The Maharal from Prague explained that the candle is, in the language of
symbolism, representative of the whole world. He explains the statement
paraphrased in the following way: "One who is accustomed to looking at the
whole world as a candle..." What does it mean to "look at the whole world
like a candle."
A. THE CHANUKA TORAH READINGS
On the first day of Chanuka *, celebrating the Hasmonean rededication of
the defiled Second Temple, we read Numbers 7:1-17; the passage deals with
the tribal princes' joint offerings of wagons and oxen upon the completion,
anointing and sanctification of the tabernacle, during Israel's desert trek
from Egypt to Israel;
