Betziyas HaPas 3 – Matzah – Lechem Oni – Poor Man’s Bread – First Meal of Mourner – Thunder – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Dedication and review.
01:11 – PARAGRAPH 3. Poverty is rooted in the curse resulting from Adam’s sin.
05:29 – Why matzah is called “lechem oni” – “poor man’s bread”.
06:58 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 57? (need to check).
09:10 – Seudas Havra’ah (the first meal of a mourner after the burial – “meal of consolation”) should be donated to him. This custom is based on a concept in Bemidbar/Numbers 19:11 that contact with a corpse results in impurity.
12:45 – Another meaning of “lechem oni” – matzah is: a bread that we speak about. Introduction to the concept of a “thunderous voice” in prayer.
19:25 – PARAGRAPH 4. “Tefilah bekoach” – prayer with force.
*20:10 – A person’s strength comes from his food.
22:33 – When the sound of a person’s own voice in prayer strikes his brain, this generates an aspect of thunder.
*23:37 – Conclusion of clip about a person’s spiritual strength originating in the food he eats.
25:33 – QUESTION about Seudas Havra’ah.
26:43 – QUESTION about encouraging others to eat meals with more daas (spiritual awareness).
33:01 – QUESTION about refraining from giving spiritual guidance. RESPONSE: analagy brought from fund raising.
35:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 54 – two types of avodas Hashem. Even if a person doesn’t remember all the chassidus of eating bread that’s being explained here, he will at least remember that there are deep mysteries involved.
38:01 – Story heard from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l about a miserly landlord evicting a widow – Vizhnitzer Rebbe goes to visit the landlord.
43:58 – QUESTION about tefilah bekoach (prayer with force) and shimush tzaddikim. RESPONSE: Accounts of Rabbi Shimshon Barsky z”l and Rav Eliyahu Chaim Rosen z”l concerning praying loud vs. praying quietly.
51:52 – QUESTION: practical advice for increasing the spiritual aspect of meals.
54:47 – QUESTION about clapping during kaddish. RESPONSE: clapping hands during tefilah is traditionally done silently.
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