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The concept of beauty and its significance during hanukkah through the perspectives of rabbi meir soloveichik and rabbi sacks. The text references rod serling's quote from the twilight zone and discusses betzalel, the artist of the tabernacle, and the jewish belief in hadrat kodesh, or the beauty of holiness. Part of the friday night lights series sponsored by various families in honor and memory of their loved ones.
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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: HANUKKAH EDITION Rabbi Meir Soloveichik December 10, 2020 | Part 2 of a Special Hanukkah Series
This week’s session sponsored by: **Riki & Meir Kreitman and Gail & Jeff Toll, in honor of the nahala of their beloved grandmother, אסתר ביילע בת רב מאיר ברוך הכהן Debbie & David Sable, in memory of Rabbi Jack Sable
4) Rabbi Sacks: The key to Betzalel lies in his name. It means “In the shadow of God.” Betzalel’s gift lay in his ability to communicate, through his work, that art is the shadow cast by God. Religious art is never “art for art’s sake.” Unlike secular art, it points to something beyond itself. The Tabernacle itself was a kind of microcosm of the universe, with one overriding particularity: that in it you felt the presence of something beyond – what the Torah calls “the glory of God” which “filled the Tabernacle” (Exodus 40:35). The Greeks, and many in the Western world who inherited their tradition, believed in the holiness of beauty (Keats’ “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”). Jews believed in the opposite: hadrat kodesh, the beauty of holiness: “Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” (Psalms 29:2). Art in Judaism always has a spiritual purpose: to make us aware of the universe as a work of art, testifying to the supreme Artist, God Himself. 5)