Halvaah 4 – Why the Second Luchos Were Given on Yom Kippur – Separating Adam and Chava – Back to Back – Written Torah – Oral Torah – 10 Days of Teshuvah – VeZos HaBerakha – Moshe Rabbeinu Broke the Luchos – Golden Calf – Ekev – Bereishis on Shemini Atzeres – Fasts of BeHaV – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Halvaah 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 128.
00:00 – HaShem created Adam and Chava back to back and then split them apart so they could interact. This process illustrates how the Oral Torah is intrinsic to the Written Torah.
04:00 – Those who oppose Torah observance usually focus on belittling the Oral Torah.
07:00 – The 10 Days of Teshuvah. From Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur we are preparing to receive the Second Luchos.
10:00 – Q&R about the pogrom that occurred on Shemini Atzeres 5784 (October 7, 2023). Reference to Likutey Halakhos, Choshen Mishpat, Choveyl baChaveyro 3 and Likutey Moharan 67. The massacres of the past achieved kiddush HaShem.
12:37 – PARAGRAPH 9. On Sukkos HaShem shows the world how special Am Yisrael is to Him.
15:00 – HaAzinu. כִּ֛י חֵ֥לֶק יְהֹוָ֖ה עַמּ֑וֹ יַֽעֲקֹ֖ב חֶ֥בֶל נַֽחֲלָתֽוֹ – “Because HaShem’s portion is His People. Yaakov, the lot of His inheritance” (Devarim 32:9, HaAzinu). Separating Adam and Chava from their original state of back to back.
16:00 – כִּֽי־יַֽעֲקֹ֗ב בָּחַ֣ר ל֣וֹ יָ֑הּ יִ֜שְׂרָאֵ֗ל לִסְגֻלָּתֽוֹ – “For HaShem chose Yaakov for Himself, Yisrael for His treasure” (Tehillim 135:4).
*17:15 – Parshas VeZos HaBerakha. מִסִּינַ֥י בָּא֙ וְזָרַ֤ח מִשֵּׂעִיר֙ לָ֔מוֹ הוֹפִ֨יעַ֙ מֵהַ֣ר פָּארָ֔ן – “…HaShem came from Sinai and shone forth from Seir to them; He appeared from Mount Paran…” (Devarim 33:2, VeZos HaBerakha).
*20:10 – תּוֹרָ֥ה צִוָּה־לָ֖נוּ משֶׁ֑ה מֽוֹרָשָׁ֖ה קְהִלַּ֥ת יַֽעֲקֹֽב – “The Torah that Moses commanded us is a legacy for the congregation of Yaakov” (Devarim 33:4, VeZos HaBerakha). “Torah tziva lanu Moshe…” The Written Torah and the Oral Torah belongs to Am Yisrael.
21:18 – Am Yisrael is special to HaShem.
***23:20 – VeZos HaBerakha – the closing words of the parsha refer to Moshe Rabbeinu’s breaking of the First Luchos. Why did this act demonstrate his greatness?
***25:15 – Parshas Ekev. The Egel HaZahav – Golden Calf – resulted from Am Yisrael’s mistaken calculation of the sixth and seventh hour of the 40th day – which was an error in the interpretation of the Oral Torah (Shabbos 89). Reference to Likutey Moharan 62.
***28:40 – The Written Torah cannot exist without the Oral Torah.
***29:57 – HaShem congratulated Moshe Rabbeinu for breaking the First Luchos (Shabbos 87).
33:50 – Why the Second Luchos were given on Yom Kippur.
*34:30 – Bereishis. Why we begin reading the Torah again from the beginning on Shemini Atzeres.
36:50 – It wasn’t until man prayed for rain that the plants could grow. וְאָדָ֣ם אַ֔יִן לַֽעֲבֹ֖ד אֶת־הָֽאֲדָמָֽה – “…and there was no man to work the soil” (Bereishis 2:5, Bereishis).
38:28 – Q&R about how to apply the concepts in the halakha to our lives. The central themes include the importance of the Oral Torah and the inner dimensions of the Yomim Noraim – Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, and Shemini Atzeres.
*39:30 – Q&R about the Egel HaZahav. Brief review of the chronology of events from Matan Torah until Yom Kippur. The broken luchos were placed in the Aron Kodesh.
*41:17 – NOTE – Fasts of BeHaV. The three fasts and slichos that follow Shemini Atzeres – “BeHaV” stands for “Monday, Thursday, Monday”.
42:48 – Closing announcements and blessings.
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