Healthy Parenting – Sichos HaRan – Chayey Moharan – Kovod HaShem – Every New Child Increases the Honor of HaShem – Emunah Is a Form of Tzedakah – Children Are Protected by Joy – Hashkiveynu – Aitza Tova – Sipurey Maasios – Tzitzis – Mipi Olalim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Kovod HaShem. Likutey Moharan 71. HaShem created everything in existence only for the sake of man to honor Him. The love between husband and wife that leads to bringing children into the world originates from the Noam HaElyon. The vessel for Noam HaElyon is tzedakah.
04:48 – Eleh toldos Yaakov Yosef. Every new child born in the world increases Kovod HaShem.
06:00 – Sefer HaMidos – Bonim. Brief overview.
06:50 – Sichos HaRan 34. Hashem considers emunah as a form of tzedakah.
08:25 – Begematria, both emunah and bonim are 102.
08:39 – Sichos HaRan 59. It benefits children for their parents to not be overly occupied with them, to let them grow on their own.
10:41 – Simcha protects the lives of children.
11:43 – Sichos HaRan 209. וְהֽוֹדַעְתָּ֥ם לְבָנֶ֖יךָ וְלִבְנֵ֥י בָנֶֽיךָ – “…and you shall make them known to your children and to your children’s children” (Devarim 4:9, VaEschanan).
***14:05 – Rebbe Nachman stressed the vital importance of the words “Vesakneynu b’aitza tova milfanecha” in the tefilah Hashkiveynu in Maariv and in Kriyas Shema Al HaMitah.
17:45 – Chayey Moharan – Rebbe Nachman’s strong wish was to have the Sipurey Maasios published in the original Yiddish, so women could read the stories. Hearing these stories can help women merit to have healthy births. Reference to Likutey Moharan 60 – the power of telling “stories of ancient times” to wake up a person who’s spiritually asleep.
22:00 – Q&R about stating the intent to nullify one’s will in order to do the will of HaShem. אַ֜תָּ֗ה תּוֹמִ֥יךְ גּוֹרָלִֽי – “…You guide my destiny” Tehillim 16:5).
25:11 – Likutey Moharan 69. Jealousy of another person’s wealth can prevent the wealthy person from having children.
32:20 – Q&R – Sometimes a tzaddik doesn’t reveal everything he knows, to protect his followers.
33:28 – It’s especially difficult to approach the tzaddik when something new about to begin. “Be as bold as a leopard…”
*36:03 – Chayey Moharan – it’s important not to put too much pressure on a child.
*39:01 – Q&R – The Breslov tradition to bring a boy to the kever of Rebbe Nachman in Uman before the age of 7.
42:46 – Selections from the Likutey Halakhos. Tzitzis.
45:54 – It’s beneficial for a baby boy can to his head covered from the youngest age. The word yarmulka means “fear of HaShem“.
*49:41 – Likutey Halakhos – the importance of teaching a child to say Torah Tziva lanu Moshe and other divrei kedusha at a very young age. Some angels opposed the creation of man, but HaShem knew man’s potential for good. מִפִּ֚י עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים | וְֽיֹנְקִים֘ יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ עֹ֥ז לְמַ֥עַן צֽוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית א֜וֹיֵ֗ב וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם – “From the mouths of small children and infants You have established strength because of Your adversaries, in order to put an end to enemy and avenger” (Tehillim 8).
53:50 – Q&R.
54:25 – Closing blessings.
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