2020-07-05 – LM2 – Torah 4 – Para. 11b-12a – Tzedakah (Charity); “Hilft” (Helps) in Yiddish Has Same Letters as Tefilah (Prayer); Story of the Precious Stone Surrounded by a Sea Serpent

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Dedication: This shiur was sponsored by Joel Kaplan in honor and memory of his father, Ivan Yisrael Yosef ben Mordechai HaKohen Kaplan ע”ה.
00:26 – Review of this teaching so far: the benefit of tzedakah is very great.
06:20 – PARAGRAPH 11 (about 25 lines in). Dovid HaMelech describes his encounter with a lion to Shaul HaMelech.
12:19 – Tzedakah (charity) always helps.
12:54 – “Hilft” in Yiddish is made up of the same letters as the word tefilah (prayer).
15:19 – Story told by Rav Yehudah HaNeduah (Bava Basra 74) about a voyage by ship during which he saw a precious stone encircled by a serpent.
29:52 – The water turned into blood.
45:12 – QUESTION about scientists who believe in Hashem and His Torah.
47:19 – QUESTION about remedies in the gemara.
49:34 – PARAGRAPH 12. Tzedakah is a remedy for all types of ailments. “Words of the wise bring healing” (Mishlei/Proverbs 12:18).
54:43 – Seventeenth of Tammuz.