2024-04-03 – LH5 – YD2 – Trumos uMaasros 4 – Para. 2-9 – Korach – Procedure of Trumah to the Kohen and Maaser to the Levi – Curse Affecting the Earth’s Produce – Throat – Yabbok – Preference of Right and Left in Observing Mitzvos – Tzedakah – Lifting the Hands – Shir of Channah – 10 Mitzvos of Bread

Trumos uMaasros 4 – Procedure of Trumah to the Kohen and Maaser to the Levi – Curse Affecting the Earth’s Produce – Throat – Yabbok – Preference of Right and Left in Observing Mitzvos – Tzedakah – Lifting the Hands – Shir of Channah – 10 Mitzvos of Bread – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Trumos uMaasros 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 46 – three times Yad, clapping hands.
00:00 – Review of the introduction to this halakha. Three time Yad – three times Elokim. Shin Lamed Vuv. שָׁ֘לֵ֚ו הָיִ֨יתִי | וַיְפַרְפְּרֵ֗נִי וְאָחַ֣ז – “I was at peace (shilav) but He crumbled me to pieces“ (Iyov 16:12).
02:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. Observing the 613 mitzvos enables Am Yisrael to sweeten dinim – judgments.
***03:30 – Concise overview of the 3 steps of Trumos uMaasros.
***07:20 – Produce that grows from the ground is cursed due to the sin of Adam HaRishon. These curses affect eating, when food passes through the constriction of the throat.
*10:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. Parshas Korach. Why the mitzvos of Trumos uMaasros are given directly following the account of Korach’s rebellion. Korach was a Levi, Aharon was a Kohen. Korach’s tikkun was to make din subservient to chesed, which is the universal tikkun.
12:15 – The SheLaH HaKodesh explains why Korach was actually denying the entire Torah. Making the left subservient to the right repairs all the worlds.
14:15 – Parshas Korach. וְנֶחְשַׁ֥ב לָכֶ֖ם תְּרֽוּמַתְכֶ֑ם כַּדָּגָן֙ מִן־הַגֹּ֔רֶן וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖ה מִן־הַיָּֽקֶב –“Your gift shall be considered for you as grain from the threshing-floor and as the produce of the vat” (Bamidbar 18:27, Korach). Chiddush of Rav Nosson zal: Goren, Garon, Yabbok. Ya’aneynu beyom kareynu – Roshei Teivos Yabbok. שלו is 3 times Yabbok. 3 times Y – K – V – K overpowering 3 time ELOKIM.
19:00 – Q&R about preference of right and left in performing mitzvos.
20:00 – Q&R about the difference between the sin of Adam HaRishon and the sin of Korach.
21:00 – Student’s NOTE about preference of right and left in performing mitzvos.
22:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Tzedakah. “I’m giving this tzedakah to enable me to become attached to true tzaddikim.”
30:00 – Q&R about giving tzedakah to enable attaching oneself to tzaddikim.
*31:00 – NOTE – Breslov custom to emphasize the words “because HaShem commanded” when reciting the ketores each day.
32:20 – PARAGRAPH 5. Spiritual aspects of hands. Lifting the hands upward expresses yearning for HaShem.
35:00 – וְתַֽעֲמֹ֥ד לְגֹרָֽלְךָ֖ לְקֵ֥ץ הַיָּמִֽין – “…and rise to your lot at the end of the days” (Daniel 12:13).
*36:00 – Lifting the hands upward helps a person connect with a higher spiritual level.
38:00 – Q&R about the left side being subservient to the right with regard to a woman being the crown of her husband.
39:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Parshas Korach – וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח משֶׁ֔ה לִקְרֹ֛א לְדָתָ֥ן וְלַֽאֲבִירָ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י אֱלִיאָ֑ב וַיֹּֽאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נַֽעֲלֶֽה – “Moshe summoned Dasan and Abiram, the sons of Eliav, but they said, ‘We will not go up’ “ (Bamidbar 16:12, Korach).
42:40 – Because they refused to go up, they went down. Their punishment matched their crime: the earth swallowed them up.
44:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. Shmuel HaNavi, a Levi and descendant of Elkanah, accomplished the tikkun for the sin of Korach. In contrast to Korach, merged earth with heaven. The shir of Channah describes how the arrogant are cast down.
***48:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. Reference to Likutey Moharan 45. Connecting the five fingers of one hand with the five fingers of the other hand corresponds with the ten different mitzvos we fulfill through bread. This is why we hold the bread with all ten fingers.
50:40 – Closing blessings.