HaOsey Shaliach Ligbos Chovo 3 – Purim – Mordekhai HaTzaddik – 10 Sons of Haman – Wealth – 50 Gates of Kedusha vs. 50 Gates of Tumah – Doubt Is Called Hanging – What Does Hashem Really Want? Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos HaOsey Shaliach Ligbos Chovo 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 8.
00:00 – (Esther 3:1-2).
05:00 – Gold comes from the north – the left side when facing East. The letter Beis has 3 sides, Mizrach, Dorom, Maariv. Tzafon is lacking.
06:20 – וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַֽעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל – “…and money solves all needs” (Koheles 10:19).
14:00 – The connection between the scaffold built by Haman and the Etz HaDaas. Where is Haman in the Written Torah? by the hamin haetz The vision of the two trees: (Zecharia 4:3). Etz HaChaim and Etz HaDaas.
16:00 – (Tehillim 8:6).
18:00 – The Jews left mitzrayim chamusim. The Zohar HaKodesh brings that Yetziyas Mitzrayim is mentioned in the Torah 50 times.
20:00 – All the lower 49 levels of Binah draw from the uppermost, 50th level of Binah.
22:00 – 50 Gates of Kedusha vs. 50 Gates of Tumeh.
26:00 – Moshe Rabbeinu added a third day to the days of separation before Matan Torah. The tzaddik emes knows what Hashem really wants. Reference to Likutey Moharan 190 and Chayey Moharan 197.
29:00 – Q&R about Moshe Rabbeinu being tested in knowing what Hashem really wants to do.
30:00 – IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal, whose mother died young of rhumatism caused by the damp and cold. How his own wife also suffered. Describing how he consulted a doctor to see if it would be healthy for him to have a shot of vodka each morning.
35:00 – Q&R about the 50 Gates of Tumah.
36:00 – Q&R about free will: do tzaddikim make mistakes? Reference to Hilkhos Sheluchin.
***38:00 – Q&R – What do we do if we fall? How do we get back up? “I fall because of my sins. I get up because I’m a Breslov chassid.”
***43:00 – Why Haman wanted to hang Mordechai. Doubt is called “hanging” – and doubt is begematria Amalek. These doubts are the main test of the greatest tzaddikim – known what Hashem really wants.
46:00 – Yeshi Li Rav – e.g. “I have a rav who says I shouldn’t read those Breslov books”.
47:00 – (Mishlei 20:9).
49:00 – Closing blessings.
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