A Fascinating Hint in the Torah - Parshat Tetzave - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

if you like interesting conundrums mathematical puzzles and coincidences try this one if you count all the candles we light over the eight days of Kaneka it comes to 36 one on the first night two on the second so together that's three on the third night you'll light another three add that to the first two nights that's six now if you keep going like this until the eighth night the number you'll get to is 36 going up every night adding a light every night is the way bit Hill says that we should light in the gamorra now even though we Light One Candle on the first night just as a said like Bas Hillel the opinion of B Shai is that we should actually start in a blaze of glory on the first night with eight candles and work our way down to one on the last night it says in Pasha this week's Pasha to light the light continually light in the singular now stay tuned if you count backwards from pasas barus if you go back 36 paria from the beginning of the Torah 36 35 34 you'll get to Pas T this week's Pasha in which the Torah as we said talks about a lamp in the singular but if you count forward from bit from the beginning of the Torah 1 2 3 4 5 adding all the time this 36th para you'll get to is where it says where you Kindle the lamps in the plural in other words if you go back if you go down you'll get to this week's paraa lamp in the singular like bit shamai and if you go forward adding going up you'll add up with lamps in the plural like beel