Kevod Rabo veTalmid Chochom 2 – Para. 3-4; Halakha 3 – Para. 1-5 – Halleluka in Psukei deZimra – Arichas Yomim – Long Life – Aging With Faith and Wisdom – Chanuka – Yom HaAtzma’ut – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3 – Praising Hashem in daily Tefilah.
06:00 – Psukei deZimra – joining the Hallukas at the beginning and end of the closing chapters of Tehillim in Psukei deZimra.
07:00 – “Shiru lo, zamru lo…” doubling the praise of Hashem.
08:00 – Difference between superscription in Tehillim: LeDovid Mizmor and Mizmor LeDovid.
*13:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Aging is the process of gaining clarity and increasing Emunah – faith in Hashem. Reference to Likutey Moharan II – 8:7.
17:00 – Parshas Lech Lecha – Ten levels of Emunah correspond to the Eseres HaDibros – the Ten Commandments. These correspond with ten levels of prophecy and the Ten Utterances of Creation.
18:00 – Arichas Yomim – long life – results from the light of Ruach HaKodesh – Zakeyn Maleh Rachamim.
19:30 – וְגַ֚ם עַד־זִקְנָ֨ה | וְשֵׂיבָה֘ אֱלֹהִ֪ים אַל־תַּֽעַ֫זְבֵ֥נִי עַד־אַגִּ֣יד זְרֽוֹעֲךָ֣ לְד֑וֹר לְכָל־יָ֜ב֗וֹא גְּבֽוּרָתֶֽךָ – “And even until old age and white hair, Hashem, do not forsake me, until I speak about Your strength to the generation, to everyone who comes – Your might” (Tehillim 71:18).
20:00 – No one displayed signs of aging until Avraham Avinu (Bava Metzia).
23:00 – מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי – “From the wise elders I gain understanding, for I kept Your precepts” (Tehillim 119:100).
24:00 – The Thirteen Tikkunim – the “White Beard” of Hashem.
*26:00 – Q&R about Tefilah with Kavana. Story of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev ז”ל: “She says it, but I know it.”
30:00 – Q&R about Kavana in Tefilah. Sipurey Masiyos – Story of the Baal Tefilah.
33:00 – Q&R about Birur HaMedameh – clarification of the imagination.
35:00 – The word Medameh is b’gematria Chanukah. The Shema has 25 letters – “they rested on the 25th day of Kislev” – the number 25 alludes to Emunah. Reference to Likutey Moharan 25.
41:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. Standing up for the elderly: Ruach Nevua – prophecy – is facilitated through honoring Hashem. Showing respect for elders leads to Yirah – respect for Hashem.
45:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Chanukah and Birur HaMedameh. The purpose of the Beis HaMikdash is to proclaim Emunah and respect for Hashem to the world. Emunah and Yirah facilitate Nevuah. Reference to Likutey Moharan 22.
51:00 – Q&R about how Nevuah flows into the world.
*53:00 – Q&R about Yom HaAtzma’ut.
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