Parsha Illuminated - Behaaloscha: Aharon and the Menorah, Moshe's Prophecy

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

para illuminated for parasa. So this para is jam-packed and there are so many exciting topics that we could speak about. We are going to focus on the very beginning of the para and the very end of the para. Those will be our two uh two places that we visit today. And uh we'll begin with the beginning. So the para opens and hem spoke to Moshe saying to say to him when you here they translate when you light the lamps literally when you raise up the lamps toward the face of the minora shall they ya shall They cast their light. Shall the seven lights cast their light? the seven lights cast their light? Um, what does that mean? Towards the towards the um face of the monora. So, Rashi says I'm skipping one Rashi, but Rashi says toward the middle lamp. The middle one was not on a branch. It was on the body itself of the minora. So you had like the middle pole was we could call the body and then the branches came out from the middle pole. So you can call the mu pane minora the So you can call the mu pane minora the face of the manora um the meaning the minora itself which is the middle and uh and all the lamps were to face the middle. Why? So Rashi continues the next Rashi says um and explains the six that were on the the the branches the three on the east side would face the middle and meaning says Rashhaen

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1. 0:03para illuminated for parasa. So this para is jam-packed and there are so many exciting topics…
2. 4:09shalomina it's to tell you the praise of our own that he did not deviate he…
3. 8:46So first of all is this a command do it or when you do it this…
4. 13:25But by by leaving the minora to the tribe of Levi to Arango to for that…
5. 17:34that they will uh they will shine towards the the middle and it will also help…
6. 22:17What does Aon do though? If Aram were to just like it normally then that would…
7. 27:03relations he could be in a state of tuma of of uh of impurity and mo…
8. 31:19Rev Hersh that it uh it it's explaining why they didn't really understand the greatness of…
9. 35:56he knows its meaning. For example, the the lagger that Jacob saw. Um this is also…
10. 40:36to live with the sense that God is the one true absolute existence, which is true,…

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