Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 6 – The Effect of the Holiness of Eretz Yisrael on the Jewish Soul – The Merit of Avraham Avinu Was His Desire To Do Good – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Netilas Yadayim LiSeudah 6 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 7.
00:00 – This shiur is dedicated by Harry Fox for his father, l’iluyi nishmas Reb Shabsi b’Reb Yissachar Dov a”h. The shiur is also dedicated l’ilui nishmas Reb Chaim Dovid ben Ozer Pinchas a”h, a student of Rabbi Rosenfeld zal.
***00:26 – The effect of the holiness of Eretz Yisrael on the Jewish soul.
*06:19 – The holier a goal is, the more challenges will be sent to confront a person who’s trying to reach that goal.
09:18 – The gematria of Moshe (345) is one less than the gematria of ratzon (346) – the level he achieved with his petira (passing). The word nefesh (soul) also means “desire”.
11:33 – PARAGRAPH 107. Blessing to Avraham Avinu in parshas Lech Lecha.
16:57 – The letter Hey that was added to the name of Avraham Avinu.
17:36 – Akdamus – special song on Shavuos.
*20:13 – Explanation of the Shem MaH.
*21:16 – The letter Hey represents ratzon – will/desire. The main way Avraham Avinu served HaShem was through the desire to give. This desire is what sustains Am Yisrael even today. Reference to Likutey Moharan 142.
25:35 – QUESTION about Avraham Avinu fulfilling the Torah.
27:33 – QUESTION about the sofei teyvos (final letters) of the phrase “lev nishbar venidkeh Elokim lo“ – this spells the name Avraham. לֵב־נִשְׁבָּ֥ר וְנִדְכֶּ֑ה אֱ֜לֹהִ֗ים לֹ֣א תִבְזֶֽה – “HaShem will not despise a broken and contrite heart…” (Tehillim 51:19).
29:54 – “May the words of my heart…” ten Yods corresponding to the ten Yods in all four expansions of HaShem’s Name. Also, the roshei teyvos (initial letters) of “Rachmana Liba Bai” (“HaShem desires the heart” – 232) add up to the total of all four Names of HaShem: AV (72), SaG (63), MaH (45), BaN (52).
31:20 – In Divrei HaYomim, the full lineage all the way back to Yaakov Avinu is only mentioned by the name of the Levi, Heiman.
41:25 – Closing comments on finishing this halakha, one of the longest in the entire Likutey Halakhos.
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