Healthy Parenting – Biographical Notes from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal.
00:00 – Reb Michel zal’s dream of Rebbe Nachman.
07:30 – Reb Michel’s eldest daughter, Dishleh a”h, past away as a young mother.
08:00 – His youngest daughter, was Bityeh. His middle daughter was Channah Perel – named after Reb Michel’s mother a”h.
10:00 – Account of how Reb Michel zal was asked to daven for the Satmar Rebbe zal at the kever of Rebbe Nachman in Uman.
23:00 – Q&R – if a person davens for another, when HaShem sends the blessing, it enters via the person davening.
24:30 – Q&R about what message Reb Michel received through the dream where he saw Rebbe Nachman.
25:30 – After 38 years as refuseniks, Reb Michel zal and his wife, Rivka, received permission to leave Russian.
26:00 – Reb Michel zal became the head of the Central Breslov Yeshiva in Meah Shaarim.
28:00 – Correction about the birth order of Reb Michel’s daughters.
28:30 – Reb Michel zal advised a couple making aliya to live in his neighborhood.
29:30 – Reb Michel zal’s message to Bar Mitzvah boys: to be a Yireh shemayim, Talmud Chacham, and an emestiker Breslover chassid.
*31:40 – Reb Michel zal’s dvar Torah at a seudas Bar Mitzvah: Ben Yehoyada – Ben Ish Chai – Rav Sheshes said, “Congratulate me, that I put on tefillin today!” The custom to look at the two Shins engraved in the leather of the batim. A spiritual light emanates from those two engraved letters at the time of putting them on that strengthens the person who sees that light. But Rav Sheshes was blind. How could he see this light?
36:00 – Rav Sheshes advised his students exactly when to move forward through the crowd to view a king passing through their city. Kol Demama daka.
27:30 – Rav Sheshes was a student of Rav. Rav Sheshes asked HaShem to make him blind.
41:00 – The Ben Ish Chai zal points out that the name Sheshes has two Shins and the Tav is for Tefillin.
43:20 – Maneh rach – (Mishlei) a soft word can improve a situation more than an angry word.
44:30 – When Reb Michel zal came to Eretz Yisrael, he was often asked to be the sandek at a Bris Milah. He would ask, “Who was the sandek for Avraham Avinu? – HaShem! A sandek is supposed to give a gift to the child. What gift did HaShem give to Avraham Avinu? Eretz Yisrael!”
47:00 – INTRODUCTION to NEW SECTION: Rebbe Nachman said that if a child would be brought to him before the age of seven, the child would be protected from sin.
48:30 – NOTES on Chanukah – chinuch.
***53:00 – NOTE on Chanukah heard from Rabbi Rosenfeld zal. Each plague took approximately a month. The plague of darkness began on the 25th day of Kislev.
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