2021-01-21 – LH2 – OC2 – Birkhas HaMazon 5 – Para. 6-8 – Hosting a Torah Scholar Repairs Fallen Torah; Shlomo HaMelech; Rebuilding the Beis HaMikdash

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Hosting a Torah scholar repairs Fallen Torah; Shlomo HaMelech; rebuilding the Beis HaMikdash (the Holy Temple).
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 28.
00:00 – Review.
00:33 – PARAGRAPH 6. How hosting a Torah scholar repairs Fallen Torah.
08:21 – Shmuel HaNavi would travel throughout Israel and then return to his home in Ramah. Through this process, Fallen Torah was restored to the state of Toras Emes.
10:48 – PARAGRAPH 7. The main repair for Fallen Torah took place through the Beis HaMikdash. The error of Shlomo HaMelech.
31:19 – QUESTION: can a person accomplish hosting a Torah scholar through all guests? RESPONSE: yes, as long as divrei (words of) Torah are spoken.
32:59 – Story of the Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh when his students witnessed chilul (desecration of) Shabbos. If a person witnesses a sin being committed, it’s a sign that the person witnessing the sin needs to repair this area of his own behavior.
35:17 – Story of Rebbe Nachman visiting his daughter on the last day of Pesach (Passover).
36:03 – Account of hospitality in the home of Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l.
36:50 – QUESTION about preventing discouragement concerning Fallen Torah.
42:29 – PARAGRAPH 8. Establishing centers for Torah study repairs fallen Torah and rebuilds the Beis HaMikdash. The concept of Mikdash Me’aht (“Miniature Sanctuary”).
49:09 – QUESTION about Bas Pharaoh.
50:23 – NOTE about the Arizal, Rabbi Chaim Vital z”l and the Alshich HaKadosh z”l.
53:48 – Reference to Rav Nachman Tcherin z”l’s introduction to Alim L’Trufa (the collected letters of Rav Nasan of Nemirov z”l).
54:48 – QUESTION: What quality made Rabbi Chaim Vital z”l such an outstanding student?
60:36 – QUESTION: Who was Cleopatra?
61:07 – Closing remarks and thank-you’s.