Question: What is the “stop on the way” that Chanukah symbolizes?
Answer: In the spiritual world there are no “stops” as we know it. It isn’t that you are free from the spiritual work and can go home. The meaning of “a stop” is that we acquire the attribute of Bina and now we have to make a shift. We’ve raised Malchut to Bina and here comes Hanukkah.
Now we begin to make a shift, to lower Bina
, to work with the vessels of receiving (AHP)
. Thus we work with a growing desire to receive until we descend to its deepest levels. The ascent of Malchut
is called the Maccabean Revolt, “to bestow
in order to bestow,” and the descent of Bina
is already Purim, “to receive in order to bestow.”
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/11, Writings of Rabash
An Acquaintance With The New World
The Reason We Kindle The Candle
First We Learn Not To Steal From The Creator