Rabbi Moshe Berger’s Dvar Torah on Parshas Beha’aloscha
OUT-SOURCING ENLIGHTENMENT: THE MENORAH What follows are two Talmudic laws which emanate from the word Beha’a’losecha: The act of lighting is not an Avodah Yoma 24b asserts that the act of lighting the Menorah in the Bais Hamikdash is not considered an Avodah, i.e., it does not constitute an intrinsic part of the “Sacred Service”*…