2026-05-24 – LH8 – CM2 – Pikadon 3 – Para. 5-9a – Hisbodedus Course – Praying for Yiras Shemayim

Pikadon 3 – Hisbodedus Course – Praying for Yiras Shemayim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Pikadon 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 64.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5.
04:45 – אִם־יְהוָה לֹא־יִשְׁמָר־עִיר שָׁוְא׀ שָׁקַד שׁוֹמֵר – “…If HaShem will not guard a city, [its] watcher keeps his vigil in vain” (Tehillim 127:1).
11:48 – ***HISBODEDUS COURSE.
12:30 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 96 and the teachings immediately following, and reference to Sichos HaRan 154.
19:00 – ***Even though Yiras Shemayim is in HaShem’s Hands, Rebbe Nachman still encourages praying for Yiras Shemayim.
26:20 – PARAGRAPH 8.
40:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. The essence of tefilah. רַק לְשֵׁטֶף מַיִם רַבִּים אֵלָיו לֹא יַגִּיעוּ – “For this let every pious man pray to You at the time that You are found, only about a flood of vast waters [that] should not reach him” (Tehillim 32:6).
43:00 – Q&R about teaching the importance of tefilah in yeshivos.
44:20 – Human intellect can only grasp what results from the Sheviras HaKeylim of creation. It is forbidden to ask questions that originate from the Chalal HaPenui.
52:00 – Quote from Likutey Moharan 62.
55:00 – Q&R about the sun revolving around the earth.
55:45 – Quote from Rabbi Rosenfeld zal: “If you don’t sandwich our learning with a lot of tefilah, I don’t envy you.”

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel. Timings approximate.