Archive: December 2023

Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetovka – The Story of His Fiery Debate with the Noda BeYehuda – Part 1 of 2

Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetovka – The Story of His Fiery Debate with the Noda BeYehuda – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Rabbi Yaacov Shimshon of Shepetovka zal was a great authority in Halakha whose Torah scholarship was widely revered. Son of Rabbi Yitzchak, the Rav of Slavuta, he was a descendant of Rabbi Shimshon of Continue Reading »

Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetovka – The Story of His Fiery Debate with the Noda BeYehuda – Part 2 of 2

Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetovka – The Story of His Fiery Debate with the Noda BeYehuda – Part 2 of 2 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. 00:00 – Introduction and review of the story so far. 18:00 – The fiery debate between the Shepetovka and the Noda BeYehuda continues. 25:33 – The Shepetovka astounds the Continue Reading »

The Centrality of the Tzaddik and Eretz Yisrael – Part 5

The Centrality of the Tzaddik and Eretz Yisrael – Part 4

The Centrality of the Tzaddik and Eretz Yisrael – Part 3

Text: Likutey Halakhos, Yoreh Deah 2, Hilkhos Milah 3:7-8a. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

The Centrality of the Tzaddik and Eretz Yisrael – Part 2

Text: Likutey Halakhos, Yoreh Deah 2, Milah 3, Para. 6b. Hashem’s free kindness sustained the world before Matan Torah. The presence of a Tzaddik draws spiritual energy into lower levels in creation, even into places outside Eretz Yisrael that are lacking to kedushah (holiness).

The Centrality of the Tzaddik and Eretz Yisrael – Part 1

Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

Tzaddik – A River Went Out From Eden

Text: Likutey Halakhos Orach Chaim 1, Tefillin 5, Paragraph 25 (mid). Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Every tzaddik of the generation is an aspect of Moshiach and embodies the kabbalistic concepts within the verse: “A river went out from Eden and watered the garden…” (Bereishis/Genesis 2). Even the everyday speech of a tzaddik about “mundane” topics Continue Reading »