The Western Lamp as Witness That God Dwells in Israel

"And they shall take to you" (Exodus 27:20). Rabbi Shmuel bar Nahmani said in the name of Rabbi Yonatan: "to you," and not to Me; I do not need light. The table is in the north and the Menorah in the south; I need neither the food nor the light. "And he made for the house windows" (1 Kings 6:4), "outside the veil of the testimony" (Leviticus 24:3); it is a testimony to all who come into the world that the Divine Presence rests upon Israel. And if you say I need the light, did not Israel walk by My light alone for all those forty years in the wilderness? Rather, it is a testimony to all who come into the world that the Divine Presence rests upon Israel. What is its testimony? Rava said: this is the western lamp, into which one puts oil in the same measure as its fellow lamps; from it he would kindle, and with it he would finish. One who sees olive oil in a dream may hope for the light of Torah, as it is said, "pure, crushed, for the light" (Exodus 27:20).