2020-06-15 – LH3 – OC3 – Sukkah 3 – Para. 1-5 – The Tzaddik Draws Up Good Counsel; The Dimensions of the Sukkah Protect; Dealing with Dreams

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 5.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Sukkah b’gematria is malach (angel) (91).
**07:00 – The Vilna Gaon describes how the letters of the word “sukkah” – סכה – samech, chaf, hey – demonstrate the three types of structures that qualify as a kosher sukkah.
09:00 – Aitza (advice) is completed in netzach and hod, the right and left kidneys. The tzaddik draws forth and reveals true advice, as when the voice of Hashem emanated only to Moshe Rabbeinu from between the two keruvim (cherubs, forms of angels) that were on the cover of the Aron Kodesh. The faces of the cherubs resembled the faces of small children (Chagiga 13b; Sukkah 5ab).
[Ed. Note: The ARIzal states that three times a day, during the daily prayers, the keruvim would spread their wings and because the Jews were experiencing expanded “Mature Consciousness”, the faces of the keruvim would temporarily transform from that of children to young but mature faces. The keruvim are manifestations of Abba and Imma, which relate to one another in ways similar to Zeir Anpin and Nukva, except that they never, ever part. Mature Consciousness occurs when the mentality of Imma enters Zeir Anpin. The aspects of Imma that can enter Zeir Anpin are its netzach and hod. When the keruvim had young, mature faces, it indicated that the Netzach and Hod of Imma had entered into Zeir Anpin. For if Abba and Imma had been in their place, above, the keruvim would have had elderly faces, rather than young mature faces. Instead, from the fact that the faces remained young, we can understand that they were manifestations of netzach and hod of Imma entering Zeir Anpin. (Sefer HaLikutim)]
10:30 – The tzaddik is the one who is doleh (draws up) the aitzos (good counsel).
14:17 – PARAGRAPH 2. Parshas Tazria – tikkun habris.
23:00 – QUESTION about Noga. RESPONSE: Teaching from Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l about Avraham Avinu and gerim (converts to Judaism).
25:13 – Each midah has all the others within it.
**26:00 – QUESTION about practicality of the esoteric principles. RESPONSE: CLIP – Aitza tova.
**31:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. The measurements of the sukkah are aspects of staying within one’s spiritual boundaries. Keser (620)
38:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Ushpizin (“guests” in Aramaic). The Seven Shepherds of Israel who visit the Sukkah, each one on a different day of the holiday. Dreams come from either a malach or a negative supernal force.
43:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. Staying within boundaries of permitted thought is what repairs the intellect.
**48:14 – QUESTION and RESPONSE about dreams.
49:00 – Custom of Birkhas Kohanim every day in Eretz Yisrael.
50:00 – A dream is a revelation.
53:13 – Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l on dreams.: וחלמות השוא ידברו (Zecharia 10:2). After a disturbing dream, it’s a custom followed by Rabbi Rosenfeld to repeat this phrase 3 times and give tzedakah. After a positive dream, we pose the same phrase as as a question by adding a word: “Vechi chalamos haShav yiDabeyru?” This minhag (custom) is based on Berachos 55b: Shmuel, when he would see a bad dream, would say: “VaChalamos haShav yidabeyru” – “And dreams speak falsely” (Zechariah 10:2). When he would see a good dream, he would say: “Vechi haChalamos haShav yidabeyru?” – “And do dreams speak falsely? Isn’t it written: ‘I speak with him in a dream’ (Bamidbar/Numbers 12:6)?”
שְׁמוּאֵל כִּי הֲוָה חָזֵי חֶלְמָא בִּישָׁא אָמַר: ״וַחֲלֹמוֹת הַשָּׁוְא יְדַבֵּרוּ״. כִּי הֲוָה חָזֵי חֶלְמָא טָבָא אָמַר: וְכִי הַחֲלוֹמוֹת הַשָּׁוְא יְדַבֵּרוּ? וְהָכְתִיב ״בַּחֲלוֹם אֲדַבֶּר בּוֹ”]
60:00 – QUESTION: Kavanas for Bris Milah? Reference to Likutey Moharan 63.