The Symbolism of the Menorah It isnt by coincidence that the Miracle of the Lights associated with the Menorah is the symbol of the Jewish victory over the Syrian Greeks. The Menorah symbolizes knowledge. In spiritual terms, light and oil symbolize the ability of Divine Wisdom [the light] to be expressed in terms of human knowledge [the oil]. The word for oil in Hebrew is shemen, which is a compression of the word shemona, the number eight, symbolizing the heavenly Sphere of Bina, or understanding. All human knowledge is an expression of the spark of Divine knowledge contained within it. No one has yet come up with a reasonable hypothesis that can rationally account for the birth of ideas. Thousands of physicists will study the same information in universities all over the world for years. One day, sometimes after a lapse of decades, one of them, no doubt gifted, but not unusually so in relation to his colleagues, will come up with a theory that successfully lights up an entire area of knowledge and revolutionizes the way scientists understand the world. Why him? Why then? Nobody knows. All knowledge is Divinely inspired. Knowledge is Gods light that illuminates the world.
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