Birkhas HaMazon 5 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. BeHaAlosekha: Toras Emes and the Mishkan – sweetening harsh judgements – the merit of righteous Jewish women. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 28.
00:00 – Review.
00:37 – PARAGRAPH 4. The importance of Toras Emes – receiving Torah from a qualified source.
12:22 – Reference to Reishis Chochmah by Rabbi Moshe ben Cordevero (1520-1570). Mussar (rebuke) needs to be measured out with care by a qualified Torah teacher who knows the material and knows the student.
14:09 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 28, learning Torah from the wrong source can cause a person fatigue.
16:43 – Q&R about learning kabbalah.Reference to the Chida z”l who encourages learning kabbalah through “PeReD (mule) is roshei teyvos (initial letters) Pshat, Remez, Drush (leaving out Sohd).
21:48 – Q&R about how to apply the concepts presented in this shiur to our current times.
25:55 – “For a person to merit the truth of the Torah it takes a higher level of truth than the nevuah of Eliyahu HaNavi.” – B’nei Yissachar.
27:58 – PARAGRAPH 5. Building the mishkan (tabernacle) was a task given to Bnei Yisrael to repair the sin of the Golden Calf.
37:13 – Dinim (harsh judgements) can only be sweetened at their source. By means of traveling in the wilderness, the “Fallen Torah” was elevated to Torah Emes.
*41:54 – Parshas BeHaAlosekha. The mishkan had to be dismantled and rebuilt time and again during the 40 years in the wilderness to defeat the forces of evil. When the mishkan rested, by placing the Aron Kodesh into the Kadosh Kadoshim, the Torah Nefulos were then elevated to Toras Emes. This destroyed the energy source of Israel’s enemies.
47:04 – וּבְנֻחֹ֖ה יֹאמַ֑ר שׁוּבָ֣ה יְהֹוָ֔ה רִבֲב֖וֹת אַלְפֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל – – “And when the mishkan rested, Israel would say ‘…Return, Hashem, among the myriads of thousands of Israel'” (Bamidbar/Numbers 10:36).
48:08 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 12 and Likutey Moharan 28.
*49:31 – Q&R about customs during the time an Aron Kodesh in shul is open and the Sefer Torah is taken and “travels” among the people present. The meaning of Toras Emes.
51:53 – Q&R about when the mitzvos of the Torah were actually given.
53:41 – Q&R about elevating the Toras Nefulos.
***57:21 – Q&R: Since the women during the Dor HaDeyah (“generation of wisdom” at the time of Moshe Rabbeinu) didn’t participate in the Cheyt Egel HaZahav (sin of the golden calf), in what Zechus merit were they protected from the Aitza (advice) of the Erev Rav (“mixed multitude”) while the men fell prey to that bad advice? Is this related to the fact that the women also didn’t take part in the Cheyt HaMeraglim (sin of the spies), so they didn’t speak against Moshe Rabbeinu or against Eretz Yisrael? The merit of righteous Jewish women throughout history and especially now. According to the Zohar, Jewish women of the present generation are incarnations from the Dor HaDeyah.
59:15 – Closing remarks and thank-you’s.
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