2025-12-23 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 5 – Para. 7-8 – Parshas Shelach

Matanah 5 – Parshas Shelach – Turning Torah Into Tefilah and Tefilah Into Torah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 7.
03:30 – What is real tefilah?
04:40 – *NOTE about yearning to speak to HaShem.
06:00 – לְאָדָם מַעַרְכֵי־לֵב וּמֵיְהוָה מַעֲנֵה לָשׁוֹן – “The preparations of the heart are man’s, but the answer of the tongue is from HaShem” (Mishlei 16:1).
08:30 – Turning Torah into tefilah. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 25.
09:00 – *Through tefilah we reach Torah.
19:45 – Parshas Shelach. וְלֹא־תָתוּרוּ אַחֲרֵי לְבַבְכֶם וְאַחֲרֵי עֵינֵיכֶם – “…and you shall not wander after your hearts and after your eyes …” (Bamidbar 15:39, Shelach).
23:45 – The Tzaddik brings the Torah down to the level of his students.
27:00 – ***How to make Torah into tefilah in practical terms.
30:20 – ***Q&R Making Tefilah into Torah is the first step.
33:30 – ***Q&R How the Tzaddik helps a person reach HaShem. Story about a student who stood next to Rebbe Nachman during tefilah.
39:40 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – R’ Nasan describes his first encounter with the sefer Hishtapkhus HaNefesh.
42:00 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about the power of Rav Avrohom Sternhartz zal’s tefilah.
46:30 – PARAGRAPH 8.
48:00 – *NOTE: Story of a ger tzeddek crying in tefilah even before he understood the words because he saw that a tzaddik was crying.
53:20 – Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.