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The Menorah and the Eternal Light of the Jewish Neshamah

Original title: Significance of the Menorah

This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Chazal tell us the menorah represents shechinah shruyah b'Yisrael. The Eibishter is among Klal Yisrael always, no matter what. The...

Speaker or source
Torahanytime
Category
Chagim and Calendar
Subcategory
Chanukah
Duration
0:01:56
Recording year
2024

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Chazal tell us the menorah represents shechinah shruyah b'Yisrael. The Eibishter is among Klal Yisrael always, no matter what. The ner maaravi never extinguished. It was a miracle to show that the eish, the fire—you know, in every person's neshama, it's a physical thing, a heart, the soul—but there's something spiritual that burns. It's a neshama. What is that? It's a fire. It's a spark. You know, Torah is called what? Eish. ... like a fire. There's a fire. My words are like fire. You know what the neshama is? It's called ner. The neshama is called a ner. It's called a ner. It's a ner, right? In heaven, we want to make a zecher, a yahrzeit. What do we do? We put a candle for the neshama. Ner Hashem nishmas adam. The neshama and the Chanukah, the neshama of the Jew is Chanukah. It is Chanukah. That's what it's all about. Ki haShechinah shruyah b'Yisrael. The Shechinah rests among us. No Yavan, no Greek, no culture can undo that. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.