Behaaloscha | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 2

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

Barak Hashem. Good morning. We are live at Soulward's house. Sunday morning. We are back. We're in parasa on page 314 of base. And without further ado, let's get started. Olaf from parishes by in the means the reading of the prophets that we read after the communal Torah reading in schul on chabas. not going to going to get into the history of how the haftra started and why we do it, but suffice it to say that after we um have the weekly Torah portion read communally then we read a section from the nim from the prophets section from the nim from the prophets and in this particular and it's always similar in theme. So this particular uh week bala means uh baliska it's talking about arin lighting the lights of the mana the candalram in the mishkan the sanctuary and then the ha is a section from zakaria zachariah the prophet speaking about a prophecy where he saw a golden candalabram a where he saw a golden candalabram a minor. And in fact, that's the that's the verse we just quoted. I saw and behold, there was a gold an entirely gold man. Entirely gold is not an alloy. Pure gold was gate. Cabalistically, the entirely gold candle is a symbol of the Jewish people. You know why it's a symbol of the Jewish know why it's a symbol of the Jewish people? >> Tell us. >> Because it's all one. It was made from one piece of gold. It wasn't soldered together, joined together, melted. It was one piece of gold. So, it's all one. Like the Jewish people are all one. But it has How many did How many did I do? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Yes. Has seven arms which represent different soul roots, different types. And of course that corresponds to the seven midasses.

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1. 0:00Barak Hashem. Good morning. We are live at Soulward's house. Sunday morning. We are back. We're…
2. 6:24means windows that flare outward. In the olden days they would make windows like a funnel…
3. 12:52but the goal of the work is there's alba is the same is to make light.…
4. 19:10qualities that make them lovable. But the point is to love even people who have no…
5. 25:26and light is so says the reb there's an advantage and this is clearly the way…
6. 32:10We got a whole long um I think it was Yeah. But a whole long thing…
7. 38:42So let's take apart the technical laws of lighting the ba miktod and and examine how…
8. 44:56Since the point is to affect another Jew, then who what do you care? What does…
9. 51:18to keep chabas, but apparently promoting women and girls lighting chabas candles is the path to…
10. 57:48okay you have like the innermost chamber which is the holy of holies and then you…

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