Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 4 – Dying in Debt Harms the Soul – Gilgul – Reincarnation Is Often Related to Money Matters – Collecting Debt from Orphans – Shvuah – Taking an Oath To Connect With Rebbe Nachman in Olam HaBaah – Chanukah – 13 Midos – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaYisomim 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 4 – “אנכי” – “Anochi”.
***00:00 – PARAGRAPH 7. גַּם־שָׁ֖ם לֹֽא־יָנ֥וּחַ לָֽךְ – “…even there you shall have no rest” (Yeshaya 23:12). Dying in debt harms the soul by delaying or preventing its final tikkun.
20:00 – Q&R about going into debt to buy real estate. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about how Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal conducted business for a community gemach – loan fund.
25:00 – Q&R about dying in debt. If a person dies in debt, Reference to the Zohar HaKodesh, Parshas Mishpatim. Reincarnation Is Often Related to Money Matters.
28:00 – Q&R about how to help children buy real estate.
30:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. Collecting debt from orphans. Shvuah – taking an oath.
34:00 – Preparing for death by saying vidui and by repaying debts.
35:00 – NOTE – Rabbi Maimon speaks about how his father zal made sure all his debts were paid before he passed away.
36:00 – Q&R about collecting debt.
37:00 – Q&R about our debts to HaShem. Our body and property are all on loan from HaShem. We pay back the loan through Torah, mitzvos, and maasim tovim.
38:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. Parshas Vayechi. וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִשָּֽׁבְעָה֙ לִ֔י וַיִּשָּׁבַ֖ע ל֑וֹ – “And he said, ‘Swear to me.’ So he swore to him…” (Bereishis 47:31, Vayechi).
45:00 – Shvuah connects a person to the Ohr Ein Sof. Kadosh Kadoshim in the Beis HaMikdash is the place where bitul to the Ohr Ein Sof was achieved at the highest level by the Kohen Gadol. Burial in Eretz Yisrael is also an aspect of bitul to the Ohr Ein Sof.
***47:00 – PARAGRAPH 10. It is a minhag among Breslov chassidim to take an oath to connect with Rebbe Nachman in Olam HaBaah. Reference to Chayey Moharan 101. (??? check source).
***50:00 – Q&R about how taking an oath to be with Rebbe Nachman after one’s death. A good time to do this is on Simchas Torah, when the sifrei Torah are accessible to take an oath. “I will go to Rebbe Nachman in Olam HaBaah” and not to follow this with “bli neder” but rather to simply make the statement “I will go to Rebbe Nachman in Olam HaBaah.” (More information on this to be presented in shiurim to follow, b’ezras HaShem.)
52:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. A lender has a hold on the possession of the borrower after the borrower passes away because of the shibud – servitude – of the borrower.
*55:00 – NOTE about Chanukah. The Arizal on the 13 Midos of Rachamim and how it corresponds to Chanukah. The seventh midah is Emes – Yaakov Avinu – which equals 7 times Y – K – V – K. Yosef HaTzaddik is 6 times Y – K – V – K. Together these two name become 13 times Y – K – V – K, which corresponds to the word “silence”.
59:00 – Closing blessing. The third light of Chanukah corresponds to veChanun. Encouragement to connect with Rebbe Nachman during Chanukah.
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