2021-02-07 – LM2 – Torah 13 – Torah 14 – Overcoming Opposition Through Tefilah; Torah 15 – Para. 1-2 – Detecting False Leaders; Tzedakah

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Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Likutey Moharan 2. Overcoming opposition through tefilah (prayer); Torah 15 – detecting false leaders, even if they’re posing as tzaddikim. Tzedakah (charity) is associated with water. Honoring a Torah scholar.

00:00 – TORAH 13. Using opposition to draw closer to Hashem.
04:07 – Reference to the corresponding tefilah in Likutey Tefilos.
04:42 – TORAH 14. Overcoming opposition through tefilah.
06:20 – TORAH 15 – PARAGRAPH 1. Detecting false leaders.
13:33 – Chananya ben Azur – a false prophet.
19:27 – Tzedakah is associated with water. Giving charity is an aspect of allowing a heart of stone to flow with an outpouring of kindness.
22:40 – NOTE on kabbalistic terms.
25:50 – PARAGRAPH 2.
26:28 – Evil people who give tzedakah – the river Yabbok.
38:13 – Reb Michel Dorfman z”l, before entering the yeshiva, would stand at the doorway and survey the Beis Medrash briefly, so he could consider what route he should take to avoid disturbing people who would want to honor him by standing up. Story of Rabbi Levi, who couldn’t answer questions in halakha after he was seated in a place of honor.
41:00 – QUESTIONS and RESPONSES.
54:06 – CLOSING remarks about Rosh Chodesh Adar.