Vayeishev – Youthfulness in Serving HaShem – Biographical Notes About Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
*00:00 – Yosef HaTzaddik is called Ben Zakunim – “a child of [his father, Yaakov’s] old age”. The importance of youthfulness in serving HaShem. The yetzer hara (evil inclination) is called an “old, foolish King’, as in ט֛וֹב יֶ֥לֶד מִסְכֵּ֖ן וְחָכָ֑ם מִמֶּ֤לֶךְ זָקֵן֙ וּכְסִ֔יל (Koheles 4:13). Likutey Moharan 1 – Jewish respect for knowledge and intellect. Yehoshua bin Nun was called a naar (youth) – because he was youthful in his service of HaShem. It takes a certain youthfulness to do teshuvah (return to Hashem).
04:24 – Rabbi Yekutiel, the Magid of Terhovitz, asked where the seforim of Adam HaRishon, Noach, and the Avos are. His question was answered in a teaching he heard from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov: Likutey Moharan II, Torah 32. This explanation immediately convinced him to become a student of Rebbe Nachman.
15:05 – Biographical notes in honor of the yahrzeit of Rabbi Zvi Aryeh BenZion b”R Yisrael Abba Rosenfeld zal, whose yahrzeit is on the 11th of Kislev. He passed away in 1978 (5739) in Eretz Yisrael and his gravesite is on Har HaZeisim (the Mount of Olives).
20:34 – The shiur on parsha continues: azus dekedusha (boldness in serving HaShem). Why are goats prominent at times in the Torah, for example in the incident of Yehuda and Tamar? What’s the meaning of Esav Ish Seir? What can we learn from the azus (brazenness, stubbornness) of goats?
25:36 – Closing remarks – observing Chanukah properly requires azus dekedusha.
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