2025-02-12 – LH7 – CM1 – HaOsey Shaliach Ligbos Chovo 2 – Para. 10-14

HaOsey Shaliach Ligbos Chovo 2 – The Purpose of Man Is To Perform Mitzvos beSimcha – Giving vs. Taking – Achieving Selflessness – Bris Milah – Orlah – Tikkun HaBris Is an Aspect of Joy – Klipah Nogah – Periya – Tzaddik Yisod Olam – Seudah and Wine for a Bris – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos HaOsey Shaliach Ligbos Chovo 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 5.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 10. The purpose of man is to perform mitzvos be’simcha. Giving vs. taking.
03:00 – Using hands to serve Hashem – “all ten fingers, down to the smallest one”. Story of the Seven Beggars – each tzaddik refrained entirely from enjoying the physical world except for what was related to serving Hashem.
09:15 – Praying “with thunder” is praying with a high level of concentration and sincerity.
***12:00 – When a tzaddik gives, he elevates all of creation to the epitome of joy, which was Hashem’s goal in creating the world.
14:00 – ס֥וֹף דָּבָ֖ר הַכֹּ֣ל נִשְׁמָ֑ע אֶת־הָֽאֱלֹהִ֤ים יְרָא֙ וְאֶת־מִצְוֹתָ֣יו שְׁמ֔וֹר כִּי־זֶ֖ה כָּל־הָֽאָדָֽם – “The end of the matter, everything having been heard, fear Hashem and keep His commandments, for this is the entire man” (Koheles 12:13).
16:00 – Q&R about the definition of “taking” – if a person uses all he receives only to serve Hashem, then he is not “taking”.
18:00 – Q&R about the tzaddik’s enjoyment of doing mitzvos.
*18:30 – Q&R – achieving selflessness by negating personal desires and striving to fulfill the will of Hashem.
19:30 – PARAGRAPH 11. Bris Milah. Orlah. Why wasn’t man created in a perfected state? Hashem created everything incomplete. It’s man’s task to repair and perfect the physical world. Example: processing wheat to become bread.
*24:00 – Orlah – Tikkun HaBris is an aspect of joy. Orlah is an aspect of sadness. When a child is born, he is purely a “taker”. The removal of the orlah completes the child’s creation and he enters the category of “man”.
28:40 – Tzaddik yisod Olam. A tzaddik is a giver. When the orlah is removed from the child, the pain he experiences eliminates the source of “taking/sadness” and enables him to enter the realm of “giving/joy”.
32:10 – PARAGRAPH 12. The mitzvah of milah was received by Am Yisrael with joy (Shabbos 130).
35:00 – The importance of a seudah at a bris milah. If a person can’t eat meat at the seudah for a bris milah, he should at least eat fish.
37:00 – א֖וֹר זָרֻ֣עַ לַצַּדִּ֑יק וּלְיִשְׁרֵי־לֵ֥ב שִׂמְחָֽה – “Light is sown for the righteous, and for the upright of heart, joy” (Tehillim 97:11). NOTE: Quote from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal: “To be a Breslov chossid means to be besimcha“.
37:30 – PARAGRAPH 13. The two steps of a kosher bris milah. Removal of Klipas Nogah by means of periya.
43:00 – Tzaddik Yisod Olam.
44:30 – Periya means both to “uncover” and to “repay a debt”.
48:00 – PARAGRAPH 14. Wine at a bris milah.