2025-11-04 – LH7 – CM1 – Mikach uMimkar 4 – Para. 1-4 – Parshas Vayishlach – Parshas Bereishis

Mikach uMimkar 4 – Parshas Vayishlach – Parshas Bereishis – How the Sukkah Protects – Tikkun Achila – Vegetarian – Adam HaRishon – Untimely Death of Animals – Why Were the Avos Shepherds? – Ushpizin – Sukkos Dovid – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mikach uMimkar 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 266.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Parshas Vayishlach. Sukkos. וְיַעֲקֹב נָסַע סֻכֹּתָה וַיִּבֶן לוֹ בָּיִת וּלְמִקְנֵהוּ עָשָׂה סֻכֹּת עַל־כֵּן קָרָא שֵׁם־הַמָּקוֹם סֻכּוֹת – “And Yaakov traveled to Succos and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he named the place Succos” (Bereishis 33:17, Vayishlach). A human child nurses from above, an animal nurses its young from below.
06:30 – *Building a sukkah al pi halakha protects a person from harm from all forms of construction.
07:45 – בראשית contains the word בית.
08:30 – PARAGRAPH 2. Parshas Bereishis. Tikkun cheyt Adam HaRishon – repairing the sin of Adam.
11:00 – The word אדם – Adam – is three times the Name of HaShem Yud – Kay, alluding to the 3 parts of the brain. אדם implies דעת – daas – knowledge based on faith in HaShem.
13:50 – When a Jew commits a sin, he falls from the level of man to the level of animal.
19:00 – Just as there a many processes to make bread, there are many processes in teshuvah. Making a blessing with kavana elevates food from the category of animal food to the category of human food.
21:00 – The 10 Days of Teshuvah is the time of year most propitious for tikkun achila. The sukkah is an aspect of Binah ; the sukkah is like a mother’s embrace of her child.
24:00 – The main focus in the mitzvah of sukkah is that we return to HaShem through eating in the sukkah and making the blessing “leishev besukkah” which is only said before eating.
25:30 – Q&R – Elevating achila during the 10 Days of Teshuvah.
26:30 – Q&R – Sin of Adam HaRishon.
27:30 – ***Q&R about being vegetarian. People who don’t want to eat meat and/or fish are missing the tikkunim that are accomplished through eating meat and/or fish.
30:20 – PARAGRAPH 3. Why were the Avos shepherds? Tikkun for untimely death of animals.
35:20 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 63.
37:30 – Q&R – the Avos were taking care of providing food for animals to accomplish tikkun for the untimely death of animals.
39:00 – ***Q&R about the untimely death of animals all over the world. This is caused by people.
40:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Ushpizin in the Sukkah – The 7 Shepherds of Am Yisrael. Why the Sukkah is called “Sukkas Dovid”.
44:00 – מֵאַחַר עָלוֹת הֱבִיאוֹ לִרְעוֹת בְּיַעֲקֹב עַמּוֹ וּבְיִשְׂרָאֵל נַחֲלָתוֹ – “From behind the nursing ewes He brought him, to shepherd Yaakov His people and Israel His heritage” (Tehillim 78:71).
47:00 – ***Life of Dovid HaMelech. Why was being a shepherd the qualification to be king of Am Yisrael? Dovid HaMelech and Moshiach are central to the tikkun Adam HaRishon.
52:30 – “VeAni Tefilah…”
53:00 – Application of this Torah to our lives today.
54:30 – Q&R about why the Avos fed animals.
56:10 – Q&R about tikkun achila. The halakha is for a person to feed one’s animals before eating. Overweight is caused by doing other things during a meal (reading, etc.). Eating requires daas.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.