2021-01-22 – LH2 – OC2 – Birkhas HaPeyros 1a – Tu B’Shevat – Rosh Hashanah L’Ilanos; Blessings on Eating Fruit; What are “Sparks of Holiness” in Food?

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Tu B’Shevat – Rosh Hashanah L’Ilanos (New Year for Trees); blessings on eating fruit; “Sparks of Holiness” in food. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

00:00 – Introduction to Tu B’Shevat, Rosh Hashana L’Ilanos (New Year for the Trees).
01:80 – HALAKHA 1. Blessings on eating fruit. The soul is constantly changing. We are incomplete, and part of completing ourselves is taking in nitzotzos (sparks of holiness and life) found in different foods.
02:30 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 54.
04:55 – Through making a blessing and eating a fruit, the holy sparks in that fruit are released and complete the needs of one’s soul at that moment.
10:38 – NOTE from student about the hashgacha of today’s shiur. NOTE from Rabbi Maimon about a new student astonished by the daily hashgacha of his studies in Likutey Halakhos.
11:54 – Hashgacha in Torah study is an aspect of Toras Emes.
12:39 – QUESTION regarding appetite for food.
13:35 – Closing remarks and thank-you’s.