2025-05-12 – LH7 – CM1 – Mitaltelin 4 – Para. 11a-15 – Mitaltelin 5 – Para. 1 – VaEschanan

Mitaltelin 4 – Mitaltelin 5 – Sefiras HaOmer – Shavuos – Sleep Is Good for the Bad and Bad for the Good – Techiyas HaMeisim – Koach HaMoshekh – Koach HaMachriach – The Tzaddik Is Compared to the Rainbow – Bris – LaG BeOmer – 3 Avos Sweeten Dinim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mitaltelin 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 70.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 11b. Sefiras HaOmer – Shavuos – Sleep Is Good for the Bad and Bad for the Good – Techiyas HaMeisim – Koach HaMoshekh – Koach HaMachriach.
06:00 – PARAGRAPH 12. Both the Yetzer Tov and the Yetzer HaRa can be used to bring a person closer to HaShem. This is achieved by means of Sefiras HaOmer.
11:00 – PARAGRAPH 13. Life is a unification of body and soul.
13:15 – צַדִּ֗יק אֹ֖כֵל לְשֹ֣בַע נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וּבֶ֖טֶן רְשָׁעִ֣ים תֶּחְסָֽר – “A righteous man eats to sate his soul, but the stomach of the wicked shall feel want” (Mishlei 13:25).
14:45 – The essence of chiyus – life force – is the desire to come closer to HaShem.
08:00 – Achilas Etz HaDaas Tov VeRa – Eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil – Chadash is not permitted until after the Korbon Omer is brought.
20:30 – NOTE: Making a blessing before eating transforms the Koach HaMachriach into the Koach HaMoshekh.
22:00 – PARAGRAPH 14.לַֽעֲשׂ֬וֹת רְצֽוֹנְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֣י חָפָ֑צְתִּי וְ֜תוֹרָֽתְךָ֗ בְּת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽי – “HaShem, I desired to do Your will and [to have] Your law within my innards” (Tehillim 40:9). Rashi: what’s the connection between the stomach and the Torah? All of my eating is based on performing HaShem’s will.
24:30 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal explained why, even though it’s permitted to drink while wearing tefillin, we usually don’t do that in our generation.
27:00 – Q&R about eating or drinking while wearing tefillin for any length of time after tefilah.
28:15 – PARAGRAPH 15. Koach HaMoshekh and Koach HaMachriach are parallel soul and body respectively.
31:00 – Parshas VaEschanan. אָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָֽבְךָ֥ – “You shall love HaShem with all your heart…” (Devarim 6:5, VaEschanan). The Talmud (Brochos 61b) explains that loving HaShem with one’s whole heart means serving Him with both the Yetzer HaTov and the Yetzer HaRa. Yitzra is begematria aish. The goal in this world is to convert the physical into the spiritual and harness both the positive and negative aspects of our ratzon. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 49.
34:00 – HALAKHA 5. PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Chezkas Mitaltelin 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 42.
36:30 – NOTE: The first time Reb Shimon zal came to Rebbe Nachman, the Rebbe told him three stories. The first: when a tzaddik gives a devar Torah, it generates a tremendous flow of chiddushei Torah. The third story had to do with a rebbe not giving his student permission to leave.
39:45 – The Zohar HaKadosh brings that the efforts of tzaddikim are focused on clothing the Shekhina HaKedosha in garments of light through revealing razin – secrets of the Torah.
41:30 – Note about a recent commentary on the Likutey Moharan by Rabbi Attiah shlit”a. The colors of the rainbow allude to the three Avos.
44:00 – Preparing a beautiful garment for a tzaddik brings about a sweetening of dinim.
45:30 – The tzaddik is compared to the rainbow. The custom of children playing with a bow and arrow on LaG BeOmer.
48:00 – Raz is begematria ohr. The 3 sounds of the shofar correspond to the 3 basic colors of the rainbow and the 3 Avos: Avraham, Yitzchak, veYaakov. Mentioning the names of the Avos sweetens dinim. This is why to begin the Shemoneh Esrei we mention the 3 Avos.
52:00 – Closing blessings. Reference to Likutey Moharan 6.