2020-10-25 – LM2 – Torah 7 – Para. 6b-8 – Makifim (Immanent Knowledge); The Tzaddik’s Ability to Speak to People of Every Level

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Review.
04:38 – PARAGRAPH 6b. From “There are many levels of makifim.”
*06:31 – “For it is something very close to you” (Devarim 30:14) (Parshas Nitzavim).
08:58 – Highest of all are the makifim of the generation’s leading Tzaddik, who is its teacher.
17:50 – PARAGRAPH 7. A tzaddik needs to be able to access all levels, to unite heaven and earth, in order to elevate every soul.
34:50 – PARAGRAPH 8.
45:40 – The Torah teacher needs to make a fence for his words, being careful about what to reveal and what not to reveal.
47:13 – When Moshe Rabbeinu received the Torah, he asked about the crowns being placed on the letters of the alef beis. Hashem told him there would be a person in the future (Rabbi Akiva) who would understand secrets of the Torah from these crowns. Moshe asked Hashem why not give the Torah through this person? In response, Hashem told Moshe to be silent. (Menachos 29b).
53:10 – The dynamics of acquiring wisdom: a makif is knowledge not yet acquired. When a person reveals a perception, a new perception arises in thought.
55:15 – Moshe Rabbeinu was not permitted to enter Eretz Yisrael because he was on a higher level than Eretz Yisrael. (Zohar).
55:57 – Beginning of Pirkei Avos section.
63:19 – “Make a fence for the Torah.” (Pirkei Avos 1:1)
66:16 – Every person has a responsibility to have students and/or children.
69:30 – The differences between a son and a student.
71:44 – The difference between Moshe Rabbeinu and all other prophets.
78:10 – Introduction to PARAGRAPH 9.