2025-12-05 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 4 – Para. 3-7a – Gevanin Subdue Klipos on Each New Spiritual Level – Tzedakah to Worthy Recipient – Honesty in Business – Repair of Taavas Mamon – Story of the Baal Tefilah – Preparing for Shabbos from Yom Rishon

Matanah 4 – Gevanin Subdue Klipos on Each New Spiritual Level – Tzedakah to a Worthy Recipient – Honesty in Business – Repair of Taavas Mamon – Story of the Baal Tefilah – Preparing for Shabbos from Yom Rishon – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 25.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. Gevanin – the holy radiance in wealth – subdue klipos on each new spiritual level through giving tzedakah to a worthy recipient. Honesty in business.
10:30 – The acquisition of a moveable object is completed only when the new owner moves or lifts the object. This completes the transaction initiated through the exchange of money.
13:30 – The cause of Taavas Mamon – uncontrolled desire for money.
16:30 – During a business transaction, it is attacked by the negative aspects of fire.
17:20 – Q&R about tzedakah and Taavas Mamon. A person needs protection from Taavas Mamon every single day. Reference to Likutey Moharan 23.
19:20 – PARAGRAPH 4. A person should avoid receiving gifts. (Megilah 28).
21:50 – Klipos are the Sutra Achra – Angel of Death. It’s preferable not to “bargain” in a business transaction when the buyer respects the integrity of the seller.
25:00 – Repair of Taavas Mamon – Story of the Baal Tefilah.
26:00 – Q&R about “Osher veKavod” in through Torah.
27:30 – PARAGRAPH 5. A business contract must be written “in public”. Brief description of the Kabbalistic dynamics of Penimius and Chitzonius – When a person progresses from one world to the next higher world, the inner part of the lower world goes up to cover the outer covering of the higher world. Repairing Taavas Mamon.
33:00 – ***PARAGRAPH 6. Before giving a gift, the giver must inform the recipient, so he can prepare to receive it.
36:15 – ***Since Shabbos is a gift, one needs to prepare for it. Preparation for Shabbos begins on Yom Rishon.
39:40 – מִי הִקְדִּימַנִי וַאֲשַׁלֵּם תַּחַת כָּל־הַשָּׁמַיִם לִי־הוּא – “Who has given to Me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is Mine” (Iyov 41:3).
40:30 – Reference to Sichos HaRan 51.
47:00 – Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.