2025-08-04 – LH7 – CM1 – Matzranus 3 – Para. 3b-11 – Parshas Re’eh

Matzranus 3 – Parshas Re’eh – Field of Souls – 12 Tribes – 12 Months – Nusach in Tefilah – 12 Leaders of Yishmael – 12 Mazalos – Zodiac – Maaser – Fasting on a Yahrzeit – Kaddish – Yahrzeit Candle – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matzranus 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 4.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3b. The 12 Tribes correspond to the 12 nusachim in tefilah.
05:00 – The 12 Leaders of Yishmael are in opposition to the 12 Shevatim of Am Yisrael.
07:00 – NOTE – HaShem’s Name Yud – Hey – Vuv – Hey in Mispar Katan is טוב.
08:00 – The 12 Tribes correspond to the 12 months of the year and the 12 mazalos – signs of the zodiac.
09:00 – וְזָרַ֥ח הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ וּבָ֣א הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וְאֶ֨ל־מְקוֹמ֔וֹ שׁוֹאֵ֛ף זוֹרֵ֥חַֽ ה֖וּא שָֽׁם – “The sun rises and the sun sets, and to its place it yearns and rises there” (Koheles 1:5).
12:00 – The tikkun for the Field of Souls is accomplished every year.
13:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Parshas Re’eh. עַשֵּׂ֣ר תְּעַשֵּׂ֔ר אֵ֖ת כָּל־תְּבוּאַ֣ת זַרְעֶ֑ךָ הַיֹּצֵ֥א הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה שָׁנָ֥ה שָׁנָֽה – “You shall tithe all the seed crop that the field gives forth, year by year” (Devarim 14:22, Reeh). Maaser – tithing the produce of a field is done every year.
15:00 – Parshas Korach. אֲנִ֤י חֶלְקְךָ֙ וְנַֽחֲלָ֣תְךָ֔ בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל – “… I am your inheritance and portion among the children of Israel” (Bamidbar 18:20, Korach).
22:00 – PARAGRAPH 5.
24:00 – PARAGRAPH 6.
27:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. The custom of fasting on a yahrzeit.
32:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Kaddish. Tikkun HaTefilah.
37:00 – The Arizal teaches that Kaddish is the bridge between this world and the next world. That’s why there’s a Kaddish between the Korbonos and the Psukei DeZimra in Shacharis, and again between Pesukei DeZimra and the berakhos preceding the Shema. The 4 sections of Shacharis correspond to the 4 Worlds of Olam HaBa.
40:00 – PARAGRAPH 10. Kaddish transforms Mochin DeKatnus into Mochin DeGadlus.
42:00 – Q&R about how we can unifying tefilah: 1) focusing on the meaning of what we’re saying, 2) binding oneself to all the souls of Am Yisrael, 3) binding oneself with the Tzaddik Emes.
45:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. The custom of lighting a candle just before the onset of a yahrzeit.
50:00 – Closing blessings – note about Tu B’Av and the halakhos governing today, Motzei Tisha B’Av.

Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel