2025-12-31 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 5 – Para. 28-30 – Parshas Lech Lecha – Ki Savo

Matanah 5 – Parshas Lech Lecha – Parshas Ki Savo – No Tefilah Is Lost – Balancing Mishpat and Tzedakah – Tehillim 36 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 28. ***Parshas Lech Lecha. No tefilah is lost. When Avraham Avinu prayed for the rescue of Sdom, his tefilos bore fruit much later when Rus HaMoaviah became a Jew.
13:50 – PARAGRAPH 29.
17:00 – ***Parshas Ki Savo. The 13 Midos shel Rachamim – 13 Attributes of Mercy.
19:00 – NOTE: Balancing Mishpat and Tzedakah. In raising children or teaching students “The left hand pushes away, the right hand brings close”.
21:00 – We are supposed to emulate HaShem, especially with regard to balancing Tzedakah and Mishpat.
22:50 – ***Karva El HaShem Geulah. The redemption of the individual.
25:30 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 49.
27:20 – HaShem’s quality of Mishpat is actually Tzedakah.
31:15 – Q&R about priorities in Mishpat and Tzedakah.
42:30 – PARAGRAPH 30. צִדְקָתְךָ׀ כְּהַרְרֵי־אֵל מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ תְּהוֹם רַבָּה – “Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, Your judgements like the great deep…” (Tehillim 36:7)
53:00 – יִרְוְיֻן מִדֶּשֶׁן בֵּיתֶךָ וְנַחַל עֲדָנֶיךָ תַשְׁקֵם – “They will be filled from the abundance of Your house, and from the stream of Your delights You give them to drink” (Tehillim 36:9).
55:00 – ***Q&R about mentioning the Tzaddik when we’re praying to HaShem. The Tzaddik is like an attorney. “We’re not davening to the Tzaddik, we’re davening to HaShem.”
56:15 – Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.