2025-05-22 – LH7 – CM1 – Mitaltelin 5 – Para. 23

Mitaltelin 5 – Bereishis – Sichos Chulin – Mundane Conversations of the Tzaddik – Daled Minim – Esrog – Garments of Light – White Includes All Colors – Emunas Chokhomim – First Ani Maamin – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Chezkas Mitaltelin 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 42.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 23. Singing the words of tefilah contributes to sweetening dinim. Through proper song, the colors of the keshes are revealed. The Tzaddik is an aspect of keshes – rainbow.
06:45 – Parshas Bereishis. The four kingdoms of darkness.
11:00 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 81. To reach and uplift Jews who are distant from HaShem, the tzaddikim engage with the tzibur at times through sichos chulin – mundane conversations.
12:14 – NOTE about how how Rebbe Nachman only spoke words of mundane conversation when apostates were in his presence.
15:50 – אור בגימטריה רז.
17:10 – The sukkah is a hug from HaShem.
18:00 – Sichos Chulin. Insights about how each of the Daled Minim corresponds to a different aspect of the Tzaddik.
22:45 – The beauty of the esrog is related to the Torah of the Tzaddik Emes.
24:50 – The Tzaddik Emes of the generation is the trunk of the tree, all the other tzaddikim of the generation are the branches.
25:20 – Q&R about the Tzaddik Emes speaking through his students.
26:00 – Unlike other kinds of fruit, the esrog lives on its branch even through a number of seasons. Yehoshua never left Moshe Rabbeinu. The esrog alludes to Emunas Chokhamim.
29:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 186.
30:00 – NOTE about the passing of Rebbe Nachman.
31:30 – Tikkun HaBris. Garments of Light. White includes all colors.
36:00 – Emunas Chokhomim.
38:00 – The name of the malakh “Samech Mem” is begematria 100. The number 101 refers to an entirely different spiritual level. The Vilna Gaon explained the difference between reviewing Torah 100 times vs. reviewing Torah 101 times.
39:00 – NOTE about a magician on a ship who tried to annoy the rabonim on board by causing the ship to stop moving. The rabonim broke the spell through using the letters Mem Lamed Tav – Roshei Teivos מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּֽה – “You shall not allow a sorceress to live” (Shemos 22:18, Mishpatim).
40:40 – Q&R about the repair of souls before Moshiach’s arrival.
44:45 – Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of creation. The sounds of the shofar correspond to Emunas Chokhomim.
49:00 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal saying the first “Ani Maamin” with tremendous kavana every day after Shacharis.
50:00 – Closing blessing.