2026-06-10 – LH8 – CM2 – Pikadon 5 – Para. 7b-11 – Health Course – Limud Torah Course – Emunas Chokhomim – Self Esteem – Healthy Eating

Pikadon 5 – Health Course – Limud Torah Course – Emunas Chokhomim – Self Esteem – Healthy Eating – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Pikadon 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 61.
00:00 – HALAKHA 5. PARAGRAPH 7b.
03:00 – Self esteem – faith in yourself. Reference to Likutey Moharan 62.
05:00 – Adam HaRishon. Adam’s fulfillment of emunas chokhomim was to have faith in himself. Chava’s fulfillment of emunas chokhomim was to have faith in Adam. Chava failed to have emunas chokhomim by allowing the nachash to shake her confidence in Adam.
08:00 – ***All spiritual failings of Am Yisrael were caused by a lack of emunas chokhomim.
09:20 – Reference to Likutey Halakhos, Orach Chaim 3, Pesach 6.
09:30 – PARAGRAPH 10. Adam’s downfall came about through food.
10:00 – ***A person who considers faith in rabbonim “extraneous” is punished through extraneous matter in his food that confuses his thinking and damages his judgement.
13:00 – Eating extraneous food harms both body and soul and eventually can lead to death.
14:30 – PARAGRAPH 9. Am Yisrael began receiving the Mohn – Mannah – on the 15th of Iyar. Until that point, they ate the matzos they brought with them when they left Mitzrayim. These matzos had the taste and spiritual/physical attributes of the Mohn.
19:00 – PARAGRAPH 10. On Shavuos we tap into the highest level of sekhel. (Yeshaya 55:9).
26:20 – NOTE from Rav Ephraimel – Mohn in our present generation is emunah. A person who has emunas chokhomim can receive the Torah.
28:00 – Q&R about how to do kiruv. Story about Reb Yudel zal and his father-in-law’s borscht from the Baal Shem Tov HaKodesh heard from Rav Eliya Chaim Rosen zal. “The flavor is not in the food, it’s in the one who’s eating it.”
33:00 – NOTE about how a rebbe eats when his students gather at his Tish.
35:20 – NOTE – Rav Nachman Tcherin zal always ate alone.
36:20 – When a tzaddik eats, it’s as if he is eating Mohn.
38:55 – PARAGRAPH 11. Health Course. Limud Torah Course. אָז אָמַרְתִּי הִנֵּה־בָאתִי בִּמְגִלַּת־סֵפֶר כָּתוּב עָלָי – “Then I said, ‘Behold, I come with a Scroll of the Book written for me'” (Tehillim 40:8). וְתוֹרָתְךָ בְּתוֹךְ מֵעָי – “…and [to have] Your Torah within my innards” (Tehillim 40:9). ***When a person studies Torah, the goal is to learn how to speak and act.
46:00 – Health Course. When a person considers every Torah sefer as if it were written for him, his food doesn’t cause harm, as in וְתוֹרָתְךָ בְּתוֹךְ מֵעָי.