2025-10-27a – LH7 – CM1 – Sheluchin 5 – Roshei Perokim – Part 3 – Parshas Ki Sisa

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Sheluchin 5 – Roshei Perokim – Ki Sisa – Water into Blood – Masa uMatan beEmunah – Honesty in Business – Searching for the Tzaddik in Every Generation – Asking Tzaddikim to Pray for You – It’s Not “The More, the Merrier” – Travel Repairs Faith – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sheluchin 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 8.

• 00:00 ROSHEI PEROKIM. Parshas Ki Sisa. Water into Blood. כִּי־זֶה׀ מֹשֶׁה הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר הֶעֱלָנוּ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם לֹא יָדַעְנוּ מֶה־הָיָה לוֹ – “…because this man Moshe, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him” (Shemos 32:1, Ki Sisa).
• 01:33 Cheyt HaEgel – Sin of the Golden Calf.
• 04:43 “That which was, will be…” (Koheles). Even Moshe Rabbeinu had to search for the Tzaddik – within himself.
• 05:38 Masa uMatan beEmunah – honesty in business. Travel is a tikkun for lack of faith.
• 06:40 Horse and Rider. Beirur HaMedameh means clarification of whatever isn’t fully understood, freedom from illusion. All travel is a tikkun for lack of Emunah. The Megaleh Amukos on the journeys of Bnei Yisrael in the wilderness.
• 08:48 Spiritual aspects of clothing. Kinyan Sudar. Klipah Nogah.
• 11:40 NOTE – נִפְתְּחוּ הַשָּׁמַיִם וָאֶרְאֶה מַרְאוֹת אֱלֹהִים – “…the heavens opened up and I saw visions of HaShem” (Yechezkel 1:1) – Roshei Teivos אמונה.
• 12:40 “These are the generations of Peretz…” (Rus 4).
• 13:48 ***The True Tzaddik breaks barriers to rescue souls.
• 14:22 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal and the evolution of chassidus.
• 16:29 ***It is crucial in every generation to search for the Tzaddik after his passing by connecting with the people to whom he entrusted his legacy. There are many types of Tzaddikim, because each generation has difference spiritual challenges that need to be addressed. After a tzaddik’s passing, Am Yisrael needs to search for him more than ever.
• 17:25 “Bracha khopping” is not the best way to find the tzaddik. It takes time and commitment to receive what one needs from the tzaddik.
• 19:07 *** Sometimes the light of the tzaddik is blocked with “clouds” that form because of our own misdeeds.
• 21:03 ***Q&R about praying at the kever of tzaddikim other than one’s own rebbe.
• 21:29 Account of a man who refused to solicit prayers or blessings from anyone but his rebbe. Asking people to daven in a time of need is not “the more, the merrier”.
• 22:55 ***BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal on why it’s better to only give your name for tefilah to one rabbi. “When two people watch a pot, the food won’t be cold and won’t be hot.”
• 23:11 If the Tzaddik knows that you’re coming to him exclusively, he invests more of his heart in his tefilos.
• 24:02 Getting a blessing from the Tzaddikei HaDor.
• 24:52 Rav Nosson of Nemirov zal stated that he will do a favor for anyone who visits his kever.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.