2021-01-03 – LM2 – Torah 8 – Para. 11-13a – Spiritual Aspects of the Lungs; Repairing the Imagination; The Sense of Smell is Related to Fear of Hashem; Og Melech Bashan

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. On Rosh Hashanah, prayer is in the aspect of din (judgement). The sound of the shofar mitigates this.
06:20 – The significance of the month of Tishrei.
09:50 – The last letters of the words אֶת־נֶ֣פֶשׁ הַגֵּ֔ר כִּֽי “es nefesh hager ki” spell Tishrei (Shemos/Exodus 23:9).
14:00 – Sounds of the shofar – shevarim.
18:50 – PARAGRAPH 12. Spiritual aspects of the lungs: breathing maintains balance of the oils that nourish the functioning of the mind. This is how repair of the imagination is related to the lungs.
32:59 – The word “hevel” represents Torah (Arizal).
33:18 – Hisgalus haKavod. Because the lungs process ruach (breath, air) they are an important element in nevuah (prophecy).
34:00 – The throat is an extension of the lungs. The song of the future that will be played on an instrument of 72 strings, which is associated with the sound of the shofar.
35:12 – Tikkun haMedameh – repair of the imagination through nevuah. Sleep and imagination are related to the lungs. The best sleep is in the winter, when the air is cold and moist.
37:03 – Chiddush haOlam – the renewal of the world.
38:55 – Nigun v’shir chadash – melody and new song.
44:14 – QUESTION about Pinchas as an example of a faithful messenger who is “like snow on a hot day”.
40:22 – The sense of smell is related to fear of Hashem, and is also associated with the lungs.
45:23 – PARAGRAPH 13. How Og Melech Bashan survived the flood.
53:51 – Machaneh Yisrael – the holiness of Israel’s encampment. The purity of Am Yisrael is preserved through refraining from immorality.