2020-09-06 – LH2 – OC2 – Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 3 – Para. 1-3a – Purifying Hands from Sin; The Purpose of Creation is Ratzon (Will); The Meals of Shabbos

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 7, especially from Paragraph 10, regarding “son and student”.
00:05 – PARAGRAPH 1.
23:25 – PARAGRAPH 2.
25:51 – PARAGRAPH 3. Purifying the mind through purifying the hands before eating.
29:58 – The purpose of the creation of man was the creation of ratzon – will/yearning.
32:19 – The word “Moshe” is b’gematria 345. Ratzon (will/yearning) is 346.
*32:45 – Why did Hashem need to command Adam to eat from all the other trees in Gan Eden? Wasn’t this understood from the prohibition to eat from one particular tree? Eating from the trees of Gan Eden is the ultimate perfection of man. The word nefesh (soul) means ratzon (desire).
35:17 – The meals of Shabbos. Ha-aros haratzon is an aspect of “MaH” – deep yearning that can’t be put into words. The meaning of the name “Moshe”: MaH (yearning) plus the letter Shin which stands for the the three parts of the brain: chokhmah, binah, and daas.
37:48 – NOTE: If Aharon hadn’t taken the gold from the hands of Israel, the golden calf wouldn’t have emerged (Zohar). Reference hands in Likutey Moharan 22, Paragraph 2. Reference in Ki Sisa “Aharon took it from their hand” (Shemos/Exodus 32:4).
40:23 – The meals of Shabbos (continued) are an aspect of the mohn (mannah).
43:02 – The oneg (pleasure) of Shabbos food.
44:14 – Meaning of the word “Eden”.
46:48 – QUESTION about setting the washing cup down rather than hand from left to right. RESPONSE: best we look into Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l‘s halacha shiurim.
47:12 – Boney chayey u’mezoney – chiddush from Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l about why the life and sustenance of one’s children does not depend on merit, but rather on pure kindness from Hashem that streams from an aspect of His light that’s “above” Him, so to speak.
49:14 – How the three meals of Shabbos are related to ratzon. Tapuchin Kadishin – “Field of Holy Apples”.
*52:09 – RESPONSE FROM STUDENT about the reason for setting the washing cup down (Beis Yosef).
52:44 – QUESTION: definition for “Zer Anpin”?
53:34 – Biographical note about Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l making a siyum on Tikkunei Zohar.
55:27 – QUESTION about tapuchin kadishin. RESPONSE: Apple’s thin outer covering is red (din), while the interior is white (chesed). Chakal is 138, alluding to the two names of Hashem, ELoKIM (86) and BaN (52). See also the sefer Oneg Shabbos (by Rabbi Ephraim of Pshedbarz) additional information can be found in the explanation of the Friday night Shabbos song “Azamer B’Shevachin”