2024-07-31 – LH6 – EH – Gittin 4 – Para. 10b-13 – Yibum – Chalitza – Rebbe veTalmid – Chokhma Ilaah – Chokhma Tataah – Ish veIsha – Man and Woman – Leather Shoes Draw Light from Chashmal – Malbush – Blessing “Kol Tzorchi” – Shelosh Regalim – Garments of Light to Garments of Leather – Sell the Beams of Your House to Buy Shoes

Gittin 4 – Yibum – Chalitza – Rebbe veTalmid – Chokhma Ilaah – Chokhma Tataah – Ish veIsha – Man and Woman – Leather Shoes Draw Light from Chashmal – Malbush – Blessing “Kol Tzorchi” – Shelosh Regalim – Garments of Light to Garments of Leather – Sell the Beams of Your House to Buy Shoes – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Gittin 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 30.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 10b. Yibum. Chalitza.
9:30 – Shoes draw light from chashmal which comes from the Ohr HaPanim of HaShem. Chashmal is 318 which corresponds the 370 lights of the Ohr HaPanim. Chashmal is also begematria malbush.
11:30 – Order of tying shoes is the same as the order of tefillin. Reference to Likutey Moharan 47.
*13:00 – Q&R about the spiritual protection provided by leather shoes. The earth was cursed by HaShem. A person’s feet correspond to Malkhus.
16:00 – Birkhas HaShachar – The blessing Kol Tzorchi – “Who has provided me with all of my needs” refers to the shoes because they include all the physical blessing that a person needs.
17:30 – The term “Akeres HaBayis” refers to the wife. This parallels the Seder plate refers to Malkhus. Kaira (plate) is begematria 365.
23:00 – When a person’s Malkhus is protected, all their shefa is protected. אָמַר רַב יְהוּדָה אָמַר רַב: לְעוֹלָם יִמְכּוֹר אָדָם קוֹרוֹת בֵּיתוֹ וְיִקַּח מִנְעָלִים לְרַגְלָיו – “Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: A person should always sell the beams of his house to buy shoes for his feet…” (Shabbos 129a).
24:30 – NOTE: According to some opinions, the blessing Kol Tzorchi is not said on Tisha BeAv because we’re not wearing leather shoes.
25:00 – Shalosh Regolim – the 3 major holidays – מַה־יָּפ֧וּ פְעָמַ֛יִךְ בַּנְּעָלִ֖ים בַּת־נָדִ֑יב – “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O daughter of nobles…” (Shir HaShirim 7:2).
28:30 – NOTE: Several times Rav Nosson of Nemirov walked to Breslov to visit Rebbe Nachman. The distance from Nemirov to Breslov is about 18 miles.
31:00 – NOTE: Rebbe Nachman said, “If only I could see the radiance of the footsteps you will take to travel to me.”
32:00 – Q&R about the term “meraglim” applied to the spies.
33:00 – Q&R – removing the shoes on Tisha BeAv and Yom Kippur is an aspect of vidui – confession.
34:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. The efforts made by a student to see his Rebbe allow the student to receive a higher perception of HaShem. Through walking to see the Rebbe, the Malkhus of the student is repaired.
37:30 – PARAGRAPH 12. The Beis Yosef zak learned Torah from a malakh: Chanoch was a shoemaker and he became the angel Matat Saar HaPanim.
42:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 54. Creation is the “footstool of HaShem“. Garments of light to garments of leather. Shoes protect a person from the negative influence of the Sutra Achra.
46:00 – PARAGRAPH 13. Adam and Chava – the Etz HaDaas was “foreign understanding” from the side of darkness.
50:00 – Rebuke in the form of insult from one’s teacher is beneficial.
53:00 – Q&R about why kohanim remove their shoes when they bless Am Yisrael.
56:00 – Closing blessings.