2025-08-11 – LH7 – CM1 – Matzranus 4 – Para. 12b-13 – Shutafin 1 – Shutafin 2 – Para. 1-2a – Parshas Bereishis

Matzranus 4 – Shutafin 1 – Shutafin 2 – Parshas Bereishis – Midrash Eichah – Ruach Moshiach – Each Business Partner Receives Equally Regardless of Initial Investment – Yerusha – Beis Din – Kinyan Sudar – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matzranus 4 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 67.

• 00:00 PARAGRAPH 12b. Midrash Eicha – they “sinned doubly”.
• 03:27 PARAGRAPH 13. Disrespect for the Tzaddik is the source of disharmony in the 4 Elements, both within the individual, and throughout all worlds.
• 11:09 Parshas Bereishis. וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם – “…and the spirit of HaShem was hovering over the face of the water” (Bereishis 1:2, Bereishis). “Water” refers to the tears shed by Am Yisrael during the exile.
• 11:41 The “spirit of HaShem ” that dispels the darkness is in the Shabbos lights kindled by Jewish women. Ruach Elokim refers to Moshiach.
• 12:56 NOTE: Hilkhos Matzranus 5 appears in Hilkhos Shutafin beKarka 5 – Para. 12-27.
• 13:12 HILKHOS SHUTAFIN 1. INTRODUCTION. Business partnerships. Hilkhos Shutafin 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 69. ***No matter how much each partner contributes to a business partnership, all partners receive equal portions when the partnership is dissolved, unless a different arrangement is agreed [through a written document] when the partnership is formed. (Based on Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 174.)
• 14:56 Business partners become like brothers, drawing from “the same tree”.
• 16:42 A family is compared to a tree – the wife is compared to the trunk of the tree, the branches are the wealth of the family, and the fruits of the tree are the children. A business partnership joins the branches of two trees. “Brothers who are partners.” Not all brothers are business partners.
• 23:39 Once a business partnership is established, all members are drawing from one source, and therefore all business partners are equal in receiving benefits, unless it was expressed differently at the outset of the partnership. This distribution is not affected by how much money was put into the partnership. Profit sharing in a business partnership is based on the fact that the partners have become united and equal in receiving from the same tree.
• 23:30 The amount of profit received is based on the “quality of the branches” and all partners are drawing from one source. A Beis Din on earth cannot determine what each partner’s “drawing power” is. Therefore, each one receives equally.
• 26:00 Similarly, distribution of inheritance is equal among children.
• 27:30 Q&R About a bochur receiving a double portion: A Beis Din has the right to say that the money of a person who passes away is “ownerless” in order to establish shalom the overriding factor in distributing a yerusha.
• 28:17 A business partnership must be established through kinyan. It is not established through dibur. The essence of a partnership is a sale. Individual money is going out of each individual’s pocket and joining together and the profits are divided equally.
• 30:17 Q&R – the principle of all partners being equal pertains only to Jews who become partners.
• 30:24 Q&R about a Beis Din governing a yerusha -inheritance – in order to establish peace between siblings.
• 31:22 HILKHOS SHUTAFIN 2. PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Shutafin 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 14.
• 34:09 Gerim – converts to Judaism – enter “under the wings of the Shekhina“.
• 34:57 ***When Moshiach is revealed, business transactions will not be possible, because business is based on conflicts/differences between people.
• 36:50 PARAGRAPH 2. A kinyan is necessary in business transactions to prevent partners from entering into conflict.
• 39:17 Reference to Likutey Moharan 51 – Emes is one and is the essence of peace. Sheker is associated with differences.
• 39:22 Deviating from a contract is an aspect of makhlokes. Kinyan Sudar establishes peace.
• 43:26 NOTE on the שָׁל֨וֹם | שָׁל֜וֹם לָֽרָח֧וֹק וְלַקָּר֛וֹב – “…peace, peace to the far and to the near…” (Yeshaya 57:19) – the repetition of the word שלום refers to the process of returning to HaShem in teshuvah.
• 44:24 The mission of a Jew in this world is to release and elevate the holy souls that are entrapped in the physical world. Reference to Likutey Moharan 35 and reference to Likutey Moharan 54.
• 46:16 Gerim enter under the “wings” of the Shekhinah. Why a garment is used to establish a Kinyan Sudar.
• 49:46 Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.