2023-01-08 – LH4 – YD1 – Niddah 1 – Para. 1-2 – Feet Are an Aspect of Malkhus; Distancing and Rebuke at the Beginning of Teshuvah

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Niddah 1 Para. 1-2 – Taharas HaMishpacha; Feet Are an Aspect of Malkhus; Distancing and Rebuke at the Beginning of Teshuvah.
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

Hilkhos Niddah 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 30.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Feet are an aspect of Malkhus.
04:09 – One of the major factors that allows damage to the Malkhus is lack of Tochacha – fitting rebuke.
06:17 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 22. The feet are an aspect of Malkhus, Halakha, and Aitza.
09:54 – PARAGRAPH 2. The wife’s counting of Shiva Nekiyim – Seven Days of Purity – in preparation for immersion in a Mikveh.
*12:51 – Often a person encounters distancing and rebuke at the beginning of Teshuvah. מוּסַ֣ר יְ֖הוָה בְּנִ֣י אַל־תִּמְאָ֑ס וְאַל־תָּ֜קֹ֗ץ בְּתוֹכַחְתּֽוֹ – “My son, do not despise the discipline of Hashem, and do not hate His rebuke” (Mishlei 3:11).
15:45 – חסד – kindness – is “a day that goes with all seven days” (Zohar HaKadosh).
18:48 – Q&R about customary  Torah study during the weeks of SHOVaVIM.
20:56 – Q&R about Niddah.
22:17 – Q&R about source in Sichos HaRan about gradual Tikkun HaMidos – analogy of the boiling pot of water: Sichos HaRan 79.