The Eternal Lamp: By the Mouth of 2 Witnesses, The Matter is Confirmed with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Shalom everybody welcome back to the where we are guests and we are forever thankful we are in I want to give everyone a very warm welcome a warm welcome home to Torah and I want to start off by mentioning we should askem for Shala for Noto Ben Z I also want to mention anybody who wants to volunteer and make tius they can come earlier to this year as everyone knows and is aware of and make tius while we learn H another idea I want to bring up before we start in pares tave is that we have purchased we put a down payment on a tourist scroll and uh it's kind of expensive I mean you know but we got a good deal um but we need a lot of help and we are already trying to find a place for our beginner's minion we're starting a beginners minion which will have a introduction to prayer before we learn some learning sorry before we pray some learning about prayer and not just how to pray and not just about the words but the meanings really Mish the meaning behind everything as well as afterwards and hopefully also a breakfast okay so it'll be like a uh great way to start your day you know B and that that's a weekday a weekday meanion we're looking to start okay so I want to mention again before we begin very important that anybody that wants to follow along in the Hebrew on the website there are links down below you you won't get color photo copies like this but just simple black and white we encourage you to learn Hebrew with us another thing is we are highly or intensively text oriented however we deal with fundamentals anybody who wants to know anything about the way a je thinks or way a you should think um can come and join these classes okay so what we're doing is I'm going to introduce I think there's how many questions about 10 questions you'll find them 11 on page one of the English sour sheets by the way if you want the English Source sheets you have to send me an email and I'll add you to the list okay so I'm going to read the questions as I see them and so in other words we're going to skip the whole first page paragraph until halfway down page two uh I think if I could do this quickly because then we can spend more time answering the questions although the questions themselves are absolutely fundamental so number one we we all know that the name mosha does not appear in our par so the famous answer to why his name does not appear is mainly because in next week's paraa he pleads with God to forgive the Jewish people and so much so that he's willing to sacrifice his own life by saying what then if you're not going to forgive them God originally you know said I'll start over with you I'll wipe them out and start over with you Moses didn't want anything to do with that and pleaded with Hashem to forgive us which Hashem did for the sin of the golden calf and uh guess what Moses's words as a sadic could say any words even if it's a curse on himself and it doesn't fit all the criteria nevertheless the words have a tremendous effect so even though he says these words you know wipe me out of your book God did not wipe him out in fact the book is called taus mosha nevertheless the paraa that is far away from next week's paraa is this week's paraa meaning farther away oh you say well it's right next to each other but by the time we read it it'll be 11 months and 3 weeks so it's as far away as possible so I hope you get that point okay so we're not looking at that answer we're looking at number one when it says right the actual verse says now you should command the children of Israel that they shall take for you pure olive oil press for illumination by the way this is chapter 27: 20 it's just let's just say it's two two verses dealing with this particular issue and then we switch gears into the vestments for the Kim the the Bim so let me just read now you shall command the children of Israel they shall take for you P pure olive oil pressed for illumination to Kindle a lamp continually in the tent of meeting outside the petition that is near the testimonial tablets Aon and his son shall arrange it from evening until morning before Hashem an eternal decree for their Generations from the children of Israel I want to read the Hebrew because you know the Hebrew is just much more beautiful the by the way in Hebrew modern Hebrew this is not the way to speak you know who speaks like this right they use the word you the pronoun you twice as it says and you you shall command by the way it's also future tense but we'll why should they be taking to you mosha to you they're going to bring the oil to you and then it says why One n aren't there seven and then this is a little bit of nitty-gritty but ohel moed in the oh mo so if you look on page three on the English sheets I think it's three I have here a diagram I'll just show you as a uh what's the word a teaser here there's the diagram okay so you have basically the Tabernacle is a structure which has a holy of holies on the west side then east of that you have a larger containment a larger room we call the he that's called the Kim the Kim and then you have the outer Courtyard so there's basically a structure of three uh uh three three portions of this structure okay so when it says here that it's going to be outside the partition but near the testimonial tablets so in Hebrew but it's so this Veil is over right it's separating to the the testimonies meaning the tablets of testimony the iron of testimony and that's where iron should arrange it but what's going on here the clear is bothered this is not the para where anybody's arranging anything the Tabernacle was just commanded it's not even built yet okay it was just commanded in last week's para and yet we see Rashi says it's the future future you know you're eventually going to tell them eventually and in par emore is really where the ier uh command for Aon and his sons to light what we call the manora the candal Abra so the CLE car will be bothered by that and um what does it mean by morning evening until morning we'll have to discuss that so let me go through the 11 questions in English as best I can so the first question is why is there a need to say the twice the second person that's not how people speak the clear suggest it should be enough to say the okay that's the first then he even says you don't even need to say at just say like it says in vayikra in pares chapter 24:2 Esra that's the command form right command the Jewish people okay that's question two and question three why now I mentioned moses' name is not mentioned but when it says it's a direct command to Moses so why is this a direct command to Moses can't he use a can he right why is it specifically Moses that should be doing this Mitzvah doing this command and not through anybody else why this particular Mitzvah okay number four in Exodus 283 meaning just a few verses later it says so there's the same question we have on the two times the the pronoun you is being used again a few verses later regarding aon's garments okay the fifth question shouldn't the real location be in pares EM okay so after the Tabernacle is already built and the location of the placement of the monora we already know that so in other words why here why here are we even speaking about the placement where it needs to be placed right we since we already agreed the prime location for this idea should be in pares emore and Rashi says actually the word tit you shall command means Moses will command them in the future so then this whole point is Superfluous it just needs to be set over there what is meant by telling us now what he will do in the future and um the sixth question we have to ask here it says you're going to um the to Candle the lamp continually okay what do you mean n it should be naos okay like we know there seven candles and the seventh question is well what does it mean continuously it says from morning until evening I'm sorry from evening until morning so what does it mean constantly okay and then the eth question is again the phrasing of in the tent of meeting which is but it's outside the dividing curtain which is M that is in front of the testimony okay so the clear car is bothered by this whole phraseology when we already know look back in chapter just turn the page number two in chapter uh 26 of Exodus remember we're in the end of 27 so already in chapter 266 veres 3435 it mentions exactly where the uh the minur to be placed you shall place the table on the outside of the dividing curtain and the manur is opposite the table on the southern side the mishan okay you're going to put the table on the Northern side so we already know where it is so why go at Great length to explain it again and number nine question number nine again our paragraph only mentions one candle but we already see in chapter in Leviticus chapter 24:2 many candles are mentioned a pure upon the pure manora he shall set up the lamps Yos so what is it over here that's only one n and the 10th question is actually the order I'm going to put it like this there's a b and then ba a you follow like in other words there's a inconsistency if you look at our verse it says inside the uh the middle room but it's on the outside of the curtain whereas in emor it says in the opposite direction it says where's the manora so it's the opposite so it's a then ba over there fine and the 11th question is even the word adus is um is used a little bit differently in par as opposed to over here over here it says but over there it says so in in simple English so you're going to put it outside of the dividing curtain that's in front of the testimony that's in our para but in mare it says outside the div dividing curtain of the testimony now we may think these are very you know picky very detailed questions but there's actually a very important story being told here now I'm going to give you like a two minute synopsis and then we're going to get into the nitty-gritty basically in truma the whole outline the blueprint the cim everything is talked in a general way what's going to be right before we get into the vestments the the garments of the Kim you have these two phrases about this particular light that's going it's it's called a nid it's it's a very Holy Light by the way it's in fact it's miraculous because the cohain would put in the seven lamps the exact amount of oil that would last basically let's say in the solstice a 6 hour 12-hour day and a 12-h hour night they would always put in the exact same amount every single day and one of these candles would last till the next night meaning they put it up from night until morning and guess what one of them the most Western Light would actually continue to light to stay lit until the Coen GTO came or the Coen would come and uh fix them for the next day he would actually have to put it out and light it again but otherwise it stayed lit continuously now there is an argument amongst the rabbis which direction the actual manora was in so we already know it was in the southern side of the the the Kim kosim nevertheless was it facing north and east sorry so I want to see who's paying attention attention north and south or West and East follow so in other words if it was facing north and south so then what really took place was all the six the three on the three on each side the Wicks remember there's an oil containers the Wicks were facing towards the center and the center was facing towards the West so that is if the manur was actually itself facing north and south so if it's facing east and west so there is an opinion according to the CLE car which we won't see today that they were all facing towards the actual East and the further one East which was further away from the holy of holies was actually facing west and that would be significant and we're going to see why okay so now let's get into the clear I assume that we we we got the questions so the clear Begins by saying this is halfway down on shin sadic base the the clear it says that it seems we can actually resolve and answer all these questions based on the writings of the ran you know it actually says in the Torah to raise up one candle which one is that n Mari the most western candle that it continued to light it was always lit but the other um so they were seven Al together so the other Six Candles did not have a continuous light except as we said from evening until morning now according to this thesis we're actually able to answer all the questions that we brought up above after in parous truma that Hashem commanded Moses regarding the Tabernacle and all of its vessels we now understood from truma that there are the three distinct rooms when I say rooms I mean one of them didn't have a roof but you had the holy of holies which was a inct room you have the he which is the K kosim that you had a roof but then you had the outer Courtyard which is a room but it had no roof fine so now that you have these three divisions in this structure the AL now regarding all them it's very important to see chapter 25 verse 8 that's number uh three right it's very interesting when rash says they shall make in my name a house of sanctity okay there's something unique about God's name connected to this house but God wants a place where he can dwell in them now you may think it means in those three compartments and it may be but we all know that God is doesn't need a house but we understand God will dwell within us that's what he's telling us make for me a and I will dwell among them the Jewish people okay so I'm going to tell you what the problem here ises Moses senses a problem and God realizes there is an issue here I promise that I will dwell among you I will dwell within you but I will dwell among you how do we know that God dwells with us do we need a sign well after the fact that there is this parit this Veil the um curtain that is actually acting as a separation between what we're going to call the most Inner Room and inside that room was an arodes was a holy box that contained what two sets of luos meaning the first set that was broken the second set that was not broken you had aon's Rod you had a container of the man and what what else was there a Torah scroll you had a Torah scroll the RS of Mo Moses desired Moses wanted perhaps he even requested that every portion should have some kind of a sign that reflects and teaches that the sh that God's presence rests there with the Jewish people within that room that's behind the curtain there was those um tablets of testimony now what was so unique about these tablets of testimony that the that it gave testimony on God's loyalty that he dwells there the luos themselves were a testimony of a miracle an ongoing miracle and I'll explain first of all he'll tell you that it's it was a cube wasn't like we think of as a thin slab they were ex it was two cubes and you could read the 10 Comm Commandments these 10 statements no matter which side you were on in other words usually and I use an example of an ambulance when you're driving down the road and an ambulance is behind you you look in your rear view mirror you see the word ambulance written correctly but when you look at the ambulance head on when you're actually not looking through a mirror it says ambulance backwards have you ever paid attention Okay so if you did great if you didn't pay attention next time so you would think that if you it was engraved on one side on the other side it it could only be read backwards that would be the Assumption so it was it was engraved all the way through but guess what for matter which part of the cube on the top or the bottom According to some opinions or from any one of the four sides which is very unusual you could be able to read the whole all the words in there you know right to left now there's another miracle besides that you know there's a me and a in the Hebrew alphabet that has you know there's like an inner part well if you engrave it all the way through the only way it wouldn't look like just a drilled hole was if the donut or the munchkin whatever you want to call the ho of the donut was somehow levitating inside the luos and that's exactly what what you saw you saw this levitating hole the levitating piece of the hole okay whether the s or the me because they're completely closed so let me just read his words you can actually read it from all the different angles and the and they were somehow standing I'm I'm going to use the word levitating in the middle okay now anybody who could possibly obviously it was only the Kut on on yum Kipper and besides that he probably did not open the RN as far as we're concerned but if by by if there was I don't know if you all heard of the Codex codex is basically in in order to write a safer Torah you have to have a safer Tor in front of you you have to have a a text that you're copying from so we have in our history different uh author authoritative versions and we've agreed on one of them okay that's fine if there was ever a dispute what would we do we'd go to the most authorative uh document guess what if we ever had a problem and there was a problem in history if we ever had a problem what what how do you write a letter or what letter goes where we would have to send a maintenance man into the holy of holies because only the K God will go in there yam kipur and he's fasting I don't think he can lift the lid but anyway you would send the maintenance man who actually has to be harnessed he cannot put his feet into the holy holies so he'll be harnessed bring out the saer Torah use it for the codec so to speak uh find out how the the issue um okay so let's move on so basically you had these two Miracles that were behind the curtain right what does it remind like Wizard of Oz stuff type stuff right what's behind the curtain so we had behind the curtain this box this holy box covered in gold and inside was a sa for Torah was inside the luos and the luos served as testimony that Hashem dwells with us but what was Mo Moses says I want every portion even outside the curtain on our side because when you passed by on the outside you could see that the curtain was open meaning to the Kim the kosim not to the kosim but the the the he the door was open and one could see that light and that would be the sign that God is with us and Moses was concerned once you describe to me God how the Tabernacles to be built and you're telling me there's this par there's a separation and nobody can see I'm concerned I'm concerned listen to what he says however once you have that curtain and you H have laws that not just everybody and anybody can go in there at any time then God forbid someone who is thinking we're not talking about thinking positively here we're thinking we're talking about thinking of a a way to be a denier anybody that wants to Tell a Lie by the way there's some pretty interesting uh trials going on at the moment um I'm not going to mention any names of some of these people and what's going on but if you want want to try to lie get rid of the witnesses right ignore the witnesses ignore the testimony but God wants testimony God wants the Witnesses in fact the Jewish people are called the witnesses of God look at number 10 Isaiah chapter 43:10 he says you are my Witnesses okay so we don't want to get rid of witnesses we need Witnesses and we need testimony so God sought it he said it was necessary found it necessary also in that middle room in the Kim to make that miraculous lamp continue to light in the West bow so anybody passing by would be able to see we couldn't see what's on the other side of the curtain but this we could see this is why the order is the way it is and not just in emor but right here right now right after truma and what do we know in Isaiah chapter 59:19 theu shame Hashem right where do we see that is it on my sheet somewhere we said it's Isaiah 59:19 it's number nine and from the West they shall fear the name of the Lord um like I said so this is an idea that this is testimony and proof that this is Hashem is with us this is testimony that God dwells among them if there was never this curtain separating between the Kim and the holy the hly of holies seemingly seemingly allegedly it wouldn't have been necessary to have this nid this constant light so the CLE clear continues we at the very bottom of SH now according to this approach we're able to say the intent is not to tell us about lighting the candles of manora you know what that's that's by pares emor that's where the command about lighting all the candles what's here these two two sentences this paragraph this short very short paragraph is telling us about the importance of the Mitzvah of the command regarding the most western flame Moshe in order to reveal to MOS that even though it is true that Veil covers over hides the holy Aon with of testimony nevertheless sorry bimc that nevertheless it will be in this place in that middle room this holy room called The KES there would be a constant miracle that will which will publicize that God DW Wells there now you already know now this is very interesting you may never have picked this up but I didn't even though I read the Rashi many times in my life Deuteronomy chap 33:21 this is really fascinating in number 11 he saw this is by Moses blessing the different tribes before his death and he's blessing Gad by the way by the way where is Moses buried on the other side of the Jordan where two and a half tribes Gad is over there he saw this is what he said about Gad he saw the first portion for himself now it is true from pasup shot that they wanted what they grabbed first what they saw first because there was a portion of the lawgiver because the there the portion of the lawgiver is hidden what's that referring to that's look at Rashi he saw fit so God saw fit to take for himself the ter on the territory in the land of seog which is on the other side of the Jordan whose land was the beginning the RIT of the conquest of the land because there the portion of the lawgiver is hidden do we all know where Moses is buried somewhere over there but we don't really know where he's buried because it's a secret for God knew through Divine transmission that within his territory would be contained the portion of the field designated for the burial of the lawgiver mainly Moses and we know that the portion of the field where Moses was buried was safon was hidden and concealed from everybody as the verse in Deuteronomy 34:6 says and no man knows his burial place okay God buried Moshe okay let's move on so that so we're in the very last line of shin this is very important in terms of what we call prophecy and the knowledge of Prophecy and how prophecy comes in I will I will just say a prophet his main job is to what to remind people of what they already know now was Moses a prophet if I would say Moses was not a prophet you would all Stone me I'm going to call him a super prophet what he gave over was above prophecy in other words it was unique it wasn't like all the other prophets a prophet comes to do what to remind you of what you already know and how to do it properly all right he's to guide you Moses was the lawgiver he had direct communication meaning that God gave him and even spoke directly through his throat let me ask you something if you hear a prophet and he gives you a directive and you do not follow it we say you're of Mis you you you're put to death if you don't follow Moses's Torah you're not put to death there's different punishments death is one of them there's certain things you die for but there are other things that you get lashes for or that you have to return right or you have to pay fine there are different punishments death is not the you know like what you call default but when you don't listen to a prophet so Moses was not in that category he was above prophecy and therefore the Torah itself is above prophecy now listen to this Moses referring to this RIT LA right in God's portion because Moses was and it's a very hard thing to swallow but listen to this Moses himself was the very beginning and the Inception of anything that stands in a miracle and we're going to compare him to that most western candle he Moses in his prophetic abilities was just like this candle what is it about a candle let's say I you need to borrow some money and I lend you money this or a chair or something from my home flower sugar when I lend you the money or the flour the sugar I lack what I gave you I'm missing something but if I was a candle and you needed light and I lit your candle from my candle is anything missing from my candle no this was like the prophetic Journey where prophecy begins with Moses we even know that Moses's face Shone like the sun and we're going to compare it to Joshua's face that Shone like the Moon the Moon is only reflective light and the sun doesn't lose any light the sun doesn't lose any light by by Shining Light on the moon so we're now at the top of shin right so we just said that Moses is like this candle that like we light from it from mosha for example common neros and these are all the prophets all the prophets are these little candles that Moses fueled or gave fire to okay or we're going to see the words and the is the original candle is not lacking this is exactly how the prophecy of Moses works that the word it was emanating from Himes the the flow of the holy spirit that came after him because they're only telling you they're not allowed to mades anything new if anybody tells you that a prophet came and told you something your forefathers did not know Stone him right I mean he's like he's gone he's a he's a missionary right so they cannot make up anything new right the face of Moses was just like uh the sun if you want to look in babab bash 75a it's number 12 on the sore sheet it says there's a verse in numbers 27:20 that Moses is supposed to put some of his honor upon Joshua if you actually want to see the verse I have it um do I have it here somewhere okay and it's actually number 13 you shall bestow some of your majesty upon him so that the congregation of Israel will take heed so the gorah says you shall put your honor indicates really you should put some of your honor but not all of your honor the Elders of the generation said the face of Moses was as bright as the face of the Sun the face of Yeshua was like the face of the Moon okay now I want to turn the page in the English the Rashi there on page six you shall bestow some of your majesty upon Him Rashi says this refers to the radiance of the skin of his face like we know in Exodus 34:29 but some of your majesty but not all of your majesty thus we learn that the face of Moses was radiant like the sun whereas the face of Yeshua was like the moon and why is that Rashi says so that they will behave towards him with reverence just as they behave towards you Moshe okay so the Clear Car explained that point second line down because from Moses it's as if right his light emanated to all the other prophets that's exactly what this Western candle did it stayed lit by Miracle now we're talking about the candle the emation of it was from really the candle itself remember we said that they should take they should take the oil and give it to Moshe it it was the energy of Moshe was keeping as we said all these Miracles alive so too that when we're talking about the prophecy of Moses it was Moses's light emanated upon it here by the candle Moses himself was somehow like an intermediary between the light of God and all other types of light light which exist miraculously and ready for this here I asked drum roll please no drum roll come on okay right if you look in Exodus chapter 2 verse two which you'll find on number 16 right y the woman conceived and bore a son and when she saw that him that it was good it's very weird wa what you she saw him that it was good she hit him for months because he was good what do we know look in Genesis chapter 1:4 God saw the light and it was good so K tell us look at Rashi that he was good when he was born the entire house filled with light so when Moses was born the whole now that was actually a Simmon for her to hide him he was born three months early meaning in the sixth month they expected uh a messiah this is why they they were trying to kill all the boys so they weren't really killing the babies at that moment they were waiting another three months so as soon as he was born then they started killing babies that you know expecting to find him as one of the babies sounds familiar anyway makes me sad to talk about it this is like an this like one of the first anti-semitic acts right and uh we haven't seen an end to it but anyway so when he was born the entire house was filled with light why I just want to tell you so she knew that she had to hide them why because if it was filled with light that would be a sign for the non-jews for the Egyptians to come so that was a sign for her actually to hide him right it was like used as a sign for her that she had to hide him because he's very special he's the guy he's the kid they're all going to be looking for so what is the CLE say comes to teach us that Moses was and I'll try to translate as best as I can he was the first recipient from the Divine Light meaning as it goes out and spreads to all the other Nim and to anybody else with rues we call mosha rabenu he's all of our teachers he is where we are um receiving our knowledge and through his agency so his influence of the influential light it comes out onto any place where there is any Nace standing and believe me the Jewish people the fact that we are here today if you don't see it now just look at the history but if you don't see in the history see it now I don't know which one to start like the the ever you know that egg just keeps going around and around now we understand why it says twice you and you you shall Commandos two times the no means present which basically means when you're in someone's presence you call them you when it's third person is called nister nistar cuz it's hidden meaning you're talking about somebody behind their back meaning not necessarily in a negative way just you're referring to him if he was in front of you it wouldn't be appropriate to refer to him as him when he's standing right in front of you okay so you're using the second person pronoun twice to teach you what the and you you mosu not even your name but your essence who you really are that's you must do this with the light that's within you that you should that you're obligated to command the Jewish people they're going to bring to you the sh right they're going to bring that sh to you meaning what according to thear to actually combine with you the sh is going to be combined with you in order that it affects the you're affecting it through your Splendor okay causing it to be affected you affecting your Splendor it's getting your Splendor out there through the oil that's your oil like we compared it to that light that light should be continuous light that that most westerly light it would be continuous by way of Miracle now afterwards he wants to give a good reason why do we even need this miracle ohel moade now we got into the ab ba because it's in the ohel moade which is the middle section but it's on the outside of the curtain which is and we says so that partition separated between the place where there is this testimony that the resides with the Jewish people which nobody can see except the K on right on on yum Kipper and between the regular in between room which we call the the the kosim the therefore therefore Aon is going to be commanded that he should arrange it's only enough for um it's going to be enough for the 12 hours not the 24 hours but still what does that imply that verse sounds like and the C car is going to question it that Aon himself is fiddling around and touching and arranging for the 12 hours at the in the middle of the night does that what it means that he's arranging them no it means that he puts in enough oil oil that they should last from morning from evening until morning the amount of oil was enough for hours nevertheless there was this miracle and that Westerly candle let lit continuously but one second you've heard me say over and over again it's the Westerly candle but the Torah doesn't say it you know what the Torah says liem it's going to be before God and as I mentioned the the entrance is really in the East and you proceed going west and then you enter into the kosim and if you continue to go west you see the perit and the um and the holy of holies is in the Far West for those who have been on the Temple Mount understand the directions and all that but it's going to be in the direction that Western Le candle is closest to the the divine presence that rest in the west right why do we call it the Western Wall we're looking at it from the East right we're we're looking Eastward we if we're in the city of Jerusalem and we're no matter where you are in the world except in Moscow if you're in the you know up in Europe most of Europe is still fa Eastern Europe no western western Europe is Facing East and I guess Africa's facing north and Asia will be fa facing uh West but for the rest of us mankind we're all Facing East but it's the Western Wall which is the Western Wall of the compound right that's why it's called the Western Wall even though we're facing East you you go to someone's house where's MRA where's East I want to face East well you're facing the Western Wall you have to make sense of this you're facing the West West Wall of the compound which is the furthest west but we are all on the east side of that I mean we're on the west side so we're looking East so that candle is facing towards Hashem so it's facing towards the um the West because it's it's towards this the direction of the testimony which is similar to this candle which is facing the the Tabernacle the sorry the arus the the Arc of testimony and so why do we need this additional idea says Deuteronomy chapter 19 verse1 15 right you want to give testimony you need two witnesses so here we have it now listen to this what are the two witnesses both Witnesses are going to be through Moshe witness number one is going to be the luos they were given through Moshe that's where the Hing levitating me and the other is thei which this says you should command you you you should be involved it's you and they should bring to you the Shan nikha right the Torah itself I have uh brought down three sources in chapter we all know it we don't have to have a source but in 19 hold on one second okay in Mali chapter 3 verse 22 3 verse 22 it says MOS remember the Torah of mosha and in Joshua 8: 21 right Moses the Lord the servant of the Lord command the children of Israel it's written as it is written in the book of the law of Moses right tus mosha and in First Kings 2:3 as is written in the law of mos mosha so we see over and over again the Torah itself is called the Torah of Moshe hanos am I in the right place right and it doesn't mention here in our portion all of the candles it's only one candle this is not the place to talk about all the candles over there just like it says over there in chapter 24 of ikra verse 4 Al but over right that's why it doesn't say there it doesn't say it says because over there the prime command was regarding all Theos it does mention the most westerly candle over there meaning there as it says in 24: 2 and three thear says when you look over there in par that's chapter 24 ofra verse three so he's telling you you actually need to pause which by the way goes against what we know is the trop the trop actually tells you where to pause meaning the cancellation marks and he's seemingly violating what we know where pause is and he's telling you add a pause between the word and the word so you read it like this outside of the P partition as a testimony in the tent of meeting in other words meet remember we said it doesn't make sense that it's the opposite but he's telling you it makes sense if you read it like this it's it's going to be outside of the tent of of the the inner tent CU go this side and it's acting as Aus in the ohel moade it's acting as a a testimony within the middle room okay and that is a very interesting way that the clear expresses this as he says coak pero this is how you read it you're going to ignite AR should raise up that everlasting light on this side of the because God ultimately wanted that there should be this one particular candle that's continuous lit by Miracle on this side of the and then the rest of the phrase is actually explaining what the usage of the miracle is what's the reason for the miracle and that's why it says after that pause acting as testimony within the because this miracle of this eternal light right is giving testimony of hashem's trustworthiness that he will be with you he's with us also in the middle tent as we said anybody can pass by that outer door and he sees and will witness with his own eyes he'll see from that most western light that the name of God is amongst the Jews because when you see that light you know that they put in exactly the same amount for all the seven candles and this one is outlasting them till the next evening it's true Aon is going to arrange them from you know let's just say 12 hours but it's going to be the most westerly candle is before Hashem always now let's just finish this last paragraph we say over there in it says right 24:2 command the children of Israel and they shall take to you what does this infer that within this phrase there is something that refers or relates to all of the Jewish people as well as something that relates only to mosha alone it says says to you therefore it's required it works that it needs to explain two things there is something that relates just to Moshe not necessarily to them and what is that that particular candle that's standing for a miracle share of regarding that and I think this is the thing that's referring just to mosha that it's being raised up as a eternal light and it says it's still talking about mosha that this will stand as a statute for all eternity God prom the Torah will not be removed from your mouth you will always have what we call the oral Torah that's what it means your mouth in your mouth it's in your mouth it's not too far it's not on the other side of the ocean you don't have to go to the Moon to get it it's not in the heavens the perish and afterwards it says and that's what it's referring when it says what direction were they these were Wicks these were oil containers if you push a wick in a certain direction that's the direction the light would be and we are all we call all of the Flames all of the Wicks all the candles were facing towards that most westerly candle as if we're sucking up so to speak speak uh the the shefa the Thea the the shefa coming from from mosenu Alam that's why it says about all of them not just in in in our par but over there inore it's in front of Hashem always and he ends off with his classic so the cleard says this is a very dear and precious um explanation now we learned a lot of principles and one of the most fascinating things in my mind is actually about Moses's Prophecy and how it gets disseminated to each one of the other prophets they're like little candles they're like little Moses running around reminding us of what it says in the Torah of mosha they're not allowed to invent anything new okay that's very important but most fascinating terms of the theme Here is that that nare that is in on the Candelabra that's in the middle room is a serving as a witness serving as testimony that Hashem is will be with us always and if we really think about why is Hanukkah you know even the most liberal assimilated Jew they may not keep a whole lot of other things they may not be observing we have no idea anyway you know which misses they do and they don't do in their hearts and between man and man but at least you know ritualistically it seems like no and there is a prophecy that says in the end of days even when the Jews are so far from Torah that which is only Rabin anyway but it's based on this idea that this would this like the Pint and the rest of these paragraphs I would encourage you to go on your own but it really speaks about how the um actually have the verses here just you can keep in mind in Proverbs 20: 27 man's soul is the Lord's lamp which searches out all the innermost Parts um Rashi says the soul in his midst testifies concerning him in judgment and in Proverbs 6:23 for a commandment is a candle and the Torah is light and the disciplining rebukes our way of life it's just amazing that even though the Jew could be so assimilated but they have a pint there's something that connects them to the Mitzvah of Hanukah lighting Hanukkah candles and batem we should all celebrate porm coming up and in in a in a happy in a joyous fashion right now we're in the month of Vadar I know this like 60 days of Happiness not just 30 um and it's not easy right under the circumstances but when we know that a Shem is with us I think that we could take a certain amount of consolation and and really be happy things are tough but um what do I say keep the spirit okay keep the faith so B everyone have a great chabas and we'll see you on the other side have a great life bye oh