Podcast (shiurim): Download (Duration: 44:22 — 20.3MB)
Geviyas Chov MeyhaLakochos 5 – Parshas Shelach – Sinai – Humility Enables Receiving the Torah – Generation to Generation – Moshe Rabbeinu Was Able to Judge Am Yisrael Favorably – Binyan Yerushalayim – Meraglim – Nefilim – Fallen Angels – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaLakoshos 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 1.
00:00 – Yahrzeit dedications: Beila Gittel bas R’ Shmuel Moshe a”h, wife of R’ Moshe Burstein zal; the Baba Sali: Rabbi Yisrael Ben Mas’ud Abuhatzeira zal; and Rabbi Avraham b’R Alexander HaKohen Kalisker zal.
02:40 – PARAGRAPH 19. Moshe Rabbeinu received the Torah from Sinai.
04:32 – “Sinai” represents true humility. It’s impossible to receive the Torah without ענוה אמתית. The more a person nullifies himself, the greater his ability to receive and transmit the Torah. A person can nullify himself the point that he is above the concept of space.
*07:00 – “I’m a somebody” they are spiritually limited because they are within the bounds of taking up space.
08:00 – A person who is able to rise above the concept of space is able to judge others favorably – to their merit.
09:30 – Do not judge another until you can stand in their place (Avos).
10:30 – The humility of Moshe Rabbeinu.
***17:29 – Passing the Torah on to future generations is the obligation of every Jew. Every Jew is responsible to make the world a civilized place. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 7.
***19:14 – The ultimate goal of all the characters traits is humility. This is an aspect of Binyan Yerushalayim – Yirah Shaleym. The main place of yirah is in the heart, which is visible only to Hashem.
22:31 – עֵ֣קֶב עֲ֖נָוָה יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה – “In the wake of humility comes fear of Hashem…” (Mishlei 22:4).
23:20 – Humility empowers tefilah (Sotah and Likutey Moharan 14).
23:56 – Q&R – The first steps toward achieving humility: 1) Learning Torah, 2) praying for humility, 3) attaching oneself to tzaddikim.
25:51 – PARAGRAPH 20. Moshe Rabbeinu received the Torah from Sinai. The quality of humility gave Moshe Rabbeinu the ability to receive the Torah, and the ability to pass the Torah on to Yehoshua. Why the letter Yod was added to Yehoshua’s name.
30:54 – NOTE: The sum of squaring the gematria of the letters of Hashem’s name Y – K – V – K equals the gematria of the word מקום – makom – place.
*34:14 – Parshas Shelach. The mistake of the meraglim – spies made them vulnerable to the Nefilim – offspring of the angels who were thrown down to earth because they spoke against the creation of man. Those angels continue working against man, to this day. וַנְּהִ֤י בְעֵינֵ֨ינוּ֙ כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔ים וְכֵ֥ן הָיִ֖ינוּ בְּעֵֽינֵיהֶֽם – “In our eyes, we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes” (Bamidbar 13:33, Shelach).
*38:40 – Yehoshua was protected through his special connection with Moshe Rabbeinu. The kiyum – establishment – of Torah for all generations was entirely in the merit of Moshe Rabbeinu’s humility.
40:00 – PARAGRAPH 21. Zekeynim – elders – nevuah – prophecy – Shalosh Ragolim – the three holidays.
43:46 – Closing blessings.
To dedicate this shiur, click HERE.
