Sefer Torah 4 – Mezuza – Kriyas Shema – Modeh Ani – Chayei Sarah – Nevuah Brings Beirur HaMedameh – Masa uMatan – Business Dealings with Emunah – Arichas Yomim – Eretz Yisrael – Hischadshus – VaEschanan – Rosh Hashanah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sefer Torah 4 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 8.
00:00 – Nevuah brings Beirur HaMedameh – Masa uMatan – Business Dealings with Emunah .
08:30 – Eretz Yisrael is the best place to achieve Beirur HaMedameh. Avraham Avinu was the first to bring about purification from the sin of Adam HaRishon.
*10:30 – Q&R – Explanation of Medameh – imagination – analogy of a child playing with toys as if they are real.
12:30 – Chayei Sarah – Eretz Yisrael is called Eretz Chaim – “Land of Living” (Tehillim 27:13) because only in Eretz Yisrael can a person achieve Arichas Yomim – Length of Days. Avraham Avinu acquired Arichas Yomim through purchasing a part of Eretz Yisrael.
20:00 – Shuls and Yeshivas in Chutz L’Aretz are an aspect of Eretz Yisrael.
22:00 – PARAGRAPH 21. Mezuza and Kriyas Shema – “You will speak words of Torah while seated in your house, and while traveling…”. Hischadshus – renewal.
*23:00 – Rebbe Nachman put strong emphasis on Hischadshus: “Alt tur ma nit zayn!” – “A person may not be old!”
*25:00 – VeEschanan – All suffering in Galus – exile – is because of Am Yisrael’s failure to stay young.
29:00 – Nevuah eliminates confusion of the Medameh and restores Hischadshus and faith in the constant renewal of the world. Renewal of one’s thinking process needs to be, at the very least, daily – “Modeh Ani – Rabbah Emunasecha”.
31:00 – Hischadshus in Krias Shema – “…that I commanded you today…”
34:00 – Arichas Yomim – respect for Hashem increases life. An elder is not determined by biological age – an elder is one who has acquired Chokhma and Emunah in Chiddush HaOlam.
36:00 – No two days are alike, so Hischadshus is necessary constantly. Reference to Likutey Halakhos, Hilkhos Krias Shema 5.
38:00 – NOTE on Hilkhos Krias Shema 5 – The command “listen” is said only when something new is going to be announced.
40:00 – The ultimate purpose of the world – man – was created on Rosh Hashanah.
42:00 – Chiddush HaOlam is emphasized in Mussaf of Shemini Atzeres – “Zofei uMareh Ad Sofei HaDoros…” – Hashem looks toward the “new world of the future.”
43:00 – Traveling to a true Tzaddik for Rosh Hashanah helps a person draw closer to the “new world of the future”.
47:30 – Q&R about how Beirur HaMedameh increases the flow of blessing into the world.
48:30 – Q&R about when the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos so the Shofar is not sounded. Shabbos can accomplish everything that the Shofar can accomplish.
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