Nizkey Shekheynim 1 – A Mezuzah Is a Miniature Sefer Torah – Daled Amos – Minimum Size of a House, Room, or Door – Kinyan Sudar – Good Neighbors – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Nizkey Shekheynim 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 65.
00:00 – Daled Amos – 4 Alephs of Holiness – Reference to Likutey Moharan 28. These both correspond to the 4 Mochin – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 66.
04:50 – In order to require a mezuzah, a house, room, or door must be Daled Amos wide. The mezuzah is the origin of a person’s life-force and wealth. The mezuzah drives any negative forces.
07:00 – Holiness requires both place and preparation. Sometimes the preparation is more important than the mitzvah itself. The importance of saying “LeShem Mitzvah” before doing a mitzvah.
08:20 – Space in front of the entrance to a person’s home also must be Daled Amos wide.
10:00 – A person should have a designated place in his home reserved for avodas HaShem. Reference to Likutey Moharan 28.
12:00 – NOTE – Daled Amos corresponds to the 4 letters of Shem HaShem – Y – K – V – K. The total of each letter squared is begematria מקום.
13:00 – The Daled Amos outside a person’s door is a place where he can store things he needs. A person’s shefa begins from Chkokhma – corresponding to the Daled Amos outside his front door.
17:00 – NOTE – a mezuzah chases away negative forces. מזזות is זז מבת. How Rabbi Rosenfeld zal taught his students to kiss the mezuzah. Begematria, the mezuzah is אמת – it is a miniature Sefer Torah.
26:00 – If something in a public area falls within a person’s Daled Amos, the person can acquire it. Reference to Likutey Moharan 134.
27:00 – “If you haven’t acquired daas, what have you acquired?” (Nedarim 41). All acquisitions are achieved through chokhmah.
29:30 – Q&R about kissing the mezuzos inside a house: it’s not necessary but some people do, and there’s no need to stop them.
31:30 – Q&R about the Daled Amos in front of a person’s home.
33:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Kinyan Sudar. Transfer of ownership from one person to another through both people holding onto an article of clothing. Reference to Likutey Moharan 29.
36:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. “All that HaShem has in this world are the Daled Amos of halakha” (Brochos 8).
39:00 – NOTE about the hashgacha that R’ Nasan was asked to speak on the topic of halakha at a recent gathering.
44:00 – NOTE – Story about Reb Noach the “klepper” – who hung signs in Yerushalayim. Tehillim – a unit called “machaneh” needs protection. Har is two times machaneh. Sadeh is three times Machaneh. The third wall of this protective structure. Bayis is 4 times machaneh. Each of the 3 Avos put up a protective wall. Moshe put up the roof of this protective structure – VaEschanan is 5 times machaneh. Reference to Likutey Moharan 10.
48:00 – Closing blessings to be good neighbors and have good neighbors.
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