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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Behaalotecha 5726 THE SPECIAL SERVICE OF THE MENORAH — Behaalotcha 5783

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Behaalotecha 5726 THE SPECIAL SERVICE OF THE MENORAH — Behaalotcha 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT Summaries of points of the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ד"ה וידבר וגו' בהעלותך תשכ''ו בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Behaalotecha 22 Sivan 5783, 10 June 20231 THE SPECIAL SERVICE OF THE MENORAH EDRA BEHAALOTECHA BEGINS WITH G-D’S COMMAND TO S MOSES TO TELL AARON ABOUT LIGHTING the Golden Menorah, and tells us that ‘Aaron did so’, he carried out the command. But the elevation of the Divine Soul comes from the flow of oil, flowing down from Wisdom: it is an arousal from above, commanded by G-d, as it says in the Sedra: ‘And G-d said to Moses, speak to Aaron and say: when you light the Menorah...’ The arousal from above has a more powerful effect, and elevates the Divine Soul to an exalted level. 7 The discourse concludes with depiction of the Splitting of Sea into twelve channels (Midrash Mechilta Beshalach 14:16) as representing the service of the twelve Princes, our relationship with G-d now, while the future splitting of the River into seven streams (Isaiah 11:15), at the coming of the Messiah, expresses the service of lighting the Menorah. In the case of Sarah, this transforming power came about through her years of barrenness, when she longed to have a child; for Aaron, it came about through his being ‘upset’ that he did not have the opportunity to bring an offering to the Sanctuary. A further distinction between the Offerings and the Menorah, is that the elevation of the Animal Soul and of physical existence, achieved through the service of Offerings on the outer Altar, comes through an arousal from below. In terms of the Divine service of the individual, offering animals on the outer Altar is the service of spiritual elevation of the Animal Soul, and also of those aspects of the material world with which a person is involved. Further, Rashi comments on the juxtaposition of this passage to the previous section, at the end of Naso, about the offerings brought by the Princes of the Tribes in a lengthy ceremony of Dedication of the Sanctuary2. But the lighting of the Menorah elevates the Divine Soul higher and higher in the exalted realm of Emanation, through a flow of Wisdom (Chochmah) which comes from above, expressed in a flow of olive oil. The seve

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