Halvaah 4 – Emunah – Adam and Chava Were Created Back to Back – Torah Is the Source of Faith – Rosh Hashanah Through Shemini Atzeres – Written Torah Is Tiferes – Oral Torah is Malkhus – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Halvaah 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 128.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. Emunah. Adam and Chava were created back to back.
07:00 – כָּל־מִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ אֱמוּנָ֑ה – “All Your commandments are faith…” (Tehillim 119:86). Torah is the source of faith.
***09:00 – שְׁמִי֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם וּבְכָל־מָק֗וֹם מֻקְטָ֥ר מֻגָּ֛שׁ לִשְׁמִ֖י – “… My Name is great among the nations, and everywhere offerings are burnt and offered up to My Name…” (Malachi 1:11). Even when people worship idols, they are actually worshiping HaShem.
12:00 – וְאַתָּ֖ה מְחַיֶּ֣ה אֶת־כֻּלָּ֑ם – “…and You give life to them all…” (Nechemiah 9:6).
13:00 – Q&R about the accessibility of the Written Torah to the 70 Nations.
14:00 – The difference between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah. Torah is the source of faith.
20:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. From Rosh Hashanah through Shemini Atzeres, we are building up our emunah.
23:00 – “A person’s sins cause him to consider heresy” Sefer HaMidos, Emunah 22.
30:00 – Even the worst sinners among Am Yisrael are as filled with mitzvos as seeds fill a pomegranate.
31:00 – Q&R about non-Jewish spiritual speakers.
34:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. The Written Torah is called Tiferes. Yaakov Avinu is Emes/Tiferes. The Oral Torah is Malkhus.
39:00 – Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 28.
*40:00 – שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּֽעֲל֑וֹת מִמַּֽעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהֹוָֽה – “A song of ascents. From the depths I have called You, HaShem” (Tehillim 130:1). It’s a custom to say 10 chapters of Tehillim every day during the 10 Days of Teshuvah.
45:00 – Q&R about the Written Torah.
48:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Kolos. Through the sounds of the shofar and the sounds of tefilah on Rosh Hashanah, the power of the Sutra Achra is eliminated.
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