Friday, 5 June 2015

Parashas Be'Ha'Aloscha

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Be'Ha'Aloscha.HaShem Commands that the lamps of the Menorah need to be 'Kindled' toward the 'face' of the Menorah.
An obvious question presents itself here.A Menorah doesn't have a face.So what is the face being referred to here.
HaShem is instructing that the three wicks on either side must always be kindled toward the middle central one.So the central one was the 'Face' of the Menorah.So why was the middle referred to as the 'Face?'
The middle stem represented HaShem and all of Creation must lean toward HaShem.We all are to always work toward and lean toward HaShem and face HaShem in all that we do.
The word 'Be'Ha'Aloscha,' has within it,the word,"Be'Ha'Aleh," which means 'To Raise.' Yet here it is used as the word 'Kindle,' which is usually the Hebrew word 'Hislakachat.' So HaShem is trying to tell us that by cleaving to HaShem we will raise ourselves toward HaShem in Holiness.
All Creation in this world is connected to The One Single Creator of us all that binds us all in harmony if we would only see it.We are all connected to G-D.Every Creature,every life-form- everything that exists,only exists, because HaShem Wills it to exist.If for the space of an instant,HaShem stopped Willing it to exist,all would cease to be.HaShem is our very existence.So it is for all of Creation to cleave to HaShem Who is the Source of all.But this cleaving is given as our choice.So every moment we exist,we are to light our souls toward the Holiness of HaShem,like the lighting of the lamps toward the 'Face ' of the Menorah - toward the 'Face' of HaShem ,for HaShem is within us all and we are to make sure that we make every moment that we breathe an opportunity to lean and cleave toward HaShem and His Will and His Commandments,for we need to realize that as the Menorah was made from a single hammered out piece of Gold,so are we to be one ,connected by the sweetness of Creation.We must start to realize our connection to the rest of Creation for we are all one ,connected by 'Life' to G-D.
The magnificence of the result that would be if we all stood together as one and lit our souls toward G-D would be like the beauty of the finished Menorah with all its flowers and knobs in precious gold and as we see in the Book of Bereishis (2:1-12) where a river issues from Gan Eiden and becomes four streams and one of these streams is called Pishon that encircles the land of Havilah,we see that it is there where the Gold is,so the finished product of the Menorah of one piece of Gold will be us,all together in unity as one , under HaShem,working back up the stream toward where the Gold is and heading toward Gan Eiden where we can meet HaShem as one.
I wish HaShem with love,a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all,a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.

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