2020-05-15 – LH3 – OC3 – Rosh Hashanah 4 – Para. 3-6 – Behar – Bechukosai – Wordless Cry of the Shofar – Doing Teshuvah on Teshuvah

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Rosh Hashanah 4 – Behar – Bechukosai – Kavanos of Elul – Wordless Cry of the Shofar – Doing Teshuvah on Teshuvah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Rosh Hashanah 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 6.

• 00:00 BeHar – BeChukosai – When HaShem loves someone, He reprimands them. Reference to Likutey Moharan 30.
• 03:38 PARAGRAPH 3. The human image that sits on the throne. The diminishing of the light of the moon. The terms “sun” and “moon” relate to Kudsha Brich Hu and the Shekhina.
• 05:33 *Teshuvah repairs the letter Aleph in Adam.
• 08:04 The main thing is to repair and to unite the lower nekuda (point) and the upper nekuda of the letter Aleph.
• 08:40 Vezeh bechinas Rosh Hashanah: uniting the lower and upper point of the Aleph, because this is a beginning for the sun and a beginning for the moon.
• 12:27 Why on Rosh HaShanah we don’t mention Rosh Chodesh.
• 15:02 The face of the baal tokeyah turns colors, like the sky. Kol is the Vav connecting the upper and lower nikudos of the Aleph. Yaakov Avinu is represented by the Vuv in the Shem Havayah.
• 17:16 Vezeh bechinas shofar – the sound of the shofar is Binah/Teshuvah. The beauty of the sound of the shofar itself.
• 18:54 PARAGRAPH 4. The shofar gathers in all those who are lost and distant. The lower part of the Aleph is generated by silence.
• 19:56 Brief review of Kavanos of Elul.
• 21:31 ***When a person who feels very distant from HaShem wants to do teshuvah, the first step is simply cry out to HaShem without words, like the sound of the shofar.
• 26:26 QUESTION: does a person need to have consciousness of the kavanos in order for them to be effective, or is their spiritual effect automatic? The power of the shofar’s wordless cry takes effect automatically and instantly, no matter what a person’s level or understanding of kavanas – intentions.
• 32:37 The word shofar is made of the letters that create the word “beauty”.
• 34:00 PARAGRAPH 5. The meaning of the shofar sounds on Rosh Hashanah. Tekiah is an aspect of shtika – silence.
• 34:18 QUESTION about the sin of the moon.
• 38:16 QUESTION about the nachash (serpent). RESPONSE: the more we understand our responsibility to Hashem, the more we merit honor.
• 41:58 PARAGRAPH 6.Why the shofar is sounded many times. Doing Teshuvah on Teshuvah – repentance on repentance – what is it?
• 47:32 QUESTION about the moon being the guide at night. RESPONSE: if Klal Yisrael had gone to Yehoshua before they made the Egel HaZahav (Golden Calf), the sin could have been averted.
• 49:12 QUESTION about the sounds of the shofar and feelings of remorse. RESPONSE: our souls were present and participated in the sin of Adam HaRishon. Our souls were part of the sin of the levana also – as a reflection of our own need for sovereignty.
• 52:13 *QUESTION about personal renewal at the time of Rosh Chodesh. RESPONSE: the word chadash (new) is b’gematria twelve times Shem Havaya.