2025-04-24 – LH7 – CM1 – Oreyv 3 – Para. 38 – Parshas Toldos

Oreyv 3 – Parshas Toldos – Hoshana Rabbah – Seal Within a Seal – Tzedakah – Preventing and Repairing Metzach HaNachash – Each Yom Tov Reveals Ratzon HaShem – Arba Minim – Aravos – Willows of the Brook – Sefer Tehillim – Simchas Yom Tov – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Oreyv 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 4.

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 38. Hoshana Rabbah – Seal Within a Seal – Tzedakah. Review of present concepts in the halakha.
06:20 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 22.
07:22 – Brief overview of the meaning of רצון – connecting our will with the will of HaShem.
12:00 – Tzedakah repairs the damage done by Metzach HaNachash: שַׁלַּ֥ח לַחְמְךָ֖ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הַמָּ֑יִם כִּֽי־בְרֹ֥ב הַיָּמִ֖ים תִּמְצָאֶֽנּוּ – “Cast your bread upon the surface of the water, for after many days you will find it” (Koheles 11:1).
16:20 – Hisgalus HaRatzon. Seeing the miracles of HaShem generates Yirah, which is a vessel to receive and contain HaShem’s Chesed.
25:00 – Q&R about tzedakah.
26:30 – Parshas Toldos. וַיָּ֨שָׁב יִצְחָ֜ק וַיַּחְפֹּ֣ר | אֶת־בְּאֵרֹ֣ת הַמַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ בִּימֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֔יו וַיְסַתְּמ֣וּם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים – “And Yitzchak again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father, Avraham, and the Plishtim had stopped them up…” – (Bereishis 26:18, Toldos).
31:00 – Gathering “willows of the brook” for tefilah on Hoshana Rabbah. The aravos in the Arba Minim represent the members of Am Israel who don’t have Torah or mitzvos.
34:30 – Raven represents the highest level of tzedakah. Oreyv – raven – is an aspect of Arvei Nachal – willows.
36:30 – Mishna Torah throughout the night of Hoshana Rabbah.
41:00 – It is a custom to recite the entire Sefer Tehillim on Hoshana Rabbah. “Sefer Tehillim is the book of ratzon.”
44:30 – Simchas Torah – the essence of joy is the hisgalus ratzon HaShem.
47:00 – *How can a person be happy if other Jews are suffering? A person has “two pockets”. If a person doesn’t have simcha, he can’t do mitzvos.
48:00 – Listening to music is not permitted during Sefiras HaOmer but we are still obligated to be in a state of joy.
49:00 – *Q&R about being joyful in a world filled with suffering. Analogy of how we are obligated to hold all four of the Arba Minim together.
51:00 – Closing blessings.