Nizkey Shekheynim 4 – Neighbors – Shutafim beKarka 2 – Balak – Ayin HaRa – Window vs. Lamp – Tzaddik Emes – Unity Within Diversity – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Nizkay Shekheynim 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 9.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. Vision. Window vs. lamp.
06:53 – Emes. A person should not look at things directly, but only “from the side”.
08:00 – Attachment to the Tzaddik Emes protects a person ability to perceive the truth.
10:00 – It is forbidden to position the window of one’s home directly facing directly into the window of one’s neighbor. Every tribe had its own path through the Yam Suf. This alludes to the twelve different nusachim of tefilah. The diversity of Am Yisrael is important.
13:00 – “Whether a person does more or does less – his intention should be for the sake of Heaven.” It’s forbidden for a Jew to look at another Jew in a negative way.
27:10 – PARAGRAPH 3. Parshas Balak. Bilaam saw Bnei Yisrael according to their tribes. Ayin HaRa. The success of Am Yisrael is based on honesty in prayer. Bilaam was always looking for what’s wrong with a person.
33:00 – “Mah tovu ohelecha” – *If a person doesn’t try to analyze the thinking of another, or judge the behavior of another, he will not come to perceive the other as bad. Honoring the privacy of other enables emes and achdus.
35:15 – כִּ֣י בֵיתִ֔י בֵּית־תְּפִלָּ֥ה יִקָּרֵ֖א לְכָל־הָֽעַמִּֽים – “For My house will be a house of prayer for all people” (Yishayahu 56:7).
41:00 – Q&R to clarify the analogy concerning the difference between a window and a lamp. A truth that causes conflict is not always the kind of truth HaShem seeks.
44:00 – Q&R about prayer for establishing truth in business dealings. Reference to Tefilah 9 in Likutey Tefilos.
45:00 – Shutafim beKarka 2. PARAGRAPH 1. Laws concerning a shared courtyard. Hilkhos Shutafim beKarka 2 is based on the end of 2Likutey Moharan 2. Unity within Diversity.
55:00 – Q&R.
57:30 – Closing blessings.
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