Yibum 3 – Feet Are Related to Emunah – Malkhus – Shoes Represent the Wife – Emunas Chokhomim – Avraham Avinu – Shoelace – Upper Binah and Lower Binah – Torah Is the Blueprint of Creation – Noga – Havdalah – Fingernails – Yom Kippur – Tisha B’Av – Garments of Light – Leather – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Yibum 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 57.
00:00 – Today is the 5th of Av, yahrzeit of Rabbi Yitzchak Bar Shlomo Luriah Ashkenazi – the Arizal HaKadosh, and yahrzeit of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Bar Yehoshua Dovid HaLevy Dorfman zal.
PARAGRAPH 8. Feet are related to emunah – Malkhus. Shoes represent the wife. Emunas Chokhomim. Isha Yiras HaShem.
04:00 – Naal – shoe – is begematria 151, which is one of the miluin of HaShem’s Name Ekyeh.
06:00 – הֲרִמֹ֨תִי יָדִ֤י אֶל־יְהֹוָה֙ אֵ֣ל עֶלְי֔וֹן קֹנֵ֖ה שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָֽרֶץ – “…I lift my hand to HaShem, Lord Above All, Who possesses heaven and earth” (Bereishis 14:22, Lech Lecha). Avraham Avinu would not take even a shoelace that didn’t belong to him. Shoes are tied in the same order as tefillin are – the left first. This is related to Upper Binah and Lower Binah.
10:00 – Shoes draw their spiritual power from the Upper Binah / Neder – vow. Making a neder Reference to Likutey Moharan 22 – the outer seal of holiness and the inner seal of holiness.
12:00 – Shoes/feet represent emunas chokhomim. מַה־יָּפ֧וּ פְעָמַ֛יִךְ בַּנְּעָלִ֖ים בַּת־נָדִ֑יב – “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O daughter of nobles…” (Shir HaShirim 7:2).
14:00 – נְדִ֘יבֵ֚י עַמִּ֨ים | נֶֽאֱסָ֗פוּ עַם֘ אֱלֹהֵ֪י אַבְרָ֫הָ֥ם – “The generous ones of the nations have assembled, People of HaShem of Avraham…” – (Tehillim 47:10). “Nedivei Amim Ne’esafu” – Roshei Teivos ענן – cloud. The Clouds of Glory protected Am Yisrael in the midbar – wilderness.
18:00 – The three meals of Shabbos protect Am Yisrael. Meaning of the letters that make up the word Shabbos: Shin BaS.
20:00 – Shir HaShirim – the thighs represent the secrets of Torah that are kept covered.
*22:00 – The Torah is the blueprint of creation. Emunas chokhomim. Tzaddik yisod Olam. All of HaShem’s creations are connected by emunah.
24:00 – Blessing said in the morning: “she’asey li kol zorchi” – Who provides for all my needs. Shoes embody all that a person needs.
26:00 – “A person should sell all they have to buy shoes for his feet.”
30:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. The prohibition of wearing shoes on Yom Kippur and in the Beis HaMikdash. Yom Yippur is Binah – teshuvah.
32:00 – “Remove the shoes from your feet, for the ground you’re standing on is holy ground”
33:00 – Leather shoes are part of the tikkun of the sin of Adam HaRishon and Chava.
36:00 – Havdalah – after Shabbos, looking at the difference between skin and fingernails after making the blessing on the creation of fire.
*37:00 – NOTE – Chiddush heard from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. Nogah – mixture of good and bed. עירוב – the Hebrew word for mixture – is made up of the gematria of two words —- and —-
38:00 – Q&R about removing shoes on Tisha B’Av as a punishment for lack of emunas chokhomim.
39:00 – Q&R about the connection between Binah and Keser.
40:00 – Q&R – definition of emunas chokhomim – faith that the rabonim are the source of how to apply the Torah from generation to generation.
42:00 – NOTE – Rabbi Shimon HaAmsuni found the meaning of every את in the Torah except for one. Rabbi Akiva found the meaning of the one previously no known. וּמוֹרָא רַבְּךָ כְּמוֹרָא שָׁמָיִם – “…let your reverence for your teacher be as your reverence for heaven” (Pirkei Avos 4:12). [Rabbi Rosenfeld zal speaks about this further HERE.]
44:00 – NOTE – וְלֹ֣א תָס֗וּר מִכָּל־הַדְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָֽנֹכִ֜י מְצַוֶּ֥ה אֶתְכֶ֛ם הַיּ֖וֹם יָמִ֣ין וּשְׂמֹ֑אול – “And you shall not turn right or left from all of the words I am commanding you this day…” (Devarim 28:14, Ki Savo).
48:00 – All sin originates from the sin of Adam HaRishon.
50:00 – PARAGRAPH 10. Shoes are not worn on Tisha B’Av. Chashmal is begematria malbush – clothing. Garments of light. Leather shoes repair the sin of Adam HaRishon.
55:00 – מַה־יָּפ֧וּ פְעָמַ֛יִךְ בַּנְּעָלִ֖ים בַּת־נָדִ֑יב – “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O daughter of nobles…” (Shir HaShirim 7:2). This possuk refers to the rabbis who travel from city to city to teach Torah.
58:00 – Closing blessings.
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