00:00 – PARAGRAPH 23. (CLIP A includes all of paragraph 23). Rosh Hashanah, like tefillin, brings hischadshus (self-renewal). 04:15 – Tshuva is an aspect of renewal. The seventy years of a person’s lifetime correspond to the seventy faces of the Torah. Each year a Jew needs to strive to see and activate a new face Continue Reading »
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 21. (Lesson 066a). People in ancient generations lived longer than we do today because they were drawing life-energy from Arikh Anpin. Dovid HaMelech (King David) received his 70 years of life from Adam HaRishon, so that’s why he had a special power of self-renewal. He was drawing life-energy from Arikh Anpin. 11:12 Continue Reading »
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 19. (Lesson 065a). Sleep is beneficial because it refreshes the consciousness. The mitzvah of tefillin allows a person to receive entirely new powers of forbearance and memory that he merited that day. 11:41 – We can’t achieve patience or a renewal of consciousness except through sleep. This centrality of renewal is in Continue Reading »
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 15. (Lesson 064a). Mitvos of the firstborn – pidyon haben. קדש לי כל בכור – The first section of the Torah written on the parchments of the tefillin. (Shemos/Exodus 13). 08:20 – Of Moshiach it’s written: “I gave birth to him today.” (Tehillim/Psalms 2). This is the ultimate spiritual achievement – to Continue Reading »
Likutey Halakhos, Orach Chaim 1, Hilkhos Tefillin 5, Para. 11-14. Hilkhos Tefillin 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 63. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. *00:00 – PARAGRAPH 11. Patience. Baki b’rotzo baki b’shov – the principle of “running and returning”. The importance of learning how to fall. 18:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 6. “Anyone who Continue Reading »
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 8. (Lesson 062a). Erech Apayim – patience, forbearance, is essential to character refinement. Just as there is patience of tzaddikim, there’s an opposing force called patience of rashayim (evil). 09:04 – PARAGRAPH 9. (Lesson 062b). Rebbe Nachman used to say “Who knows what else there is to acquire [spiritually]?” The importance of Continue Reading »
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. (Lesson 061a). Tefillin as hadras ponim – the enlightenment of the face, corresponding to Hashem’s thirteen qualities of mercy. The importance of אריכת אפים – patience – in serving Hashem. 22:44 – (Lesson 061b). The many definitions of Arichas Apayim – patience, the ability to take a deep breath and wait. Continue Reading »
This halakha is based on Rebbe Nachman’s Sipurey Masiyos – specifically on the account of the First Beggar in the story of the Seven Beggars. 00:00 – PARAGRAPH 4. (Lesson 060a). Tefillin bring life, as wisdom brings life. They correspond to the words: אהיה ד’ אהיה with the daled standing for the shem of yud-hey-vuv-and Continue Reading »
Tefillin 5 – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Hilkhos Tefillin 5 is based on the story of the Seven Beggars in Rebbe Nachman’s Sipurey Masiyos. Specifically, it draws from the section about the first day of the sheva brochos and the story told by the blind beggar. 00:00 PARAGRAPH 1. (Lesson 059a). The first beggar wished Continue Reading »
This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan Torah 5. 00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. (Lesson 058a). אלו ואלו דברי אלוקים חיים “These and these are the words of the Living G-d…” (Eruvin 13b). How to elevate one’s perception of disputes and conflicts between tzaddikim. 14:33 – PARAGRAPH 6. (Lesson 068b). Why are tefillin made from the Continue Reading »
