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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
00:00 – End of PARAGRAPH 19.
*03:55 – PARAGRAPH 20. Parshas BeMidbar. Every Jewish soul is a soldier, each is assigned a position.
04:57 – Why Hashem insists that the children of Israel should be counted. Because counting restores spiritual loss, it’s an important element in returning to Hashem. The souls of Israel correspond to the 600,000 letters in the Torah. How reading the parsha of BeMidbar directly before the holiday of Shavuos helps us prepare for receiving the Torah.
22:03 – A person should stay within their bounds. As soldiers, each Jewish soul has a specific mission so no one should overstep their boundaries to disturb the mission/station of another. Hashem praises the children of Israel for “following their flags” – meaning each knew their place and stood there.
35:03 – PARAGRAPH 21. The four images that appear on the throne of Hashem which correspond to the four sections of our daily tefilos/prayer: the lion, ox, and eagle allude respectively to shacharis (morning prayer), mincha (afternoon prayer), and aravis (evening prayer). The human face in the throne corresponds to one’s concentration. How to deal with foreign thoughts during tefilah.
41:46 – Teshuvah – returning to Hashem.
44:54 – The heart is the source of all the emotions. The four letters of Hashem’s name, yud, hey, vav, hey, correspond to the four elements of creation: aish (fire), mayim (water), ruach (air), afor (earth) – in that order.
49:50 – PARAGRAPH 22. Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh.
51:13 – “The earth is filled with His glory.”
*57:38 – The ARIZaL’s description of how the neshoma yiseyra (additional soul) arrives in stages through the tefilos of Shabbos. 1) Friday night the nukva (female) aspect of the neshoma yisera is received: Bo-i Callah Shabbos Malkhesa (nefesh), 2) HaPoreys Sukkas Shalom Aleynu (ruach is), 3) Baruch Hu after tefilah (neshoma).
58:42 – Arrival of dukra (male) aspect of the neshoma yisera on Shabbos morning: 1) Nishmas Khol Chai (nefesh), 2) Go’al Yisrael – Hashem Sifsei Tiftach (ruach), and 3) Ayeh Makom Kevodo in kedusha of mussaf (congregation’s response) (neshoma).
59:59 – What is the honor of the angels?
*66:11 – Dealing with honor in the right way, based on Likutey Moharan 6. A description of the hospitality of Avraham Avinu.
*67:40 – Even though receiving honor for its own sake is dangerous and brings judgement, we instill children with honor for parents. How is this done?
71:37 – Shavuos. Why we read megilas Rus on Shavuos. Dovid HaMelech (King David) did not sin with Batsheva – the incident had to appear as a sin to help people to know that teshuvah is always possible.
74:10 – The most important ingredient in teshuvah is the ability to be embarrassed about mistakes.
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