Oreyv 3 – Toldos – Yaakov vs. Esav – How Could Yitzchak Avinu Have Been Fooled? Tzedakah Expresses Good Will – Rikva Saw the Truth – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Oreyv 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 4.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 21. Parshas Toldos. Tears of Esav. How could Yitzchak Avinu have been fooled by Esav?
08:14 – וַיֶּֽאֱהַ֥ב יִצְחָ֛ק אֶת־עֵשָׂ֖ו כִּי־צַ֣יִד בְּפִ֑יו – “And Yitzchak loved Esav because [his] game was in his mouth, …” (Bereishsis 28:28, Toldos). Yitzchak Aveinu thought that Esav knew his mission in this world – to support those who learn Torah.
13:30 – The concept of working to earn a living originated with the nachash. וְנָחָ֖שׁ עָפָ֣ר לַחְמ֑וֹ – “…and a serpent – dust shall be his food…” (Yeshaya 65:25).
16:30 – Tzedakah Expresses good will and elevates the Asiyah, which brings a union between Asiya and Keser.
15:45 – Q&R about Yitzchak Avinu and Esav. HaShem blocked this aspect of Yitzchak Avinu’s ruach hakodesh. Story of Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish.
27:00 – PARAGRAPH 22. Rivka understood that Esav was a rasha.
29:40 – When Moshiach is revealed, the 70 Nations will do the work and Am Yisrael will be learning Torah and doing mitzvos.
33:30 – Ratzon generates yirah. Avrhaham Avinu was chesed – ratzon. Reference to Likutey Moharan 142.
41:00 – *Yirah makes a vessel for chesed.
42:00 – Q&R – Why didn’t Rivka alert Yitzchak Avinu to the true nature of Esav?
47:00 – Q&R about the generations preceding Moshiach.
48:30 – Comment from student about the request made that the sins of Am Yisrael should be wiped out.
51:00 – Closing blessings.
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