Gerim 3 – Beis HaMikdash is the Center of Mishpat – Sanhedrin – Fire of the Mizbeyach – Arrangement of the Heichal – Ketores – Shulchan – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Avadim 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 51.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 11b.
04:00 – PARAGRAPH 12.
08:00 – PARAGRAPH 13.
12:00 – PARAGRAPH 14.
15:00 – NOTE about current events: the proposed reform of court system in Eretz Yisrael. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 5 – Kilkul HaMishpat.
18:00 – The Beis Hamikdash was and will be the center of Mishpat for Am Yisrael.
22:00 – PARAGRAPH 15. Why Parshas Yisro ends with the Mizbeyach, and Parshas Mishpatim begins directly afterward. The spiritual fire of the Beis HaMikdash was generated by the close proximity of the Sanhedrin.
23:00 – PARAGRAPH 16. In the Mishkan/Heichal – the Shulchan was placed to the north, the Menorah to the south, and the Mizbeyach for Ketores was between them. Ketores is associated with Gerim – converts to Judaism.
32:00 – Gold – wealth – comes from the north.
35:00 – Q&R about Gerim who fall away from Torah.
37:00 – PARAGRAPH 17. Chatzos Leila – הָעִ֣ירָה וְ֖הָקִיצָה לְמִשְׁפָּטִ֑י אֱלֹהַ֖י וַֽאדֹנָ֣י לְרִיבִֽי – “Arouse Yourself and awaken to my judgment, my Hashem and my Master, to my cause…” (Tehillim 35:23). At midnight, Mishpat is activated.
41:00 – Q&R about “Chut Shel Chessed” and Chatzos.
42:00 – PARAGRAPH 18. Reincarnation. תּ֘וֹרַ֚ת יְהֹוָ֣ה תְּ֖מִימָה מְשִׁ֣יבַת נָ֑פֶשׁ – “The Torah of Hashem is perfect, restoring [returning] the soul…” (Tehillim 19:8). In order to complete the Torah, a soul returns again and again.
48:00 – NOTE about the danger of rescuing a drowning person.
50:00 – A person can only succeed spiritually through Hisbodedus, which is an aspect of Mishpat. The importance of self-auditing every day, asking Hashem “What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong?” This burns away the negativity surround a person’s heart.
54:00 – Q&R about good and bad. Reference to Likutey Moharan 33.
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