2026-01-08 – LH8 – CM2 – Matanah 5 – Para. 49-53 – Parshas Toldos – Chanukah

Matanah 5 – Parshas Toldos – Chanukah – Tefilas Nishmas – Beis HaMikdash – Geulah Sheleyma – 4 Parts of Shacharis Correspond to the 4 Worlds – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Matanah 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 49. Parshas Toldos. וְהִרְבֵּיתִי אֶת־זַרְעֲךָ כְּכוֹכְבֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם וְנָתַתִּי לְזַרְעֲךָ אֵת כָּל־הָאֲרָצֹת הָאֵל וְהִתְבָּרֲכוּ בְזַרְעֲךָ כֹּל גּוֹיֵי הָאָרֶץ – “And I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give your seed all these lands, and all nations of the earth will bless themselves by your seed” (Bereishis 26:4, Toldos). Siddur Course – Why the first blessing of the Shemoneh Esrei ends with Avraham Avinu.
04:45 – PARAGRAPH 50. Chanukah. כִּי מִצִּיּוֹן תֵּצֵא תוֹרָה וּדְבַר־יְהוָה מִירוּשָׁלִָם – “…for out of Zion shall the Torah emanate, and the word of HaShem from Yerushalayim” (Yeshaya 2:3).
06:18 – ***All tefilos of all people rise to HaShem through the place of the Beis HaMikdash.
08:20 – HaShem calls the Beis HaMikdash “My House of Prayer”. HaShem Himself davens in order to activate an ever-greater level of His rachmanus. Reference to Likutey Moharan 105.
12:20 – Begematria, Rosh Hashanah is 10 times Elokim.
13:50 – Tzaddikim can access the level of Tefilas HaShem.
15:15 – PARAGRAPH 51. Chanukah. The Greeks wanted to annihilate the holiness of Am Yisrael. If they had succeeded, all creation would have returned to chaos and darkness. The Torah, Am Yisrael, and the Beis HaMikdash are called ראשית.
19:00 – How the 4 expressions of Pre-Creation correspond to the 4 exiles. The Greek exile is an aspect of choshekh – darkness.
22:30 – Reference to Sefer HaDoros: the origin of the title Maccabee.
26:30 – The establishment of kindling the Chanukah lights.
30:18 – NOTE about the Baal Tzedakah who established Yad Sarah in Yerushalayim.
32:00 – ***The light of Chanukah originates from Toras HaShem and Tefilas HaShem, bechinas Keser. This light is so powerful that is can enter even the lowest levels of darkness. Reference to Likutey Halakhos, Orach Chaim, Hilkhos Kriyas Shema 4, Par. 3.
34:40 – In our generation, the greatest Tzaddik is needed.
35:00 – PARAGRAPH 52. Parshas Toldos.
36:30 – וַתִּכְהֶיןָ עֵינָיו מֵרְאֹת – “…and his eyes were too dim to see…” (Bereishis 27:1, Toldos). Yitzchak Avinu: darkness vs. light.
38:50 – PARAGRAPH 53. How the 8 days of Chanukah correspond to Yitzchak Aveinu and Rivka Imeynu and the 4-fold aspects of prayer enumerated in Shabbos Tefilas Nishmas.
41:00 – Siddur Course. Kabbalah Course. ***Brief review of how the 4 sections of Shacharis relate to the 4 Worlds.
42:40 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 30.
44:12 – Everything that happened during the events of Chanukah is going on in our present times.
45:00 – ***Purim. By celebrating the mitzvos of Purim activates the power of the miracles that occurred through Mordechai HaTzaddik and Esther HaMalkah.
46:00 – How to have patience during this present exile – HaShem warned us that it would be long.
47:30 – By observing the mitzvos of Chanukah we merit a renewal of the light of the Beis HaMikdash every year.
49:00 – ***Chanukas HaBayis also takes place every single day, through the mitzvos of Am Yisrael. When all these mitzvos over all generations combine, the Geulah will dawn and the light of  Pnei HaShem – Beis HaMikdash – will dispel all darkness. Reference to Likutey Moharan 2.
51:00 – Q&R about how these principles apply to our lives today.
53:45 – Q&R about the priorities in daily living.
58:30 – Closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.