2025-08-07 – LH7 – CM1 – Matzranus 4 – Para. 4-9a – Parshas Devarim

Matzranus 4 – Parshas Devarim – Adjoining Property Rights – 4 Elements – Moshe Rabbeinu vs. Sichon and Og – Rosh Bayis – Protecting Borders – Rabbi’s Only Son – Without the Tzaddik Something Will Always Be Missing – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matzranus 4 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 67.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4.
04:30 – PARAGRAPH 5. Moshe Rabbeinu vs. Sichon and Og.
08:00 – NOTE about the Megaleh Amukos, Rabbi Noson Nota b’R Shlomo Spira zal (Poland, 1585–1633). His yahrzeit is today, the 13th of Av.
11:30 – Q&R about the 4 Yisodos and physical health. Tzaddikim suffer on behalf of Am Yisrael.
13:30 – Parshas Devarim. Galus Edom. אַל־תִּתְגָּ֣רוּ בָ֔ם כִּי לֹֽא־אֶתֵּ֤ן לָכֶם֙ מֵֽאַרְצָ֔ם עַ֖ד מִדְרַ֣ךְ כַּף־רָ֑גֶל – “You shall not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land not so much as a foot step…” (Devarim 2:5, Devarim).
16:00 – The importance of protecting the borders of one’s land or territory. Shnei Malkhus Emori – roshei teivos Moshe.
18:30 – PARAGRAPH 6. The concept of Rosh Bayis. Midrash: Am Yisrael sinned through ראש – was punished through ראש – and will be repaired through ראש. All sadness and illness is a result of an imbalance in the 4 Yisodos, in the individual and/or in Klal Yisrael.
21:30 – Betzalel.
22:30 – HaShem works through the Tzaddik Emes. Yosef is begematria 6 times Yud – Hey – Vuv – Hey.
23:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. Parshas Devarim. As a result of the sin of the meraglim, Am Yisrael did not defeat Edom and was forced to take a long and arduous indirect route to Eretz Yisrael.
27:30 – Q&R about the spiritual meanings of Edom, Moav, and Ammon.
28:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Due to the sins of Am Yisrael, Moshe Rabbeinu and Aharon HaKohen passed away just outside the borders of Eretz Yisrael. They protect the borders of Eretz Yisrael permanently, because they are buried there.
32:00 – Q&R about the burial place of Aharon HaKohen.
33:30 – PARAGRAPH 9. This paragraph refers back to the medrash brought in PARAGRAPH 6. The sin was against the Rosh, the punishment was Rosh, and the consolation was Rosh.
36:30 – “Nachamu, nachamu Ami…”
38:40 – The main source of life energy, hope, rescue, healing, and consolation – is the Tzaddik Emes.
40:00 – NOTE about a man whose wife is sad. The story of the Ben HaYachid – the Rabbi’s Only Son. ***Rav Nachman Tcherin zal explains that until a person is missing a kesher with the Tzaddik Emes, he or she will feel that something is missing in their life.
45:30 – Story of how the Mezritcher Maggid sent a person with problems to “speak to the doctor” – Reb Zushia.
47:30 – Returning to the text: the tzaddik is the grace and beauty of the entire world. Whoever merits to be connected with him will be able to see his own needs in tikkun hamidos.
49:00 – Q&R How do we find the Tzaddik Emes in present times? This is the main test in life.
51:30 – Closing blessing about learning the Breslov seforim and doing tikkun hamidos.
54:00 – Q&R about a wife’s opposition to her husband traveling to Uman for Rosh Hashanah.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.