2021-01-17 – Likutey Moharan 2 – Torah 9 – Ruach, Heart and Lungs; Enthusiasm in Serving Hashem; Torah 10 – Yishuv HaDaas, Torah-True Perspective; Hisbodedus

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Ruach, heart and lungs; enthusiasm in serving Hashem vs. “stormwinds”; Yishuv HaDaas – Torah-true perspective; hisbodedus.
00:00 – TORAH 9. PARAGRAPH 1. Ruach (breath/spirit/wind), heart, and lungs.
04:30 – Everything in the universe was created to help us understand how to serve Hashem better. Reference to Likutey Moharan 1: one of our missions in this world is to find the sechel (intelligence) in natural phenomena.
05:02 – Through their ruach, tzaddikim remove the dust and ashes of confusion from the hearts of their generation.
*05:55 – The People of Israel are called the “Heart of the World.” Each Jew functions as the heart of that location needing the dimension of heart.
10:02 – TORAH 9. PARAGRAPH 2. The stormwind of misguided enthusiasm.
13:39 – Too much oil extinguishes the lamp.
14:19 – Eliyahu HaNavi mastered the stormwind and the chariot of fire.
18:02 – QUESTION about restoring one’s initial fire of התלהבות hislahavus (enthusiasm) in Torah observance.
22:00 – Renewing one’s tefilos (prayers).
24:39 – TORAH 10. PARAGRAPH 1. Yishuv HaDaas (Torah-true perspective) vs. distractions that interfere with serving Hashem.
30:31 – PARAGRAPH 2. Sadness imprisons the mind and keeps it in a state of exile.
*36:44 – PARAGRAPH 3. How can a person maintain happiness in a dark, “upside-down” world? Especially since we are in the longest exile of all.
39:55 – The importance of giving one’s fellow Jew the benefit of the doubt.
41:24 – בַּ֖צָּר הִרְחַ֣בְתָּ לִּ֑י “In my distress, You relieved me…” (Tehillim/Psalms 4:2).
46:32 – The connection between Chochmah and Binah.
48:26 – QUESTION about achieving perspective when being denied justice (eg. “China Scam”).
51:30 – Account of Rav Nasan of Nemirov z”l as a child, wondering about death and the purpose of life.