2024-12-23 – LH7 – CM1 – Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 – Para. 20-24 – Parshas Vayeira – Searching for HaShem – Ayeh Makom Kevodo – Shir HaShirim – Acquiring Land Through Barter – Metaltelin – Moveable Property – Tefilah Is a Search – Makom HaMikdash – Eretz Yisrael – Overcome Addiction – Cure Depression

Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 – Parshas Vayeira – Searching for HaShem – Ayeh Makom Kevodo – Searching for HaShem – Shir HaShirim – Acquiring Land Through Barter – Metaltelin – Moveable Property – Tefilah Is a Search – Makom HaMikdash – Eretz Yisrael – Overcome Addiction – Cure Depression – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 12 – “Ayeh HaSeh”.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 20.
03:30 – HaShem is often hidden ” in the marketplace” – than is, in all aspects of business and mundane activities.
***13:00 – Q&R if a person is observing the mitzvos, does he still need to search for HaShem? The Beis HaMidrash is a place of searching for HaShem. Reference to Likutey Halakhos, Choshen Mishpat 1, Hilkhos Shluchim 5. דִּרְשׁ֚וּ יְהֹוָה֙ וְעֻזּ֔וֹ בַּקְּשׁ֥וּ פָנָ֖יו תָּמִֽיד – “Search for HaShem and His might; seek His presence constantly” (Divrei haYamim I, 16:11).
17:00 – Q&R about searching for the tzaddik.
18:30 – PARAGRAPH 21. Acquiring land or real estate through a barter of metalelin – moveable property, such as lifting a handkerchief or a garment. Land is an aspect of the Honor of HaShem. Every Jew has a portion in Eretz Yisrael.
26:00 – NOTE: Going to sleep is a bitul. Sleep is a yerida that permits aliya.
28:30 – Dovid HaMelech had to search for Makom HaMikdash, as in עַד־אֶמְצָ֣א מָ֖קוֹם לַֽיהֹוָ֑ה – “…until I find a place for HaShem…” (Tehillim 132:4-5).
30:30 – In serving HaShem, only a person who searches can find.
31:00 – PARAGRAPH 23. Parshas Vayeira. עַ֚ל אַחַ֣ד הֶֽהָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֹמַ֥ר אֵלֶֽיךָ – “…on one of the mountains, of which I will tell you” (Bereishis 22:2, Vayeira).
33:40 – אֶזְכְּרָ֥ה נְגִינָתִ֗י בַּ֫לָּ֥יְלָה עִם־לְבָבִ֥י אָשִׂ֑יחָה וַיְחַפֵּ֥שׂ רוּחִֽי – “I recall my music at night; I speak with my heart and my spirit searches” Tehillim 77:
***34:40 – Tefilah is a search.
***35:00 – Q&R about every person having a portion in the Land – every Jew has a portion in Eretz Yisrael – literally.
37:50 – יְהֹוָ֚ה | לֹֽא־גָבַ֣הּ לִ֖בִּי וְלֹֽא־רָ֣מוּ עֵינַ֑י – “…HaShem, my heart was not haughty, nor were my eyes raised on high…” (Tehillim 131:1).
38:50 – More aspects of spiritual searching: in order to achieve forgiveness on Yom Kippur, we have to rise to the level of “ayeh makom kevodo”.
44:00 – Q&R about the experience of reaching the level of “ayeh makom kevodo”.
***45:00 – יְהֹוָ֚ה | לֹֽא־גָבַ֣הּ לִ֖בִּי וְלֹֽא־רָ֣מוּ עֵינַ֑י – “…HaShem, my heart was not haughty, nor were my eyes raised on high…” (Tehillim 131:1).
***46:30 – Lack of self esteem leads to despair. To help cure depression, simply “lift up their eyes” heavenward, physically looking upward, toward HaShem. Saying “ayeh makom kevodo” guarantees that HaShem will immediately respond.
50:00 – Q&R about saying “ayeh makom kevodo” to cure addiction.