Birkhas HaPeyros 4 – Yearning for Holiness and Locking It In – Reshimu – Imprinted Memory – Parshas Miketz – The Gravesite of a Tzaddik Has the Holiness of Eretz Yisrael – Dancing After Tefilah – Tikkun HaBris – Sources for Uman Rosh Hashanah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 PARAGRAPH 12b – The everyday ups and downs of yearning for holiness and then falling into discouragement. The remedy: when in a state of connection with HaShem – locking it in through doing a mitzvah – taking action. This creates reshimu – spiritual imprints on the memory that can be recalled and used for inspiration at a later time.
04:07 – The essence of a person is the mind.
09:40 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 222.
09:50 – הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ יְהֹוָ֤ה | אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה (כתיב וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָ) חַדֵּ֥שׁ יָמֵ֖ינוּ כְּקֶֽדֶם: “Restore us to You, HaShem, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.” Aicha/Lamentations 5:29)
*10:50 – Parshas Miketz: How Yosef HaTzaddik could provide the solution for Pharaoh’s dream. If you feel a sudden yearning for HaShem, turning it into action will imprint it deeply in your memory so you can recall it whenever needed.
18:10 – The seven good years indicated in Pharaoh’s dream represent the Seven Species of Eretz Yisrael, and the seven bad years represent the chovlim – obstacles – facing the Jews whenever they aspired to merit the holiness of Eretz Yisrael. Yosef HaTzaddikis rooted in the Noam HaElyon, and his merit allowed Israel to defeat spiritual opposition.
23:00 – After his passing, even the bones of Yosef HaTzaddik supported Israel’s defeat of spiritual negativity.
24:45 – QUESTION about reshimu. RESPONSE – taking the reshima and “locking it in.”
29:16 – Dancing after tefilah as an example of reshimu.
31:40 – COMMENT from student about Noam Elyon and the connection to a tzaddik.
32:21 – COMMENT from student about remembering the good through Dayeinu. RESPONSE: other techniques for remembering the good.
32:56 – Ezras Avoseinu in the morning tefilah.
***33:50 – PARAGRAPH 13. Visiting the grave sites of tzaddikim during Elul. The Torah expression for passing away is “nistalek” – going up – to the Noam Elyon. The place where a tzaddik is buried, no matter what its geographical location, has the holiness of Eretz Yisrael. צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִֽירְשׁוּ־אָ֑רֶץ וְיִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ לָעַ֣ד עָלֶֽיהָ – “The righteous shall inherit the Land and dwell forever in it” (Tehillim 37:29). Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 109.
37:25 – Saying Tehillim at the gravesite of a tzaddik.
39:56 – חֲבָלִ֣ים נָֽפְלוּ־לִ֖י בַּנְּעִמִ֑ים אַף־נַֽ֜חֲלָ֗ת שָֽׁפְרָ֥ה עָלָֽי – “Portions have fallen to me in pleasant places; even the inheritance pleases me.” (Tehillim/Psalms 16:6)
*44:56 – A Jew should always be trying to draw the kedushas Eretz Yisrael upon himself.
48:57 – QUESTION about tikkun habris. RESPONSE includes encouragement for both men and women to say Tikkun HaKlali every day.
53:32 – Question about Rebbe Nachman passing away at a young age.
55:11 – QUESTION about leaving Eretz Yisrael to visit the grave site of Rebbe Nachman in Uman.
56:12 – References to RebEphraim b’Reb Naftali zal, Reb Nachman Tulchiner zal, and to the Sdei Chemed as sources for traveling to Uman from Eretz Yisrael.
59:00 – QUESTION about “making deals with HaShem“.
62:17 – Closing remarks and thank-you’s.
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