2024-02-25 – LH5 – YD2 – Bechor Beheyma Tehora 3 – Para. 3-5 – Chosem beKedusha – Emunah, Bitul, Beheyma – Beshalach – Yetziyas Mitzrayim – Sanctification of the Firstborn – Daas Needs Emunah – Tefillin – Merit of Aharon HaKohen – Gerim – Ananei HaKavod

Bechor Beheyma Tehora 3 – Chosem beKedusha – Emunah, Bitul, Beheyma – Beshalach – Yetziyas Mitzrayim – Sanctification of the Firstborn – Daas Needs Emunah – Tefillin – Merit of Aharon HaKohen – Gerim – Ananei HaKavod – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Bechor Beheyma Tehora is based on 2Likutey Moharan 5 – Tiku Emunah.
00:30 – PARAGRAPH 3. Chosem beKedusha – Seal of Purity.
03:21 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 31.
*05:00 – The highest level of Emunah is an aspect of Beheyma and Bitul – complete nullification of free will.
06:00 – Q&R about the connection between bris and emunah – faithfulness to one’s zivug – spouse.
08:00 – Beshalach – “Sanctify to Me every firstborn.”
*10:00 – Emunah is related to giving birth. Unification of male and female is necessary to bring new life into the world. Daas alone cannot produce anything unless it’s unified with emunah.
12:30 – Q&R about the difference between daas and emunah.
16:00 – All births are an aspect of emunah.
19:00 – The holiness of the firstborn of a Jewish woman.
21:00 – When holiness rises, impurity falls. The mitzvah of tefillin is an aspect of Chosem beKedusha. The paragraph about sanctification of the firstborn is the first of the four parshios in the tefillin.
*24:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Why the Pidyon for the firstborn is given to the kohen. Aharon merited the kehuna because he reunited with his younger brother Moshe Rabbeinu with joy and humility.
27:00 – Through bringing a Beheyma as a sacrifice according to Ratzon HaShem, emunah is elevated. This is accomplished through the descendants of Aharon HaKohen.
44:00 – A Kohen is required to maintain a higher level of holiness.
45:00 – Q&R about how a beheyma elevates the emunah of Am Yisrael.
*46:00 – Q&R – If a person who’s born Jewish doesn’t consider himself better than a Ger , is this an aspect of Aharon HaKohen’s humility?
*47:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. The merit of Aharon HaKohen – Ananei HaKovod – Seven Clouds of Honor correspond to the Seven Shepherds of the Jewish People.
52:00 – וְהָֽיְתָ֥ה הַקֶּ֖שֶׁת בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן – “And the rainbow shall be in a cloud…” (Bereishis 9:16, Noach).
53:00 – NOTE about Gerim with respect to the Ananei HaKavod – reference to – נְדִ֘יבֵ֚י עַמִּ֨ים | נֶֽאֱסָ֗פוּ עַם֘ אֱלֹהֵ֪י אַבְרָ֫הָ֥ם כִּ֥י לֵ֖אלֹהִֽים מָֽגִנֵּי־אֶ֗רֶץ מְאֹ֣ד נַֽעֲלָֽה – “The good ones of the nations were gathered – the People of HaShem of Avraham…” (Tehillim 47).
*55:00 – When arrogance is broken, protective clouds arise.