Geviyas Chov MeyhaLakochos 5 – Parshas Ki Sisa – Prayer Is an Aspect of Ruach HaKodesh – Connecting One’s Tefilah to the Tzaddik – Hashem Is the Great Lender – The Tzaddik Takes His Students to His Heart – How Rabbi Michel Dorfman zal Prayed for Others – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Geviyas Chov MeyhaLakoshos 5 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 1.
***03:00 – How Tefilah from a siddur can become a form of Ruach HaKodesh. We need Hashem’s help to be able to have kavana for every word of tefilah we say.
07:00 – PARAGRAPH 1b. Paying back our loan from Hashem for our life is done through connecting his tefilos with the tzaddik with all of the focus and energy that he borrowed from “the Great Lender” – Hashem.
***09:00 – Connecting one’s tefilah to the tzaddik. Analogy of baking a cake. Exactly how this is done on a practical level. Reference to Likutey Moharan 2.
***13:30 – Parshas Ki Sisa. The tzaddik’s ability to pray depends on Am Yisrael. לֶךְ־רֵ֕ד כִּ֚י שִׁחֵ֣ת עַמְּךָ֔ – “…’Go, descend, for your people have acted corruptly’…” (Shemos 32:7, Ki Sisa). The only reason Moshe Rabbeinu was given greatness was for the sake of Am Yisrael. The minute Am Yisrael descends, the Tzaddik descends (Brochos 32).
*15:40 – Q&R – “All of the hosts of heaven receive from Hashem.” Roshei teivos “U’tzeveah hashemayim lecha mistachaveh… spell “maleveh”.
17:30 – The cycle of Hashem lending to the world is forever. This process is a wheel – galgal. Reference to Likutey Moharan 31.
19:00 – When Am Yisrael gives a korbon, Hashem becomes the “receiver” – so to speak.
***20:00 Q&R about the tzaddik. Rebbe Nachman describes the three types of people who come to him. 1) those who want physical gain, 2) those who want spiritual gain, 3) those who want to be embedded deeply in the tzaddik’s heart.
***22:00 – Biographical note about Reb Michel Dorfman zal – how he would take to heart, deeply, the people who asked him to pray for him.
26:00 – NOTE – Why the kever of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal is special for Breslov. Analogy of a doctor who “has my file.”
28:00 – NOTE – Biographical note Rabbi Avrohom Sternhartz zal telling his student, Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal: Your students I will consider as my students.”
28:30 – Back into the text: astronomical cycles are an aspect of galgal.
31:00 – NOTE about Reb Noson of Nemirov zal – his wife, at first, had miscarriages. Then Rebbe Nachman told Reb Noson zal to bring him something. Reb Noson brought the Rebbe 6 chairs and subsequently had 6 children. When a person gives their tefilah to the tzaddik, the tzaddik can pray even better, and returns the blessing to the one who gave to him. The more we give, the more we receive.
33:30 – All the greatness and blessing will some day come to Am Yisrael, when Moshiach is revealed. When tefilah hits a certain peak, that becomes the light of Moshiach.
34:30 – Q&R about how it presently seems like wealth is originating outside of Israel.
28:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. לוֶֹ֣ה רָ֖שָׁע וְלֹ֣א יְשַׁלֵּ֑ם וְ֜צַדִּ֗יק חוֹנֵ֥ן וְנוֹתֵֽן – “A wicked man borrows and does not pay, but the Righteous one is gracious and gives” Tehillim 37:21.
42:00 – “Study is not the primary thing, but action [is]” (Pirkei Avos 1:17). What action? Tefilah and mitzvos.
43:00 – The word “shefa” שפע – are the roshei teivos of Sadeh, Pegiya, Amidah – the three forms of prayer, corresponding to the 3 Avos: Maariv, Mincha, Shacharis.
45:00 – Shimshon’s riddle – “from the one who consumes emanates sweetness”. The tzaddik is called the ochel – all Shefa comes to the world through the tzaddik. For example: Yosef HaTzaddik was put in charge of shefa.
47:40 – PARAGRAPH 3.
50:00 – Q&R about the meaning of the word שפע and how the letters relate to the 3 Avos and the 3 main forms of prayer: (Rav Avreimel who wrote the Sefer Oneg Shabbos).
***52:30 – Closing blessings with strong encouragement for kavana in Tefilah.
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