2025-08-25 – LH7 – CM1 – Sheluchin 3 – Para. 24-28 – Vayeishev

Sheluchin 3 – Parnassah Through Joining After Creation with Before Creation – Half-Shekel – Chanuka Lights – Kiddush HaChodesh – Kriyas Yam Suf – Yosef HaTzaddik as Shaliach – Shemiras Einayim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sheluchin 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 51 – “Mayim Mayim” and is also based on Likutey Moharan 4.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 24. Menorah. Chanukah lights. Half-Shekel offering.
05:40 – Dovid HaMelech and Golias. Five stones and the pouch corresponded to the Shema.
07:00 – Kiddush HaChodesh restores the diminishing of the moon. Half-Shekel Tribute.
10:30 – PARAGRAPH 25. Miracles of Yetziyas Mitzrayim. Parnassah. Kriyas Yam Suf united After Creation with Before Creation.
14:00 – Eyes of HaShem. Reference to Likutey Moharan 13.
15:00 – Father and Son are one. Reference to Likutey Moharan 22.
18:00 – Q&R about Left Side and Right Side.
20:00 – PARAGRAPH 26. Parshas Vayeishev. וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֨הוּ֙ מֵעֵ֣מֶק חֶבְר֔וֹן – “… So he sent him from the valley of Hebron…” (Bereishis 37:14, Vayeishev). All travel is dangerous.
24:00 – NOTE – Chiddush on Shimshon’s riddle heard from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal.
27:00 – All shefa comes into the world via the tzaddik. Sale of Yosef HaTzaddik.
32:00 – Yosef HaTzaddik was a faithful shaliach.
34:00 – PARAGRAPH 27. Parshas Vayeishev. The sale of Yosef HaTzaddik resulted in the separation of father and son. Yosef is an aspect of the Eyes of HaShem. When the brothers were reunited, there was crying (Parshas Vayigash).
36:50 – Q&R – there is a danger of confusion when HaShem sends a messenger.
40:00 – Q&R about parnassah originating from a combination of Right and Left. A child comes into the world with his parnassah.
41:00 – PARAGRAPH 28. The main test in this world is Shemiras HaBris.
46:15 – “Let Moshiach arrive, but let me not see it.”
50:00 – כֻּלֹּ֖ה זֶ֣רַע אֱמֶ֑ת – “…thoroughly righteous offspring…” (Yirmiya 2:21). A person can’t understand the tzaddik without a level of purity. “Don’t make decisions if you realize that your brain is damaged.”
53:00 – Tikkun HaBris depends on purity of the eyes. Reference to Likutey Moharan 36.
54:40 – ***A person needs to restrict what he looks at to achieve Shemiras HaBris. He also needs to restrict what he thinks about, because thoughts are a form of “looking”. When Am Yisrael looks up we draw HaShem’s hashgacha upon us.
58:00 – עֵינַי תָּמִ֣יד אֶל־יְהֹוָ֑ה כִּי־ה֤וּא יוֹצִ֖יא מֵרֶ֣שֶׁת רַגְלָֽי – “My eyes are always to HaShem for He will take my feet out of the net” (Tehillim 25:15).
60:00 – NOTE about assimilation and the moral challenges of our times.
61:20 – Closing blessings.
62:00 – ***Q&R – Clarification of how Shemiras Einayim is an aspect of Shemiras HaBris.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.