2025-05-11 – LH7 – CM1 – Mitaltelin 4 – Para. 8b-11a – Parshas Reeh

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Mitaltelin 4 – Parshas Reeh – Sefiras HaOmer – Days are Vessels – Connecting Tzimtzim to Koach MaH – Time Comes From Koach HaMachriach – Shavuos – Koach HaMoshekh – Cutting the Grains – LaG BeOmer – Tikkun Leil Shavuos – Staying Awake on Shavuos – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mitaltelin 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 70.

• 00:00 PARAGRAPH 8b – לִמְנ֣וֹת יָ֖מֵינוּ כֵּ֥ן הוֹדַ֑ע וְ֜נָבִ֗א לְבַ֣ב חָכְמָֽה – “So teach the number of our days, so that we shall acquire a heart of wisdom” (Tehillim 90:12).
• 05:00 Parshas Reeh. מֵֽהָחֵ֤ל חֶרְמֵשׁ֙ בַּקָּמָ֔ה תָּחֵ֣ל לִסְפֹּ֔ר – “…from[the time] the sickle is first put to the standing crop, you shall begin to count…” (Devarim 16:9, Reeh). Sefiras HaOmer begins with the time when cutting the grains begins.
• 06:46 אֶרֶץ נָֽתְנָ֣ה יְבוּלָ֑הּ – “The earth gives forth its produce” (Tehillim 67:7).
• 08:09 PARAGRAPH 9. Practical application of the concepts presented in this halakha: Koach HaMachriach is fueled by arrogance. Humility will draw a person to the truth by subduing the Koach HaMachriach.
• 14:49 Emes leAmito – there are levels of truth.
• 16:32 NOTE about the Rav Noson of Nemirov zal’s son Reb Yitzchak zal traveling by boat to Eretz Yisrael. He was in Meron for the yahrzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal.
• 19:36 Q&R about what blocks a person from being close to a tzaddik.
• 21:30 PARAGRAPH 10. Tikkun Leil Shavuos. The beginning of a sefer is an aspect of Koach HaMoshekh. The conclusion of a sefer is an aspect of Koach HaMachriach.
• 28:00 ***NOTE about chinuch bonim – educating/raising children – transmitting daas – awareness of HaShem – to the next generation.
• 31:00 ***Q&R – Priorities for Tikkun Leil Shavuos: First recite the תרי”ג מצוות and then follow with the rest of the Tikkkun Leil Shavuos.
• 32:13 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal on Shavuos. NOTE about Rabbi Chaim Spring shlit”a.
• 35:26 PARAGRAPH 11. Staying awake on Shavuos night. When we stay awake through the entire Leil HaShavuos we are disciplining the body to serve the soul.
• 40:00 By converting the Koach HaMachriach to Koach HaMoshekh the physical body, and the physical world, is transformed by stages to a spiritual state.
• 42:30 Through death and kosher burial the physical body becomes part of the earth, which is the ultimate shiflus – lowliness.
• 43:40 Techiyas HaMeisim – resurrection of the dead.
• 43:15 Humility: when a person is resurrected, it’s only the person’s shiflus that comes back to life. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 72. Koach HaMoshekh is an aspect of earth.
• 49:00 Sleep is one-sixtieth of death. The perfection of the neshama is achieved through putting restraints on the body.
• 50:03 Q&R.
• 53:00 Closing blessings – tonight is Pesach Sheni.