2025-12-03 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 3 – Para. 11b-14a – Why All the Silliness on Purim? – Chesed Chinam – Treasury of Free Gifts – The Hidden Torah – Parshas Parah – Parshas HaChodesh – Sunset

Matanah 3 – Why All the Silliness on Purim? – Chesed Chinam – Treasury of Free Gifts – Parshas Parah – Parshas HaChodesh – Sunset – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 78 and on 2Likutey Moharan 67.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 11b. Chesed Chinam.
07:50 – Kabalas HaTorah on Purim. Otzar Matnas Chinam. Torah HaNeelemes – the Hidden Torah.
13:00 – Tzedakah on Purim: “Whoever puts out his hand to receive, we give.”
14:00 – ***NOTE about the importance of hisbodedus on Purim in order to reach out to the Otzar Matnas Chinam – HaShem’s Treasury of Free Gifts – that is especially accessible on Purim.
15:00 – PARAGRAPH 12. Parshas Parah. The mitzvos of Parshas Parah are done outside the Beis HaMikdash, alluding to the Tzaddik’s outreach to those who are not connected with the Torah.
18:20 – NOTE about how “Bitula haTorah” establishes Torah. The Hidden Torah.
19:40 – NOTE from Rabbi Rosenfeld zal on the gematria of Parah Adumah.
25:00 – *Sometimes people come to the Tzaddik, and other times the Tzaddik leaves his place and goes out to the people.
28:30 – When the Tzaddik goes out to the people, he uses a temporary yerida to convey his light to those who are distant. He then uses this yerida as a springboard to a higher spiritual level than the one he had before the yerida.
30:50 – ***Q&R about elevating a soul on a yahrzeit. Spiritual aspects of going to a cemetery.
33:00 – PARAGRAPH 13. Parshas HaChodesh. Filling in the deficiency of the moon and restoring the moon to its original light. Sunset is the beginning of the negative forces of fire.
41:40 – PARAGRAPH 14. Moshe Rabbeinu had difficulty understanding 1- Menorah, 2) Shekalim, 3) HaChodesh. The roshei teivos – first letters – of these 3 items spell “Moshe” (Zohar HaKodesh, Terumah 157).
45:30 – The 4 colors of fire correspond to the 4 parts of the eye (Zohar HaKodesh, Vayakhel 216).
47:30 – Deeper perspectives on making a blessing on fire during Havdallah on Motzei Shabbos.
50:00 – Every time lights are kindled for holiness it sweetens the negativity of the destructive aspects of fire.
51:00 – Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.