2025-11-20 – LH7 – CM1 – Onaah 3 – Para. 4 – Tefilah – Geulah – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 1 – Para. 1a

Onaah 3 – Tefilah – Geulah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Tefilah. Geulah.
02:00 – Ain amidah eleh tefilah. Tefilah establishes a person.
03:55: – Reference to Likutey Moharan 7.
05:55 – The final geulah is a geulah of tefilah. Joining geulah to tefilah before beginning the Shemoneh Esrei.
12:45 – The main support system of a Jew is tefilah. The Zohar HaKodesh brings that there are 10 expressions for tefilah.
13:00 – ***MUST CLIP NOTE: “People ask me what’s the most important thing in Breslov chassidus?” Limud Torah is central, but if someone falls in their connection to Torah, their life-support is tefilah. “If a person doesn’t have Rebbe Nachman’s teachings about tefilah, it’s very difficult for them to return to HaShem.”
18:45 – ***BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal: There are 3 prerequisites to helping a person: 1) he recognizes there’s a problem, 2) he reaches out  for help, 3) he believes HaShem can help.
20:20 – ***AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about R’ Nasan discovering Hishtapkhus HaNefesh.
21:30 – CHOSHEN MISHPAT 2. Hilkhos Matanah 1.
22:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Matanah 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 69. “All souls are rooted in wealth.” Wealth depends on the wife.
27:00 – A person’s good name is their kovod. Wealth is a protective wall that prevents anger.
32:40 – Wealth is used to give tzedakah because his generosity increases love between people.
39:20 – ***Reference to Likutey Moharan 17. Written words travel further than spoken words.
41:30 – Love, wealth, and honor expand a person’s nefesh and diffuses anger. The most important benefit of wealth is that it generates love and good will.
43:00 – Q&R about wealth generating love. Analogy of a carrot and a stick – a person needs to be educated through something he appreciates. Entitlement is a disease.
50:00 – Closing blessings. The importance of sharing the joy of a friend’s simcha.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.