2025-03-23 – LH7 – CM1 – Harshaah 4 – Para. 19b-22a – Parshas Ekev – Kriyas Yam Suf – Shemiras HaBris – Cheshbon HaNefesh – Merit of Yosef HaTzaddik – Erev Rav Today – Degelim in the Midbar – Mishpat deKedushuah vs. Mishpat deSutra Achra – 4 Encampments – Kriyas Yam Suf

Harshaah 4 – Parshas Ekev – Kriyas Yam Suf – Shemiras HaBris – Cheshbon HaNefesh – Merit of Yosef HaTzaddik – Erev Rav Today – Degelim in the Midbar – Mishpat deKedushuah vs. Mishpat deSutra Achra – 4 Encampments – Kriyas Yam Suf – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Harshaah 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 59.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 19b. The fire of Mishpat at Sinai.
08:00 – כִּי־אָ֛ז אֶהְפֹּ֥ךְ אֶל־עַמִּ֖ים שָׂפָ֣ה בְרוּרָ֑ה לִקְרֹ֚א כֻלָּם֙ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהֹוָ֔ה לְעָבְד֖וֹ שְׁכֶ֥ם אֶחָֽד – “For then I will convert the nations to a pure language that all of them call in the name of HaShem, to worship Him of one accord” (Zephania 3:9).
09:00 – PARAGRAPH 20. Kriyas Yam Suf was on the 6th day of Sefiras HaOmer. כִּ֚י חֹ֣ק לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל ה֑וּא מִ֜שְׁפָּ֗ט לֵֽאלֹהֵ֥י יַֽעֲקֹֽב – “For it is a statute for Israel, the judgment of Elokei Yaakov” (Tehillim 81:5).
16:50 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE heard from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal when he was imprisoned in Siberia.
17:30 – Q&R about Yosef HaTaddik’s trial with the wife of Potifar vs. his sale by the other shevatim.
23:00 – Q&R about Yosef HaTzaddik.
23:30 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Rabbi Dorfman zal – when he was in Siberia, he was put in charge of a factory with thousands of workers, but every day his life was in danger. He recounted that he knew it would only be his adherence to Shemiras HaBris that would keep him alive.
26:30 – Q&R about Yosef HaTzaddik and Osnas bas Potifara.
27:40 – NOTE about Rabbi Akiva and the wife of the Roman emperor.
29:30 – NOTE about the moral purity of Yehudah and Tamar.
30:20 – Q&R about the Erev Rav in Am Yisrael today. In the times preceding Moshiach, “Our enemies will be our leaders…” and only HaShem’s direct Mishpat will be able to turn them around.
32:50 – שׁ֤וּבִי שׁ֨וּבִי֙ הַשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית שׁ֥וּבִי שׁ֖וּבִי וְנֶֽחֱזֶה־בָּ֑ךְ מַֽה־תֶּֽחֱזוּ֙ בַּשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת הַֽמַּֽחֲנָֽיִם – “‘Return, return, O Shulammite; return, return, and let us gaze upon you.’ ‘What will you see for the Shulammite, as in the dance of the two camps?'” Shir HaShirim 7:1).
34:00 – When Am Yisrael traveled in the midbar, they were arranged in 4 encampments, corresponding to the 4 camps of the Shekhina. It was this “holy square” of Mishpat deKedusha that gave them the ability to destroy all the surrounding klipos – forces of destruction. Parshas Ekev – “Hashem Who led you through this vast desert…” The four enemies mentioned correspond to the four forces of evil.
36:20 – NOTE about Avraham Avinu referring to himself as “dust and ashes”. The Four Kings defeated the Five Kings and took Lot captive, yet Avraham Avinu defeated the Four Kings. Meaning of the name Eliezer – Aryeh Shor Nesher… the four camps of the Shekhina.
39:20 – Parshas Ekev. הַמּוֹלִ֨יכְךָ֜ בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר | הַגָּדֹ֣ל וְהַנּוֹרָ֗א נָחָ֤שׁ | שָׂרָף֙ וְעַקְרָ֔ב וְצִמָּא֖וֹן – “Who led you through that great and awesome desert, [in which were] snakes, vipers and scorpions, and drought…” (Devarim 8:15, Ekev). Am Yisrael destroyed the klipos in the midbar through the square of Mishpat.
42:00 – When Yosef HaTzaddik was confronted with the test with Potifar’s wife, he saw the face of his father, Yaakov Avinu who warned him that if he didn’t pass the test, his name would not be inscribed on the Choshen Mishpat.
42:30 – NOTE – Chiddush heard from Rabbi Rosenfeld zal -וְה֚וּא רַח֨וּם | יְכַפֵּ֥ר עָו‍ֹ֘ן וְלֹ֪א יַ֫שְׁחִ֥ית וְהִרְבָּ֣ה לְהָשִׁ֣יב אַפּ֑וֹ – “But He is merciful, He expiates iniquity and does not destroy; many times He takes back His wrath…” (Tehillim 78:38). Mishpat deKedushuah vs. Mishpat deSutra Achra.
45:00 – PARAGRAPH 21. The Yam Suf split on the seventh day of Pesach.
48:00 – NOTE: Taking time to reach a decision in a Beis Din (Pirkei Avos) is the opposite of anger.
50:00 – The waters of the Yam Suf rose up “like a wall” – this alludes to the protection provided by the “wall” of wealth.
55:00 – Closing blessings.