2024-03-31 – LH5 – YD2 – Trumos uMaasros 3 – Para. 3-5a – Excessive Fire in the Heart – Pinchas vs. Zimri – The Key to Teshuva Is Humility – Achila beKedushah – Eating with Holiness – Etz HaDaas vs. Etz HaChaim – Lifting the Hands

Trumos uMaasros 3 – Excessive Fire in the Heart – Pinchas vs. Zimri – The Key to Teshuva Is Humility – Achila beKedushah – Eating with Holiness – Etz HaDaas vs. Etz HaChaim – Lifting the Hands – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Trumos uMaasros 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 78.
00:00 – Dangers of excessive fire in the heart. Pinchas vs. Zimri.
07:00 – Dovid HaMelech and Yeravam ben Navat.
09:00 – The key to teshuvah is humility – a broken heart. Even if the only result of a person’s teshuva is to reduce his punishment in Olam Habah, it’s worth it.
13:00 – Excessive fire in serving HaShem is an aspect of arrogance.
15:00 – Q&R about examples of excessive fire in the heart: fasting, staying up late and not getting enough sleep.
*16:40 – PARAGRAPH 4. Achila beKedushah – eating with holiness. Achieving balance in the use of energy received from food.
18:30 – Good vs. very good. A person needs to stay away from the Etz HaDaas, which is a mixture of good and evil, and cling to the Etz HaChaim. Adam HaRishon’s mistake was to try to go beyond his bounds.
23:00 – יַֽעֲל֣וּ שָׁ֖מַיִם יֵֽרְד֣וּ תְהוֹמ֑וֹת – “They went up to the heavens, they came down to the depths…” Tehillim 107:26. Reference to Likutey Moharan 72.
25:30 – The error of Chava in adding to what HaShem commanded was an example of excessive fire in the heart.
28:00 – Esav tried to fool his father by asking questions that were overly religious.
***29:30 – Q&R – How can learning gemara be dangerous for a person if they’re new to it?
31:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. The mitzvah of separating Trumah and giving it to the kohen.
*34:00 – It’s important to study Torah with balance and not with excessive fire. The five books of the Torah correspond to the 5 branches of the lungs, which cool the heart.
36:00 – The hands are an extension of the lungs. Reference to Likutey Moharan 45.
40:00 – Q&R about lifting the hands – a Jew doesn’t lift his hands to do harm, but lifting the hands in tefilah is permitted.
41:00 – Q&R about knowing the “middle path” day by day: through daily tefilah, Torah study, and attachment to tzaddikim.
44:45 – NOTE – today is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk zal – the 21st of Adar.
47:00 – Closing blessings.