2025-05-01 – LH7 – CM1 – Mitaltelin 2 – Para. 2b-4 – Vayigash

Mitaltelin 2 – Vayigash – Conducting Business Honestly – Medameh – Imagination Can Justify Stealing – Power of Music – Dreams – Shevuah Is an Aspect of Yisod – Yad – Yosef HaTzaddik – Tikkun Yisod – Neder – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mitaltelin 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 54.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 2b.
08:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. The Sutra Achra – Medameh – can justify stealing.
13:20 – The Medameh is corrected through Yad. There are two types of imagination – one can be used for kedushah, and one is illusion that allows a person to sin.
15:00 – Maaseh uMatan beEmunah is compared to nigun, as in שְֽׂאוּ־זִ֖מְרָה וּתְנוּ־תֹ֑ף – “Raise [your voice in] song and give forth [with] a timbrel…” (Tehillim 81:3). Reference to Likutey Moharan 7.
26:00 – The negative aspects of Medameh is subdued through music.
27:00 – Dreams are a form of Medameh.
28:00 – Q&R about the procedure in Beis Din to determine the truth between litigants.
29:00 – Mitaltelin – moveable objects.
31:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Parshas Vayigash. Shevuah is an aspect of Yisod. Yosef HaTzaddik accomplished Tikkun Yisod – וְיוֹסֵ֕ף יָשִׁ֥ית יָד֖וֹ עַל־עֵינֶֽיךָ – “…and Yosef will place his hand on your eyes” (Bereishis 46:4, Vayigash).
35:30 – Yom Kippur is compared to Olam HaBah.
36:00 – Q&R – How can an ordinary person do the Tikkun of Yad?
27:45 – When a person makes a neder or a shevuah, they connect themselves to a higher spiritual level. This is an aspect of Harchavas HaDaas – expansion of consciousness.
47:40 – The goal of mitzvos is to maintain consciousness of Olam HaBah. Through a neder or a shevuah (Binah/Keser) new mitzvos are established.
51:00 – Q&R about how a shevuah results in Harchavas HaDaas.
54:00 – Closing blessings.