0588 - Explain the Idea of the Upside-down Cup - Becher

00:01 The Rebbe explained that that farbrengen of L'il Simcha stated Tov Shemeim Vov was the inyan of turning over the cup. And he said that it has a moket in niggle. In the picture that the Ramba made, Ramba Muthisk Savyad made when he made the picture of the Menorah in his Pirkei Shom Shnayis, there he made the gvim, the beches, the cups, that they were upside down. That the wide part was in the bottom, and the narrow part on which it's usually a cup stands, that was up. And the Rebbe says he once explained in his printed Likutei Sichot Chelek Chof Alef, page 164, he says he explained that just like we find in the Beis Hamikdash, that the windows were made different than regular windows. Normally windows are at outside it's narrow, inside the window itself is wide, so the light should come into the room and spread. Here it was the opposite, shkufim atumim. And the reason is because here it's supposed to be the opposite, that the light from inside of the Beis Hamikdash should go out. So the Rebbe says that's the same idea with the gvim of the Menorah. The Bechai writes that the gvim of the Menorah represent that it's a hashpoa mamailo, and the hashpoa mamailo, the cup should be upside down because when it's upside down, that shows that the hashpoa comes from up down, like a turned over upside down kos. When you have to be mekabel something in the kos, you have to receive something, then

01:25 the kos has to be straight. It should stand, and on top it's wider, and there you mekabel, you put in. But when you want to be mashpia on the outside, then it goes the opposite. When you turn over the cup and you want to pour out of the cup, then you have to turn the opposite. And the Rebbe said, so therefore now also he said to do that because since the Rebbe wanted we should be neiris lechoyer, that we should bring the light out, therefore the gvim should be the opposite as if when you pour out from the gvim. When you're talking about yourself, the Rebbe said, then you have to have a kos that's standing normally. The bottom is on the bottom and the opening is on top. Then you could pour in what you have to pour in, you could pour in wine, etc. But when you're talking about neiris lechoyer, to be a shining example to others and being mashpia on others, then you have to turn the cup upside down. And then the Rebbe said that from this it should be, yirotzen, it should be achonet to Hashem will be le'er elam v'kula mitzvah shlema b'mehera b'mein amein. And then the Rebbe finished the farbrengen.