2020-12-03 – LH2 – OC2 – Devarim HaNohagim BaSeudah 4 – Para. 19-23 – Ten Mitzvos Necessary to Make Bread; Dessert After a Bread Meal; Eretz Yisrael

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 20.
00:00 – Dedications.
00:19 – PARAGRAPH 19. Bread represents the Torah and Eretz Yisrael.
02:23 – NEWS ITEM: This morning it was announced in Israel’s news media that, b’ezras Hashem, a yeshiva might be re-established in Shechem at kever Yosef HaTzaddik.
03:57 – The special holiness of Shabbos meals.
06:10 – Torah, Eretz Yisrael, and Shabbos are all one.
08:31 – PARAGRAPH 20. Why the blessings before and after a bread meal include all the types of food that will be eaten during the meal. Blessings on food that is not considered part of the meal, for example fruit eaten for dessert.
10:17 – “B’rov am hadras Melech.” – “In a multitude of people is the King’s glory.” (Mishlei/Proverbs 14:28). A Torah teacher attaches himself to the souls of his students at the time of his shiur (lecture).
15:01 – The Arba Minim (Four Species) on Sukkos.
15:49 – PARAGRAPH 21.There are ten mitzvos related to creating bread.
19:59 – QUESTION: why is dessert is not considered part of a meal?
23:01 – QUESTION about the ten tikkunim in the seudah. Ten levels of holiness in Eretz Yisrael (Mishna Keilim 1).
26:35 – PARAGRAPH 22. The holiness in the food and in Eretz Yisrael is drawn down through the tzaddik.
28:54 – The holiness of Eretz Yisrael emanates from receiving the Torah.
30:42 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 2, Torah 8.
32:14 – Why the word lechem (bread) is related to milchama (war).
34:29 – Reference to the Yanuka (Zohar HaKodesh 188b).
37:12 – PARAGRAPH 23. Why we emphasize the letter “hey” when making the blessing “hamotzi lechim min ha’aretz”.
40:58 – QUESTION about lechem being milchama.
41:35 – RESPONSE: Heard from Rabbi Rosenfeld regarding holiness at mealtime – the throat’s sound pipe vs. food pipe.
*45:56 – QUESTION about Eretz Yisrael. RESPONSE: Rabbi Shmuel Shapiro z”l encouraged that a person who lives in Eretz Yisrael should continue to daven (pray) to acquire the holiness of Eretz Yisrael.
48:05 – COMMENT from a student about the Alter of Novardok z”l (it was his yahrzeit on the day this shiur was given).
49:16 – QUESTION about a guest’s obligation to say brochos on food vs. the obligation of the baal habayit’s obligation to say brochos on food.
51:00 – QUESTION about the Arba Minim (Four Species).
51:36 – QUESTION about food needing to be refined. RESPONSE: in the future, when people are on a higher spiritual level, eating animals that are not kosher may become permitted.
54:48 – COMMENT from a student relating an account of the Alter of Novardok.