2024-11-05 – LH7 – CM1 – Halvaah 3 – Para. 3-4 – A Loan Should Always Be Made With a Written Contract – Borrower and Lender in Beis Din – Azus deKedushah vs Azus deSutra Achra – Dangers of Being Overly Shy – Training a Child to Greet a Grandparent – Vidui – Confession – Yom Kippur – Courage and “Holy Chutzpah” Are Necessary to Serve HaShem

Halvaah 3 – A Loan Should Always Be Made With a Written Contract – Borrower and Lender in Beis Din – Azus deKedushah vs Azus deSutra Achra – Dangers of Being Overly Shy – Training a Child to Greet a Grandparent – Vidui – Confession – Yom Kippur – Courage and “Holy Chutzpah” Are Necessary to Serve HaShem – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Halvaah 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. A loan should always be made with a written contract.
05:10 – PARAGRAPH 4. Establishing the amount of loan in Beis Din if there is no written contract. Why the borrower is made to swear to an amount.
*11:00 – Azus deKedshah vs. Azus deSutra Achra. Holiness is only achieved through a degree of brazenness – “holy chutzpah” – as in הֱוֵי עַז כַּנָּמֵר – “…Be bold as a leopard…” (Avos 5, 20).
13:40 – There are two kinds of busha – shame/shyness – one is holy and one not.
16:40 – All Jews have a natural busha – shyness.
17:30 – וְכָל־הָעָם֩ רֹאִ֨ים אֶת־הַקּוֹלֹ֜ת וְאֶת־הַלַּפִּידִ֗ם וְאֵת֙ ק֣וֹל הַשֹּׁפָ֔ר וְאֶת־הָהָ֖ר עָשֵׁ֑ן וַיַּ֤רְא הָעָם֙ וַיָּנֻ֔עוּ וַיַּֽעַמְד֖וּ מֵֽרָחֹֽק – “And all the people saw the voices and the torches, the sound of the shofar, and the smoking mountain, and the people saw and trembled; so they stood from afar” (Shemos 20:15, Yisro). The Torah was given in lightning and thunder to inspire awe and shyness in Am Yisrael.
19:20 – Excess shame or shyness freeze a person to the extent that they cannot serve HaShem, chas veshalom.
20:40 – אֵלֶ֣יךָ זָֽעֲק֣וּ וְנִמְלָ֑טוּ בְּךָ֖ בָֽטְח֣וּ וְלֹא־בֽוֹשׁוּ – “They cried out to You and they escaped; they trusted in You and they were not shamed Tehillim 22:6. Out forefathers put aside their embarrassment about their lowliness and sins, so they could trust in HaShem and serve Him.
21:20 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 30.
***23:00 – If a person is overly shy or ashamed, they won’t confess their sins and they won’t even be able to daven – pray.
25:00 – מְכַסֶּ֣ה פְ֖שָׁעָיו לֹ֣א יַצְלִ֑יחַ וּמוֹדֶ֖ה וְעֹזֵ֣ב יְרֻחָֽם – “He who conceals his sins will not succeed, but he who confesses and abandons [them] will obtain mercy” (Mishlei 28:13).
***26:00 – NOTE about the importance of training a shy child to say hello to a grandparent in order to teach them respect.
27:00 – Q&R about the difference between atzvus – depression, and azus – boldness.
28:00 – שֶׁאֵין אֲנַחְנוּ עַזֵּי פָנִים וּקְשֵׁי עֹרֶף לוֹמַר לְפָנֶיךָ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ וֵאלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ צַדִּיקִים אֲנַחְנוּ וְלֹא חָטָאנוּ – “For we are not so brazen and obstinate as to say before You HaShem, our G-d and G-d of our forefathers, that we are righteous and have not sinned…” (Amidah, Yom Kippur Machzor).
Why do we say “Ain lanu azei panim…” in Vidui?
32:00 – Courage and “Holy Chutzpah” are necessary to serve HaShem.
*40:00 – Lack of self confidence can cause a person to leave the path of the Torah, chas veshalom.
*42:00 – Fear of HaShem should be greater than one’s fear of people.
49:00 – Saying the sins we committed in Vidui is an example of “Holy Chutzpah“.
***53:45 – NOTE – There is no Vidui on Rosh Hashanah because the initial shame a person feels renders him speechless. Therefore on Rosh Hashanah there is only the wordless cry of the shofar and words of tefilah. That’s step one of teshuvah. Step two is the “Holy Chutzpah” of Vidui on Yom Kippur.