2023-08-18 – LH5 – YD2 – Sefer Torah 2 – Para. 4-5a

Sefer Torah 2 – NaAsey vNishma – Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur – Nistar/Nigla – Turning Torah Into Tefilah – Shofar – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sefer Torah 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Rosh Hashanah – Yom Kippur – Chosem b’soch Chosem – seal within a seal. Yad Koseves/Yos Chosemes.
05:00 – In the construct discussed here: NaAsey is the Written Torah and Nishma is basic interpretation of the Written Torah, for example Rashi HaKadosh.
08:00 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 25 – Hisbodedus – turning Torah into Tefilah.
20:00 – Q&R – Is all Torah practical? Yes.
28:00 – Rosh Hashanah – Malkhios, Zichronos, Shofros.
32:00 – When a person rises to a new level, he’s at the bottom of that level.
36:00 – “Write on the tablets of your heart” alludes to NaAsey vNishmah through Turning Torah into Tefilah in Hisbodedus.
*38:00 – Clear. brief summary of NaAsey veNishmah being the key to Simcha. Kol is an aspect of Oz – power.
39:00 – Shofar on Rosh Hashanah. The blast of the Shofar is an expression of Azus d’Kedushah.
41:00 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 5.
42:00 – Q&R about writing as a means of remembering Torah.
43:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. Eseres Yemei Teshuva – the Ten Days of Return. Yerida before Aliya – Reference to Likutey Moharan 22.
44:00 – Dovid HaMelech did not sin with Bathsheva. This incident occurred to teach the world the power of Teshuvah – returning to Hashem.
50:00 – Nishmah is an aspect of Ain Sof.
51:00 – After the sin of the golden calf, Moshe Rabbeinu asked to be erased from the “…book which You have written” – Sofei Teyvos Keser.
54:00 – Q&R about how this world can be a reflection of the upper worlds – analogy of “preferred banking” and the Light of the Ain Sof.
56:00 – Closing blessings.