Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Birkhas HaPeyros 3: Blessings on food; The air of Eretz Yisrael elevates souls; educating Jewish children; what is a chassid? Tzedakah gives life. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 37. 00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. 11:45 – Mikdash M’at – “Miniature Sanctuary” – the Jewish home and places of Torah study. 14:00 Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Birkhas HaPeyros; Earning Eretz Yisrael through saying a blessing on food; Tzedakah (charity) of Eretz Yisrael. 00:00 – This shiur is dedicated by Yehuda Wurtzel l’ilui nishmas his mother, Bernice bas Avraham a”h, whose yahrzeit is the 12th of Shevat. 13:24 – The Seven Species for which Eretz Yisrael is praised. Continue Reading »
Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Likutey Moharan. Siach BaSadeh, hisbodedus – “prayer in the field”; Ayeh Makom Kevodo – “Where is the place of His Honor?” – Ten Statements of Creation. 00:00 – This shiur is dedicated by Yehudah Wurtzel l’ilui nishmas his mother, Berenice bas Avraham ע”ח, whose yahrzeit is on the 12th of Shevat. *00:22 Continue Reading »
Birkhas HaMazon. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Parshas Bo; Torah is drawn from Names of Hashem; Miracles vs. Magic in Egypt; “Ani v’lo malach.” 00:00 – This shiur is dedicated l’ilui nishmas Reb Yitzchak Leib b’Reb Menachem Zwebner z”l, and l’ilui nishmas Reb Ephraim b’Reb Shmuel Hechtman z”l. 01:26 – PARAGRAPH 9. Parshas Bo – “Ani Continue Reading »
Tu B’Shevat – Rosh Hashanah L’Ilanos (New Year for Trees); blessings on eating fruit; “Sparks of Holiness” in food. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. 00:00 – Introduction to Tu B’Shevat, Rosh Hashana L’Ilanos (New Year for the Trees). 01:80 – HALAKHA 1. Blessings on eating fruit. The soul is constantly changing. We are incomplete, and part Continue Reading »
Hosting a Torah scholar repairs Fallen Torah; Shlomo HaMelech; rebuilding the Beis HaMikdash (the Holy Temple). Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 28. 00:00 – Review. 00:33 – PARAGRAPH 6. How hosting a Torah scholar repairs Fallen Torah. 08:21 – Shmuel HaNavi would travel throughout Israel and then return to Continue Reading »
Birkhas HaMazon 5 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. BeHaAlosekha: Toras Emes and the Mishkan – sweetening harsh judgements – the merit of righteous Jewish women. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 28. 00:00 – Review. 00:37 – PARAGRAPH 4. The importance of Toras Emes – receiving Torah from a qualified source. 12:22 – Reference Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Four negative kinds of Torah study are counteracted by Birkhas HaMazon (four blessings after a bread meal). מטטרון – “Malach Mem Tess”; Mistake of the People of Beitar. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 28. 00:00 REVIEW of yesterday’s shiur: the four negative kinds of Torah study, the four aspects Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Birkhas HaMazon. The good will of Avraham Avinu; The sin of Adam and Chava resulted from “Fallen Torah”. 00:00 – Review and PARAGRAPH 23. The three meals of Shabbos. 05:32 – Kos shel Bracha of a mezuman (minimum of three men who have shared a bread meal). 06:45 – PARAGRAPH 24. Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Ruach, heart and lungs; enthusiasm in serving Hashem vs. “stormwinds”; Yishuv HaDaas – Torah-true perspective; hisbodedus. 00:00 – TORAH 9. PARAGRAPH 1. Ruach (breath/spirit/wind), heart, and lungs. 04:30 – Everything in the universe was created to help us understand how to serve Hashem better. Reference to Likutey Moharan 1: one of Continue Reading »