman who was there rose and came between them, and saw his daughter standing behind them weeping. Her father asked her and she told him the story. The woman\u2019s father began to cry, as well. Rabbi Yosi told him, \u201cPerhaps your son-in-law, your daughter\u2019s husband, was not rewarded with the Torah?\u201d He replied, \u201cThis must be so, and this is indeed why me and my daughter are always crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
731) \u201cBecause one day I saw that he jumped from this attic to hear the Kaddish [special part of the service] with the public, I wished to give my daughter to him. And soon after the public left the synagogue I gave my daughter to him, for I said that with this jump that he came to listen to the Kaddish it became apparent that he would be a man of greatness in the Torah. And although he was a child and I did not know him previously, I gave my daughter to him. But he does not even know the blessing for the food, and I cannot study with him among the friends, to learn the Shema reading or the blessing for the food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
732) Rabbi Yosi replied to him: \u201cChange him for another. Or, perhaps he will bear a son who will be great in the Torah.\u201d In the meantime, the hotel\u2019s landlord\u2019s son-in-law rose, leaped toward them, and sat before them. Rabbi Yosi looked at him and said, \u201cI certainly see in this child that a light of Torah will come out of him to the world, or that a son will be born from him.\u201d That boy laughed and said, \u201cGentlemen, I will tell you one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
733) He started and said, \u201cI am young of days, and you are old. Therefore, I crawl and I fear your views of me. The greatest of the world have commented on this verse, but Elihu, of whom it is written that he was from the Ram family, they commented that he came from the descendants of Abraham. And yet, Elihu was a priest from the descendants of Ezekiel the prophet, for it is written, \u2018The son of Barachel the Buzite,\u2019 and it is written there, \u2018Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
734) \u201cAnd if you say that because it is written, \u2018Buzi\u2019 [scorn], there was scorn over the families, it is not so, for he repeatedly said that he was from the Ram [high\/exalted] family, meaning higher than all. He is called Buzi because he despises himself before those who are greater than him. This is why Ezekiel rose in the upper name, Buzi, for Ezekiel is called \u2018a man who is whole in everything,\u2019 which no other man is called, as it is written, \u2018And you are a son of man.\u2019 And because Elihu is called by that name, Buzi, he is called \u2018high,\u2019 higher than all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
735) This is why he said, \u201cI am young of days.\u201d He says \u201cOf days.\u201d Should he not have said, \u201cFrom days\u201d? But \u201c\u2018I am young\u2019 for I diminished myself. \u2018Of days,\u2019 in the face of a person who has many days. Because I said, \u2018Days shall speak,\u2019 therefore I am young, for I diminished myself before days. And you are old. I have seen you old, therefore I crawled and I was fearful of your views of me. I, too, said, \u2018Days shall speak, and many years shall teach wisdom. But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty that gives them understanding.\u2019 For this reason, because I am a child, I have made it my will not to speak for two months, and this day they were completed. And now that you are here, I should unlock the words of Torah before you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
736) \u201cFor a candle is a Mitzva and Torah is light, and reproof for discipline is a way of life.\u201d \u201cFor a candle is a Mitzva\u201d is a Mishnah [law], as it is written, \u201cThe Torah and the Mitzva.\u201d The Torah is the written Torah, ZA, and this Mitzva is a Mishnah, Malchut, who is a candle, a candle that is about to light it, since Malchut has no light of her own and needs ZA to light her and shine in her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
737) Why is Malchut considered a candle? When Malchut receives from the two arms of ZA\u2014the two lines, right and left, the 248 upper organs, the Hassadim of the 248 positive Mitzvot\u2014she opens both her arms toward them, her two lines right and left. At that time these two arms are included in the 248 organs, becoming 250 in Gematria, and this is why she is called Ner [a candle, 250 in Gematria]. \u201cAnd Torah is light\u201d because the Torah illuminates for this candle and the candle is lit up from her, from the side of the first light, right, since the Torah was given from the right side, which is the first light. It is written, \u201cOn His right was a fiery law,\u201d meaning she was given from the right. And although the left was included in her, for then when the left is included in her, it is the wholeness of everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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