2025-11-11 – LH7 – CM1 – Onaah 2 – Para. 5 – Onaah 3 – Para. 1

Onaah 2 – Onaah 3 – Chanukah – Mitzvos with Simcha – Rabbi Dorfman zal – Reb Yonah zal – Tzedakah on Chanukah – Bikur Cholim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Onaah 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 280.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. Chanukah.
10:00 – NOTE about mesiras nefesh and ahava dekedusha – respect for the Tzaddik.
14:00 – Hallel. Tzedakah on Chanukah.
16:00 – Q&R – Kohanim are both chesed and makhpidim. Gold is din and silver is chesed.
18:45 – HALAKHA 3. INTRODUCTION. Hilkhos Onaah 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 6.
24:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. New beginnings are associated with HaShem’s Name E – K – Y – H.
29:00 – Q&R about handling HaShem’s din. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal who used to say, “A hundred years ago, people could handle HaShem’s punishments. The present generation isn’t as strong.”
32:00 – ***The essence of Bikur Cholim is to know what to do and when to leave.
37:00 – Teshuvah on teshuvah.
38:40 – ***BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal who used to tell over a story about the youngest son of Rav Noson of Nemirov zal, Reb Yonah. At sunset Reb Yonah used to say, “Oy, I haven’t even done anything yet today!” and would run to put a coin in tzedakah. He was always ready to begin anew.
41:45 – The importance of doing a mitzvah with simcha and a sense of renewal.
42:15 – ***The difference between the first geulah and the final geulah: in the final geulah, the joy will never stop. This is the meaning of “E – K – Y – H asher E – K – Y – H”.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.