Sotah 5 – Humility – One 64th Pride in a Talmid Chacham – 72-Letter Name of Hashem – Viduy in the Presence of a Tzaddik – Bones of Yehudah – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל. The tremendous importance of humility. Is pride necessary for a Talmid Chacham? רחמנא לבא בעי – “Hashem desires the heart.”
00:00 – Sotah 5. The importance of humility. Rabbi Chiya bar Ashi says – that a Talmid Chacham needs to possess one sixty-fourth measure of pride.
04:16 – Another interpretation of one-64th pride is fitting for a Talmid Chacham. Reference to Rashi HaKadosh on Sukkah.
04:56 – The 72-Letter Name of Hashem – the highest Name – is called Shem Ayin Bet.
*05:22 – CLIP for KABBALAH BASICS. Four expansions of Y-K-V-K into AV, SG, MH, BN.
06:04 – AV, SG, MH, BN total 232 – Roshei Teivot רחמנא לבא בעי – Rachmana Liba Bai – “Hashem desires the heart.”. Reference to the Zohar HaKadosh on Parshath Beshalach.
07:41 – The 72 letters are combined in 24 groupings of 3 letters. These letters/Names are arranged in nine lines with 8 squares in each line.
09:44 – Why “One 64th” measure of pride for a Talmid Chacham?
11:54 – Explanation of one 64th by Rav Shimshon Ostropolia ז”ל.
*13:14 – Explanation of Mispar Katan.
13:49 – As Hashem becomes greater, His humility also becomes greater. But since Hashem is perfect, how can there be a “greater” or “lesser” aspect to Him? Analysis of the Name of Hashem two times, as in “Hashem, Hashem, Keyl Rachum v’Chanun”.
*14:42 – CLIP for KABBALAH BASICS. Analysis of the Name of Hashem four times.
17:53 – Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak argues that pride is not necessary for a Talmid Chacham. תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְ֖הוָה כָּל־גְּבַהּ־לֵ֑ב יָ֥ד לְ֜יָ֗ד לֹ֣א יִנָּקֶֽה – “Everyone of haughty heart is an abomination to Hashem; hand to hand he will not go unpunished” (Mishlei/Proverbs 16:5).
19:04 – If a Talmid Chacham is asked what he knows, he may only mention the mesechta (section of the Oral Torah) he is currently studying, nothing more.
*20:49 – CLIP for BRESLOV BASICS. Rebbe Nachman explains that humility allows a person to enter Gan Eden. Only the humble part of the soul will live forever.
22:51 – Descriptions of the various korbonos – offerings in the Beis HaMikdash – and each one’s particular effect on the soul.
24:11 – When a person is humble it’s considered as if he brought every type of korbon.
24:27 – זִֽבְחֵ֣י אֱלֹהִים֘ ר֪וּחַ נִשְׁבָּ֫רָ֥ה לֵב־נִשְׁבָּ֥ר וְנִדְכֶּ֑ה אֱ֜לֹהִ֗ים לֹ֣א תִבְזֶֽה – “The sacrifices of Hashem are a broken spirit; Hashem, You will not despise a broken and crushed heart” (Tehillim/Psalms 51:19).
24:50 – The importance of viduy – confession, especially in front of a tzaddik.
*26:52 – כָּ֥ל עַצְמֹתַ֨י | תֹּאמַרְנָה֘ יְהֹוָ֗ה מִ֥י כָ֫מ֥וֹךָ – “All my bones shall say, Hashem, who is like You…” (Tehillim/Psalms 35:10).
27:23 – Viduy is both a spiritual and physical cure.
27:42 – The name Yehudah contains the four letters of Hashem’s Name plus the Daleth of Dovid HaMelech signifying the Malchus Beis Dovid.
28:59 – Yehudah, Tamar, Er, and Onan.
29:13 – Reference to Yuma 83 – the hidden meanings in people’s names.
33:16 – Moshe Rabbeinu’s blessing for Yehudah.
33:43 – The bones of Yehudah kept rattling in his coffin. Why?
35:18 – Why didn’t viduy free Yehudah’s bones to be at rest?
36:20 – Yehudah’s bones finally achieved peace through the blessing of Moshe Rabbeinu, the tzaddik.
*36:45 – How can viduy before a tzaddik be done in our generation? Who, today, is a tzaddik?
38:07 – Closing blessing.
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