2025-07-30 – LH7 – CM1 – Chalukas Shutafim 5 – Para. 14b-15 – Matzranus 1a

Chalukas Shutafim 5 – Matzranus 1 – Yahrzeit of the Arizal – 5th Av – Daled Amos of Halakha – Gates of Beis HaMikdash – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Chalukas Shutafim 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 67. “Eyes of the Tzaddik” alludes to the the ability to see clearly one’s need for tikkun hamidos. The four yisodos (basic elements – of creation emanate from HaShem through the Tzaddik Emes.
00:00 – NOTE – Today is the yahrzeit of the Arizal HaKodesh (5th Av) – Rabbi Yitzchak B’R Shlomo Luriah Ashkenazi zal. It is also the 19th yahrzeit of Rabbi Yechiel Michel B’R Yehoshua Dovid HaLevi Dorfman zal.
02:00 – PARAGRAPH 14b. Daled Amos of Halakha – Gates of the Beis HaMikdash.
13:45 – The clarity we have in halakha today emanates from the time when the Beis HaMikdash was standing.
14:30 – NOTE: Eretz Yisrael is central to Torah and mitzvos.
15:40 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal applying for an exit visa from the Soviet Union for 38 years. Each time he applied, he and his family were refused, but he never gave up. Finally he and his wife were released and they settled in Yerushalayim. His daughters and their families soon followed, and B”H all his grandchildren and great grandchildren now live in Eretz Yisrael.
20:40 – PARAGRAPH 15. “A good name” (Mishlei 22:1).
22:00 – NOTE from Rabbi Rosenfeld zal about the meaning of a “good name”.
26:00 – Q&R about the incident of Bar Kamtza.
29:00 – Q&R – the best “escape” is to “run away” to the Torah. The best hishtadlus is Torah and tefilah.
33:00 – HILKHOS MATZRANUS 1a.