{"id":21467,"date":"2025-06-11T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukkatshalom-bneinoach.com\/?p=21467"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:49:22","slug":"parshat-behaalotech-5785-awakening-the-divine-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukkatshalom-bneinoach.com\/nl\/parshat-behaalotech-5785-awakening-the-divine-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"PARSHAT BEHAALOTECH 5785- HET ONTWAKEN VAN DE GODDELIJKE VONK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>\u05d1\u05e1\"\u05d3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Onze Torah portie, Behaalotecha, ontleent zijn naam aan het gebod om de Menora aan te steken. De kaarsen van de Menora symboliseren de zielen van Isra\u00ebl. De priester die het aansteken van de kaarsen in de Tempel uitvoerde, vervulde een gebod dat specifiek op hem rustte, maar de diepere spirituele betekenis van het gebod is het wekken en ontsteken van het potentieel dat inherent is aan alle zielen, zodat zij hun innerlijke missie kunnen vervullen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koning Salomo zegt in het Boek der Spreuken: \"De kaars van G-d is de ziel van de mens.\" Rabbi Schneur Zalman van Liadi, de stichter van het Chabad Chassidisme, verdiept zich in deze metafoor. Hij vindt dat de fysieke Menorah, met zijn zeven takken, de menselijke ziel vertegenwoordigt. De vlam van de lichten van de Menorah stijgt omhoog, verlangend om weer op te gaan in zijn bron. Maar onmiddellijk na deze opwaartse beweging is de natuurlijke neiging van de vlam ook neerwaarts, om door te gaan met het brengen van heiligheid in de wereld door het vervullen van G-ds geboden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deze eigenschap van de vlam weerspiegelt perfect de menselijke ziel: het verlangt naar spirituele transcendentie en zelfvernietigende eenheid met zijn Schepper, maar wordt tegelijkertijd gedreven door een verlangen om als een aparte entiteit te bestaan en een fysiek leven te leiden in de fysieke wereld. Deze inherente spanning tussen spiritueel verlangen en aardse betrokkenheid bestaat in elke \"G-ds kaars,\" de menselijke ziel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoewel het gebod om de Menora aan te steken specifiek voor het Joodse volk is, heeft het ook een spirituele betekenis voor Noachiden. Net zoals de Tempel Menora zeven takken had, zijn er zeven Noahide Geboden. Het getal zeven vertegenwoordigt de stroom van heiligheid en de openbaring van G-ds wil in de wereld. De parallel tussen de Zeven Noachide Geboden en de zeven takken van de Menora, die bedoeld waren om zielen spiritueel wakker te schudden, is diep betekenisvol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De vervulling van de Zeven Noachide Geboden hangt af van een spiritueel ontwaken onder alle naties. Wereldwijd is er inderdaad een significante opleving in het naleven van deze Zeven Geboden. Iedereen die zich bezighoudt met het verspreiden van het bewustzijn van de Zeven Noachide Wetten is, in essentie, bezig met het ontwaken van zielen. Dit spirituele ontwaken onder de Noachiden is een positief teken van de op handen zijnde komst van de ware en volledige Verlossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bronnen: Rabbi Yonatan Steif, Mitzvot HaShem, pagina 462. Numeri 8:2. Spreuken 20:27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Door Rabbijn Moshe Bernstein<\/strong><br><br><br><br><strong>Als je meer vragen wilt om over na te denken,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sukkatshalom-bneinoach.com\/nl\/category\/rabbi-burton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BEKIJK DE ANDERE BLOGS VAN RABBI MOSHE BERNSTEIN  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright, alle rechten voorbehouden. Als je dit artikel leuk vond, moedigen we je aan om het verder te verspreiden.<br><br>Onze blogs kunnen tekst\/quotes\/verwijzingen\/links bevatten die auteursrechtelijk beschermd materiaal bevatten van <a href=\"https:\/\/mechon-mamre.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mechon-Mamre.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/aish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aish.nl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sefaria.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chabad.org<\/a>en\/of <a href=\"https:\/\/asknoah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VraagNoah.org<\/a>die we gebruiken in overeenstemming met hun beleid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u05d1\u05e1&#8221;\u05d3 Our Torah portion, Behaalotecha, takes its name from the commandment to light the Menorah. The candles of the Menorah symbolize the souls of Israel. The priest who performed the lighting of the candles in the Temple fulfilled a commandment specifically incumbent upon him, but the deeper spiritual meaning of the commandment is to awaken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parshot-of-the-rabbis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PARSHAT BEHAALOTECH 5785- AWAKENING THE DIVINE SPARK - Sukkat Shalom B&#039;nei Noach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While the commandment to light the Menorah is specifically for the Jewish people, it is spiritually meaningful for Noahides as well.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sukkatshalom-bneinoach.com\/nl\/parshat-behaalotech-5785-awakening-the-divine-spark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PARSHAT BEHAALOTECH 5785- AWAKENING THE DIVINE SPARK - 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