Archive: July 2018

CM2 – Lesson 151a – Gezeyla 3 – Para. 3-4 – All Teshuvah is an Aspect of Returning What a Person has Stolen

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. All teshuvah (repentance) is an aspect of returning what a person has stolen. 12:50 – PARAGRAPH 4. What sustained the world before the giving of the Torah was chessed chinam – “free kindness” which is a treasury of unearned gifts. “There is no such thing as despair” (Likutey Moharan II, Torah Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 150b – Gezeyla 3 – Para. 1-2 – Tshuvah (Repentence) is an Aspect of Returning Stolen Goods

03:23 – PARAGRAPH 1. Sometimes the tzaddik needs to clothe himself in simplicity and recede from spiritual advancement to draw from Hashem’s “treasury of free kindness” – also called “the way to Eretz Yisrael”. 37:17 – PARAGRAPH 2. Teshuvah (repentance) is based on the mitzvah for a thief to return what is stolen, as stated Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 150a – Gezeyla 2 – Para. 11-14

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. 10:34 – PARAGRAPH 12. Even Shesiya – Foundation Stone. 17:44 – PARAGRAPH 13. Shinuyi maaseh – a change made by a thief in the property he has stolen. 23:28 – PARAGRAPH 14. Stealing from a ger (a convert to Judaism). Explanation of gematria called acharayim.

CM2 – Lesson 149b – Gezeyla 2 – Para. 6-10 – All Teshuvah is Based on How Reparations are Made for Theft

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Why theft is such a serious transgression. 06:22 – PARAGRAPH 7. Dor HaMabul – Generation of Noach’s flood. 13:14 – PARAGRAPH 8. Making monetary reparation for theft is sometimes possible if the item stolen cannot be returned. All teshuvah (repentance) is based on the laws of how a thief repairs the Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 149a – Gezeyla 2- Para. 2-5 – Emunas Chochomim Expressed Through Money

CM2 – Lesson 148b – Gezeyla 1 – Gezeyla 2 – Para. 1 – Ehven Shesiya – Foundation Stone of Creation

Gezeyla 1 – Gezeyla 2 – Ehven Shesiya – Foundation Stone of Creation – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. The laws of theft and property rights in light of the Torah teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. 00:00 – HALAKHA 1. What is the minimum value of something taken that amounts to theft? 17:27 – Vezeh Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 148a – Geneyva 5 – Para. 34 to End – VaYigash, Binding Tefilah to the Tzaddik, the Tzaddik as Gemstone

CM2 – Lesson 147b – Geneyva 5 – Para. 27-33 – Reading the 12 Offerings of the Princes on Chanukah – Coat of Many Colors – Rochel and the Birth of Yosef – Vayeishev – Pharaoh’s Dream

Geneyva 5 – Reading the 12 Offerings of the Princes on Chanukah – Coat of Many Colors – Rochel and the Birth of Yosef – Vayeishev – Pharaoh’s Dream – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Hilkhos Geneyva 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 9. 00:00 – PARAGRAPH 27. Why we read the 12 offerings of each Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 147a – Geneyva 5 – Para. 21-26 – Chanukah, Tefilas Arvis (Evening Prayer) – Importance of Speaking Truth, 28 Times of Shlomo HaMelech and Pharaoh’s Dream

CM2 – Lesson 146b – Geneyva 5 – Para. 17-20 – The Twelve Stones of Yaakov Avinu Hinted at the Choshen Mishpat, Yosef’s Ability to Interpret Dreams