2024-12-22 – Healthy Parenting – Biographical Notes – Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal – Seeing Rebbe Nachman in a Dream – Chanukah – Chinuch – Plague of Darkness Began on the 25th Of Kislev

Healthy Parenting – Biographical Notes – Rabbi Yechiel Michel B’Rav Yehoshuah Dovid HaLevi Dorfman zal – Chanukah – Chinuch – Seeing Rebbe Nachman in a Dream – Plague of Darkness Began on the 25th Of Kislev – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

• 00:00 Reb Michel zal once saw Rebbe Nachman in a dream.
• 06:18 Reb Michel and Rebbetzin Rivka (Bas Mariasa and Bas Rav Nasan Sternhartz) had 3 daughters. All were Torah observant, married, raised children, made aliya to Eretz Yisrael, and worked as medical doctors.  His eldest daughter, Dishleh a”h, passed away as a young mother – her kever is on Har HaZeisim.
• 08:00 His third and youngest daughter was Itta Basyah (“Bitya”). His second, the middle daughter was Channah Perel – named after Reb Michel’s mother a”h.
• 09:44 Account of how Reb Michel was asked to daven for the Satmar Rebbe zal at the kever of Rebbe Nachman in Uman.
• 20:12 Q&R – if a person davens for another, when HaShem sends the blessing, it enters via the person davening.
• 21:20 Q&R about what Reb Michel learned through the dream where he saw Rebbe Nachman.
• 25:30 ***After 38 years as refuseniks, Reb Michel and his wife received permission to leave Russian.
• 23:19 Reb Michel became the head of the Central Breslov Yeshiva in Meah Shaarim after the passing of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Bender zal.
• 24:29 Reb Michel’s advice to a young family making aliya from the U.S.
• 26:08 Reb Michel’s message to Bar Mitzvah boys: to be a Yireh shemayim, Talmud Chacham, and an emestiker Breslover chassid. His dvar Torah at a seudas Bar Mitzvah: From Ben Yehoyada – by the Ben Ish Chai: Rav Sheshes said, “Congratulate me, I put on tefillin today!” The custom to look at the two Shins engraved in the leather of the batim. A spiritual light emanates from those two engraved letters at the time of putting them on that strengthens the person who sees that light. But Rav Sheshes was blind. How could he see this light? Rav Sheshes advised his students exactly when to move forward through the crowd to view a king passing through their city. Kol Demama daka.
• 27:30 Rav Sheshes was a student of Rav. Rav Sheshes asked HaShem to make him blind.
• 29:42 The Ben Ish Chai zal points out that the name Sheshes has two Shins and the Tav is for Tefillin.
• 38:51 מַעֲנֶה־רַּךְ יָשִׁיב חֵמָה וּדְבַר־עֶצֶב יַעֲלֶה־אָף – “A gentle reply turns away wrath, but a distressing word stirs up anger” (Mishlei15:1). Reb Michel advised that rebuke should only be given gently.
• 39:56 When Reb Michel came to Eretz Yisrael, he was often asked to be the sandek at a Bris Milah. He would ask, “Who was the sandek for Avraham Avinu? – HaShem! A sandek is supposed to give a gift to the child. What gift did HaShem give to Avraham Avinu? Eretz Yisrael!“
• 42:13 The Breslov custom of bringing a son to Rebbe Nachman before the age of seven.
• 43:42 NOTES on Chanukah – chinuch.
• 46:56 ***NOTE on Chanukah heard from Rabbi Rosenfeld zal. Each plague took approximately a month. The plague of darkness began on the 25th day of Kislev.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.