2024-07-18 – LH6 – EH – Gittin 3 – Para. 9-13 – A Kohen May Not Marry a Divorced Woman – Ahava and Shalom Between All Jews – Achdus – Unity Helps Am Yisrael Connect With the Tzaddik – Ki Seitzei – Eretz Yisrael Draws Its Holiness from the Torah – Semikha – Rabbinic Authorization – A Get Is 12 Lines – Chatzos Layla – Midnight Prayer

Gittin 3 – A Kohen May Not Marry a Divorced Woman – Ahava and Shalom Between All Jews – Achdus – Unity Helps Am Yisrael Connect With the Tzaddik – Ki Seitzei – Eretz Yisrael Draws Its Holiness from the Torah – Semikha – Rabbinic Ordination – A Get Is 12 Lines – Chatzos Layla – Midnight Prayer – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Gittin 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 61.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. A Kohen may not marry a divorced woman. Ahava and shalom between all Jews. – Achdus – Unity Helps Am Yisrael Connect With the Tzaddik –
06:40 – PARAGRAPH 10. A couple who divorced may never remarry, if either partner has remarried since their divorce.
*12:00 – The spiritual dynamics of the relationship between husband and wife. “This is what marriage is all about.”
14:50 – The effects of makhlokes – dispute.
16:00 – Q&R about a divorced couple remarrying.
17:30 – The prohibition of a divorced couple remarrying only applies only if the second spouse entered into a new kiddushin.
*21:18 – Parshas Ki Seitzei. לֹֽא־יוּכַ֣ל בַּעְלָ֣הּ הָֽרִאשׁ֣וֹן אֲשֶׁר־שִׁ֠לְּחָ֠הּ לָשׁ֨וּב לְקַחְתָּ֜הּ לִֽהְי֧וֹת ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֗ה אַֽחֲרֵי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֻטַּמָּ֔אָה כִּי־תֽוֹעֵבָ֥ה הִ֖וא לִפְנֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֑ה וְלֹ֤א תַֽחֲטִיא֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַֽחֲלָֽה – “Her first husband, who sent her away, will not be able to take her back, so you won’t harm Eretz Yisrael (Devarim 24:4, Ki Seitzei). Eretz Yisrael draws its holiness from the Torah.
24:00 – The power of Torah writing. The process of rabbinic semikha – authorization – is done through the hands.
27:00 – PARAGRAPH 11.
29:00 – NOTE: In order for the Torah to connect with its divine Source, it must be shaleym – perfect/complete.
31:00 – A get is composed in 12 lines, corresponding to the 12 stones which combined to form the Ehven Shesiya – Foundation Stone of Creation.
*34:00 – Kedusha meshuleshes – threefold nature of holiness: from Sekhel HaElyon down to Sekhel HaPrati, and then down to Tzimtzum HaDin. “Sweetening din at its root.”
36:00 – PARAGRAPH 12. A get must include the accurate name(s) of both husband and wife, the place, and the date. The physical world operates within the dimensions of place, time, and Name (constricted Presence of HaShem).
41:30 – PARAGRAPH 13. “When a man divorces his first wife, even the altar weeps” (Gitten 90).
44:40 – Q&R about the concept of “first wife”.
46:00 – Q&R about the mourning the Beis HaMikdash every night at chatzos layla, as well as throughout every day during Birkhas HaMazon and the Shemoneh Esrei.
47:50 – Q&R – According to the Arizal, chatzos layla is 6 hours after nightfall. Nightfall in Eretz Yisrael is 20 minutes after shekiya. The custom of leaving an unfinished area of wall in one’s home to commemorate the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash.
53:30 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 22.
*54:30 – Q&R about a man making time for interaction with his wife and children when he’s also getting up for tefilah at chatzos layla – the midnight prayer.