Sotah 1 – Vayelech – When HaShem Is Hidden – Ohr HaPanim Is Emes – When Truth Is Revealed, the World Starts Operating on the Basis of Truth – Sifsei Kohen – Nashim Daasan Kalah – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Sotah 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 56.
2024-09-01:
36:00 – HALAKHA 1. Introduction. Brief summary of the beginning of Likutey Moharan 56.
40:45 – When HaShem is hidden, the kingdom of evil gains strength.
43:30 – Erasing the memory of Amalek. “Ki Yad al Kis KaH” (Beshalach).
48:00 – Q&R about forgiving during Elul.
51:00 – Q&R about remaining silent when insulted.
2024-09-02
*00:00 – Parshas Vayelech. The sovereignty of HaShem becomes hidden as a result of a person repeating a sin.
07:13 – The Ohr HaPanim – “Light of the Face” – of HaShem refers to Emes – truth. וַֽעֲזַבְתִּ֞ים וְהִסְתַּרְתִּ֨י פָנַ֤י מֵהֶם֙ – “… and I will abandon them and hide My face from them…” (Devarim 31:17, Vayelech).
***10:30 – When the truth is revealed, the world starts operating on the basis of truth. Reference to Likutey Moharan 66.
12:30 – When HaShem is hidden, a person is not punished for wrongdoing until after HaShem warns him. But after the emes is revealed in the world, there is no warning before punishment.
*14:00 – Q&R – If we know a certain person will not listen to our rebuke, it’s a mitzvah not to rebuke that person.
15:30 – Q&R about how the truth is revealed.
17:00 – The letters of the Alef-Beis are the building blocks of creation. All that takes place, in all worlds, functions only through the combination and separation of the letters of the Torah.
*23:00 – As a result of erasing the Name of HaShem during the procedure of Sotah, truth is revealed. This results in Arichas Yomim – long life.
26:40 – Q&R – review of how erasing the Name of HaShem results in Daas.
28:00 – The kohen’s pronouncement during the procedure of sotah is a revelation of the Torah.
29:45 – Parshas Naso – Sotah – אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ כִּֽי־תִשְׂטֶ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וּמָֽעֲלָ֥ה ב֖וֹ מָֽעַל – “…Should any man’s wife go astray and deal treacherously with him” (Bamidbar 5:12, Naso).
*31:40 – The procedure of Sotah only applies when the Beis HaMikdash is standing. Kohanim have a special connection to the Torah and are the ones who can reveal its light in the most optimal way. כִּֽי־שִׂפְתֵ֚י כֹהֵן֙ יִשְׁמְרוּ־דַ֔עַת וְתוֹרָ֖ה יְבַקְשׁ֣וּ מִפִּ֑יהוּ כִּ֛י מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהֹוָֽה־צְבָא֖וֹת הֽוּא – “For a kohen’s lips shall guard knowledge, and teaching should be sought from his mouth, for he is a messenger of HaShem of Hosts” (Malachi 2:7).
35:35 – Q&R – Rav Nosson of Nemirov zal once said, “For me, Moshiach is already here.”
37:40 – HILKHOS ONESS UMEFATIM – Torah Law concerning rape or seduction. The kingdom of evil gathers its power from material wealth.
39:00 – Koheles 2:26. When the sovereinty of HaShem is revealed, material wealth is transferred from the kingdom of evil to the kingdom of HaShem. For example, during Yetziyas Mitzrayim, the Bnei Yisrael gathered wealth from the Egyptians twice.
42:00 – Money is an aspect of Malkhus – honor – both of which are associated with Isha – woman.
***43:00 – נשים דעתן קלה – Nashim daasan kalah – “Women are light-headed…” (Shabbos 33b and Kiddushin 80b) according to the Arizal: Feminine daas draws from the side of Gevura – judgement and therefore lacks the life-energy available only through Chesed, which originates from the masculine side.
45:45 – Closing blessings.
2024-09-03- Lamed Av – Aleph deRosh Chodesh Elul 5784:
08:15 AM – ONESS UMEFATIM – PART 2.
***08:32 AM – To protect wealth, all money earned by a woman belongs to her father if she’s not married, and belongs to her husband if she is married. Money that is owned only by a woman is within the destructive power of the sutra achra.
08:41 AM – A woman needs to be under the protection of either her father or her husband, otherwise she is prey to spiritual destructive forces.
8:45 AM – SIYUM of Even HaEzer. Closing blessings.
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