Tomer Devorah: Chapter 5 - Bringing a Bride to the Chuppah - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

As you guys remember, we are in this chapter which is dedicated to the sphere of Hesed. And um towards the end of the chapter, he delineates eight manifestations of Hesed and the types of intentions that we should have when we're doing these different acts of Hesed based on the effect that they have on the spiritual realm. We've done six and we have two more. Hopefully we'll do one today Hopefully we'll do one today and one tomorrow. Okay? So, we're up to number seven on page nun ches. So, we're up to number seven. Shvi'is, the seventh form of Hesed is Hachnasas Kallah. And the author here is going to talk about the way in which being involved in the mitzvah of Hachnasas Kallah has to do with working on these these the the rectification of the Sefirot, the the rectification of the Sefirot, which fits into the general theme here of doing Hesed with the Kadosh Baruchu, doing Hesed with Hashem. So, Shvi'is, the seventh. Hachnasas Kallah l'chuppah. Escorting the Kallah Excuse me, escorting the the Kallah into the chuppah. And this is referring to in general in the realm of the mitzvah itself, everything having to do with, you know, the preparations needed to to bring about the point where the Kallah is actually ready to go into the chuppah. actually ready to go into the chuppah. Which would mean providing for her dowry, providing for her clothing, providing for her jewelry, providing for all of the other needs of the wedding, and food and and so forth and so on. All of that falls into the category of ahknasas kallah. But, since the mitzvah of ahknasas kallah involves, of course, the kallah and the chasan, the female and the male,

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1. 0:15As you guys remember, we are in this chapter which is dedicated to the sphere of…
2. 4:21is all for the purpose of creating or bringing about catalyzing the union between the male…
3. 8:30even if it has component parts, and even though it seems to have a very high…
4. 12:36as the underlying force between all of this otherwise seeming seeming multiplicity and revert all of…
5. 16:40Baruch in the world. The boreh and the briah, the chosson and the kallah, the male…
6. 20:48so many times that the letter that the number four corresponds to the four letters of…
7. 24:52uh in in in in praise of Hashem. And it corresponds to the quality of water,…
8. 29:00the letter Yud in Hashem's name, which points both upward, but also provides for the flow…
9. 33:08of the male and the female, Hakadosh Baruch Hu and the world, the upper spheres and…
10. 37:20niddah, meaning she's not in din, but rather she should be a proper receptacle in order…

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