2025-08-17 – LH7 – CM1 – Sheluchin 1 – Sheluchin 2 – Para. 1-2a – Parshas Shemos – Yisro

Sheluchin 1 – Sheluchin 2 – Parshas Shemos – Am Yisrael Is One – Only a Jew Can Serve as Emissary for a Fellow Jew – How HaShem Prays and Does Mitzvos – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – HALAKHA 1. Parshas Shemos. Am Yisrael is one, as in וַיְהִ֗י כָּל־נֶ֛פֶשׁ יֹֽצְאֵ֥י יֶֽרֶךְ־יַֽעֲקֹ֖ב שִׁבְעִ֣ים נָ֑פֶשׁ – “And all those descended from Yaakov were seventy soul…” (Shemos 1:5, Shemos). Only a Jew can serve as a shaliach – emissary – for a fellow Jew (Kiddushin 41).
05:00 – Hilkhos Sheluchin 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 31.
07:00 – HaShem puts on tefillin (Sotah 14).
15:00 – HALAKHA 2. PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Sheluchin 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
20:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. Parshas Yisro. בְּכָל־הַמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַזְכִּ֣יר אֶת־שְׁמִ֔י אָב֥וֹא אֵלֶ֖יךָ וּבֵֽרַכְתִּֽיךָ – “…wherever I allow My name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you” (Shemos 20:21, Yisro).
25:00 – Degel Machaneh Ephraim and NOTE about Reb Zushia. A man’s deceased father appeared to him in a dream and the Vilna Gaon questioned how Reb Zushia knew how to solve the mystery.
38:00 – How HaShem prays.
40:00 – *The purpose of Am Yisrael is to serve as HaShem’s shaliach in the physical world.
42:00 – Man performs mitzvos to achieve mastery over his physicality. To the extent that he succeeds, he becomes the shaliach for HaShem’s performance of mitzvos.
45:00 – *When a man achieves bitul – spiritual mastery over his physical nature – it’s as if HaShem Himself is doing the mitzvos.