R’ Rosenfeld – Sichos HaRan 5b – 6 – Inventions and Discoveries Are from HaShem – Faith and Hisbodedus Are Keys to Spiritual Success

Sichos HaRan 5b – 6 – Inventions and Discoveries Are from HaShem – Faith and Hisbodedus Are Keys to Spiritual Success – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Lesson rw12b. Recorded in 1976.)

• • 00:00SICHAH 5b.

00:49 – The meaning of the word דע as an introductory word in Rebbe Nachman’s teachings.
02:26 – Every Jew has a portion in Olam HaBa – the Hereafter.
04:47 – Similarities between Moshe Rabbeinu and Rabbi Akiva.
04:58 – The name Akiva contains the number 71 (the sum of its first and last letter), alluding to the 71 members of the Sanhedrin.
05:15 – The middle letters of Rabbi Akiva’s name allude to “Yabok”.
05:53 – The Names of HaShem Y – K – V – K plus – Elokim is begematria “Yabok”.
07:03 – It’s important to speak about the dangers of philosophy.
07:57 – All inventions in technology or medicine originate from HaShem. He chooses as His emissary someone who has enough empty space in his head to accommodate the “discovery”.
08:20 – The belief in science is a form of atheism.
09:11 – “The best of doctors goes to Gehinnam“ (Kiddushin 82a).
10:02 – Discovery of new weapons or new cures is not always a good thing.
11:13 – Throughout history, intelligence gradually has been decreasing.
13:59 – Klipah – negative spiritual force. Why famous innovators are often morally degenerate.
14:08 – Sefer Yetzira was written by Avraham Avinu.
17:05 – Torah revelations are from HaSem.

• • 17:26 *Story about Rabbi Yosef Cairo zal – the Beis Yosef. When a new Torah concept enters the world through the mesiras nefesh of a tzaddik, it becomes available to the minds of the generation.

18:41 – The greatest simcha is the resolution of doubt.
22:34 – The Arizal’s dream on Shabbos.
24:24 – Vaccines cannot prevent further decrees of illness from Hashem.
26:24 – The best cure-all is to pray for the arrival of Moshiach.
26:40 – Inventions are not always helpful to mankind – gunpowder, for example.
27:10 – Surgeons do more harm than good.
28:33 – The Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh on the life-long struggle against the Yetzer Hara.

• • 29:25 SICHAH 6. The purpose of the Yetzer HaRa – Evil Inclination – is to mislead people.

32:53 – The Parparaos LeChokhmah – Rav Nachman Tcherin zal.
33:46 – Rav Nachman Tcherin zal explains why a person can forfeit their entire spiritual standing in “a quarter of an hour” – 18 chalakim per minute x 15 minutes = 270 – gematria רע.
40:11 – Hisbodedus is the key to winning the battle against evil.
42:48 – The basic element necessary for all spiritual success is אמונה – faith.