2024-07-28 – LH6 – EH – Gittin 3 – Para. 29 – Hilkhos Sotah – Gittin 4 – Para. 1-3a

Gittin 3 – Hilkhos Sotah – Gittin 4 – Wife Who Is Suspect – Mayim Tehorim – Firstborn Daughter – Shalosh Regalim – Spiritual Aspects of Hair – Chokhma Ilaah – Chokhma TaTaah – Marriage Unites Two Levels of Sekhel – Bonim – Bnos – Separating Malkhus from the Sutra Achra – Reb Levi Yitzchok Bender zal – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Gittin 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 61.
00:00 – NOTE: Today, the 22nd of Tammuz, is the yahrzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchak ben Avraham Noach Bender zal (1897–1989). He was a revered and accomplished spiritual leader of the Breslov community in the Ukraine and subsequently in Yerushalayim.
03:00 – PARAGRAPH 29. Hilkhos Sotah – procedure for a wife who is suspect.
12:00 – HaShem wants there to be chessed in the world. His goal is for man to do teshuva – to return to HaShem. Tikkun HaBris is the yisod – foundation – of all teshuva.
*19:00 – Sometimes the effects of the Mei Sotah are delayed, so the suspect has time to do teshuvah.
22:00 – If the wife who is suspect is cleared of guilt, she will bear a child.
23:00 – Mayim Tehorim – purifying waters.
*27:00 – Q&R about singing and dancing in Tammuz.
*28:00 – Q&R about koreis – excommunication. If a person lives to the age of 50, it’s a sign they haven’t been punished with koreis.
30:00 – HILKHOS GITTIN 4. PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Gittin 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 30.
36:00 – Shalosh Regalim.
37:00 – Proper rebuke is an aspect of HaShem’s chessed.
38:00 – Q&R about positive and negative spiritual aspects of hair.
40:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. הָבִ֚יאִי בָנַי֙ מֵֽרָח֔וֹק וּבְנוֹתַ֖י מִקְצֵ֥ה הָאָֽרֶץ – “…bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the end of the earth” (Yeshaya 43:6). Reference to Likutey Moharan 30:3. Bonim are Chakhma Ilaah, Bnos are Chakhma Tataah.
41:00 – Another word for neshama is moach – mind. וְנִשְׁמַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י תְּבִינֵֽם – “…and the breath of the Almighty permits them to understand” (Iyov 32:8).
42:00 – דּ֣וֹר לְ֖דוֹר יְשַׁבַּ֣ח מַֽעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ – “Generation to generation will praise Your works…” (Tehillim 145:4).
*43:00 – Marriage unites the 2 levels of sekhel. The 4 Sons of the Haggada. Reference to Likutey Moharan 30:4.
45:00 – Why a wife is sanctified to her husband through money. Kovod is Malkhus.
47:00 – Money wasn’t considered so important during the reign of Shlomo HaMelech. אֵ֣ין כֶּ֗סֶף נֶחְשָׁ֛ב בִּימֵ֥י שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לִמְאֽוּמָה – “…silver was not reckoned as anything in Solomon’s time” (Divrei HaYomim II 9:20).
50:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. The domain of the Sutra Achra is below Malkhus. Separating Malkhus from the Sutra Achra.
58:00 – Q&R about responding to negative comments about Breslov chassidus.