Kevod Rabo 3 – Bereishis – Hidden Light of Creation – BeHaAlosekha – Chanukah – Renewal of the World – Shomer Emunim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Kevod Rabo veTalmid Chochom 3 is based on Likutey Moharan II:8.
00:00 – Dedications. Rabbi Maimon just returned from the Ukraine: Uman, Breslov, Berdichev, and Mezhybizh.
00:53 – PARAGRAPH 10. Tzaddikim and the Hidden Light of Creation.
07:47 – Q&R – what does it meant to search for the Tzaddik?
09:26 – PARAGRAPH 11. Parshas BeHaAlosekha.
16:28 – PARAGRAPH 12. כִּ֤י נֵ֣ר מִ֖צְוָה וְת֣וֹרָה א֑וֹר וְדֶ֥רֶךְ חַ֜יִּ֗ים תּוֹכְח֥וֹת מוּסָֽר – “For a commandment is a candle, and the Torah is light, and disciplining rebukes are the way of life“ (Mishlei 6:23).
24:51 – PARAGRAPH 13. The deeper meaning behind placing the Chanukah lights near the entrance of one’s home. Shomer Emunim – פִּתְח֖וּ שְׁעָרִ֑ים וְיָבֹ֥א גֽוֹי־צַדִּ֖יק שֹׁמֵ֥ר אֱמֻנִֽים – “Open the gates, so that a righteous nation, awaiting the realization [of Hashem’s promise], may enter. (Yeshayahu 26:2).
31:14 – Q&R about rebuke.
33:19 – PARAGRAPH 14. Parshas Bereishis. The light of Chanukah restores faith in the ongoing renewal of the world. Reference to Likutey Moharan II:8.
36:13 – Bereishis – Yom HaShishi.
38:43 – Chanukas HaBayis – the custom of making a Seudah in celebration of a new home.
42:30 – Hashem hid the original light of creation so that only Tzaddikim would be able to gain access to it.
44:00 – Faith in the ongoing renewal of the world.
45:16 – Q&R about Yom HaShishi.
46:04 – Closing blessings – NOTE: “Today is Netzach sh’b’Netzach“.
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