2025-08-24 – LH7 – CM1 – Sheluchin 3 – Para. 18-24a – Behaalosekha

Sheluchin 3 – Behaalosekha – Holy Tears of Leah – False Tears of Esav – Emes vs. Sheker – Chatzos Laila – How To Cry Holy Tears – Parnassah and Hashgacha – Kudsha Brich Hu – Shekhina – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sheluchin 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 51 – “Mayim Mayim” and is also based on Likutey Moharan 4.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 18. Positive Aspect of Crying – the Holy Tears of Leah Imeinu brought her merit to marry Yaakov Avinu. Holy tears connect a person with אמת – truth. Leah’s tears counteracted Esav’s Tears of שקר – falsehood and materialistic desires.
06:00 – *For a person who falls into sin, crying Holy Tears – as Leah did, is very beneficial. Through tears of yearning for HaShem, we connect After Creation with Before Creation and facilitate teshuvah – returning to HaShem.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 19. Waking up at midnight to pray Tikkun Chatzos to mourn the Beis HaMikdash brings a person to a higher level of hashgachas HaShem.
14:50 – PARAGRAPH 20. Parshas Behaalosekha. Ner Chanukah represents the holiness of the Menorah in the Beis HaMikdash – the light of HaShem’s hashgacha.
17:10 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 7.
18:00 – ***Q&R about how to cry Holy tears. Rebbe Nachman advises not to concentrate on crying but rather to focus on being as sincere as possible when speaking words of tefilah – prayer.
21:00 – PARAGRAPH 21. Yetzias Mitzrayim took place at Chatzos Layla.
26:00 – PARAGRAPH 22. Why the first mitzvah given to Bnei Yisrael was Kiddush HaChodesh.
28:30 – Terumah is related to the eyes. Ayin Tov vs. Ayin Ra. “A person who is generous gives one from forty.”
32:30 – Traditionally, tzedakah is increased during Chanukah.
33:00 – PARAGRAPH 23. Closing one’s eyes to the needs of a fellow Jew is as if worshiping idols.
35:40 – בִּרְבוֹת֙ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה רַבּ֖וּ אֽוֹכְלֶ֑יהָ וּמַה־כִּשְׁרוֹן֙ לִבְעָלֶ֔יהָ כִּ֖י אִם־רְא֥וּת (כתיב רְא֥יּת) עֵינָֽיו – “With the increase of good, its eaters increase, and what is the advantage to its Master, except seeing [with] His eyes?” (Koheles 5:10).
36:10 – עֵ֣ינֵי כֹ֖ל אֵלֶ֣יךָ יְשַׂבֵּ֑רוּ וְאַתָּ֚ה נוֹתֵֽן־לָהֶ֖ם אֶת־אָכְלָ֣ם בְּעִתּֽוֹ – “Everyone’s eyes look to You with hope, and You give them their food in its time” (Tehillim 145:15).
38:00 – NOTE: Two times קנ”ה is יש.
39:00 – Parnassah depends on belief in hashgacha. “Laws of Nature” are always under the direct supervision of HaShem.
42:40 – Q&R about belief in hashgacha.
44:00 – The parnassah of a religious Jew is as difficult as splitting the Yam Suf.
46:36 – Connecting After Creation with Before Creation. Parnassah comes from the Right Side – Before Creation. (Tehillim
48:10 – PARAGRAPH 24. Connecting After Creation with Before Creation. ***The term Kudsha Brich Hu refers to HaShem on the highest level, completely above the physical world. The term Shekhina is the aspect of HaShem that sends a flow of light into the physical world.
52:40 – Q&R about joining the Right Side with the Left Side to generate parnassah.
53:45 – Q&R about Chesed and Din during creation. Before Creation – HaShem existed as the Right Side.
55:30 – Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.