2020-11-27 – LH2 – OC2 – Devarim HaNohagim BaSeudah 4 – Para. 7c-9a – The Ten Days of Teshuvah Correspond to the Ten Levels of Holiness in Eretz Yisrael; The Wells of the Avos; Every Torah Student Counts

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 20.
00:48 – PARAGRAPH 7c (from the words “ve’al keyn nitna haTorah bekol shofar.”) The sound of the shofar signals the ingathering of all who are distant from Hashem.
03:25 – “Make Torah into tefilah (prayer)” – Rebbe Nachman.
07:01 – The essence of Rosh Hashanah is to draw upon ourselves the kedusha (holiness) of Eretz Yisrael. Eretz Yisrael receives its kedusha from Rosh Hashanah.
10:15 – Gematria of the “eyes of Hashem” is 260, which is ten times Y-H-V-H.
10:37 – PARAGRAPH 8. The separation of Malchus from Zer Anpin during Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the intermediary days. of Teshuvah. “Mochin” are revelations of Torah. The Ten Days of Teshuvah correspond to the ten levels of holiness in Eretz Yisrael.
15:12 – QUOTE from Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l: “Rosh Hashanah is Malchus, Yom Kippur is Keser.”
17:51 – QUESTION about mentioning the names of malachim (angels).
19:24 – Saying 10 chapters of Tehillim (Psalms) during the Ten Days of Teshuvah.
20:07 – PARAGRAPH 9. The sukkah and the Arba Minim (Four Species) on Sukkos. The concept of “spiritual weapons”.
23:13 – As brought in Likutey Moharan 20 – the souls of the students present in a Torah shiur (public lecture) facilitate the Torah that can be accessed by the teacher.
24:53 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 8 – the last public teaching given by Rebbe Nachman before his passing. The importance of every student present in a Torah shiur.
27:38 – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
29:49 – The wells dug by Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov correspond to the waters of Torah drawn down to the world through the tefilos (prayers) of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and all Ten Days of Teshuvah.
33:35 – Avraham Avinu was the first person to whom Hashem revealed the holiness of Eretz Yisrael. Because of this, he began digging wells that would facilitate, on mystical levels, drawing the Torah into the world.
36:19 – QUESTION about students enabling Torah to be accessed from higher realms. RESPONSE: How every student present in a shiur (lesson) gives the teacher more power to draw down new aspects of the Torah.
38:51 – QUESTION about the timing of the revelation of Eretz Yisrael’s kedusha to Avraham Avinu.