2020-12-28 – LH2 – OC2 – Birkhas HaMazon 1b – Mayim Acharonim; The Miraculous “Ashel” Tree of Avraham Avinu; Halakha 2a – Yaakov Avinu is Emes

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Halakha 1 is based on Likutey Moharan. Halakha 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 47.
00:00 – Likutey Moharan 209. Through providing hospitality to a talmud chochom, damaged prayer is repaired.
03:35 – Back inside Likutey Halakhos, Birkas HaMazon, Halakha 1b.
10:14 – Ve zeh shecasuv (previous paragraph skipped but filled in at 12:00.)
11:20 – The miraculous nature of the “Ashel” – a tree planted by Avraham Avinu.
12:08 – Fill in of missing paragraph.
16:00 – Ve zeh shecasuv “vayita ashel” (continuation of paragraph started by mistake before).
24:53 – The fourth bracha in Birkhas HaMazon.
27:25 – The bracha “hatov vehameytiv”.
30:19 – QUESTION about mayim acharonim.
33:00 – Yahrzeit dedication for the father of Ari Gerber, Reb Moshe b’Reb Shlomo a”h, 13th of Teves.
33:18 – QUESTION about enlisting the help of the Sitra Achra. RESPONSE: reference to Likutey Moharan 70.
38:09 – Serving Hashem with both the Yetzer HaRa and the Yetzer Tov.
*39:00 – QUESTION about the purpose of klipos . For example, the reason the Arabs have jurisdiction over certain holy sites in Eretz Yisrael today is to protect these sites from being profaned or misused by secular authorities.
41:47 – HALAKHA 2. Yaakov Avinu is emes (truth).
*60:00 – QUESTION about why Yaakov Avinu “came alive” in Mitzrayim – “VaYechi Yaakov. “ The importance of never speaking against Eretz Yisrael or the People of Eretz Yisrael.