2025-11-30 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 2 – Para. 3 – Matanah 3 – Para. 1-3 – The Concept of a Gift in the Torah – Entitlement – Otzar Matnas Chinam – Treasury of Free Gifts

Matanah 2 – The Concept of a Gift in the Torah – Entitlement – Otzar Matnas Chinam – Treasury of Free Gifts – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 2 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 78.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. The letters of a business document receive their effectiveness from the letters of the Torah.
05:00 – NOTE on entitlement.
06:00 – Before the Torah was given, the world was drawing blessing from HaShem’s Otzar Matnas Chinam – Treasury of Free Gifts. Before Matan Torah there were 26 generations that existed only through the Otzar Matnas Chinam. These 26 generations correspond with the 26 verses ending with the words “Ki leOlam chasdo” in Tehillim 136.
09:20 – *Without the concept of gift, the world could not exist.
12:00 – A gift cannot exist without the letters of the Torah. It’s through these letters that ownership is transferred from one person to another. This is why a gift must be announced with words.
19:00 – HALAKHA 3. PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Matanah 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 78.
27:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. HaShem’s Treasury of Free Gifts enables evil to exist. Torah HaNeelemes – the Hidden Torah is an aspect of HaShem’s Rachamim Gedolim – Great Mercies.
42:00 – PARAGRAPH 3.
48:00 – Q&R about the term “marketplace”.
49:00 – Announcements about the yahrzeit seudah for Rabbi Rosenfeld zal and closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.