The Menorah: The Ultimate Torah Hashkofa - Rabbi Aharon Ciment

parshas truma is very overwhelming there are so many halachos tedious halachos that discuss in great detail the construction of the mishkan perhaps we would have a reprieve when it comes to the building of the menorah after all ghazal teach us that mosher benu was quite perplexed he wasn't able to understand the building of the menorah and therefore who tells moshe rabbenu my dear moshe throw the menorah throw this this block of gold into the fire and ultimately the menorah will almost build itself if that's the case well then why is it necessary for the torah to come and tell us in great detail about the construction of the mishkan when mosh urbano couldn't build it and why is it necessary to go through great detail telling us all about its construction and the goblets and the gold and the flowers that it would emanate and come out of this menorah we don't have a cyclist we don't have any connection to its building i think we can learn a very interesting idea and that is [Music] teaching us that we have to put in our hashtag we have to go through the motions as if we are building it but ultimately who really is is in control we're not in control of the building we're in control of putting in our status of doing what we feel we need to do as if we are building but our hashtag has to be that we are not building it it's really coming emanating by just throwing it into the fire and out will come something very beautiful very special to menorah though the obvious question that one has to ask is why is a koshbaraku teaching us through the menorah this lesson what's unique about the menorah that korres baraka was teaching us you put in your hishtadlus but ultimately it's i hakaris baruch who will ultimately build and create this beautiful instrument i think that the answer is is because it's the menorah that teaches us that ultimately it's all in akkad baraku's hands the menorah the kanuka kanukas hamishkan is also teaching us about the story of hanukkah after all we know that claudius are all fought a battle and we might have thought that it's our own kawak it's our own might it's our own strength that ultimately brought about this victory that allowed the kohanim to come and re-light and rededicate the sanctity of the base hamikdash but it's not true it wasn't us it was us putting on the hishtadlus but ultimately it was barack who would bring victory to ami israel and we learned this idea of putting in hishtadlus going through the motions but ultimately coming out victorious through the menorah it's the menorah that taught us this idea of a koresboro ultimately doing whatever is needed for cloud israel to be successful have a good jobist [Music]