0490 - Electric Menorah by the Amud in 770 - 5 Lamps

00:00 In Sefer HaMinhogim, page eight, it says that a oval bemeshech yud alef cheydesh, an oval throughout the 11 months, tehidam s'vadomed. Cheim baal yortsaid, also a person who dam s'vadomed when he has yortsaid. Madlikim chamisha neres v'shas atfila, you light five candles when he davens. And in the Or it says, taken from the Fridy Kerem Sichas, that it's the five are keneged, nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chai, yechidah, the five parts of the neshamah. And then it says that from here we could learn out so too concerning the electric menerah that's always there in front of the omed. It should have five lamps. And then it says that this is a herah from the Rebbe. Now, I don't know exactly when the herah came, but I could say is that upstairs in 770, for years in the yuds and then in the beginning of the chofs, the menerah that was there in front of the omed had six branches. But one branch was separate from the other, there was someone like pushed it away. So you had in a straight line the five lamps, and then the sixth one was pushed away to the side. In other words, this was the original lamp that was there, and it had six bulbs. So when this herah from the Rebbe came, and I don't know when, that they should only have five, then what they did was they pushed it away, the sixth one, and that sixth one was not in the same line, and that one wasn't lit.

01:21 So when you put on this menerah, only five of the lamps went on, and the sixth one didn't go on. And that's how it was there for many years till they changed it, and they got a new menerah. And when they got the new menerah, then it l'chatchilah only was made with five. But many, many years, the menerah there was six, and you could see that there was something done to it. So it's the sixth one shouldn't be part of it, even though it was there. They didn't break it off. It was there, but it was pushed away. And what was lit always was only the five.