Archive: September 2017

YD2 – Lesson 080a – Milah 4 – Para. 1 – Time vs. Above Time

Milah 4 – Time vs. Above Time – based on 2Likutey Moharan 61 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.

YD2 – Lesson 079c – Milah 3 – Para. 11 – Eretz Yisrael

CM2 – Lesson 052b – Aveyda uMetzia 3 – Para. 4-5

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Chochma (Torah wisdom) is related to the light of day. 08:23 – PARAGRAPH 5. Kindling the lights of the Chanukah menorah. 24:39 – טעמה כי טוב סחרה לא יכבה בלילה נרה “…Her candle is not extinguished at night…” (Mishlei/Proverbs 31.)

CM2 – Lesson 052a – Aveyda uMetzia 3 – Para. 2-3

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 2. Returning a lost object draws the hashgocha (protection and guidance) of Hashem down upon the person doing the mitzvah. 23:38 – PARAGRAPH 3. A description of the inner dimensions of seder tefilas shacharis (the morning prayer service). 34:14 – Giving charity during shacharis when reaching the words “vehaOsher vehaKavod milifanech” (“wealth Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 051b – Aveyda uMetzia 2 – Para. 4-5 – Halakha 3 – Para. 1

00:53 – PARAGRAPH 4. How the three mitzvos of Purim relate to returning a lost object. How silence is an important element in tshuvah (repentance). 16:18 – PARAGRAPH 5. How the three brochos made on reading the megillah correspond to the three “points” of redemption: the upper point (chochma), the connecting point (“vuv“), and the Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 051a – Aveyda uMetzia 2 – Para. 2b-3

00:00 – Last two paragraphs of section 2. Tshuvah (repentance) is dependent on malchus (rulership). Establishing a king in Israel is an aspect of returning a lost object. 07:27 – PARAGRAPH 3. Purim. Mordechai and Esther vs. Haman/Amalek. The upper and lower “points” in the redemption process. Mordechai was the upper point, Esther, who had Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 050b – Aveyda uMetzia 2 – Para. 1-2a

This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 1, Torah 6. 00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Returning lost articles. Tshuvah (repentance) depends on knowing halakha and being a baki b’rotzo, baki b’shov (master of advancing and returning). 16:52 – PARAGRAPH 2. Having compassion on the person who lost the article. The three points of vision that are Continue Reading »

CM2 – Lesson 050a – Aveyda uMetzia 1 – Para. 9-14

00:38 – PARAGRAPH 9. Returning lost objects. 05:35 – PARAGRAPH 10. Kovod (honor). 10:30 – PARAGRAPH 11. If a child finds something that someone has lost, his father has the responsibility for that lost object. 13:42 – PARAGRAPH 12. 18:32 – PARAGRAPH 13. 25:52 – PARAGRAPH 14. Harmful objects do not have to be returned.

CM2 – Lesson 049b – Aveyda uMetzia 1 – Para. 4-8

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. Malchus (sovereignty) and honor are drawn through returning lost objects to their owner. 19:44 – PARAGRAPH 5. Why the establishment of Jewish kings began with a search for missing possessions. Shmuel HaNavi (Samuel the Prophet) restores what was lost. 24:46 – PARAGRAPH 6. Why the leaders of Israel were trained and Continue Reading »

Elul – Why is Rosh Hashanah at the New Moon? (Clip) – Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal

Elul – Why is Rosh Hashanah at the new moon? Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. תִּקְע֣וּ בַחֹ֣דֶשׁ שׁוֹפָ֑ר בַּ֜כֶּ֗סֶה לְי֣וֹם חַגֵּֽנוּ – “Sound the shofar on the New Moon, on the appointed time for the day of our festival” (Tehillim 81:4). Astronomical calculations of the lunar calendar. Excerpt from Ein Yaakov – Lesson 028b.