2025-03-24 – LH7 – CM1 – Harshaah 4 – Para. 22b – Hilkhos Oreyv 1 – Oreyv 2 – Para. 1-2 – Shevii Shel Pesach – Torah and Parnassah – Cosigning a Loan – Wealth Protects Emunah – Money Stands a Person on His Feet – Loan vs. Gift

Harshaah 4 – Oreyv 1 – Oreyv 2 – Shevii Shel Pesach – Torah and Parnassah – Cosigning a Loan – Wealth Protects Emunah – Money Stands a Person on His Feet – Loan vs. Gift – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Harshaah 4 is based on Likutey Moharan 59.

• 00:00 PARAGRAPH 22b. Shevii Shel Pesach. Heichal HaKodesh. Sefiras HaOmer
• 04:50 All the nations will rejoice when HaShem will judge.
• 06:45 *The soul is elevated through Ashirus deKedusha – wealth used for serving HaShem.
• 09:40 HILKHOS OREYV 1. Hilkhos Oreyv 1 is based on Likutey Moharan 280.
• 13:16 NOTE – heard from Rav Eliyah Chaim Rosen zal – A person who supports himself while he’s learning Torah is on a higher level than someone who learns Torah but relies on others to support him. Those who sustain their own Torah study are especially blessed, as in יְגִ֣יעַ כַּ֖פֶּיךָ כִּ֥י תֹאכֵ֑ל אַ֜שְׁרֶ֗יךָ וְט֣וֹב לָֽךְ – “When you eat of the work of your hands, you are praiseworthy, and it is good for you” (Tehillim 128:2).
• 17:50 ***A sin can negate a mitzvah, but a sin cannot negate Torah. Reference to Likutey Moharan 204.
• 18:30 The connection between money and Torah. Wealth protects emunah.
• 20:15 וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַֽעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל – “and money is the response to everything” (Koheles 10:19). Wealth protects emunah.
• 25:50 Livush/beged – clothing draws it light from Binah. “Do not reject the Torah of your mother” – Binah relates to the feminine principle; the Torah is compared to garments.
• 28:30 Why Kinyan is usually done through a beged.
• 29:30 Q&R about how a sin can negate a mitzvah, but a sin cannot negate Torah. A mitzvah is compared to a candle, while the Torah compared with light itself, and is more powerful.
• 31:20 Q&R – the term “emunah” has two dimensions: faith and honesty.
• 32:40 HALAKHA 2. Hilkhos Oreyv 2 is based on Likutey Moharan 10. Cosigning for a loan at the time the loan is given vs. cosigning after the loan is given, which requires a kinyan.
• 34:00 When the ruach flows through the 6 parts of the hands/arms (from the shoulders down) and through the 6 parts of the legs – this is emunah. The hands and feet are empowered by the ruach of the heart, which is the tzaddik. Esther represents the hidden ruach – the feet. Mordekhai represents the revealed ruach – the hands. The lower, hidden ruach is the stronger of the two, and is an aspect of Ruach HaKodesh.
• 39:00 PARAGRAPH 2. Wealth is related to the feet.
• 42:00 Money “stands a person on his feet”. The person who lends money, helps establish the person who is stumbling because he lacks parnassah. NOTE: bankruptcy in Israel is called פְּשִׁיטַת רֶגֶל.
• 47:00 ***Generosity and acts of kindness activate the power of the tzaddik. The heart is the center of giving, as in וַיָּבֹ֕אוּ כָּל־אִ֖ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־נְשָׂא֣וֹ לִבּ֑וֹ וְכֹ֡ל אֲשֶׁר֩ נָֽדְבָ֨ה רוּח֜וֹ אֹת֗וֹ – “Every man whose heart uplifted him came, and everyone whose spirit inspired him to generosity …” (Shemos 35:21, VaYakhel).
• 50:00 The one giving and the one receiving represent Mordekhai and Esther, respectively. The one who is giving is extending the ruach of the Tzaddik. The one who is receiving, is being given the ability to stand on his feet and is being elevated to empower stronger emunah/ruach hakodesh in himself and in the generation.
• 51:00 *Loan vs. gift. Why giving a person a loan is a greater kindness than giving them a gift.
• 56:00 וְהָיָ֚ה אֽוֹר־הַלְּבָנָה֙ כְּא֣וֹר הַֽחַמָּ֔ה – “And the light of the moon shall be like the light of the sun…” Yeshaya 30:26.
• 57:00 Q&R – Tzedakah helps negate sin. Q&R about going to Meron this week for Yom Kippur Katan.