Today’s online Torah study is dedicated l’ilui nishmas Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon ben Rabbi Yakov Eliezer ע”ה whose yahrzeit is on the 25th of Adar.
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Podcast (shiurim): Download (Duration: 1:01:09 — 84.0MB)
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Review.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Through the unity of the Jewish Nation on earth, the unity of Hashem is revealed Above.
16:11 – Story of Rabbi Eliezer HaGadol in a debate with Rabbi Yehoshua about the Akhnai-Oven. (Bava Metzia 49). Rabbi Eliezer’s mention of the carob tree alludes to speech related to tzedakah (charity).
23:00 – Rabbi Eliezer’s allusion to a stream of water alludes to teshuvah (return to Hashem). The word kosel (wall) is “like a mountain” to which people turn for help.
33:16 – Dvar Torah heard from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l about how bracha and kedushah are opposites. Bracha is expansiveness, kedushah is constriction. Shabbos is the combination of the two: “Yichud bracha kedushah” 26 plus 86 is 112 which is begematria YHVH plus ELOKIM.
35:20 – “Ivdu es Hashem b’simcha” – “Serve Hashem with joy” (Tehillim/Psalm 100).
37:00 – Mizmor l’sohda – Tehillim/Psalm 100.
38:03 – PARAGRAPH 7. The days of Chanukah are an aspect of Olam HaBaah– the Future World.
41:42 – Story of Chanoch becoming the Malach Mem Tes – the angel who rules during the six days of the week.
44:22 – How do w e bring the joy of Shabbos into the six days of the week?
45:47 – PARAGRAPH 8. Miketz – “And it happened at the end of two years…”(Bereishis/Genesis 41:1). “End” refers to halakha (Torah Law).
48:37 – PARAGRAPH 9. The heart is the “king” of the body. Oil moisturizes the lungs.
53:36 – PARAGRAPH 10. Saying Tehillim Perek 100 for an easy childbirth: the 168 letters in this perekis chesed in ATBaSH. 43 words in this perek of Tehillim oppose the destructive power of “gam” (also) which is illustrated in the incident of two mothers judged by Shlomo HaMelech.
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