Aydus 5 – Beshalach – The Best Response to Troubles Is Humility – Nitzavim – Seder veLo KaSeder – Order and Disorder – Eseres Yemei Teshuva – Shem MaH – Aleinu – “HaMelech” Is Proclaimed from Rosh HaShanah Through Yom Kippur – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Aydus 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 82.
00:30 – PARAGRAPH 5. The best response to troubles is humility.
03:44 – Beshalach. Moshe Rabbeinu’s response to difficulties was humility, as in וְנַ֣חְנוּ מָ֔ה “…we are MaH… [of what significance are we?]” (Shemos 16:7, Beshalach).
***06:56 – NOTE – Summary of the concept that the best response to troubles is humility. Reference to Likutey Halakhos on the Shabbos morning שֶׁבְּשִׁפְלֵ֥נוּ זָֽכַר־לָ֑נוּ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ – “Who remembered us in our humble state, for His kindness is eternal” (Tehillim 136:23).
08:08 – PARAGRAPH 6. Immersion in a mikveh restore spiritual seder.
13:29 – PARAGRAPH 7. Parshas Nitzavim. הַֽעִדֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַיּוֹם֘ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם וְאֶת־הָאָ֒רֶץ֒ – “This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses…” (Devarim 30:19, Nitzavim). Heaven and earth represent the Nekuda Elyona and the Nekuda Tachtona.
14:19 – Q&R about the Shem MaH.
15:53 – PARAGRAPH 8. Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur – the Eseres Yemei Teshuva correspond to the letter Yud bemilui. Seder veLo KaSeder.
16:20 – The creation of man as a being with free choice was to reveal the Malkhus of HaShem.
22:32 – The word “machshava” is comprised of “choshev MaH” – thought of HaShem. Chokhma is “the power of MaH“. By creating man with free will, HaShem gave man the option to nullify his will to that of His Creator, which transforms Lo KaSeder back to Seder, fulfilling the purpose of the creation of the world.
23:48 – לַֽ֖יהֹוָה הָאָ֣רֶץ וּמְלוֹאָ֑הּ תֵּ֜בֵ֗ל וְיֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ – “The earth and its fullness are HaShem’s; the world and those who dwell therein” (Tehillim 24:1).
24:12 – Q&R about tzaddikim who have bitul to HaShem yet their lives seem filled with troubles.
26:29 – HaShem’s Malkhus is proclaimed in a special way throughout the blessings said on Rosh Hashanah and the Eseres Yemei Teshuva.
28:52 – Reciting Tehillim 24 on Rosh Hashanah.
30:08 – PARAGRAPH 9. Parshas Nitzavim. הַֽעִדֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַיּוֹם֘ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם וְאֶת־הָאָ֒רֶץ֒ – “This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses…” (Devarim 30:19, Nitzavim).
*33:44 – VaEschanan. Every day in the tefilah Aleinu we say: וְיָֽדַעְתָּ֣ הַיּ֗וֹם וַֽהֲשֵֽׁבֹתָ֘ אֶל־לְבָבֶ֒ךָ֒ כִּ֤י יְהֹוָה֙ ה֣וּא הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם מִמַּ֔עַל וְעַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ מִתָּ֑חַת אֵ֖ין עֽוֹד – “And you shall know this day and consider it in your heart, that HaShem is Master in heaven above, and upon the earth below; there is none else” (Devarim 4:39, VaEschanan).
35:41 – וֵֽאלֹהִים מַלְכִּ֣י מִקֶּ֑דֶם – “But HaShem is my King from time immemorial…” (Tehillim 74:12).
***36:42 – Q&R about when to oppose evil and when to accept suffering through humility and bitul.
38:12 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 6 – דּ֚וֹם֙ | לַֽיהֹוָה֘ וְהִתְח֪וֹלֵ֫ל ל֥וֹ – “Be silent before HaShem and hope in Him…” (Tehillim 37:7).
38:54 – וַיָּ֚קֶם עֵד֨וּת | בְּיַֽעֲקֹ֗ב וְ – “And He established testimony in Yaakov…” (Tehillim 78:5) – The two luchos – tablets – of the Torah correspond to the two witnesses required in a Beis Din.
41:45 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 51 – The Yetzer Hara misleads a person through sheker – falsehood.
43:30 – הַשֹּׁכֵ֣ן אִתָּ֔ם בְּת֖וֹךְ טֻמְאֹתָֽם – “…[HaShem’s Presence] Which dwells with them [Am Yisrael] in their impurity” (Vayikra 16:16, Acharei Mos). Even when Am Yisrael is in a state of sin, HaShem is with us. This is the path of teshuva that Moshe Rabbeinu carved out for us through his absolute humility, especially during the month of Elul.
44:42 – Q&R about how to employ this teaching today: doing mitzvos with humility according to the season/day. For example, until the month of Cheshvan, Tachnun is not said.
45:44 – Closing blessings.
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