בס״ד
Beha’aloscha
Did the menorah eighteen t’fachim high
Direct its beam up to the sky?
Or cast its light, as Rashbam said,
Towards the shulchan, with its bread?
Was the ikar just the central wick,
Supported by the other six,
The p’silos on the left and right,
To focus on that middle light?
Or did each taper forward lean,
To shine on lechem hapanim,
“el mul pnei” so says the verse,
panim/pnei a play on words?
I was not there, I cannot say,
We’ll have to wait until the day,
Once more Kohein ascends to face,
The menorah in its sacred space.
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