2020-12-23 – LH2 – OC2 – Betziyas HaPas 5 – Para. 42-44a – Treating Food, Especially Bread, with Respect; The Accomplishments of Yosef HaTzaddik; Makom Kavuah for a Meal; Fixed Time for Learning Torah

Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 14.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 42.
05:00 – PARAGRAPH 43.
09:00 – Parshas VaYigash. Yosef HaTzaddik encouraged his brothers to hurry in bringing their father, Yaakov Avinu, to Mitzrayim (Egypt).
16:00 – COMMENT from student: Reason why some have the minhag
21:00 – PARAGRAPH 44. Makom kavuah – the significance of establishing a place for eating, and to be seated when eating.
29:00 – The importance of greeting a person and the importance of friends.
36:00 – A person can always “escape” to the Torah, no matter what a person is going through. The importance of kevius (permanence) in studying Torah.
46:00 – דִּבְרֵ֤י חֲכָמִים֙ כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנ֔וֹת וּכְמַשְׂמְר֥וֹת נְטוּעִ֖ים בַּֽעֲלֵ֣י אֲסֻפּ֑וֹת נִתְּנ֖וּ מֵֽרֹעֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד: “The words of the wise are like goads, and like well-fastened nails with large heads, given from one shepherd.”Koheles/Ecclesiastes 12:11.
60:00 – Biographical note about Rav Nasan of Nemirov.