2026-01-06 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 5 – Para. 41-46 – Parshas Toldos

Matanah 5 – Parshas Toldos – Tefilas Nishmas – Yitzchak and Rivka – Tefilah – Mincha – Stealing the Birthright – Esav – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 41. Parshas Toldos. Shabbos Siddur Course: Nishmas. The tefilah of Yitzchak Avinu and Rivka HaTzaddekes.
06:13 – PARAGRAPH 42. A person should be especially careful not to delay Tefilas Mincha.
09:00 – Tefilah is related to tzedakah. Yitzchak Avinu met Rivka the first time when he went out to the field to daven. Rivka corresponds to tefilah.
10:00 – PARAGRAPH 43. How do the above principles apply to us? When a person experiences difficulties in life, they need to strengthen their tefilah in order to eliminate the dinim.
11:30 – Hisbodedus is most associated with Yitzchak Avinu.
12:00 – PARAGRAPH 44. The dynamic between Yitzchak – Gevurah and Rivka – Chesed intensified when the birthright was about to be given to Esav. To receive the blessings, Rivka counseled her son Yaakov to deceive his father, Yitzchak.
28:50 – Reference to Sefer HaMidos – When Yitzchak Avinu ate a meal he was able to attain a higher spiritual level than he attained at the Akeida.
29:50 – NOTE: Hearus HaRatzon can be achieved through eating a meal.
31:30 – ***PARAGRAPH 45. Parshas Toldos. HaKol Kol Yaakov. לָרֹכֵב בִּשְׁמֵי שְׁמֵי־קֶדֶם הֵן יִתֵּן בְּקוֹלוֹ קוֹל עֹז – “To Him Who rides on the heaven of heavens of old; behold, He gives forth with His voice a voice of strength” (Tehillim 68:34).
32:30 – Azus deKedushah. Yaakov Avinu has both the Kol Torah and the Kol Tefilah.
36:30 – Q&R about why Yitzchak Avinu wanted to give the birthright to Esav.
40:15 – ***PARAGRAPH 46. Parshas Toldos. Yaakov Avinu was frightened when Rivka suggested he should trick Yitzchak Avinu.
43:30 – Before a person receives a spiritual promotion, his deeds are examined to see if he’s worthy. Reference to Likutey Moharan 6.
51:40 – Rivka was the best person to mitigate the Gevurah of Yitzchak Avinu because she was an aspect of Chesed: Tefilah.
53:40 – ***Closing blessings for Parshas Toldos.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.