2026-02-16 – LH8 – CM2 – Perika uTeEnah 4 – Para. 13b-14 – Parshas VaEira – Achdus Through Emunas Chokhomim

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Perika uTeEnah 4 – Parshas VaEira – Why Do People Suffer? – Achdus Through Emunas Chokhomim – No Generation Is and Orphan – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Perika uTeEnah 4 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 2.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 13b. Allegory: humbly finding mitzvos to perform is compared to chickens searching in the trash heap for kernels of food.
15:20 – לְהָבִין מָשָׁל וּמְלִיצָה דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים וְחִידֹתָם – “to understand an allegory and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles” (Mishlei 1:6).
26:00 – NOTE about Yosef HaTzaddik keeping his faith in HaShem throughout his slavery in Egypt.
27:50 – ***BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Overview of Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal’s life..
32:20 – Q&R about how to view suffering: everything that happens is HaShem extending His loving guidance to us.
33:45 – Q&R how can a person possibly emulate the deeds of tzaddikim? “Reb Michel” zal described how he would often beg HaShem: “Ribono Shel Olam, please go easy on me – I’m just a fly on the wall compared to Rav Noson zal!”
35:45 – PARAGRAPH 14. Parshas VaEira. וַיְדַבֵּר אֱלֹהִים אֶל־מֹשֶׁה וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו אֲנִי יְהוָה – “(Shemos 6:2, VaEira). Moshe Rabbeinu asked HaShem, “Why did you send me to make things worse?”
41:30 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 65.
45:00 – The opposition of Dathan ve Aviram.
47:00 – גאל in Atbash is כתר – Geulah – redemption – emanates from Achdus – unity.
49:00 – The dialogue between Moshe Rabbeinu and HaShem about the Final Geulah: the redemption process is the gradual return from diversity to unity.
54:00 – ***Q&R about the present lack of Emunas Chokhomim in present times. “No generation is an orphan” – even if the tzaddikim of today are not like those of the past, they “match the generation”. Our task is to never give up the search for אמת and never stop asking HaShem to help us have true Emunas Chokhomim.
57:00 – Closing blessings. Today is Yom Kippur Katan, Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar.