2024-08-01 – LH6 – EH – Gittin 4 – Para. 14-15 – Yibum – Chalitza – Removing the Brother’s Shoe – Beis Din – 3 Rabbis – No Leather Shoes – Yom Kippur – Day of Forgiveness – Beis HaMikdash – Mourning – Ohr HaPanim – Sotah – Definition of a Good Friend – Bechukosai – Mikveh – Water Is Chesed – True Rebuke – Toldos

Gittin 4 – Yibum – Chalitza – Removing the Brother’s Shoe – Beis Din – 3 Rabbis – No Leather Shoes – Yom Kippur – Day of Forgiveness – Beis HaMikdash – Mourning – Ohr HaPanim – Sotah – Definition of a Good Friend – Bechukosai – Mikveh – Water Is Chesed – True Rebuke – Toldos – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Gittin 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 30.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 14. Chalitza. Yibum. The widow of a man who dies without children. Removing the niftar’s brother’s shoe. The authority of the Beis Din is drawn from the Sanhedrin in the Beis HaMikdash. The Sanhedrin is the conduit of the Tzaddik Emes – Moshe Rabbeinu.
11:45 – Shoes receive light from the Ohr HaPanim – Chashmal.
12:20 – The gematria of HaSatan is 364. On Yom Kippur we don’t wear leather shoes because on that one day of the year, the Sutra Achra has no power, so we don’t need the spiritual protection that leather shoes provide.
16:00 – שִׂמְח֧וּ אֶת־יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֛ם וְגִ֥ילוּ בָ֖הּ כָּל־אֹֽהֲבֶ֑יהָ שִׂ֚ישׂוּ אִתָּהּ֙ מָשׂ֔וֹשׂ כָּל־הַמִּֽתְאַבְּלִ֖ים עָלֶֽיהָ – “Rejoice with Jerusalem and exult in her all those who love her: rejoice with her a rejoicing, all who mourn over her” (Yeshaya 66:10).
*20:00 – Q&R about the authority of a Beis Din outside of Eretz Yisrael. All prophets receive prophecy through Moshe Rabbeinu.
21:00 – PARAGRAPH 15. Sotah – the suspected wife. “Any love that has no jealousy is not true love” (Zohar HaKodesh).
*25:00 – What’s the definition of a good friend? A person who will give honest rebuke.
29:00 – Procedure of testing the Sotah.
30:20 – שֶׁ֣קֶר הַ֖חֵן וְהֶ֣בֶל הַיֹּ֑פִי אִשָּׁ֥ה יִרְאַת־יְ֜הוָ֗ה הִ֣יא תִתְהַלָּֽל – “Charm is false and beauty is futile; a woman who fears HaShem is to be praised” (Mishlei 31:30). The wife is an aspect of Malkhus.
32:00 – פְּנֵ֣י יְ֖הֹוָה בְּעֹ֣שֵׂי רָ֑ע לְהַכְרִ֖ית מֵאֶ֣רֶץ זִכְרָֽם – “The face of HaShem is against evildoers, to cut off their remembrance from the earth” (Tehillim 34:17).
34:00 – Erasing the Name of HaShem for the procedure of testing the Sotah.
37:30 – The Chokhma Tataah is an aspect of Malkus, but when it falls into the hands of the 70 Nations, it becomes an aspect of foreign ideologies.
39:20 – The Sotah is tested through Mayim Kedoshim – waters from the Kiyor in the Beis HaMikdash.
***40:40 – Water is as aspect of Chesed but it originates from Gevurah. Kindness is revealed through fitting rebuke.
41:50 – Parshas BeChukosai.
44:00 – The waters of the mikveh purify from the influence of the Sutra Achra.
45:50 – Dynamics of Chesed and Gevurah.
***47:30 – Parshas Toldos. The Chesed of Avraham Avinu was expressed through the wells he dug. The Plishtim ruined those wells, but Yitzchak Avinu restored the wells through Gevurah, which gave them kiyum – permanence. וַיָּ֨שָׁב יִצְחָ֜ק וַיַּחְפֹּ֣ר | אֶת־בְּאֵרֹ֣ת הַמַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ בִּימֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֔יו וַיְסַתְּמ֣וּם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים אַֽחֲרֵ֖י מ֣וֹת אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֤א לָהֶן֙ שֵׁמ֔וֹת כַּשֵּׁמֹ֕ת אֲשֶׁר־קָרָ֥א לָהֶ֖ן אָבִֽיו – “And Yitzchak again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father, Avraham, and the Philistines had stopped them up after Avraham’s death; and he gave them names like the names that his father had given them” – (Bereishis 26:18, Toldos).
52:20 – Q&R – Can a person give rebuke to a parent or an elder? Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 8.
55:45 – Closing blessings.