2024-12-05 – LH7 – CM1 – Toayn veNitan 5 – Para. 14 – Parparaos LeChokhmah on Likutey Moharan 17

Toayn veNitan 5 – <Parparaos LeChokhmah on em>Likutey Moharan 17 – Parshas Ekev – Tikkun HaMizbeyach – Tikkun HaAchila – Not By Bread Alone – Tzedakah Is called Maaseh – Action – Ki Seitzei – Collateral for a Loan – Hispa’arus – Beis HaMikdash – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Toayn veNitan 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 17.
00:00 – Continuation of Sefer Parparaos LeChokhmah on Likutey Moharan 17. כִּ֠י לֹ֣א עַל־הַלֶּ֤חֶם לְבַדּוֹ֙ יִֽחְיֶ֣ה הָֽאָדָ֔ם כִּ֛י עַל־כָּל־מוֹצָ֥א פִֽי־יְהֹוָ֖ה יִֽחְיֶ֥ה הָֽאָדָֽם – “…for man does not live by bread alone, but rather, by whatever comes forth from the mouth of HaShem does man live” (Devarim 8:3, Ekev).
*03:30 – What causes Am Yisrael to be like a child who turns away from His Father? Improper eating.
04:40 – וַיִּתְעָֽרְב֥וּ בַגּוֹיִ֑ם וַֽ֜יִּלְמְד֗וּ מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶֽם – “And they mingled with the nations and learned their deeds” (Tehillim 106:35). Improper eating empowers negative forces.
07:00 – Tzedakah is called maiseh – action. Reference to Likutey Moharan 28.
10:00 – “The more charity, the more peace” (Pirkei Avos 2:8).
11:40 – Gerim – converts to Judaism – contribute to Tikkun HaMizbeyach. This enables the light of the tzaddik to be seen more clearly.
*16:20 – The Parparaos LeChokhmah on this section concludes: “What defines a person is not the books they’ve read, it’s their actions.”
19:00 – NOTE on Likutey Moharan 66. The Shem HaEtzem is Y – K – V – K, but we are only permitted to pronounce it as A – D – N – Y. Sof Maaseh beMachshava Techila [Expression found in various forms in Torah sources – for example: Zohar 3, 238a: ראשון למחשבה אחרון למעשה. Rishonim: Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi in the Kuzari, Maamar 3:73 and the RaMBaN in Chibur HaEmunah veHaBitachon 88 write: תחילת המחשבה – הכונה סוף המעשה.
23:50 – TOAYN VENITAN 5 – PARAGRAPH 14. Parshas Ki Seitzei. Security/collateral for a loan. כִּֽי־תַשֶּׁ֥ה בְרֵֽעֲךָ֖ מַשַּׁ֣את מְא֑וּמָה לֹֽא־תָבֹ֥א אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ לַֽעֲבֹ֥ט עֲבֹטֽוֹ – “When you lend your fellow [Jew] any item, you shall not enter his home to take his security” (Devarim 24:10, Ki Seitzei).
31:00 – Am Yisrael is the cause of HaShem’s blessings in the world. The 70 Nations benefit from this. The flow of this blessing depends on the actions of Am Yisrael.
32:20 – Q&R about tzedakah.
32:40 – Q&R about not entering a person’s home to collect collateral.
39:00 – A person’s possessions are an aspect of hispa’arus Hashem.
*41:50 – A person’s main pride – hispa’arus – is his home.
*42:00 – The hispa’arus of Am Yisrael is the Beis HaMikdash. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 67.
45:40 – Collecting a security/collateral from a person’s home is an aspect of the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash.
50:30 – Closing blessings.