2020-10-05 – LH2 – OC2 – Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 6 – Para. 100-102 – Sukkos; Hakhel – Gathering the People of Israel Together; Reading Koheles; Eating in the Sukkah; Arba Minim

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 100. The ingathering of Israel to fulfill the mitzvah of Hakhel is duruing Sukkos.
14:00 – Words said during a wedding ceremony allude to the fact that Moshe Rabbeinu equals all of Am Yisrael.
15:04 – PARAGRAPH 101. Arbah Minim – the Four Species: Lulav, Esrog, Hadassim, Aravos.
22:31 – Binding the Four Species together.
27:02 – QUESTION about “Yam HaChochmah” – the “Sea of Wisdom”.
29:29 – QUESTION about the connection between makifim (potential wisdom) and HaAros HaRatzon (Yearning for Hashem).
31:51 – QUESTION about how to understand negative experiences.
35:58 – QUESTION about makifim.
38:50 – COMMENT from student about The Seven Beggars. Correspondence between a chupah (wedding ceremoney) and the festival of Sukkos.
42:25 – PARAGRAPH 102. Why Sukkos is called the “Harvest Festival”.
48:02 – Why the tikkun of gathering Jews together is on Sukkos.
49:25 – Bread gathers within itself all the positive traits of all other food.
55:28 – COMMENT from student about the story of the Sophisticate and the Simpleton.
58:48 – ANNOUNCEMENT: tonight is the yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman (18th of Tishrei).