Geulah Lots of Light

Our Sages state that the beis hamikdash parallels the entire physical world. Accordingly, its menorah alludes to the luminaries: the sun and the moon. At the start of Creation, the moon was as bright as the sun, and the sun was sevenfold its present strength. The world was lit up even at night, and correspondingly, the menorah in the beis hamikdash burned by day and by night. The menorah’s seven lamps represent the sevenfold light of the sun.

In the era of redemption, the universe will return to its original state, as it is stated, “And the light of the moon shall be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold” (Yeshayah 30:26).

Tzemach Dovid
Yalkut Moshiach U’Geulah al HaTorah
Translated by Yaakov Paley