2024-03-28 – LH5 – Trumos uMaasros 1-2a – Power of Blessings Before Eating or Drinking – Thought – Speech – Action – How Trumos uMaasros Is Determined – Upper and Lower Ruach – Pi Shneyim – Maaser Sheni – Neta Revai

Trumos uMaasros 1 – 2 – Power of Blessings Before Eating or Drinking – Thought – Speech – Action – How Trumos uMaasros Is Determined – Upper and Lower Ruach – Pi Shneyim – Maaser Sheni – Neta Revai – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Trumos uMaasros 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 19.
***00:00 – Power of Blessings Before Eating or Drinking: the blessings bring HaShem’s life energy into the food or drink by connecting it to its holy Source. Our words “recreate” the food.
04:00 – Reference to Likutey Halakhos, Yoreh Deah 2, Nedarim 1.
06:13 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 66: every person has an upper and lower ruach. Thought must go through the stage of speech before becoming action.
09:00 – How Trumos uMaasros is calculated.
14:00 – A person should make 100 blessings every day, alluding to the fact that the lower ruach of a person is 1/100th of the upper ruach.
19:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 11. Story of the bird with its head in heaven. Birds are associated with speech.
20:00 – Loshon Kodesh is referred to as Pi Shneyim – “double power” – because it’s a combination of the upper and lower ruach.
22:00 – One hundred steps from the upper to lower ruach, corresponding to the calculation of trumos umaasros, and the concept of saying 100 blessings each day.
27:00 – מָֽה־רַבּ֬וּ מַֽעֲשֶׂ֨יךָ | יְהֹוָ֗ה כֻּ֖לָּם בְּחָכְמָ֣ה עָשִׂ֑יתָ מָֽלְאָ֥ה הָ֜אָ֗רֶץ קִנְיָנֶֽךָ – “How great are Your works, HaShem. You have made them all with wisdom; the earth is full of Your possessions” (Tehillim 104:24).
31:00 – Maaser Sheni was eaten in Yerushalyim.
36:00 – Neta Revai.
38:00 – NOTE explanation about why in any series in Likutey Halakhos, the first halakha is usually more difficult to understand.
39:00 – HALAKHA 2. Hilkhos Trumos uMaasros 2 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 4.
46:50 – The 39 Melakhos of Shabbos originated from the 39 curses that resulted from the sin of Adam and Chava. In the Future World there will be no need for a person to work, even though work is an aspect of serving HaShem.
51:00 – Q&R about how aging can go toward kindness or toward resentment.
52:00 – Q&R about aging in a positive way.
53:00 – Closing blessings.