2025-05-09 – LH7 – CM1 – Mitaltelin 4 – Para. 5b-8a – Ekev – Wheat Offering on Shavuos – Sefiras HaOmer – Barley Expresses Shiflus – How Grains Grow – Shem MaH – Through Humility a Person Receives Chiyus Elokus – True Life – Koach HaMoshekh of the Earth – Tzaddik Yisod Olam

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Mitaltelin 4 – Ekev – Wheat Offering on Shavuos – Sefiras HaOmer – Barley Expresses Shiflus – How Grains Grow – Shem MaH – Through Humility a Person Receives Chiyus Elokus – True Life – Koach HaMoshekh of the Earth – Tzaddik Yisod Olam – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mitaltelin 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 70.

• 00:00 PARAGRAPH 5b. וּמִדַּ֣ת יָמַ֣י – “…and the measure of my days…” (Tehillim 39:5). Days are elements of measure.
• 03:30 רֵ֖ד הָעֵ֣ד בָּעָ֑ם – “Go down, warn the people…” Shemos 19:21, Yisro).
• 05:00 PARAGRAPH 6. On Shavuos the korbon is wheat, which is a higher spiritual level than barley. Barley is considered food for animals, while wheat is for humans. Chesed is directly below Chokhma – both emanate from the right side. Foolishness comes from the left side: lack of Daas – Midas HaDin. Reference to Likutey Moharan 21.
• 08:25 בְּחַבְלֵ֨י אָדָ֚ם אֶמְשְׁכֵם֙ בַּֽעֲבֹת֣וֹת אַֽהֲבָ֔ה – “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love…” Hoshea 11:4). Adam – Moshekh – Ahava are all on the right.
• 09:35 Using Midas HaDin correctly includes making oneself as obedient as an animal before HaShem.
• 10:35 The fool, even if he has studied Torah, behaves as if he’s smart. However, he blocks others from the truth and from the tzaddik by setting himself up as an authority.
• 13:05 NOTE about the humility of Rabbi Chaim Vittal zal and Rav Noson of Nemirov zal.
• 14:05 NOTE: a Nazir must bring a sin offering because he denied himself one of the pleasures of this world – wine. However there is also a concept of limiting physical pleasures – at least during the week. For example we leave over a bit of food on the plate after eating during weekdays. The goal of limiting oneself is not to deny HaShem’s bounty, but to increase our shiflus – humility – so we can receive more of His light and shefa.
• 20:32 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about how Rav Moshe Burstein zal discovered Breslov through the Likutey Tefilos. When he passed away at the age of 98, he had over a thousand descendants, B”H.
• 24:00 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal: “A Breslov chassid has to be in the world and out of the world.”
• 24:45 Q&R about religious people, whether misnagid or chassidish, who oppose the Breslov derech of enjoying the physical world, but in a contained way.
• 25:37 PARAGRAPH 7. Spiritual aspects of cutting the grains during harvest.
• 26:42 How does grain grow? The life-force in the earth enters plants. The earth has Koach HaMoshekh. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 88

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• 29:20 Ikar HaChiyus – the highest level of HaShem’s Name is the Shem MaH.
• 35:00 The most powerful Koach HaMoshech is the Tzaddik – “Tzaddik Yisod Olam”.
• 35:52 Q&R about humility, earth, and Malkhus. The Shem MaH has two aspects, one of which is accessed through shiflus.
• 38:46 Parshas Ekev. וְאָֽכַלְתָּ֖ וְשָׂבָֽעְתָּ – “… and you will eat and be sated” הִשָּֽׁמְר֣וּ לָכֶ֔ם – “Beware, lest your heart be misled…” (Devarim 11:15-16, Ekev). How to prevent arrogance that can arise through eating. “You’re going to eat and be satisfied – watch out!” Humility is strengthened through saying blessings, observing kashrus, and with awareness that one is in the Presence of HaShem. Arrogance is an aspect of Avoda Zara.
• 41:10 A person isn’t permitted the pleasure of eating unless he makes blessings on the food.
• 44:33 PARAGRAPH 8. The concept of counting and numbers. Numbers apply to gashmius and Koach HaMachriach, both of which depend on Shem MaH.
• 48:50 All the diversity of creation came from nothing. Creation is diverse yet ultimately one, but this cannot be understood through intellect. We accept this with emunah – faith.
• 50:31 Analogy of an air machine in a gas station that’s used to fill tires.
• 52:15 Q&R about different customs regarding the length of the mourning period during Sefiras HaOmer.
• 53:49 Closing blessings.