Today’s online Torah study is dedicated l’ilui nishmas Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon ben Rabbi Yakov Eliezer ע”ה whose yahrzeit is on the 25th of Adar.
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Podcast (shiurim): Download (Duration: 56:21 — 77.4MB)
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Dedications and review.
03:56 – PARAGRAPHS 13b-14. Story of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua traveling by ship and they encounter the Leviason (Leviathan). The name “Eliezer” is made of the first letters of the words in the verse “No eye has seen it but You, Hashem” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 64:3).
12:09 – Meaning of the words “maaseh” (account, story), and sefinah (ship) – a level of knowledge that people usually don’t attain. Reference to mention of “ship” in Mishlei/Proverbs 31:14 (Aishes Chayil).
16:09 – Meaning of Rabbi Eliezer being asleep and Rabbi Yehoshua being awake.
18:03 – Story of the Arizal and his student Rav Avraham HaLevi z”l.
18:57 – What Rabbi Yehoshua represents in the account.
20:32 – “Rabbi Eliezer woke up” and asks Rabbi Yehoshua, “Mah zeh Yehoshua?”
29:11 – Malchus is the source of yirah (respect).
30:07 – PARAGRAPH 15. The dream of Pharaoh (Parshas Miketz).
36:24 – PARAGRAPH 16. The hidden gravesite of Moshe Rabbeinu (Sota 14) is in the category of makifin (knowledge hidden from us).
41:14 – PARAGRAPH 17. The word “Chanukah” is hidden in the chumash in the last letters of the words נ֗וּן מָלֵא֙ ר֣וּחַ חָכְמָ֔ה כִּֽי־סָמַ֥ךְ משֶׁ֛ה אֶת־יָדָ֖יו (Devarim/Deuteronomy 34:9).
48:50 – PARAGRAPH 18. All ten sefiros are described in this teaching.
55:24 – Encouragement to say the chapter in Likutey Tefilos that corresponds to this teaching. Announcement for the seudah and tefilos this week on the 11th of Kislev to honor the yahrzeit of Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l.
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