Betziyas HaPas 3 – Para. 1-2 – What is the Meaning of “Breaking Bread”? The Letter “Hey” in HaMotzei and in Matzah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 5.
00:00 – Welcome to David Kadoch and his family who made aliya recently, B”H.
06:02 – Introduction to Betziyas HaPas (Breaking Bread) 3.
12:46 – PARAGRAPH 1.
17:38 – On what part of the bread do we make the blessing?
18:23 – PARAGRAPH 2.
37:48 – COMMENT from student: “There are those who study Torah in order to know how to eat.”
39:08 – QUESTION about why we need to struggle with the negative influence of chometz during the year.
40:52 – COMMENT from student about the difference between bread and all other foods.
43:08 – QUESTION about the processes needed to make bread.
49:03 – Breaking the middle matzah at the Pesach seder.
59:03 – Reb Michel Dorfman z”ls way of cutting and then breaking bread on Shabbos: with the challah knife, he would make a scratch in the challah in the place he intended to cut. Then he put the knife down, made the blessing, holding both challos in his hands. Then he placed the unmarked challah on the table, out of his way. He took the marked Challah and turned it on its side, with the top of the challah facing him. Then, beginning with the nick, he sliced with every stroke reaching from the top of the challah through the bottom. When the slice was almost fully cut, he put down the knife, leaving a small section still joined to the loaf. Then he picked up the challah and tore the slice off.
62:23 – COMMENT from a student about the difference between breaking bread on Shabbos and breaking bread on a weekday.
64:00 – QUESTIONS about the blessings on bread and about the challenges after Moshiach is revealed.
65:36 – QUESTION: is thinking about Torah considered a machshava zara (stray thought) during tefilah (prayer)?
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