Post 18 | Don't Defile Your Menorah! (Likutei Halachos #18)

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

So after we've learned that the waters of Natilam are drawn and connected to the concept of the waters of the mikvah which we learned about in the previous episode. So now we're talking very deeply about why it is that before the natila before washing our hands in the morning and it says that we have to be very careful not to touch any of the openings in our body and particularly the openings in our head which are the ears and the nostrils and the mouth and the eyes. So over here writes that tells us in a teaching in Maran in the first volume the 21st teaching that Aman says that the that the manura in the bikash had seven branches seven candles and these seven candles were representative of the light of the Torah. We know that the bame mikdash had the windows right which were narrow on the inside and wide on the outside because the bame mikdash didn't need light from the outside. On the contrary, the outside world got its light from the B mikdash. And that light came from the light of the minora. And that light of the minora represents the light of everything that we've been speaking about. Hashem, the light of Hashem, the light of Hashem's presence, the light of amuna, the light of a world that's lit up, that's illuminated, that's warm, that's counteracting the coldness and the creas and the frozenness of amalik. That aspect of dawn as opposed to the sleep and the cold and the darkness when the sun sets. The light of the manura is reflecting the light of das the light of consciousness of olahaba living where a person is plugged into the deeper nature of reality where they recognize that beyond the surface of things really the

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2. 0:36volume the 21st teaching that Aman says that the that the manura in the bikash had…
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9. 4:52says God's eyes are sevenfold whose interaction with the world is peering out from seven openings.…
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