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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 66 and Torah 67, and Sichos HaRan 87.
00:00 – Dedications and introduction.
01:45 – PARAGRAPH 1.
14:00 – The day after Yom Kippur is called “Shem Hashem.”
16:42 – Account of Hordus (Herod) who took over the Kingdom of Israel from the Hashmonaim. He killed almost all of the generation’s Torah scholars, allowing Bava ben Buta to live but blinding him and testing his loyalty.
19:28 – Connection between the Beis HaMikdash and the eyes. לָשׂ֣וּם | לַֽאֲבֵלֵ֣י צִיּ֗וֹן לָתֵת֩ לָהֶ֨ם פְּאֵ֜ר תַּ֣חַת אֵ֗פֶר When a Jew cries over the destruction of the Holy Temple, Hashem restores “Pe’eir (beauty) in place of efer (ashes).” (Yishayahu/Isaiah 61:3).
24:31 – PARAGRAPH 2. The crying of the shekhina (Divine Presence) “Rochel is weeping for her children” (Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah 31:14).
32:00 – Releasing the shekhina from galus (exile).
37:11 – QUESTIONS and RESPONSES.
38:47 – The importance of Tikkun Chatzos (the midnight prayer).
40:00 – Preparing for the Seventeenth of Tammuz: “We might have been there.”
41:55 – A bris milah is an eys ratzon (favored time of prayer) during the moments when the child is crying.
