2022-12-27 – LH4 – YD1 – Giluach 4 – Para. 6-9a – Sefiras HaOmer – Counting the Omer Increases Parnassah

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Giluach 4 – Para. 6-9a – Sefiras HaOmer – Counting the Omer Increases Parnassah – Livelihood.
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Giluach 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 23.
00:00 – Dedications.
01:18 – PARAGRAPH 6. The catastrophic rise of the haskalah movement – “Reform” Judaism – in Europe, especially in Germany. Why its emphasis on shaving the beard and peyos?
13:47 – PARAGRAPH 7. עַל־כֵּן֙ יַֽעֲזָב־אִ֔ישׁ אֶת־אָבִ֖יו וְאֶת־אִמּ֑וֹ וְדָבַ֣ק בְּאִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וְהָי֖וּ לְבָשָׂ֥ר אֶחָֽד – “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (Bereishis 2:24, Bereishis ). “Father and mother” represent intellect.
*17:02 – NOTE – Rabbi Chaim Vital ז”ל on the prerequisites for learning kabbalah. The most important prerequisite is emunah.
19:30 – PARAGRAPH 8. Sefiras HaOmer – Counting the Omer for seven complete weeks – to purify the seven levels of the constriction of Hashem’s light. שערה – barley – is two times Menatzpach – sum total of the five closing letters Mem, Noon, Tzaddi, Peh, Khaf: 2 x 285 plus 5 = 575.
25:00 – Tikkun Layl Shavuos.
28:06 – Q&R about shaving the beard and payos.
29:44 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל.
32:10 – Sefirah is called “Seven Sabbaths”.
36:25 – Q&R about the connection between emunah and Shabbos.
36:42 – PARAGRAPH 9. Conducting business with emunah results in money that contains spiritual light.
40:32 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 68. Children, life and parnassah – livelihood – depend on mazal – the highest level of Hashem’s kindness.
*43:52 – Encouragement to say the additional tefilos when counting the Omer. Counting the Omer increases parnassah.
46:15 – Q&R about parnassah being an aspect of constriction.
48:18 – Closing blessings.
48:49 – Q&R about studying kabbalah before the age of 40.