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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 17.
00:00 – Dedications. This shiur was given on the 15th of Tammuz, yahrzeit of the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh. He explained why Reuven’s suggestion to throw Yosef HaTzaddik into a pit is considered a “rescue.”
8:04 – PARAGRAPH 3. All beauty is contained within the Arbaah Minim (Four Species).
11:10 – The word Shadayim (breasts) is composed of the roshei teyvos of : Smol Dokeh, Yemin Mekarev (the left pushes away, the right gathers in).
18:51 – Meaning behind the shaking of the Lulav.
20:30 – PARAGRAPH 4. The meaning of the aravos (willow twigs): when newcomers begin to serve Hashem. The Hadas represents how a Jewish soul’s return to Hashem completes the mizbeyach (altar of the Holy Temple).
23:44 – The meaning of the hadas (myrtle branches).
26:28 – Sephardic custom of using hadas for havdallah.
30:43 – NoGaH is roshei teyvos: Hamon Goyim Nisaticha. הֲמ֥וֹן גּוֹיִ֖ם נְתַתִּֽיךָ (Bereishis/Genesis 17:5).
35:04 – PARAGRAPH 5. The Seven Shepherds of Sukkos. Tikkun HaAchila is accomplished through eating in the Sukkah.
44:42 – Why the holiday of Sukkos is called Chag HaAssif – the Harvest Festival.
46:53 – PARAGRAPH 6. Through the mitzvah of tzedakah the “air” is cleared and a person makes friends.
53:02 – QUESTION: How does eating in holiness bring kapara (atonement)?
57:32 – Mazal tov on completing the halakha.
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