Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 – Parshas VaEschanan – Tov Torah Im Derech Eretz – Hidden Statement of Creation – Source of All Blessing – Ayeh Makom Kevodo – Tetaharu Is Keser – Honoring HaShem in the Material World – When a Person Travels His Torah Precedes Him – Galus – Exile – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 12 – “Ayeh HaSeh”.
00:00 – “Tov Torah im derch Eretz.” (Avos).
02:28 – ratono zehu kevodo.
***03:20 – “Tov Torah im derech eretz”. parallels the Hidden statement of creation – it is the source of all blessing. While he’s at work, he will encounter many different situations that will bring him to ask “Ayeh Makom Kevodo” the question that connects him to the highest level of HaShem’s light.
06:00 – Tetaharu is begematria Keser.
*06:47 – NOTE heard from Rav Chaim Eliya Rosen zal: A person who supports himself is on a higher level than a yireh shemayaim, as in Ashrei yireh HaShem … yegiah capeichal … tov loch”.
09:00 – When a person puts efforts into both Torah and Derech Eretz, both his Torah and his physical well-being is established. There’s only one in perhaps ten thousand who can learn Torah full time and be successful.
10:40 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 54. The workplace is a dangerous place. When a person is emerged in an environment that is not focused on Torah and mitzvos, it’s easy for a person to become entrapped by materialism and forget about HaShem, chas v’shalom, as in VeKesev vezahav lach… veram levavecha.
18:55 – NOTE on the Introduction to Sefer Chayey Adam, a commentary on Shulchan Aruch.
20:30 – It’s impossible to study Torah only with no involvement in derech eretz, because a person must experience a yerida in order to merit aliya. He must search for HaShem constantly. Derech eretz includes eating, sleeping, and engaging in the “mundane” aspects of daily life. When a person can tap into tetaharu/Keser at these “mundane” times is forgiven all his sins.
23:10 – PARAGRAPH 4. When a person travels, his Torah precedes him, to guide him.
26:30 – Where is HaShem in Dubai? Finding kosher food in a foreign place is an aspect of the extra effort needed to achieve Ayeh Makom Kevodo, as in (Iyov).
28:48 – PARAGRAPH 5. Galus – exile – is an aspect of Ayeh makom kevodo. Imo anochi betzara. “Like a bird wandering from its nest”.
***30:50 – “HaShem will scatter you… you’ll find Him if you’ll truly search with all your heart.” וְהֵפִ֧יץ יְהֹוָ֛ה אֶתְכֶ֖ם בָּֽעַמִּ֑ים וְנִשְׁאַרְתֶּם֙ מְתֵ֣י מִסְפָּ֔ר בַּגּוֹיִ֕ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְנַהֵ֧ג יְהֹוָ֛ה אֶתְכֶ֖ם שָֽׁמָּה – “(Devarim 4:27-30, VaEschanan).
34:30 – HaShem is more hidden now than ever before in Jewish history.
52:00 – Q&R about the positive aspects of the present generation counteracting the negative aspects.
53:00 – Closing blessings.
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