2020-11-23 – LH2 – OC2 – Devarim HaNohagim BaSeudah 4 – Para. 4-6 – Why is Rosh Hashanah Called Yom HaZikaron – “Day of Remembrance”? – The Importance of a Name; The Holiness of Eretz Yisrael

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 20. Today’s shiur is dedicated l’ilui nishmas Yitzchak ben Dovid whose yahrzeit was on the day this lesson was given: the 7th of Kislev.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4.
10:16 – PARAGRAPH 5. The three sections of the Shemoneh Esrei of mussaf on Rosh Hashanah: the malchios (statements of kingship); the zichronos (statements about remembrance), and the shofros (statements about the shofar).
15:51 – PARAGRAPH 6.Zichronos. Why is Rosh Hashanah called Yom HaZikaron – “Day of Remembrance”? The meaning and importance of a name.
26:08 – The Names of Hashem.
28:15 – For more on the great significance of a person’s name and what it means for a person to have a “good name”, see Likutey Halakhos, Orach Chaim 1, Hilkhos Birkhas HaShachar 3, Para. 32-37; Likutey Moharan 56, and Sichos HaRan 95.
29:39 – The highest level Name of Hashem that we have been given is only mentioned in the Beis HaMikdash (Yuma 69)
33:06 – QUESTION about the recognition of Hashem’s Name in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem). RESPONSE: In Eretz Yisrael there are levels of kedusha, when a person comes to Yerushalayim he is making another aliya (spiritual advancement).
36:16 – QUESTION about “borders”. RESPONSE: account of one of Rabbi Maimon’s first trips to Eretz Yisrael when Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l said that Eilat and Sinai are outside Eretz Yisrael.
38:36 – QUESTION about the holy cities outside Yerushalayim: Tzefas (Safed) and Tiveria (Tiberias). RESPONSE: holiness is related to the Name of Hashem.
40:35 – Avraham Avinu proclaimed the Name of Hashem when he entered Eretz Yisrael.
42:21 – The highest level of Torah is that of Eretz Yisrael. The Torah is comprised of many Names of Hashem.
46:52 – NOTE: Naming a boy at his bris milah. Today is the scheduled day for the bris milah of Zvi Aryeh Kramer’s son.
48:19 – COMMENT from student about a gadol calling out the child’s name at a bris milah.
48:34 – Why is a baby girl named on Shabbos? Sources for the custom of naming a baby girl on Shabbos.
51:33 – QUESTION about the letters of the alef beis containing the letters of Hashem’s name.
52:39 – The futility of arguments that sometimes arise before naming a child.