2024-11-07 – LH7 – CM1 – Halvaah 3 – Para. 9 – Halvaah 4 – Para. 1-4 – Megillas Esther – Machtzis HaShekel vs. Amalek – Wealth Brings Azus – Brazenness – Azus deKedushah of Esther – Azus deSutra Achra – Seir leAzalzel – Mochin deKatnus – Why a Written Document Is Absolutely Necessary for a Loan

Halvaah 3 – Halvaah 4 – Megillas Esther – Machtzis HaShekel vs. Amalek – Wealth Brings Azus – Brazenness – Azus deKedushah of Esther – Azus deSutra Achra – Seir leAzalzel – Mochin deKatnus – Why a Written Document Is Absolutely Necessary for a Loan – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Halvaah 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 22.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. וַֽעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֜ים כִּכַּר־כֶּ֗סֶף אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ – “… and I will weigh out ten thousand silver talents…” (Esther 3:9). Machtzis HaShekel vs. Amalek.
06:52 – Wealth brings azus – brazenness.
10:00 – אֵ֚ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל ה֚וּא נֹתֵ֨ן | עֹ֖ז וְתַֽעֲצֻמ֥וֹת לָעָ֗ם – “…HaShem of Israel – He gives strength and power to the people…” (Tehillim 68:36).
***10:21 – יְהֹוָ֗ה עֹ֖ז לְעַמּ֣וֹ יִתֵּ֑ן – “…HaShem shall grant strength to His people…” (Tehillim 29:11). Am Yisrael has Azus deKedushah. Their boldness allows them to accept the Torah, when the 70 Nations do not.
11:50 – Naaseh veNishma.
13:40 – The Azus deKedusha of Esther HaMalka: וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֶסְתֵּ֔ר אִ֚ישׁ צַ֣ר וְאוֹיֵ֔ב הָמָ֥ן הָרָ֖ע הַזֶּ֑ה – “And Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, this evil Haman!” (Esther 7:6).
16:00 – NOTE about Azus deKedushah from the Shulchan Aruch.
17:30 – NOTE – Yom Kippur – Seir leAzalzel. One goat embodies Azus deKedushah and the other embodies Azus deSutra Achra.
20:50 – HALAKHA 4. Introduction. Reference to Likutey Moharan 42:3.
***21:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. “Don’t you dare borrow money without a written document!” Borrowing means that the borrower is in a state of Mochin deKatnus – vulnerability to the Sutra Achra.
***27:00 – The loan contract must be written according to the laws of the Torah (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 42) in order to counteract the borrower’s vulnerability to the Sutra Achra.
29:00 – בֶּן חָמֵשׁ שָׁנִים לְמִקְרָא – “…the five-year-old to [study] the Written Torah…” (Avos 5:21).
31:50 – PARAGRAPH 2. Real estate can be used as collateral for a loan, but moveable property cannot.
41:50 – Q&R about the necessity of witnesses for a loan and the connection between a loan contract and the Written Torah.
42:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. Real estate is related to the Written Torah, while moveable property is related to the Oral Torah.
44:20 – The importance of a lawyer doing a title search when purchasing property.
45:45 – The Torah was given through קול – sound. All the future Oral Torah was given at Sinai.
48:50 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 28.
49:10 – PARAGRAPH 4.