2021-04-04 – LH2 – OC2 – Birkhas HaReyach 4 – Para. 34-35a – Why It’s Difficult To Find the Leading Tzaddikim in a Generation – Ner Mitzvah v’Torah Ohr

Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Birkhas HaReyach 4. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 8.

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 34.
14:16 – Question about Klal Yisrael’s acceptance of Moshe Rabbeinu’s leadership before Matan Torah.
15:37 – QUESTION – who is the leading tzaddik of our generation?
17:04 – Ner mitzvah v’Torah Ohr – (Mishlei/Proverbs 6:23).
21:47 – Reference to a verse about Moshiach : חַיִּ֚ים | שָׁאַ֣ל מִ֖מְּךָ נָתַ֣תָּה לּ֑וֹ אֹ֥רֶךְ יָ֜מִ֗ים עוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד: “He asked You [Hashem] for life and You gave him life…” (Tehillim/Psalms 21:5).
23:09 – כי נר מצוה ותורה אור ודרך חיים תוכחות מוסר – “For a mitzvah is a lamp and Torah is illumination, and moral reproofs are the path of life.” (Mishlei/Proverbs 6:23)
26:38 – QUESTION about the rebuke given by a tzaddik being related to song.
27:29 – PARAGRAPH 35. “…the word which He has commanded to a thousand generations” (Tehillim/Psalms 105:8). Hashem wanted to wait for a thousand generations before giving the Torah.
36:02 – Moshiach b’gematria Nachash.
39:49 – Hashem wanted to delay the giving of the Torah to prevent rebellion against tzaddikim.
45:12 – Why did people disregard Noach’s construction of the ark?
52:09 – QUESTION about Sipurey Masiyos – “Story of the Exchanged Children” – being related to rebuke as song.