2024-07-19 – LH6 – EH – Gittin 3 – Para. 14-16a – Yibum – Chalitza – Mitzvah to Bring Children Into the World – Sweetening Din Through Aitza – Tzimtzum – Sekhel HaKollel – Zivug – Purpose of Marriage – Chupah – Kiddushin – Beis HaMikdash Is a Makif – Torah Is Eitza – Advice – Every Child Born Removes Din

Gittin 3 – Yibum – Chalitza – Mitzvah to Bring Children Into the World – Sweetening Din Through Aitza – Tzimtzum – Sekhel HaKollel – Zivug – Purpose of Marriage – Chuppah – Kiddushin – Beis HaMikdash Is a Makif – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Gittin 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 61.
**PARAGRAPH 14 – Kabbalistic dynamics of marriage. The spiritual purpose of marriage.
14:00 – PARAGRAPH 15. The bride and groom draw the ability to bond from the Sekhel HaElyon – Beis HaMikdash. Holy books resolve conflict and leads to Tikkun HaEitza.
***16:00 – The entire Torah is called eitza – advice. The 613 mitzvos are 613 eitzos. Reference to Likutey Moharan 143.
24:00 – The importance of eitza. Reference to Sichos HaRan 255.
***25:00 – The term eitza applies only to that which is for the sake of HaShem or helping a person draw closer to HaShem.
26:00 – NOTE about a person who focused entirely on money, but when his son took over the business, the son stopped giving tzedakah. This world is a place of preparation for the Eternal World.
32:00 – Q&R about the obligation of a woman to bring children into the world. Teaching students is an aspect of bringing children into the world. HaShem doesn’t expect the impossible.
35:00 – Q&R about a person not having children because they fulfilled this mitzvah in a previous reincarnation.
*40:00 – Every person is an individual, unique idea in recognition of HaShem. No two people are exactly alike, and no two generations are alike. Reference to Sichos HaRan 54 – HaShem never repeats Himself.
*42:00 – Every new child born brings a completely new potential for recognition of HaShem into the world. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 37.
46:00 – PARAGRAPH 16. – וְכָל־בָּנַ֖יִךְ לִמּוּדֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֑ה וְרַ֖ב שְׁל֥וֹם בָּנָֽיִךְ – “And all your children shall be students of HaShem, and your children’s peace shall increase (Yeshaya 54:13). Limudei HaShem refers to Netzach and Hod. Reference to Parshas Balak.
***52:00 – NOTE on the tefilah Hashkiveynu in Maariv and Kriyas Shema al HaMitah – every day we ask HaShem for eitza tova. Eitza tova leads to shalom – peace. Reference to sefer Likutey Eitzos.
54:00 – Q&R about a child born to parents who are not shomer mitzvos.