2020-12-20 – LM2 – Torah 8 – Para. 4-6 – Spiritual Aspects of Thunder; Seventy Root Souls of Israel; Souls Combine in Structures Factorially

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – Brief review of Torah 8, Paragraphs 1-3.
03:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. The spiritual aspects of thunder.
10:32 – PARAGRAPH 5. The seventy root souls of Israel. Prophecy emanates from these seventy souls.
18:49 – PARAGRAPH 6.
22:41 – Slichos (forgiveness) of avonos – sins. Misdeeds are compared to clouds which interfere with the healing light of the sun. But through tefilah (prayer) these clouds are dispelled.
*28:10 – The principle of binyanim (structures). When Jewish souls gather to pray, the number of relationships they form increases factorially. To illustrate: three stones can combine in six ways ( 3 x 2 x 1), while four stones can combine in 24 ways (4 x 3 x 2 x 1). If one more stone is added to the group, the number of combinations is 120 (5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1).
35:41 – וּבַל־יֹאמַ֥ר שָׁכֵ֖ן חָלִ֑יתִי “And the neighbor will not say ‘I’m sick’…” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 33:24). Each individual sin is mitigated through the power of the gathering.
40:24 – Unity in Klal Yisrael facilitates prophecy.
43:17 – The Koach HaMidameh (power of imagination) is considered the lowest part of the intellect.
51:31 – The ten levels of prophecy correspond to the ten commandments.
56:33 – QUESTION about imagination vs. emunah (faith).