Nizkey Shekheynim 4 – Neighbors – Korach – Beis HaMikdash Is Built Through Tefilah – Batim – Rebuilding Yerushalayim – Mateh Aharon – Tefilah Bevechinas Din – Achieving Kavana – Tehillim 122 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Nizkay Shekheynim 4 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 8.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 14.
02:00 – יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֥ם הַבְּנוּיָ֑ה כְּ֜עִ֗יר שֶׁחֻבְּרָה־לָּ֥הּ יַחְדָּֽו – “Jerusalem rebuilt as a city unified” (Tehillim 122:3).
04:30 – All the nidachim -outcasts – will be gathered in.
05:15 – “The holy stones will be gathered in, to give praise to HaShem” (Yishayahu).
06:30 – A multitude of batim is built through Am Yisrael gathering to join in tefilah. “Yerushalayim Ihr …kiryas oz”
08:20 – HaShem will be recognized in her palaces (Tehillim 122). “As is Your Name…”
09:00 – “Circle Yerushalayim – her great towers… wondrous rebuilding of Yerushalayim”.
10:30 – Yerushalayim is the place of the ingathering of all tefilos.
When the homes in Yerushalayim are built, no neighbor feels constricted because all are joining for tefilah. This brings a great light into the physical homes of Yerushalayim, so that no Jew will say, “I don’t have room in Yerushalayim.”
13:30 – PARAGRAPH 15. Parshas Korach.
14:40 – Tefilah bevechinas Din. The Din of Shevet Levi was very strongly attached to Korach.
23:00 – The Right Side in Kabbalah. Reference to Likutey Moharan 5.
24:15 – NOTE: When davening Shemonah Esrei, the two hands should be held together, with the right hand on top of the left. This can be done when praying without or a siddur. I can also be done when holding a siddur, by supporting the siddur with the left hand, and turning the pages and holding the pages open with the right hand [as Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal used to do].
28:00 – Why Korach’s punishment was “The earth swallowed them up.” The punishment of Korach generated awe of HaShem, and in the future this will serve to save Korach and his followers. The Sutra Achra will be forced to return them.
32:00 – Tzaddik cetamar yifrach – sofei teivos Korach.
33:00 – PARAGRAPH 16. The staff of Aharon HaKohen. Mateh – staff – represents Tefilah bevechinas Din.
35:00 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 1. Angels are created through the Dvar HaShem.
37:00 – Parshas Berov Am Hadras Melech.” Multitude of Batim in tefilah generates tremendous life energy, including that in all vegetation. Therefore the Staff of Aharon blossomed. Similarly, on Rosh Hashanah, when multitudes gather to pray, the life energy in all things in greatly increased. The first letters of “and he cast his staff before Pharaoh” spell “veyipalel” as in the tefilah of Pinchas, who used Tefilah Bevichinas Din.
42:00 – HALAKHA 5. Hilkhos Nizkay Shekheynim 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 9.
45:00 – Everything in creation receives its life force through tefilah.
47:50 – NOTE: Malkhos is tefilah, Tiferes is emes.
48:30 – When a person begins to daven, the negative forces surround him. The solution to this is emes – sincerity in tefilah. There are always openings in the darkness of extraneous thoughts. The clouds of negativity are sent to strengthen our kavana. Reference to Likutey Moharan 9.
53:00 – “Even though you’re not davening with passion, daven with honesty.”
55:30 – “HaShem’s truth is your shield” – Am Yisrael is protected by emes.
57:00 – Q&R about achieving kavana in tefilah. Ideally, a person should put joy and passion into tefilah, but if the Sutra Achra surrounds him with extraneous thoughts, simple honesty will rescue the person and bring him to a stronger level of kavana.
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