Parshas Terumah (5779)

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Parshas Terumah (5779)

By Mordechai Dolinsky

The pashtus of how we perceive the middle קנה of the מנורה is what we would call the top perch where the כוס is placed.  However from Rashi it really seems that the קנה is one big cup for the oil and the wick.  The stand is really one long deep cup.  The difference is as if the cup is perched on the ground with the oil and wick.  It is as if the ground of the world is producing the light. We know that the object which is the exact center of the avodah brings the special ברכה of the avodah.  It is as if the oil and the wick is on the ground of the world.  This is perhaps the understanding of the awesome greatness of the light of the menorah. 

Have a wonderful, lit up Shabbos.