Mitaltelin 3 – Don’t Force the Issue Concerning Needs – Keylim to Receive Shefa – Gezeyla – Theft – Wealth – Daas – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mitaltelin 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 7.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3b. The danger of forcing the issue concerning needs.
09:00 – Q&R about the need for keylim to receive shefa.
10:45 – Q&R about limiting questions in learning Torah. Reference to Rebbe Nachman’s story of the Sophisticate and the Simpleton.
12:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Reference to Likutey Moharan 23.
17:00 – “The more property – the more worries” (Avos 2:7).
18:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. The prohibition of gezeyla – theft.
31:00 – Q&R about satisfaction referring to all types of shefa, not just money.
32:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Whatever a person has something in his hands, its a sign that it belongs to him. זֶ֚ה | הַיָּ֥ם גָּדוֹל֘ וּרְחַ֪ב יָ֫דָ֥יִם – “This sea – great and wide…” (Tehillim 104:25).
34:00 – The seder plate represents all 10 sefiros. The letters of the word קערה represents all ten sefiros.
38:00 – פּוֹתֵ֥חַ אֶת־יָדֶ֑ךָ וּמַשְׂבִּ֖יעַ לְכָל־חַ֣י רָצֽוֹן – “You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing [with] its desire” (Tehillim 145:16).
38:30 – PARAGRAPH 7. Whoever is stronger takes ownership of the disputed item. A person needs to be quick and strong to draw wealth from its Source in order to attain possessions and parnassa.
45:00 – Q&R about the meaning of strength. Gevruah is self control.
47:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Daas is the opposite of illusion. The more daas a person has, the less he is susceptible to sin. The tzaddik is able to bring light to people no matter what their spiritual level.
53:00 – Dynamics of limud Torah: son and student. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 12.
56:00 – Ayeh Makom Kevodo.
58:00 – Closing blessings.
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