2023-11-17 – LH5 – YD2 – Orlah 3 – Para. 5b-9

Orlah 3 – Ketores – Eleven Spices – Tu BeShevat – Eleventh Month – Neta Reva’i – Fruits of the Fourth Year – Redeeming Holiness from the Sutra Achra – Tokecha – Rebuke – Yosef HaTzaddik is Yaakov Avinu’s Eleventh Son – Ten Types of Song – Tehillim 92 – Parshas Pinchas – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Orlah 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 8.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5b. Ketores – Eleven Spices.
07:00 – Rosh Hashanah for trees is in Shevat – the eleventh month of the year.
10:00 – Summary of spiritual process: Tefilah beVechinas Din – Eleven Spices of the Ketores – Rosh Hashanah l’Ilanos – Tokekha – Rebuke.
*12:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. The success of rebuke is related to the number eleven. Through proper rebuke we defeat the Sutra Achra.
14:00 – The eleven locations mentioned by Moshe Rabbeinu – from Har Seir… ad Kadesh Barneah corresponds to the eleven spices of the Ketores and Tefilah beVechinas Din.
17:30 – Q&R about correcting the sin of the Aitz HaDaas.
20:00 – NOTE about destruction of evil and current events concerning war in Gaza. Prayer for the downfall of the Sutra Achra. Current leader is named Barneah.
22:20 – PARAGRAPH 7. The Ten Types of Song. עֲלֵֽי־עָ֖שׂוֹר וַֽעֲלֵי־נָ֑בֶל עֲלֵ֖י הִגָּי֣וֹן בְּכִנּֽוֹר – “Upon a ten-stringed harp and upon a psaltery, with speech upon a harp” – כִּ֚י שִׂמַּחְתַּ֣נִי יְהֹוָ֣ה בְּפָֽעֳלֶ֑ךָ בְּמַֽעֲשֵׂ֖י יָדֶ֣יךָ אֲרַנֵּֽן – “For You have made me happy O Lord, with Your work; with the work of Your hands I shall exult” (Tehillim 92:4-5). Tehillim 92 was said by Adam HaRishon after he did Teshuva. The sense of smell is related to the Neshama.
*24:40 – PARAGRAPH 8. Yosef HaTzaddik was the eleventh child born to Yaakov Avinu. The Torah’s definition of strength is self mastery.
31:00 – The essence of the redemption from Egypt was in the merit of Tefilas beVechinas Din, which was brought about through Yosef HaTzaddik.
34:30 – Q&R about the practical application of the principles presented here. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal refusing to teach at a conservative Jewish school.
41:00 – NOTE ON CURRENT EVENTS – War in Gaza.
41:45 – PARAGRAPH 9. Parshas Pinchas. The seduction of Zimri, Prince of Shevet Shimon.
44:00 – VaYipallel Pinchas. The mother of Pinchas was a descendant of Yosef HaTzaddik. He was also a descendant of Yisro.
47:45 – Closing blessings.