2021-02-04 – LH2 – OC2 – Birkhas HaPeyros 4 – Para. 10b-12a – Remembrance of Childless on Rosh Hashanah; Yehoshua’s Conquest of Eretz Yisrael Began with Shofar; Miketz – Why Stay Awake on Rosh Hashanah?

Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Likutey Halakhos, Birkhas HaPeyros. Remembrance of childless on Rosh Hashanah; Yehoshuah’s conquest of Eretz Yisrael began with shofar; Noam HaElyon; Saying Tikkun HaKlali every day; Miketz – Pharaoh’s dream – why stay awake on Rosh Hashanah?

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 10b. The custom to give tzedakah during Elul, before Rosh Hashanah. This increases the Noam HaElyon which increases the kingdom of Hashem. On Rosh Hashanah the childless are remembered, which brings more children into the world. Sarah Imeinu was remembered on Rosh Hashanah.
12:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. Why Yehoshua’s conquest of Eretz Yisrael began with the sound of the shofar.
14:40 – Shir Shel Yom l’Yom Chamishi – Song of the Day of Thursday – sound the shofar, kinor na’aim – and expression of the “sweet sound” of song is in the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. Through this, the spiritual opposition of the nations is defeated.
19:30 – QUESTION. What does these aspects of the power shofar mean on a practical level for us? RESPONSE: Reciting Tehillim activates the powers of the shofar’s “sweet sound” of song.
20:00 – QUESTION and RESPONSE about the custom in Breslov to recite Tikkun HaKlali every day.
21:40 – PARAGRAPH 12. Parshas Miketz. Pharaoh’s dream took place on Rosh Hashanah and Yosef Hatzaddik was released from prison on Rosh Hashanah. How this applies to life today: spiritual aspects of sleep vs. awakening from sleep. Why we don’t sleep on Rosh Hashanah.
35:00 – The Noam HaElyon streams from Eretz Yisrael. Eretz Yisrael is the source of all blessing that Hashem sends into the world.
48:00 – How the Noam HaElyon of Eretz Yisrael is made invisible.
50:00 – QUESTION about free will.
62:00 – COMMMENT from student that “things can get better”.