Healthy Parenting – Alim Letrufah -The Importance of Teaching a Child to Write – Emphasis on Learning Torah, Saying Tehillim, and Hisbodedus – Encouraging a Child to Live Simply – Sefer Kokhvey Ohr – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – This shiur is based on letters written by Rav Nosson of Nemirov zal to his family members and later published in a series of seforim called Alim LeTrufah.
12:00 – In difficult times, it’s important to just cling to life and wait for better times.
13:00 – A letter from Rav Nosson of Nemirov zal to his son advising him to borrow a hat so he can go to shul on Shabbos.
19:00 – Encouragement in Elul for the approach of Rosh Hashanah.
23:00 – Q&R about Rav Nosson’s father-in-law.
26:00 – Alim Letrufa Letter 446 – Parshas Vayechi, written by Rav Nosson zal from Uman to his son Yitzchak zal. Advice to renew his thoughts in a positive way and not to dwell in a place of negativity. He compares negative thinking to chometz and refers to Likutey Moharan 5.
34:45 – This portion of the shiur is from the sefer Kokhveh Ohr. Any child who’s brought to him before the age of 7 will be protected from Pegam HaBris during his childhood.
37:50 – Account of how Rebbe Nachman rescued a Jewish girl who had been kidnapped by a priest (Kokhvey Ohr, Anshei Moharan).
47:00 – Rav Nosson zal’s wife suffered a number of miscarriages and for the first 7 years of their marriage, they had no children. Rebbe Nachman advised them to prepare six chairs, and B”H the couple eventually had five sons and a daughter.
49:00 – Story about Rebbe Nachman’s daughter Udel preparing 2 kneidlach for her father.
50:00 – Rebbe Nachman had four surviving daughters. A mnemonic for remembering their names: “ESMaCH” – Roshei Teyvos Udel, Sarah, Miriam, Chaya.
57:00 – Closing blessings.
58:00 – Q&R about who Rebbe Nachman’s teachers were after his Bar Mitzvah.
59:00 – Q&R about the term “Daas Rabbeinu”.
To dedicate this shiur, click HERE.
