2024-07-17 – LH6 – EH – Gittin 3 – Para. 5-8

Gittin 3 – Neder – Vow – Sekhel HaKollel – 50 Shaarei Binah – Hetaras Nederim – Undoing Vows – Neder of a Woman Is Released by Her Husband or Father – The Power of Regret – VaYeitzei – Soulmate – Life After Divorce – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Gittin 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 61.
00:00 – Neder. Sekhel HaElyon – Sekhel HaKollel. Hafaras Nedarim – pushing aside a vow. The power of regret. The affirmation of a woman’s vow depends on her husband or her father.
12:00 – Through making a neder – vow – a new mitzvah is created.
14:00 – Hetaras haneder – undoing a vow.
17:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 61:7.
19:00 – Q&R about a woman’s Binah yisera.
*20:00 – An assembly of three [adult, male, shomer Shabbos] Jews represents the full spectrum of holiness and the three levels of Sekhel. Sekhel/Kedushas HaKollel, Sekhel/Kedushas HaPrati, Kedushas HaTzimtzum.
26:00 – Hafaras Nederaim of a husband for his wife, or of a father for his daughter. The affirmation of a woman’s vow depends on her husband or her father.
31:00 – Q&R about a woman’s ability to make a vow.
34:00 – Q&R – Certain things in halakha can only be done on a specific day.
36:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. During the process of giving a get, the husband is required to undo any vows made by his wife.
*38:00 – Teshuva and the power of regret: Hetaras Nedarim is done through regretting the vow.
***41:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. Parshas VaYietzei. Yaakov Avinu had to encounter Ehven Shesiya at the site of the Beis HaMikdash before meeting his soulmates. Reference to Likutey Moharan 61:7.
45:00 – The 12 stones that combined to become the Ehven Shesiya. It was not until Yaakov Avinu made a neder that he then merited to marry holy women. Kol Nidre – Erev Yom Kippur.
48:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. The first mishna in Yuma – the kohen gadol must be married so he can sweeten all dinim by rising to the Sekhel HaElyon.
50:00 – Q&R about Yaakov Avinu first encountering Ehven Shesiya.
52:00 – Q&R about Yaakov Avinu fulfilling the vow he made when he encountered the location .
*53:00 – Q&R Life doesn’t end with divorce. Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal gave extremely vital advice to a couple about life after divorce: “The husband is still the father of the children, and the wife is still the mother of the children.”