2025-08-05 – LH7 – CM1 – Matzranus 3 – Para. 12-17 – Matzranus 4 – Para. 1-2 – VaEschanan – Bereishis

Matzranus 3 – Matzranus 4 – VaEschanan – Bereishis – Yom Kippur Lights – Second Luchos – Kriyas Shema Before Tefilah – Response to Kaddish – 4 Elements of Creation – Fire, Water, Air, Earth – Tzaddik – 4 Rivers from Eden – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matzranus 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 65.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 12. Yom Kippur Lights.
03:41 – tefilas Neilah. “HaShem Hu HaElokim” proclaims and reinstates achdus of HaShem throughout all worlds.
06:03 – All 5 tefilos on Yom Kippur are elevated through tefilas Neilah.
09:10 – PARAGRAPH 13. The Second Luchos were given on Yom Kippur.
11:05 – NOTE about the forgiveness of sins on Yom Kippur.
11:37 – Q&R about the special ner lit on Yom Kippur, in addition to the Yom Tov lights.
12:06 – PARAGRAPH 14. The Luchos included the 12 Tribes corresponding to the 12 nusachos of tefilah. The ultimate unity of Am Yisrael is alluded to when Yaakov Aveinu gathered 12 stones “under his head” and they became one stone.
16:00 – PARAGRAPH 15. Kriyas Shema is said before tefilah.
23:49 – PARAGRAPH 16. Responding “Amein – yehei Shemei rabba…” to Kaddish with full intent and focus leads to the forgiveness of a person’s sins.
26:30 – The reward for keeping Shabbos is boundless joy.
27:00 – PARAGRAPH 17. Why there are 12 words in “Shema Yisrael HaShem Elokeinu HaShem Echad; Baruch Shem Kevod Malkhuso LeOlam Voed”.
28:04 – HALAKHA 4. INTRODUCTION. Parshas VaEschanan. וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ הַיָּשָׁ֥ר וְהַטּ֖וֹב בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֑ה לְמַ֨עַן֙ יִ֣יטַב לָ֔ךְ – “And you shall do what is proper and good in the eyes of HaShem, in order that it may be well with you” (Devarim 6:18, VaEschanan).
29:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Parshas Bereishis. The 4 Elements of Creation [Fire, Water, Air, Earth – correspond to the four letters of HaShem’s Name Yud – Hey – Vuv – Hey]. The Tzaddik is an aspect of נהר as inוְנָהָר֙ יֹצֵ֣א מֵעֵ֔דֶן לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת אֶת־הַגָּ֑ן וּמִשָּׁם֙ יִפָּרֵ֔ד וְהָיָ֖ה לְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה רָאשִֽׁים – “And a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it separated and became four heads” (Bereishis 2:10, Bereishis).
38:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. Domem, Tzomeyach, Chayey, Medaber – the 4 levels of creation.
31:48 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 7.
35:50 – Ikar kiyum of everything in creation is through the 4 Elements. Creation is governed by the Tzaddik Emes.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.