VORT ON CHANUKAH (GEMATRIA)
We all know that min hadin the menorah must only burn for 30 minutes. the entire chanukah we light 36 nairos. take 36 and multiply it by 1/2 hour for each of the nairos, the result is 18 hours. every jew min hadin his nairos burn 18 hours a chanukah. the average person lives 70 years. multiply 70 years of a person’s lifetime by 18 hours a year, the result is 1260. in a person’s lifetime min hadin the menorah is suppose to burn 1260 hours.
In the bais hamikdosh there were 6 nairos that burned 24 hours a day the 8 days of chanukah. 6×24=144. 144×8=1152 the 7th ner was the ner maaravi. the ner maaravi burned 12 hours from night till morning, plus from shkiya till tzais which according to some shitos is 90 minutes which alltogether is 13 and a half hours a day the ner maaravi burned. multiply that by the 8 days of chanukah, the result is 108 hours. take the 1152 that we had before from the other 6 nairos and add that to the 108 of the ner maaravi and the equals to 1260.
In the lifetime of a person his menorah min hadin should be burning 1260 hours just like in the beis hamikdash where every chanuckah it burned 1260 hours.
The reason why the RAbbanon were mesakain that the menorah should be burning for 1/2 hour is so that in the lifetime of a person his menorah should be lit as much as the menorah in the beis hamikdash was burning for the whole chanukah.
A FREILICHEN CHANUKAH, A GUTEN CHODESH, A GUTEN EREV SHABBOS TO ALL MY FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT THERE.
EDITED TO CORRECT A TYPO