Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 4 – Parshas Tetzaveh – Chanukah – Miracle of Oil – Ohr HaEin Sof Is the Origin of All Light – Rotzo veShov – Vidui in the Presence of a Talmid Chokham Today – Seeing the Face of the Tzaddik in His Seforim – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 4 – “אנכי” – “Anochi”.
00:00 – INTRODUCTION. NOTE about the newly published manuscript end of Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 3. Announcements.
02:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Any light that is kindled as a mitzvah draws down the Ohr HaAin Sof into Daas. “Ein Sof” is begematria אור. (Reference to Zohar HaKadosh, Bo 42).
09:10 – כִּֽי־אַ֖תָּה תָּאִ֣יר נֵרִ֑י יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱ֜לֹהַ֗י יַגִּ֥יהַּ חָשְׁכִּֽי – “For You light my lamp; HaShem, My Master, does light my darkness” (Tehillim 18:29).
09:40 – Parshas Tetzaveh. בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵד֩ מִח֨וּץ לַפָּרֹ֜כֶת אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הָֽעֵדֻ֗ת יַֽעֲרֹךְ֩ אֹת֨וֹ אַֽהֲרֹ֧ן וּבָנָ֛יו מֵעֶ֥רֶב עַד־בֹּ֖קֶר לִפְנֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֑ה חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹ֣רֹתָ֔ם מֵאֵ֖ת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל – “In the Tent of Meeting, outside the dividing curtain that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it up before HaShem from evening to morning; [it shall be] an everlasting statute for their generations, from the children of Israel” (Shemos 27:21, Tetzaveh).
12:23 – מִצִּיּ֥וֹן מִכְלַל־יֹ֜֗פִי אֱלֹהִ֥ים הוֹפִֽיעַ – “From Zion, the finery of beauty, HaShem appeared” (Tehillim 50:2).
13:30 – PARAGRAPH 2. The four who entered Pardes.
16:30 – Vidui to HaShem in the presence of a talmud chokhom enables the Malkhus to rise to Ain Sof.
18:00 – The four basic passions arise from the four elements of physical creation: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
20:00 – Humility allows a person to receive light from Ain Sof. Y – K – V – K begematria is 26 – Chaf Vav – כף and ו is 86 – Elokim. “Elokim” is the milui of Y – K – V – K. HaShem’s Midas haRachamim is actually the same as His Midas HaDin.
24:00 – Q&R – קני is ___ – three times קני is ___ – Yesh which alludes to Yemin – Smol. (??? check this in recording)
25:00 – Q&R – Who is the tzaddik? There is a talmid chakham who can play a role in soliciting forgiveness for sins. Reb Nachman Tcherin, in Parparaos LeChokhmah, writes that Rebbe Nachman’s students were sometimes permitted to say vidui in front of Rebbe Nachman, but the Rebbe stopped this practice. One of the places a person can do this type of vidui at the kever of Rebbe Nachman in Uman.
***29:40 – In Likutey Tefilos there is a prayer that asks “let my vidui hereby be as if it is said in the presence of a true tzaddik”.
***31:30 – “Seeing the face of the tzaddik” – how is this done today? Rav Nachman Tcherin zal writes that studying the sefer of a Tzaddik is as if seeing his face. Reference to Likutey Moharan 192.
*33:45 – PARAGRAPH 3. The miracle of Chanukah.
38:00 – Q&R about the words surrounding a mitzvah are secrets of Torah. Black Fire on White Fire alludes to the letters of the Torah and the spaces between them – both are holy.
41:00 – Sutra Achara is called Elokim Acherim.
42:00 – The historical events of Chanukah reflected the defeat of the kingdom of evil.
44:00 – The power of the miracle of the military victory during Chanukah was in finding the holy oil – which is another term for the wisdom of the Torah.
49:00 – On Yom Kippur, the Kohen Gadol standing on the Ehven Shasiya in the Beis HaMikdash was able to reach the Ohr HaEin Sof.
49:50 – Closing blessings.
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