Niddah 1 – Mikveh – 40 Seah – Binah – Ohr HaPanim – Tikkun of the Malkhus; Chuppah – Sheva Brachos; Kiddush Levana.
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Niddah 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 30.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3. Sheva Nekiyim – a wife’s Seven Days of Purity in preparation for immersion in a Mikveh. Mikveh is associated with the Sefira of Binah.
08:04 – Mikveh Noon is an aspect of Mohn – manna. Reference to Likutey Moharan 56.
09:01 – Q&R about Chessed and Binah with reference to Mikveh.
10:41 – PARAGRAPH 4. The minimum amount of water in a mikveh is that which can be contained with the cubic area of 40 seah.
13:10 – Mikveh corresponds to the Shalosh Ragolim – The Three Central Jewish Holidays – Pesach, Shavuos, Sukkos.
12:20 – NOTE – The Sukkah is an aspect of Binah – which the lower Sefiros of Zer Anpin to Malkhus.
13:43 – Roshei Teivos Netzach – Hod – Yisod is b’gematria Shem Hashem Alef Daled Noon Vuv (65).
15:41 – וְעָלָה֩ הָאִ֨ישׁ הַה֚וּא מֵֽעִירוֹ֙ מִיָּמִ֣ים | יָמִ֔ימָה – “And that man would go up from his city from appointed time to appointed time” (1Shumel 1:3).
18:57 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 30 – Para. 3.
19:53 – The Three Dimensions of a Mikveh – 1 Amah by 1 Amah by 3 Amot – correspond to the Shalosh Ragolim. The measurement of “Amah” corresponds to the Tzaddik as foundation of the world. An Amah is 6 Tefachim. The Three Dimensions of a Mikveh parallel the three levels through which the Malkhus rises to reach the level of Chokhma-Binah-Daas, which is called Ohr HaPanim.
24:45 – NOTE: The elevation of the Malkhus/Shekhina through these three levels takes place every Shabbos during Kiddush through 1) elevating the Kos of wine above the legs, 2) Holding the Kos in front of the upper body during recital of the first part of Kiddush, and 3) Looking at the Kiddush wine during recital of the second part of Kiddush.
27:32 – PARAGRAPH 5. The elevation of the Malkhus of Am Yisrael began with the reign of Shaul HaMelech. The main establishment of Malkhus takes place through destroying Amalek. The 3 mitzvos incumbent on Am Yisrael when they entered Eretz Yisrael.
33:14 – Terminology of relationships in Kabbalah – Bonim through Savim.
34:31 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 3 – song and nevuah – prophecy. חזן – Chazan is begamtria Alef – Daled – Noon – Yud (65).
35:08 – PARAGRAPH 6. The bride’s observance of Sheva Naki’im before marriage. Inner dimensions of a Jewish wedding: Chupah and Sheva Brachos.
36:06 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 69.
38:31 – Chupah and Sheva Brochos. Reference to Likutey Moharan 21. A bride who has not received the Sheva Brachos is forbidden to her husband.
39:15 – PARAGRAPH 7. The minimum size of a stain that renders a woman a Niddah is the size of a grain of barley. Why this term? (Yoreh Deah 190).
40:50 – The Malkhus is the tenth Sefirah, and is represented by the letter Daled – corresponding to the Four Worlds – Asiya, Yetzira, Beriya, Atzilus. In each of these Four Worlds, the Malkhus contains the nine Sefiros above it.
42:07 – The purification cycle of a wife corresponds to the lunar cycle.
44:23 – The custom to wait seven days after Rosh Chodesh to say Kiddush Levana.
45:13 – The custom to say Kiddush Levana on Motzei Shabbos.
45:49 – The Sefer Yetzira begins with “There are 32 paths of Chokhma…”
46:48 – Closing blessings.
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