2025-10-27b – LH7 – CM1 – Mikach uMimkar 1 – Para. 1-4 – Parshas Beshalach

Mikach uMimkar 1 – Beshalach – Elevating Souls in Food – Spiritual Meaning of Lifting Hands – Tikkun for Clothing – Tzitzis – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mikach uMimkar 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 280.

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. ***Explanation of elevating the nefoshos in food.
02:47 – PARAGRAPH 2. Parshas Beshalach. וַיְהִי יָדָיו אֱמוּנָה עַד־בֹּא הַשָּׁמֶשׁ “…so he was with his hands in faith until sunset” (Shemos 17:12, Beshalach). The spiritual meaning of lifting up one’s hands, as in שְׂאוּ־יְדֵכֶם קֹדֶשׁ וּבָרֲכוּ אֶת־יְהוָה – “Lift your hands to the sanctuary and bless HaShem” (Tehillim 134:2).
05:53 – PARAGRAPH 3. Business dealings. Kinyan Sudar. Elevating the sparks in material objects through business transactions.
09:19 – Klipos try to attach themselves to a person’s garments.
09:47 – ***Tzitzis.
10:49 – The four corners of the talis.
11:50 – Business dealings involve releasing sparks of holiness from material objects. All this happens through the hands.
14:35 – Q&R about business dealings with non-Jews.
15:37 – PARAGRAPH 4. Tikkun of garments. Whiteness of moach vs. red/blood.
16:55 – Tikkun HaDibur – elevating and purifying speech.
כִּי עֲוֺנֹתַי עָבְרוּ רֹאשִׁי כְּמַשָּׂא כָבֵד יִכְבְּדוּ מִמֶּנִּי – “For my iniquities passed over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me” (Tehillim 38:5).
18:52 – Clothing damaged by stains.
23:13 – ***Q&R about Tikkun HaKlali. Shemiras HaBris corrects all other aspects of life. Tikkun HaKlali for speech is praising HaShem, but saying the specific series of Tehillim that comprise the Tikkun HaKlali for Shemiras HaBris includes speech as well as all other midos.
25:08 – Closing blessings.