2024-12-09 – LH7 – CM1 – Geviyas Milveh 3 – Parshas Ki Seitzei – Vayera – Mishpat – Tzedakah – Harchavas HaDaas – Give Charity With a Good Heart – From Poverty to Wealth – A Loan Is Mishpat and Tzedakah – Collateral Prohibited From a Widow – Beis HaMikdash – Pekudei – Eicha – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Milveh 3 is based on Likutey Moharan 59.
00:00 – PARA. 4b. Review of Hilkhos Geviyas Milveh 3 thus far.
01:00 – Damaged mishpat causes poverty to get worse. Bava Kama: “Poverty follows a poor person”.
*04:30 – Wealth is rooted in mishpat. Tzedakah is tikkun hamishpat. A poor person who is supported receives a chance to repair his damaged judgement.
06:30 – Review of concept that through cheshbon hanefesh a person is able to protect himself and receive wealth.
08:00 – Harchavas HaDaas – expanded consciousness – can take a person out of poverty entirely. Through proper mishpat, a person merits wealth.
08:30 – מִשְׁפָּ֥ט וּ֜צְדָקָ֗ה בְּיַֽעֲקֹ֚ב | אַתָּ֬ה עָשִֽׂיתָ – “…judgment and righteousness You made in Yaakov” (Tehillim 99:4).
09:00 – Parshas Vayera. כִּ֣י יְדַעְתִּ֗יו לְמַ֩עַן֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְצַוֶּ֜ה אֶת־בָּנָ֤יו וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ֙ אַֽחֲרָ֔יו וְשָֽׁמְרוּ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יְהֹוָ֔ה לַֽעֲשׂ֥וֹת צְדָקָ֖ה וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט – “For I have known him because he commands his sons and his household after him, that they should keep the way of HaShem to perform righteousness and justice…” Bereishis 18:19, VaYera). Avraham Avinu educated his family to conduct themselves with mishpat.
10:30 – The Kohen Gadol wore the choshen mishpat over his heart. Reference to 2Likutey Moharan 5.
*11:00 – A person should not have any negative feelings in their heart when they give tzedakah. The baal tzedakah should judge himself, and recognize that HaShem entrusted him with wealth in order to help others.
13:00 – Maaser. It’s fitting to give a portion of one’s income for tzedakah, since all money belongs to HaShem. If a person knows this he will give tzedakah “with both hands.”
15:30 – When a person works very hard for a business owner, he doesn’t get a portion of the profits. He gives the worker what he needs to live, and not more. This is compared to HaShem’s ownership of the world. Everything we own belongs to Him.
18:00 – Giving tzedakah brings blessing in this world and in Olam HaBah.
19:00 – ט֣וֹב אִ֖ישׁ חוֹנֵ֣ן וּמַלְוֶ֑ה יְכַלְכֵּ֖ל דְּבָרָ֣יו בְּמִשְׁפָּֽט – “Good is the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with moderation” (Tehillim 112:5). Rashi: the wealthy person gives generously, but limits his own personal needs.
22:00 – Beis Din is warned to be especially careful when judging a case where a poor person is involved.
23:00 – Moshiach: וְשָׁפַ֚ט בְּצֶ֙דֶק֙ דַּלִּ֔ים – “And he shall judge the poor justly…“ (Yeshaya 11:4). Moshiach will judge the poor with mishpat.
***25:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. In some ways, lending money is a greater form of tzedakah than giving money.
29:00 – ט֣וֹב אִ֖ישׁ חוֹנֵ֣ן וּמַלְוֶ֑ה יְכַלְכֵּ֖ל דְּבָרָ֣יו בְּמִשְׁפָּֽט – “Good is the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with moderation” (Tehillim 112:5).
30:00 – Parshas BeHar. וְכִֽי־יָמ֣וּךְ אָחִ֔יךָ וּמָ֥טָה יָד֖וֹ עִמָּ֑ךְ וְהֶֽחֱזַ֣קְתָּ בּ֔וֹ גֵּ֧ר וְתוֹשָׁ֛ב וָחַ֖י עִמָּֽךְ – “If your brother becomes destitute and his hand falters beside you, you shall support him [whether] a convert or a resident, so that he can live with you” (Vayikra 25:35, BeHar). The importance of lending a person money to prevent him from falling into poverty.
32:30 – A child cannot give a gift. Giving a person a gift on condition that it is returned.
35:40 – PARAGRAPH 6. Parshas Ki Seitzei. כִּֽי־תַשֶּׁ֥ה בְרֵֽעֲךָ֖ מַשַּׁ֣את מְא֑וּמָה לֹֽא־תָבֹ֥א אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ לַֽעֲבֹ֥ט עֲבֹטֽוֹ – “When you lend your fellow [Jew] any item, you shall not enter his home to take his security” (Devarim 24:10, Ki Seitzei). A bayis – home – is a form of mishpat. The lender is not permitted to enter the home of the borrower to take collateral. The home is like the roots of a tree. Separating collateral from its source of life-energy – the house – will damage the borrower. A court is called a Bais Mishpat.
40:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. A lender is not permitted to take collateral from a widow. Reference to Likutey Moharan 69. She represents a tree whose source of life is her late husband.
43:30 – A woman is not permitted to be a judge in Beis Din.
45:00 – The late husband’s wealth is the source of chiyus for the widow.
47:00 – Q&R about a married woman working to bringing in parnassah.
48:00 – Q&R about a married woman being dependent financially on her husband.
*49:300 – NOTE: Rabbi Rosenfeld zal stressed that a husband should work to earn a living and provide a livelihood for himself and his family.
50:30 – PARAGRAPH 8. Am Yisrael in exile is compared to a widow, as in אֵיכָ֣ה | יָֽשְׁבָ֣ה בָדָ֗ד הָעִיר֙ רַבָּ֣תִי עָ֔ם הָֽיְתָ֖ה כְּאַלְמָנָ֑ה – “O how has the city that was once so populous remained lonely – She has become like a widow…” (Eicha 1:1).
50:30 – Parshas Pekudei. HaShem takes the Beis HaMikdash as collateral from Am Yisrael.
52:30 – Rebuilding Beis Hamikdash is an aspect of Tikkun HaMishpat, as in צִיּ֖וֹן בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט תִּפָּדֶ֑ה וְשָׁבֶ֖יהָ בִּצְדָקָֽה – “Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her penitent through righteousness” (Yeshaya 1:27).
53:00 – Closing blessings.
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