Two Types of Light

Tonight instead of lighting Chanukah candles AND Shabbat candles,why couldnt we just combine them somehow ? The truth is that there is a unique dynamic at play tonight,there are two sets of lights being deployed into the world,each unique and neccesary. The Shabbat candles represent the light that G-d wired into the world for Shabbat from the very begining of creation.As with the electricity that gets pre wired into our homes,all we need to do to benefit is to flick the switch,so too the aura of Shabbat is steady,predicatable,and available to us weekly and the Shabbat candles act as the switch that releases the sacred Shabbat glow into our homes. The Chanukah candles are an entirely different story.They represent the way in which we discover and bring new and original lights into the world.True we are drawing from the same source,but the wiring is new.This represents the spiritual awareness that is borne from the unique sets of circumstances of each of our lives,and the way our personal experiences lead us to a higher consciousness. The Torah is set up this way as well. The written Torah-Scriptures is the light that Hashem wired into the world. Torah She baal Be-The oral Torah on the other hand represents the light that we are able to spinoff of that,and though divinely inspired, still borne entirely from our human endeavors and spiritual creativity,which is what we are reffering to when we say” Torah Lo bashamayim hee, Torah is not developed in heaven. Tonight as we light the Chanukah lights and the Shabbat lights we celebrate both the light that we have been given,and the light we needed to discover on our own. Shabbat Shalom and Happy Chanukah Yo