2020-06-03 – LH3 – OC3 – Rosh Hashanah 6 – Roshei Perokim 7b-9 – Ma’aser (Tithing Income) and Tzedakah (Charity); Viduy on Yom Kippur, Lifting Hands Above Head?

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 7b. “Why are you downcast my soul?” (Tehillim/Psalms 42:11).
04:12 – PARAGRAPH 8. The mitzvah of tzedakah (charity).
07:37 – PARAGRAPH 9. Viduy on Yom Kippur removes the arrows of the klipos (negative forces).
12:26 – The essence of teshuvah (return to serving Hashem) is by means of the hands.
13:00 – Note from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l about striking the heart. The use of hands in tefilah (prayer).
15:32 – QUESTION about how to give tzedakah properly. Reference to Likutey Moharan 4. Does kavanah (intention) count in giving ma’aser (tithing income)?
34:15 – QUESTIONS about “odeynu” – praise, and about if the hands give to speech, or does speech give to the hands?
36:14 – QUESTION about raising the hands above the head.
37:59 – Clapping hands during tefilah.
38:22 – QUESTION about encouraging others to give ma’aser.
39:19 – Money empowers – we say before giving tzedakah during shacharis “ve ha osher ve hakavod milfanecha” – “Wealth and honor come from You [Hashem]”.
40:07 – Autobiographical note on R’ Nasan Maimon’s experience working in a finance broker’s office.
44:04 – QUESTION about the value of giving tzedakah to widows and orphans.
45:05 – QUESTION – are there times when a person should not give tzedakah? Biographical account from the lives of both Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l and Reb Michel Dorfman z”l receiving ma’aser and then handing it back to the donor, because these rabonim knew that the donor was a worthy recipient of ma’aser. Letter of Reb Yitzchak Breiter z”l about tzedakah.
47:15 – Note about Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l quoting the Baal HaTanya’s analogy between giving tzedakah and paying a doctor.
57:00 – QUESTION about raising hands above head during exercise.