THE HIDDEN "SO" IN BEHALOTSECHA CONNECTING TO THE LIGHT OF CREATION

THE HIDDEN “SO” IN BEHALOTSECHA

 

At Shul on Shabbat I heard from Rabbi Aurbach, he brought it down in the name of the Malbim :

You will note something fascinating about creation on each day where it says G-d created, it says thereafter it was so.... but hang on it does not say this on the first day where G-d created the light and when he created birds and fish... in our portion when Aaron lit the Menorah it hints to something amazing it says after he lights, it says, he did so, and then it goes on to tell us he lit the Menorah - the double talk is a hint.   The Lesson at creation the light on the first day was a hidden light, a light reserved for the righteous - the light of the world to come, it does mannifest itself in various ways, but largely it is hidden. The Menorah light in the middle burnt continously it was not of the normal light we experience on earth everyday from the Sun, it was a light from the spiritual world. The other days of creation indicate creations that are clearly visible creations (apparent ) thus the words in Genesis - it was so! Amazing Stuff!!

 

Genesis Chapter 1

DAY 1 LIGHT

V5

And G-d called the light day, and the darkness He called night, and it was evening and it was morning, one day.

Note there is no " and it was so"?

DAY 2 SKY AND SEA

V7

And G-d made the expanse and it separated between the water that was below the expanse and the water that was above the expanse, and it was so.

DAY 3 EARTH AND PLANTS

V9

 And G-d said, "Let the water that is beneath the heavens gather into one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.

V11

And G-d said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, seed yielding herbs and fruit trees producing fruit according to its kind in which its seed is found, on the earth," and it was so.

DAY4 SUN STARS AND PLANETS (USE LIGHT)

V15

 And they shall be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shed light upon the earth." And it was so.

Day 5 BIRDS AND FISH (USE SKY AND WATER)

It does not say “and it was so” for the fish and birds on day 5, but there is a mention of and it was so regarding these creatures as food in verse 30 of chapter 1 of Genesis.

 

And G-d said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And G-d created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and G-d saw that it was good.

And G-d blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

 

DAY 6 ANIMALS (USE LAND)

And G-d said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle and creeping things and the beasts of the earth according to their kind," and it was so.

NUMBERS CHAPTER 8 V 3 on Aaron and the lighting of the Menorah

Aaron did so; he lit the lamps toward the face of the menorah, as the L-rd had commanded Moses.

Amazing Aaron,  we know he lit the Menorah from the second part of the sentence already, the fact the verse says he did "so" informs us this LIGHT was specially connected to DAY 1 of creation! It was the spiritual light manifest in this world

Have a good one
Michael