2020-11-19 – LH2 – OC2 – Betziyas HaPas 3 – Para. 5-7 – The Centrality of Eretz Yisrael; Food Should be Eaten in Joy, Applying Kabbalistic Concepts to Practical Torah Observance

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This shiurm presented on the 3rd of Kislev 5781, is dedicated by Peretz Rubel l’ilui nishmas his mother, Sarah Leah bas Reb Lieber a”h.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5.
06:11 – PARAGRAPH 6. Parshas Lech Lecha: Eretz Yisrael is the place from which all blessing flows, and it contains all ten levels of holiness that exist in the world. Avraham Avinu received Eretz Yisrael after the letter “Hey” was added to his name. “The air of Eretz Yisrael gives chochmah.”
10:57 – PARAGRAPH 7. Parshas Chayei Sarah: the first acquisition of Eretz Yisrael took place when Avraham Avinu purchased the land of Ma’aras HaMachpeleh (Cave of the Patriarchs). We only domitzvos outside of Eretz Yisrael in order to remember how to do them.
*14:39 – “In order for food to have beneficial effects on the body and soul, a person needs to be in a state of joy.” Reference to Likutey Moharan 5.
16:28 – Reference to “It was good in his heart” (Megilas Rus).
18:56 – QUESTION about the difference between allegory and applying kabbalistic concepts to practical Torah observance.
20:27 – RESPONSE, quoting from end of Likutey Moharan 6: Every move a human being affects the higher worlds.