2025-10-21 – LH7 – CM1 – Sheluchin 5 – Para. 35b-36a – Parshas Beshalach

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Sheluchin 5 – Parshas Beshalach – Horse and Chariot – Good Thoughts Are Merkava deKedusha – Beirur HaMedameh – Challenge of Ai – 20th of Sivan – 29th of Tishrei – Yahrzeit of R’ Moshe Burstein zal – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sheluchin 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 8.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 35b. Parshas Beshalach. HaShem’s defeat of Pharaoh’s horses and chariots through His Merkava deKedusha vs. the Merkava deSutra Achra. A person’s thoughts are called the Merkava deKedusha and the confused throughs are called the Merkava deSutra Achra. Establishing good thoughts and letting go of confused thoughts is the main struggle in life.
08:21 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 69. The power of the horse alludes to the powers in the physical world.
10:00 – All the religions in the world are essentially connected with serving HaShem but are distorted by the Sutra Achra.
12:00 – NOTE about current events – the kovod surrounding the recent foreign emissaries visiting Eretz Yisrael.
13:00 – Making the horse subservient to the rider: using the physical world to achieve actions of kedusha.
18:00 – ***Applying the above concepts to daily life by continually strengthening emunah in HaShem through Beirur HaMedameh. The Yetzer Hara has a variety of tactics to use against us, but HaShem can match and defeat them, one by one.
20:00 – The entire world depends on man’s Beirur HaMedameh. Beirur HaMedameh leads to the establishment of HaShem’s New World – Malkhus Moshiach.
18:10 – Q&R about Matan Torah being given on the 6th of Sivan.
19:22 – Q&R about how artificial intelligence is hiding HaShem. Sipurey Maasios – Story of the Master of Prayer – the kingdom that believed murder was the goal. Ai is doing away with the need for a work force, but HaShem’s purpose behind creation was the establishment of Am Yisrael.
21:52 – NOTE about A.i.
23:35 – Slichos on the 20th of Sivan.
32:27 – ***BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal: Connecting oneself with the 30,000 martyrs in Uman when saying the Shema.
36:30 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 179. Charity increases peace. There is makhlokes in Am Yisrael to hide the identity of the tzaddikim.
44:00 – Achila deKedusha and fasting help a person to find the Tzaddik. Reference to Likutey Moharan 57 about the spiritual dimensions of fasting.
46:00 – Why the Fast of the 20th of Sivan was established in the month of Matan Torah.
47:00 – *BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Today – the 29th of Tishrei – is the yahrzeit of Reb Moshe b’Reb Matisyahu Dovid Burstein zal (1913-2011). Friendship between him and Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal and their shared determination to travel to Uman for Rosh Chodesh even through life-threatening circumstances during the years of Soviet oppression.
46:57 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The 29th of Tishrei is also the yahrzeit of Rabbi Maimon’s father – Reb Eliezer b’Reb Nasan Yaakov Maimon zal. Closing blessings.