“And Aaron did so, he mounted its candles at the front of the lampstand, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.” RASHI interpreted, to praise Aaron for not changing. The interpreters ask, “What would I say so he would not observe the commandment of the Creator, etc.?”

“Our sages said, ‘When Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma fell ill, Rabbi Hanina Ben Tardion went to visit him. He said to him, ‘Hanina my brother, do you not know that this nation was crowned from above? Its house was destroyed, its hall burned down, its followers were killed and it lost its best sons, and still it exists. I heard about you that you sit and engage in Torah and make assemblies out in the open with a book of Torah placed in your bosom.’’” RASHI interpreted and they declared a judgment about it.

“He said to him, ‘From heaven there will be mercy.’ He said to him, ‘I am telling you meaningful words and you are telling me, ‘From heaven there will be mercy’? I wonder if they do not burn you and the book of Torah in the fire.’ Rabbi said to him, ‘Where am I with regard to life in the next world?’ He said to him, ‘Has an act come into your hand?’ He replied, ‘I mistook coins of Purim with coins of charity and handed them to the poor.’ He replied, ‘In that case, of your share will be my share and of your fate will be my fate.’”

RASHI interprets that coins of Purim, which I placed for the Purim meal, I accidentally replaced them and I handed them out to the poor. I thought that my wallet was for charity, but I did not pay off my wallet of charity (Masechet Avodah Zarah, 18a).

Indeed, it is hard to understand concerning Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma, a man who dedicated himself to the sanctification of the Creator and who sits and engages in Torah, is it still not enough that he should have the next world? If he performs an act that any uneducated person can do, to be generous with his wealth, as he said about it, “of your share will be my share,” doing such an act does not require devotion. So why after he heard about the matter with the Tzedakah he said, “Of your share will be my share”?

According to the way of Baal HaSulam, it follows that the most important is to emerge from self-benefit, meaning that a person can perform acts of devotion also on the basis of self-benefit.

Hence, when he saw that he was relinquishing self-benefit through an act of Tzedakah, he knew that all his dedication was on the basis of the intention to bestow. This is why he said, “of your share will be my share,” etc. This refers not only to the act of charity, but also to the act of sitting and engaging in Torah, and gathering assemblies out in the open, since everything was on the basis of the intention to bestow.

This is the meaning of “It teaches that Aaron did not change,” since the making of the Menorah is a high degree, and the pleasure is immense, and the greater the pleasure, the harder it is to work in order to bestow. This is the meaning of not changing, and that everything was on the basis of “just as the Lord had commanded Moses.”