Fire of Many | Rabbi Shmuel Goldin

And this is the precursor to the Sanhedrin. The rabbis will say there's 70, right? With Moshe at 71. God comes down and takes some of Moshe's spirit and shares it with these people. The rabbis say the way we should view this is like a candle lighting other candles. What's unique about fire? That it can give of itself without losing of its own strength. In other words, this is not diminishing Moshe's ruesh in any way. It's simply igniting the ruesh in these other individuals.