2024-03-26 – LH5 – YD2 – Challah 4 – Para. 3b-7 – Trumos uMaasros – HeAras HaRatzon Through Eating – Surviving Exile – Hafrashas Challah – Reishis – Entire Batch of Dough Cannot Be Given to the Kohen – Light From Darkness

Challah 4 – Trumos uMaasros – HeAras HaRatzon Through Eating – Surviving Exile – Hafrashas Challah – Reishis – Entire Batch of Dough Cannot Be Given to the Kohen – Light From Darkness – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Challah 4 – Trumos uMaasros is based on 2Likutey Moharan 76.
*00:00 – PARAGRAPH 3b – HeAras HaRatzon through eating.
14:30 – Q&R.
16:00 – Q&R. Ayeh Makom Kevodo.
17:20 – PARAGRAPH 4. Surviving exile – HeAras HaRatzon through eating.
21:18 – Ratzon – yearning to serve HaShem. מַה־תָּעִ֧ירוּ | וּֽמַה־תְּעֹֽרְר֛וּ אֶת־הָאַֽהֲבָ֖ה עַ֥ד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ – “…why should you awaken, and why should you arouse the love until it is desirous?” (Shir HaShirim 8:4).
22:30 – Q&R.
24:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. Hafrashas Challah.
28:00 – Q&R about Pas Shacharis.
29:00 – Q&R about other keys to HeAras HaRatzon, such as the concept of Eys Ratzon – a “time of favor” for tefilah.
30:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Hafrashas Challah – the amount of dough that needs separation for the Kohen is equivalent to the volume of 43 eggs.
*32:00 – Stadiums and theaters that were used for wasteful activities during the exile will be transformed into places for service of HaShem.
33:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. If a person gives the entire batch of dough to the Kohen, the mitzvah is invalid. Reishish – the first portion – is what elevates the dough.
40:00 – Am Yisrael is called Reishis – first among nations.
43:00 – Ruach of Moshiach. Moshiach helps Am Yisrael survive exile.
48:00 – The separation of light from darkness is an aspect of Reishis.