Likutey Moharan 7 – Vayechi – Tzitzis – Advice of a Tzaddik is Kodesh – Shuruk – Tekheles – White – Marriage – Tefilah is a Segulah for Memory – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. (Lesson 030. Recorded 19. Adar 2, 4749. 1989-03-26.)
This teaching is Loshon Rabbeinu – paragraphs 1-6 were dictated or written word for word by Rebbe Nachman.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Tzitzis protect from immorality.
08:04 – Yosef HaTzaddik merited many children through the blessing he received: בֵּ֤ן פֹּרָת֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף בֵּ֥ן פֹּרָ֖ת עֲלֵי־עָ֑יִן – “…a fruitful bough by a well…” (Bereishis 49:22, Vayechi).
10:06 – Immorality originates with misuse of vision.
11:26 – Introduction to a story told by Rabbah bar bar Chanah.
12:23 – PARAGRAPH 5. Parable of Sinai surrounded by snakes and scorpions the size of mules.
16:26 – “White mules” in the parable are the tzitzis. In present times, the main requirement of the tzitzis are the white strings.
*18:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Men and women are equally obligated in the mitzvos lo t’asey – Torah prohibitions. The redemption depends on man (emes/truth) and woman (emunah/faith) being united.
24:42 – “Most women are stronger in emunah than men are.”
27:31 – PARAGRAPH 7. (Until here was “loshon Rabbeinu“. Beginning here are notes by Rav Noson of Nemirov zal.) Tefilah – prayer – is mesugal – beneficial – for memory.
32:00 – The letters Mem and Samakh relate to forgetting and the Malach Samakh-Mem. Reviewing Torah 100 times vs. reviewing 101 times.
38:42 – Tzitzis protect from niyuf – immorality. Why Yaakov Avinu sent Yosef to his brothers. The spiritual meaning of shepherding.
*40:57 – The physical structure of the body reveals deeper truths: the three parts of the brain connect with the kidneys and reproduction. The three nekudos dots – composing the vowel mark of the shuruk allude to the advice of the tzaddik.
48:30 – Rus and Boaz. Gazing at tzitzis is a segulah for recovering from illness.
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