Day 237 - Pele Yoeitz - Importance of Lighting Candles
Hey Klever, hope you're doing amazing. Day 237 in our Peleoids journey. If you're just joining us, it's okay. We'd be getting a brand new topic today called Hadlaka, the Mitsah of Lighting Candles. Says the Peleoids like this. Hadlaka is mitzah benefits, the Nirz Chanaka as it relates to the candles of Shabbos and the candles of Chanukka. The main thing is the actual lighting. Hadlaka is a mitzah as opposed to just merely the placement of it. Okay, the be'erchnair, like I'm gonna discuss in the topic of in the section of Nir. But's Nair's basicness is Gauki Mitzah In addition, there's a mitzah to light candles in a synagogue. So you'll see in many shuls will have lights lit, right? They'll have a even the shoal uh usually has a nere tamit, constant light, but there's also an idea of lighting candles in a shoal before the tephilos, etc. But a person might have might need to make a choice between what's good and what's better. He can't be naked both, he can't provide light for the shool and for his own home. At the end of the day, better for him, says the Palaeois, to light in his own home as opposed to provide for the Shua. Because the Shu's not going to lose out by you not providing. There's a concept. And how relevant and ogea is this idea. The congregation is not poor, as it relates to this time period in general of Sviras Aimir. When the Talmud of Rebekiba, Show Nagu Kavit Zelaza, they didn't accord each other with honor. We have to relate and connect to this idea of being at Sibor, because that moment that we connect to being at Cibor, that we're one, unified, whole, one nation, right? And Zekal Godobataira, it's Davga and Klaw, correct? It's called the Klaal Gadobataire. It's a general rule, but also an allusion, that claw yield that we need to be together as a tsibur, because ain't ciborani. The tsibor, when we're cool and calm and collected, collected, the achtas, then we're then we're taka cool. Then nobody can start up with us. Then we have the energy and the force and the wherewithal to continue to be. We're rich, we're wealthy. The congregation is not poor. So let's work on being together and being with Ahtas. It's like pouring a little bit of water into the ocean. Of course you're doing a mitzvah. But better than providing to the shoal if you're not going to be able to provide for your own home. Or to provide it for a talk that he should be able to light for his Shabbos, or to he or light candles that he should learn by. Unless you're doing it, let's say you would light the candle in the shoal or something like that for the sake of the honor of the living and the dead, or the people who shouldn't like make fun of you. So then better in that case to light and shool, because not everybody knows, says the Pelia, it's what I what like the advantage of what I'm saying. A person shouldn't do too many lightings if he hasn't have the means to do so. But know this, better is tdaka than all karbanos, like it says in the Mandra Shagal Koshkin Madaka's basicnesses, then certainly better is giving taka than lighting than spending money to light light candles and show. Of course, if you could, great, but if not, not. And this will be good for uh be good before I got a sbok and good for the souls of one's parents. If he's a poor man, his livelihood and the livelihood of his family comes first. So that he should have sufficient supply to light Shabbos candles, and to be able to learn by it. That will be considered sedaka for him providing for himself and his family, more so than him doing something to provide the candles for the shool. Everything is depending on the situation, on the person. If a person has the means to do so, then his honor is to increase in the honor of the shuq. Then you increase in the light. And it's gonna be tremendous for you and your children. And now the Palayot is gonna talk about the importance of lighting candles in Shool. He says that there's great people that they love the lighting in Shool so much. They wouldn't even allow the Shamish to light it. They want to do themselves. They would light it with it by themselves with honor and great respect. I heard that there's some places that they actually auction off the ability to light candles in the Shool. This is a great thing. It's a beautiful thing. Let me start again. That which Sholh Melech merited, Malucha kingship, was because of what? Zakhus Zekenu. It was a merit from his grandfather, Shayya Mandlik Nerz Ban Musa Chazim Rab. It was because his grandfather, Shah Melh's grandfather, would light candles in dark alleyways and dark places to light it up for the masses. That way they shouldn't walk in the dark. And his grandson merited to have the Malucha, the kingship. Ultimately, at the end of the day, that's the idea of kingship, right? What's the connection? Kingship is that you're light, you're a man of the people, that you're you're lighting souls, you're lighting people, you're lighting up the people, giving them a sense of life, a vibrancy that you help them, you're the melech, and you can help them connect to the ultimate melech to help them see the spirit, the soul, the light within. Okay. Why was Devoira, the Nivea, why was she Zaicha to become a prophet? Because she prepared thick wicks in the base of Mekdash. She prepared thick wicks. An amazing thing. It's so good that if the dare is lit the whole night, the Baez Shayna Mishan is so as long as a person is not having intimacy, because you can't have intimacy by the light, this is a great hachana preparation for waking up in the morning. Most of the um the instigation of the Ytahar against us in the morning is laziness to not light the light. See you tomorrow.
