Tetzaveh – Crushed for the light
The Parsha begins with the pasuk saying the Bnei Yisrael should bring “olive oil crushed for the light” (27:20). The Gemara in Menachos (53b) makes the famous comparison that we are compared to olives. And when crushed these olives release their highest potential; oil, for lighting the Menorah. So too the Jewish people, when we […]