2024-09-06 – LH7 – CM1 – Dayanim 3 – Para. 4-7 – Every Beis Din Draws Its Authority from the Holiness of Eretz Yisrael – Tzedakah Before Tefilah – 2 Witnesses – Parshas Shoftim – Sohd HaIbur – Truth in Prayer – 2 Levels of Emes – Zivug and Krias Yam Suf – 12 Shevatim – Parshas Bereishis – 2 Lights of Creation – Diminishment of the Moon

Dayanim 3 – Every Beis Din Draws Its Authority from the Holiness of Eretz Yisrael – Tzedakah Before Tefilah – 2 Witnesses – Parshas Shoftim – Sohd HaIbur – Truth in Prayer – 2 Levels of Emes – Zivug and Krias Yam Suf – 12 Shevatim – Parshas Bereishis – 2 Lights of Creation – Diminishment of the Moon – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Dayanim 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 9.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Every Beis Din, no matter where it is located, draws its authority from the holiness of Eretz Yisrael.
04:00 – The mabul – flood – did not reach Eretz Yisrael: אַ֣תְּ אֶ֔רֶץ לֹ֥א מְטֹֽהָרָ֖ה הִ֑יא לֹ֥א גֻשְׁמָ֖הּ בְּי֥וֹם זָֽעַם – “…You are a Land that is not cleansed; it was not rained upon on the day of fury” (Yechezkel 22:24).
07:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. An appeal cannot be brought to a Beis Din unless it involves a sum of more than a pruta.
09:53 – Tzedakah is given before tefilah (Bava Basra 10). Maaser and tzedakah break taavas mamon by expressing the belief that all money belongs to HaShem. Reference to Likutey Moharan 13.
11:45 – PARAGRAPH 6. Parshas Shoftim. Beis Din requires the testimony of 2 witnesses. עַל־פִּ֣י | שְׁנֵ֣י עֵדִ֗ים א֛וֹ עַל־פִּ֥י שְׁלשָֽׁה־עֵדִ֖ים יָק֥וּם דָּבָֽר – “…by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be confirmed” (Devarim 19:15, Shoftim).
12:15 – Parshas ReEh. Sohd HaIbur. שָׁמוֹר֙ אֶת־חֹ֣דֶשׁ הָֽאָבִ֔יב – “Keep the month of spring…” (Devarim 16:1, ReEh).
*15:50 – Achieving truth in prayer.
17:20 – 2 levels of emes – truth – and 2 types of people: reflective/transparent and radiant.
20:35 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 112 as a clarification of the Torah on which this halakha is based (Likutey Moharan 9).
***22:00 – The importance of connecting one’s tefilah with the tzaddik.
***24:32 – Finding one’s zivug is compared with Krias Yam Suf (Pesachim 118). Yam Suf split into 12 paths, corresponding to the 12 shevatim – 12 tribes of Israel.
25:40 – שָֽׁמְר֥וּ עֵֽ֜דֹתָ֗יו וְחֹ֣ק נָֽתַן־לָֽמוֹ – “…they kept His testimonies and the statutes He gave them” (Tehillim 99:7). שִׁבְטֵי־יָ֖הּ עֵד֣וּת לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְ֜הֹד֗וֹת לְשֵׁ֣ם ה – “…the tribes of HaShem, testimony to Israel, to give thanks to the Name of HaShem” (Tehillim 122:4).
27:00 – Q&R about the correspondence between zivug and Krias Yam Suf – splitting of the Red Sea.
27:30 – PARAGRAPH 7. Sohd HaIbur – secret of the intercalation of the solar and lunar calendars.
29:30 – Parshas Bereishis. וַיַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־שְׁנֵ֥י הַמְּאֹרֹ֖ת הַגְּדֹלִ֑ים – “And HaShem made the two great lumanaries…” (Bereishis 1:16, Bereishis). The creation of “two great luminaries” signifies the two levels of truth.
31:00 – The diminishment of the moon at the time of creation.
34:00 – בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ – “In the beginning HaShem created the heaven and earth” (Bereishis 1:1, Bereishis).
36:30 – וַֽיהֹוָ֚ה אֱלֹהִים֙ אֱמֶ֔ת – “And HaShem the Master is true…” (Yirmiya 10:10).
***37:00 – The diminishment of the moon illustrates the difference between the radiant light of HaShem’s pure truth vs. the perception of HaShem’s truth in the physical world. This difference between the two types of light facilitates the free will of man.
45:20 – Q&R – The diminishment of the moon is related to the shattering of the vessels at the time of creation
45:50 – Q&R – Depending on its context, the word “mazal” sometimes refers to the upper three levels of HaShem and sometimes to the constellations of the zodiac.
47:00 – Closing blessings.