Portion of the Week; Behalotekha 24-1, Rabbi Birnbaum

it's b the old age is all although millennium days casale in the essays although it's also really the bible was read in the synagogue with rabbinic commentary this evening iraq by irvin berlin bomb the spiritual leader of the conservative congregation of the roseville jewish center in roseville new york and they look at number was chapter eight starting with sentence one re read and the lord spoke at the moses saying speak on the barren and say under him back outside crimea don't elmo been made from la yeah your route she wrapped her near an ally does the lambs was set to

land show the light in front of the menorah or candelabra and aaron did so he liked of the lambs they're all so as to give light in front of the menorah or candelabra as the lord commanded moses was a mass a homeowner and this was the work of the menorah biblical go under the base there are and under the flowers they're all that was beaten robbed according to the pattern restored that show noses so he made the menorah one of the most sacred objects in the ancient tabernacle as well as and the holy temple mount zion in jerusalem was the memo our bible describes it in detail with its brain just in various ornaments cups flour is an animal essence

you're not of one massive piece of gold it stood before the ark of the covenant learning continue to be the simple met tommy and the eternal light stands in place of the menorah before the holy are in every jewish house of worship him in the raw has always been a favorite symbol of is a relapse with which they liked to identify one day two hundred years ago the heroic maccabees defeated an oppressor of israel re conquer it and read dedicated the holy temple on that occasion prove to be so much of a highlight that the rededication of the temple has since been

celebrated by the killing of a menorah in every jewish home on the festival of hanukkah every year friends and enemies of the israelites of the popularity of the menorah that our people a few years ago great britain which to extend the hand of friendship to the new state of these oh they want to express their feelings in a tangible way so they presented the country with a big beautiful the ornamented menorah that has been placed in a park in jerusalem near the parliament building and the nineteen hundred years ago the roman emperor titus destroy the holy temple a mountainside in jerusalem after a desperate struggle overcoming the heroic resistance of the jewish people he was on a duo

of trident and the dog the menorah is conspicuously depicted in costs though the roman empire was proud of its victory and they were proud to have him on the spoils the menorah so greatly cherished by the jewish people the question arises in our minds why this attachment to the men or why this strong identification of it why they're acquiring and then he slides bearing continually as commanded in the bible it seems plausible that the popularity of the menorah is not so much in its shape as in its use the band a lot yeah build a solid object capture the fantasy of the people the little race closely to a lot of the giant candelabra and

throw their imagination is sending a lot more than their weight of gold or for both meaning and chant the people identified not so much as a light on it didn't they hear the story of the burning bush told and retold and either the audience selling fire in life and so they are striving for that the line was exemplified in the light of the menorah the eternal light didn't they recognize themselves as a small people often speckled with extinction by gigantic empires yet surviving them all so the small flick of a light conjuring the darkness instead of being overcome by that exemplified to them the position of the israel acts the

eternal people in history and from the continuing influence of our tradition and our profits are people or the positive value of striving upward it and all around some action hire rounds of thought instead of staying weighted down and the das audio tour and a candle we spend our way you may with elaine always shoot upwards as if drawn by a magic man so our people understood its own destiny are continuous and interrupted attraction and commitment ohio tends to stand as a beacon of light and the battle with the forces of darkness of ignorance to strive for the divine miss the light our forefathers

leslie light beckons to us let not your aspirations begin and end in the pursuit of material means pleasures and luxuries re mi amass fortunes to satisfy our various appetites and then with sheehan's as is the nature of material goods they gravitate they pulled down words and not up to it the more time and effort rededicating our life to the acquisition of material goods the great uncle downward that pull down over and does not stop at the surface of the earth but when the bell goes it's seven direct effect on how bbc and away from peoples' memories and how

soon for me show me look up not down beckons the light of the menorah the total like do not pull denied bragg at the direction of gold and silver instead gravitate like the light up to it and do it the magic madness of the divine into noble around some action into higher rounds of salt and then to make god's creation someone better by being of service to your fellow maine by being kind and compassionate by being understanding and forgiving guide a blind person across the street stopped to help a person in his car unstuck return an object found do not disturb neighbors that inconsiderate behaviour if related institutions and people

that rely on eu in their means and that certainly would cause study our tradition that you may follow subsidies cannot be measured in dollars and silva and go but they have the corresponding advantage i'm not being weighed it down as material goods are instead they saw how i like the right light conjuring baucus and evil spreading good will and peace among them a hand wringing us a step closer to the magic magnet that they be buying reading gods and goods into our everyday lives and making sure that our main shine bright for generations to come in the firmament of maine's memory you have been listening to portion of the week the bible was read in the synagogue with

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