2024-04-02 – LH5 – YD2 – Trumos uMaasros 3 – Para. 8-10 – Trumos uMaasros 4 – Para. 1 – Acharei Mos – Limiting the Fire of the Heart – Terumah – 50 Loops and Clasps of the Parokhes – Curtains of the Mishkan – 50 Levels of Holiness – Chumrah – Stringency in Halakha – VaYetze – Sulam – Three Times Yad

Trumos uMaasros 3 – Acharei Mos – Limiting the Fire of the Heart – Terumah – 50 Loops and Clasps of the Parokhes – Curtains of the Mishkan – 50 Levels of Holiness – Nitzavim – Chumrah – Stringency in Halakha – VaYetze – Sulam – Three Times Yad – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Trumos uMaasros 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 78.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Parshas Acharei Mos. [Correction/clarification: This Torah is not based on Likutey Tanina 78, it’s based on the first part of Likutey Moharan, Torah 78.]
03:40 – וְאַל־יָבֹ֤א בְכָל־עֵת֙ אֶל־הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ מִבֵּ֖ית לַפָּרֹ֑כֶת אֶל־פְּנֵ֨י הַכַּפֹּ֜רֶת אֲשֶׁ֤ר עַל־הָֽאָרֹן֙ וְלֹ֣א יָמ֔וּת – “…he should not come at all times into the sanctuary within the dividing curtain, in front of the cover that is upon the ark, so that he should not die…” (Vayikra 16:2, Acharei Mos).
*09:00 – Parshas Terumah. וְעָשִׂ֜יתָ לֻֽלְאֹ֣ת תְּכֵ֗לֶת עַ֣ל שְׂפַ֤ת הַיְרִיעָה֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ת “And you shall make loops of blue wool on the edge of one curtain…” (Shemos 26:6, Terumah). 50 Loops of the parokhes – Curtain in the Mishkan. Constriction of HaShem’s light makes it possible for people to accomplish tikkun in the world.
13:40 – PARAGRAPH 9. Giving Maaser to the Levi completes the process of giving trumah to the Kohen.
***24:00 – PARAGRAPH 10. Parshas Nitzavim. לֹ֥א בַשָּׁמַ֖יִם הִ֑וא לֵאמֹ֗ר מִ֣י יַֽעֲלֶה־לָּ֤נוּ הַשָּׁמַ֨יְמָה֙ וְיִקָּחֶ֣הָ לָּ֔נוּ וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ אֹתָ֖הּ וְנַֽעֲשֶֽׂנָּה – “It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it?’ “ Devarim 30:12, Nitzavim).
33:00 – Parshas VaYetze – וַיַּֽחֲלֹ֗ם וְהִנֵּ֤ה סֻלָּם֙ מֻצָּ֣ב אַ֔רְצָה וְרֹאשׁ֖וֹ מַגִּ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמָ֑יְמָה וְהִנֵּה֙ מַלְאֲכֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֔ים עֹלִ֥ים וְיֹֽרְדִ֖ים בּֽוֹ – “And he dreamed, and behold! a ladder set up on the ground and its top reached to heaven; and behold, angels of God were ascending and descending upon it” (Bereishis 28:12, VaYetze).
***35:20 – Conclusion of “It is not in heaven…” and closing blessings.
***38:22 – Q&R about observing chumrah – stringency – in Torah. NOTE about Rav Shlomo Yaakov Goldman on observing second day of Yom Tov in Chutz L’Aretz if a Jewish resident of Eretz Yisrael is visiting outside of Israel.
46:00 – HALAKHA 4. PARAGRAPH 1. Hilkhos Trumos uMaasros 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 46 – three times Yad, clapping hands.
51:00 – NOTE: Three times Y – K – V – K is begematria Chessed.
52:00 – NOTE: Shalev and three times Y – K – V – K.
53:00 – Q&R – The left hand is called Gevurah – meaning containment. It doesn’t imply HaShem’s “Left Hand” is stronger than His “Right Hand”.
54:00 – Closing blessings.