2025-10-24 – LH7 – CM1 – Sheluchin 5 – Para. 41 – Hilkhos Onaah – Roshei Perokim – Part 1 – Parshas Masei

Sheluchin 5 – Hilkhos Onaah – Roshei Perokim – Parshas Masei – Klipa Noga – Spiritual Aspects of Clothing – Searching for the Tzaddik> – Eliyahu HaNavi – Elisha HaNavi – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sheluchin 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 8.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 41. Parshas Masei. וְלָמָּה תְנִואוּן תְנִיאוּן אֶת־לֵב בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵעֲבֹר – “Why do you discourage the children of Israel from crossing over to the Land…” (Bamidbar 32:7, Masei). Hilkhos Onaah. Eretz Yisrael is kedushah. Chutz L’Aretz is Klipa. Ehver leYarden is Klipa Noga.
02:50 – NOTE about the danger of Conservative Judaism.
08:45 – ROSHEI PEROKIM. Kinyan Sudar.
11:00 – וּבְיַד הַנְּבִיאִים אֲדַמֶּה – “…and to the prophets I assumed likenesses” – (Hoshea 12:11). Conducting business relates to the Medameh. Within the Medameh is a high-level light, called Chashmal.
12:20 – ***When a person studies Torah with his grandchild, it’s as if he’s receiving the Torah at Har Sinai.
14:30 – A person merits respectable garments through the aspect of רסן – reins/bit for a horse.
17:22 – אַל־תִּהְיוּ׀ כְּסוּס כְּפֶרֶד אֵין הָבִין בְּמֶתֶג־וָרֶסֶן עֶדְיוֹ לִבְלוֹם בַּל קְרֹב אֵלֶיךָ – “Do not be like a horse, like a mule that does not discern; whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle, so that when he is being groomed, he does not come near you” (Tehillim 32:9). Zacharia HaNavi saw HaShem riding/subduing 4 horses corresponding to the 4 kingdoms of evil.
19:20 – Clothing came into existence after the sin of Adam HaRishon. If a talmid chokham’s clothing is frayed clothing, it’s a sign that the klipos are trying to attach themselves to him.
22:25 – Q&R about fragrance being an aspect of clothing. A man is forbidden to wear fragrance.
26:00 – Q&R about the Medameh being the clothing of the Sekhel. Bilbul HaMedameh is clothing.
27:15 – In preparation for Matan Torah, Am Yisrael was commanded to launder their clothing. On Yom Kippur the Kohen Gadol changed clothing 4 times.
32:00 – Passing of Moshe Rabbeinu.
34:20 – Elisha HaNavi and Gechazi. It’s best that a rabbi keeps a certain distance from his students.
38:00 – ***Searching for the Tzaddik – Eliyahu HaNavi. The only way to search for Eliyahu HaNavi after he left this world was to do as Elisha HaNavi did: pray.
41:00 – אָבִי ׀ אָבִי רֶכֶב יִשְׂרָאֵל וּפָרָשָׁיו – “…’My father! My father! The chariots of Israel and their riders!’…” (2Melachim 2:12). Every tzaddik is a chariot for HaShem.
43:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 38 – the secret of Tefillin.
45:30 – Closing blessings.