OC2 – Lesson 008 – Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 6 – Para. 7 Mid.-15 – The Goal of Torah Study is Knowing How to Conduct Ourselves; The Essence of Wisdom is Silence; The Blessing HaMotzei on Bread

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 7.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. The mistake of Korach.
09:39 – Korach’s complaint about the commandment to shave his head.
11:38 – The mitzvah for a metzorah (leper) to shave his head. “Metzorah” is made up of two words: “motzi” “ra” – a person who brings forth [through speech] evil.
13:16 – Why Torah-observant men keep the hair on the top and back of their head short. A brief mention of Dovid HaMelech’s son, Avshalom.
14:46 – Silence protects knowledge.
18:20 – Sod HaIbur is the secret of inter-calculating of the lunar and solar calendars. How we make the nations aware that we know this mystery without revealing the principle itself.
20:29 – Performing the mitzvah of Parah Adumah – the red heifer – expresses that a person “knows his place” in the world.
25:34 – Death came into the world when Adam tried to understand Hashem’s mysteries of good and evil too deeply. What is death? Separation of the body and soul.
27:35 – What we correct through the mitzvos of Purim. How the lottery helped us understand that some things are beyond our ability to understand.
32:21 – PARAGRAPH 8.
33:45 – Ki ikar Sod HaIbur – the essence of the secret of the Jewish calendar.
37:44 – PARAGRAPH 9. The goal of Torah study is action – to know how to conduct ourselves in different situations. Thinking we know something often leads to strife.
40:32 – Conflict and dispute is the most destructive force in serving Hashem. It causes more harm to a person than any other sin, and that’s what led to the destruction of the Beis HaMidkash. Conflicts, among religious Jews, is what keeps us from rebuilding the Beis HaMikdash.
43:11 – New topic: What part of the bread do we make the blessing on first?
47:37 – The importance of holding the bread with all ten fingers when breaking/cutting the loaf.
49:02 – PARAGRAPH 12.
52:31 – The purpose of eating is spiritual refinement.
61:01 – The essence of wisdom is silence.
*62:40 – The importance of exactly how we make the blessing on bread. This is an aspect of tzimtzum (restraint) that expresses yirah (reverence for Hashem).
79:35 – End of clip on eating properly.
81:03 – PARAGRAPH 14. The importance of making the blessing hamotzi on an unbroken loaf or roll.
85:34 – PARAGRAPH 15. Pesach and Torah 7 of Likutey Moharan 2.