Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 – Parshas Vayelech – Ayeh Makom Kevodo – Collecting Debt from Orphans – Teshuvah – Exile Reveals HaShem Worldwide – Hidden Statement of Creation – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 12 – “Ayeh HaSeh”.
00:00 – Dedications and brief review.
03:00 – PARAGRAPH 15.
04:00 – The four exiles – curing the present exile, Edom, HaShem is more hidden than ever before, so more than ever we need to ask “ayeh makom kevodo?”
05:30 – Parshas Vayelech. וְאָֽנֹכִ֗י הַסְתֵּ֨ר אַסְתִּ֤יר פָּנַי֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא – “And I will hide My face on that day…” (Devarim 31:18, Vayelech).
08:00 – The word ayeh represents the highest, most hidden level of HaShem.
10:30 – שֹׁמֵר֙ מַה־מִּלַּ֔יְלָה שֹׁמֵ֖ר מַה־מִּלֵּֽיל – “…’Watchman, what will be of the night? Watchman, what will be of the night?'” (Yeshaya 21, 11-12).
12:00 – Searching for HaShem is the most important element in teshuvah.
15:00 – NOTE: Am Yisrael are called Am HaGolah. After the geulah, secular meeting places, such as sports stadium, being used to serve HaShem. As a result of Am Yisrael’s wandering during exile, HaShem becomes revealed worldwide.
20:20 – PARAGRAPH 16. Collecting debt from orphans requires shvuah – taking an oath in Beis Din.
23:00 – The most hidden level of HaShem is the most protected. That’s how the Presence of HaShem exists even in places of Avoda Zara.
***25:20 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal about the mesiras nefesh of Israeli soldiers. His prayer at the Kosel, following that experience, was a request for HaShem to show us His sweetness rather than his punishment.
27:40 – Every Jew can create a new mitzvah through neder and shvuah – vows and oaths. נדר is Noon Dor – Binah. Neder and shvuah are aspects of the highest level – maamar peleh – so from that place, new mitzvahs can be created. If a Jew says, “I will never drink orange juice” – he creates an issur for himself.
*31:00 – Q&R about one’s statement of intention obligating him in a new, personal mitzvas aseh.
35:00 – Land and real estate are the revealed honor of HaShem. Matalelin – moveable objects – are the the hidden honor of HaShem.
37:30 – Sheker draws from מאמר סתום – the Hidden Statement of Creation.
38:50 – Q&R about calling out to HaShem “ayeh makom kevodo” during difficult times. Reference to Likutey Moharan 33.
*45:30 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal warning a person not to overreaching his spiritual capacity.
50:00 – Q&R about the effects of calling out “ayeh makom kevodo”.
51:10 – Closing blessings.
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