2016-07-10 – LM1 – Torah 031 – Para. 9 Mid. – Letters of the Torah, Yearning Creates a New Soul, Learning Torah from a Worthy Teacher

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – The letters of the alef-beis (Hebrew alphabet), and the crowns, vowels, and musical notes of the written Torah. There are 600,000 letters in the Torah, representing the 600,000 root souls of the Jewish People. The yearning to achieve a greater spiritual level actually creates new life-force in a person.
11:57 – Law in Shulchan Aruch that when a married man is going away on a business trip he should be with his wife before he leaves.
15:37 – Everything in this world is created from the letters of the Torah.
19:27 – Based on a person’s yearning, they can receive the light of Hashem.
21:24 – Simply wishing isn’t enough, a person needs to put the yearnings into words, as in “My soul goes forth in my speech.”
24:42 – What type of rabbi to search for. Based on Moed Katan: “If the rabbi is like a heavenly angel, seek the Torah from his mouth. But if not, do not seek the Torah from him.”
* 25:32 – Electrons and protons are the “scientific” explanation for existence, but in truth everything exists through the spiritual element of speech.
31:00 – Depending on the quality of his teacher, a student can receive a good healthy direction for how to serve Hashem.
34:11 – The four great rabbis who entered Gan Eden and only Rabbi Akiva succeeded (Chagigah).