Setting Your Soul on Fire l Discovering Your Purpose l P’ Behaalotcha

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The Torah begins the portion with saying speak to Aaron and tell him as I made this when he will kindle the candles in the holy temple El mol pan a ham a noida your Edo Shiva's the candles should face the face of the menorah and all seven candles shall burn. Panay a menorah means that the candle should face towards my div which is the West. So really all six candles are facing the middle candle. That's one opinion. The middle candle is now facing the West. But there are different opinions exactly how this works. But the Torah is very clear and when it says that all the candles shall be facing the face of the menorah. What does that mean? What is the face of the menorah? More importantly today there is no temple. We pray every day for the rebuilding of the temple and we know it's going to happen very very soon. But in the interim how do we apply this to our daily life? There's a very powerful Rashi the opening Rashi of the parsha. And Rashi says like this Lama nishmaha parshas hamenorah the parshas naseeim. What is the reason that this portion of baloshka is juxtaposed to the previous portion? In other words, in the Torah in mukdam um but Torah there is no official order of events in the Torah. Sometimes an event can take place later and it's written earlier. Other events happen earlier, but yet the Torah records it later. So, when the Torah has two different

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1. 0:00The Torah begins the portion with saying speak to Aaron and tell him as I made…
2. 1:32parshas hamenorah the parshas naseeim. What is the reason that this portion of baloshka is juxtaposed…
3. 3:38brought the sacrifices on the altar, because only a kohein, and especially a high priest, has…
4. 5:41the sacrifice. This is Rashi. To understand on Remez Drush Sod Sodis. So, we understand this…
5. 7:44really emulates the menorah in the Holy Temple, in the Holy Temple, they lit the seven…
6. 9:45law of Hillel together. So, we have to wait and see. Is that where they got…
7. 11:46once you begin to do the mitzvah with love and with awe, not only will you…
8. 13:49Parsha pertaining to the second Passover, that they complained "Lo mani gorah, why should we be…
9. 15:56And that is what is crucial, especially in this generation when so many children, God forbid,…
10. 18:00part of a bigger picture, part of a bigger reality. Why wasn't I called? I want…

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