EH – Lesson 081 – Yibum 3 – Para. 7b-9a – Parshas Shoftim; Why the Beis HaMikdash is in Nachalas Binyomin; Har Moriah; The Spiritual Aspects of Shoes; The Importance of Emunas Chochomim

Likutey Halakhos, Even HaEzer, Yibum 3, Para. 7-9. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Parshas Shoftim. Why the Beis HaMikdash is in Nachalas Binyomin; Har Moriah; The Spiritual Aspects of Shoes; The Importance of Emunas Chochomim.
This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 57.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 7b. The Beis HaMikdash draws its power from the vows of Am Yisrael. This is the source from which emunas chochomim also emanates.
04:05 – Why the Beis HaMikdash is located in the nachalah (region) of Binyomin.
*05:35 – Parshas Shoftim. Why the Beis HaMikdash is called “Har Moriah” (Taanis 16).
06:38 – לֹ֣א תָס֗וּר מִן־הַדָּבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁר־יַגִּ֥ידוּ לְךָ֖ יָמִ֥ין וּשְׂמֹֽאל – “You shall not divert from the word they tell you, either right or left…” (Devarim 17:11 Shoftim).
09:13 – The Beis HaMikdash was established through the vow of Dovid HaMelech, as in אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּ֥ע לַֽיהֹוָ֑ה נָ֜דַ֗ר לַֽאֲבִ֥יר יַֽעֲקֹֽב – “That he swore to Hashem, he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob…” עַד־אֶמְצָ֣א מָ֖קוֹם לַֽיהֹוָ֑ה מִ֜שְׁכָּנ֗וֹת לַֽאֲבִ֥יר יַֽעֲקֹֽב – “…until I find a place for the Lord, dwellings for the Mighty One of Jacob…” (Tehillim 132:2-5).
13:30 – Why Binyomin was named by both Rochel and Yaakov.
14:55 – PARAGRAPH 8. The mitzvah of yibum and the spiritual aspects of shoes.
16:49 – Shoes refer to a wife (Tikkunei Zohar).
17:36 – Women were given nine measures of the ten measures of speech in the world.
20:03 – Shoes originate from vows.
28:00 – Binah as an aspect of the legs (Shir HaShirim).
30:25 – Chidush of the SheLaH HaKadosh heard from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל: “Mi pi gevurah” is the same gematria as Moshe Rabbeinu. The importance of emunas chochomim (faith in Rabbis).
35:29 – The morning blessing she asa li kol tzorchi – on “everything I need” – refers specifically to shoes because they include all needs.
*40:18 – Biographical note from Reb Yechiel Michel Dorfman ז”ל about the Chozeh m’Lublin ז”ל in response to a student who felt he couldn’t honestly say the blessing “Who takes care of all my needs.”
47:43 – The importance of wearing shoes.
48:18 – Reference to Shabbos 129: why the sages of the gemara advise “Sell everything you own to buy shoes”.
56:39 – PARAGRAPH 9. The spiritual aspects of not wearing shoes on Yom Kippur.

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