Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 4 and 6 – Uman Update on First Day of Slichos; Secrets of Blessing Bread – Keeping Thumbs Hidden – Hand Motions. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Recorded in Uman. This shiur is dedicated by Nathan Rudy for his father.
00:00 – Uman Rosh Hashanah 5781 – update.
00:50 – PARAGRAPH 9b. (From the words “vezeh bevechinas Hey deHamotzi”). Emphasizing the letter “Hey” in HaMotzi.
06:17 – PARAGRAPH 10. It’s preferable to make the blessing “HaMotzei” on a “complete bread” – an uncut loaf or roll (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 168).
16:00 – QUESTION about Matzah being broken.
16:56 – QUESTION about making small nick in Shabbos Challah before saying the blessing Hamotzi. RESPONSE: Rabbi Rosenfeld ז”ל didn’t but Rשננן Michel Dorfman ז”ל and other Breslov rabonim in Eretz Yisrael make a small nick in the Challah indicating which loaf they intend to cut and then, after the blessing, continue slicing from that mark.
17:31 – QUESTION about Tinok SheNishba (a person who was raised in a non-observant Jewish home).
19:00 – HALAKHA 6. Hilkhos Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 6 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 7.
21:27 – Keeping thumbs hidden.
32:14 – Left hand into right hand – kabbalah.
47:58 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman ז”ל – hisbodedus.
50:39 – Achila d’kedusha – eating in holiness.
56:47 – Q&R about the “Upper Sea”.
57:13 – Q&R about Rosh Hashanah.
61:30 – Q&R about “Ayeh Makom Kvodo” – “Where is the place of His honor?”
63:36 – Q&R about washing for bread.
65:57 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman ז”ל – on a fast day he would say, “Baruch Hashem, today we don’t have to eat!”
67:47 – Closing blessings.
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