OC1 – Lesson 047 – Tzitzis 5 – Para. 14-23

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Rebbe Nachman describes the positive and negative aspects of wine on human consciousness. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 14. Why was wine an offering in the Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple)? Wine is an aspect of sleep.
06:45 – PARAGRAPH 15. Why is wine used for kiddush on Shabbos?
19:35 – PARAGRAPH 16. Why is wine used for kos shel bracha when benching (saying the blessings after a meal)?
28:55 – PARAGRAPH 17. Yaakov Avinu brought wine to his father and because of this, Yitzchak Avinu sensed the “fragrance of the garden”.
30:45 – PARAGRAPH 18. Wine has a destructive aspect and resulted in the curse given by Noach to his grandson, Canaan.
37:20 – The holiness of Eretz Yisrael is based on the faith in the constant renewal of the world.
44:34 – PARAGRAPH 20. The Zohar explains that since they are an aspect of the חוט של חסד  “the thread of kindness”,  tzitzis correspond to the Olam haYetzira and Psukei deZimra.
47:12 – PARAGRAPH 21. The four tzitzis correspond to the four letters of Hashem’s name Yud-Hey-Vuv-Hey.
50:18 – PARAGRAPH 22. The 39 windings of the tzitzis correspond to “Hashem Echad” in the Shema (b’gematria: 26 is Hashem’s Name plus 13 for Echad).
51:22 – PARAGRAPH 23. The 32 strings of the tzitzis correspond to the letters LEV when the first and last letters of the Torah are combined.