R’ Rosenfeld – Likutey Moharan 10 – Para. 1-4a – Tefilah – Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov – Mountain, Field, House – Asking a Tzaddik To Pray for Someone Who Is Ill

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Likutey Moharan 10 – Parshas Mishpatim – Tefilah – Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov – Mountain, Field, House – Asking a Tzaddik To Pray for Someone Who Is Ill – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Recorded in 1960.)
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. Parshas Mishpatim. וְאֵ֨לֶּה֙ הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּשִׂ֖ים לִפְנֵיהֶֽם – “And these are the ordinances that you shall set before them” (Shemos 21:1, Mishpatim).
02:34 – PARAGRAPH 3. בֵּ֖ית יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב לְכ֥וּ וְנֵֽלְכָ֖ה בְּא֥וֹר יְהֹוָֽה – “O House of Yaakov, come and let us go in the light of Hashem” (Yeshaya 2:5).
04:07 – Yaaakov Avinu brought tefilah up to the level of “house” – Beis HaMikdash.
*06:53 – PARAGRAPH 4. Asking a tzaddik to pray for someone who is ill: דָּרַשׁ רַבִּי פִּנְחָס בַּר חָמָא: כֹּל שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ חוֹלֶה בְּתוֹךְ בֵּיתוֹ, יֵלֵךְ אֵצֶל חָכָם וִיבַקֵּשׁ עָלָיו רַחֲמִים – שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״חֲמַת מֶלֶךְ מַלְאֲכֵי מָוֶת, וְאִישׁ חָכָם יְכַפְּרֶנָּה״ – “Anyone who has a sick person in his home should go to a sage, and the sage will ask for mercy on the sick person’s behalf, as it is stated: ‘The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it’” (Bava Basra 116a on Mishlei 16:4).
09:42 – “אשת” – ראשי-תבות “ה’ שפתי תפתח”
12:53 – If arrogant people would study themselves after fasting, they would see their true spiritual level and instead of considering themselves tzaddikim, they would seek out a tzaddik to pray for them.