Parshat Lekh Lekha with Reb Meir Elkabas - The Praise of Halakha

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Shalom everybody and welcome back to insights in the parsha of the week, parshat Lech Lecha, based on the teachings of Rebbe Nachman. Tonight's class might be a bit too deep. Please bear with me. Um resources for these concepts are Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's amazing amazing book called Waters of Eden, the mysteries of the mikveh, and Likutei Halakhot by Rebbe Nachman, the discourse Pesach number [snorts] four, based on the Likutei Moharan lesson two of part two, the Likutei Moharan, the of part two, the Likutei Moharan, the Likutei Moharan Tinyana. Before we get into the actual parsha, we need some introductory teachings that might be a bit deep. We'll do our best to explain as best as possible. The whole um idea of the creation of man was that he should have clean blood. That's why it's called Adam. Adam is aleph and the the word dam, blood. That his blood flow should be blood. That his blood flow should be totally connected and pure and elevated to aleph. Aleph is a term of the highest levels of creation corresponding to the keter, aleph, aluf. These are terms in the Kabbalah. And that was the goal of mankind, that Hashem created man with blood, that he should use in his blood to reconnect to Hashem. Also, by the way, that spelled backwards, it's like modeh, to give thanks, Thanksgiving, to appreciate his creation, cuz that's why Hashem created the world, that there should be a

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1. 0:01Shalom everybody and welcome back to insights in the parsha of the week, parshat Lech Lecha,…
2. 2:05of knowledge of good and evil, so a bilbul, a confusion, a mix-up of good and…
3. 4:38in a continuity of being pure and having children like that without a system where if…
4. 7:09elsewhere in the Likutei Moharan, Par'o is the letters of the nape, the back of the…
5. 9:13Halacha 60 plus the five is Halel. Okay? Lehodot ulehalel. They work together. You praise Hashem…
6. 11:52that Sarah, she represents complete holy tongue, the beauty of Lashon Hakodesh. Rabbi Nachman teaches in…
7. 14:24level of refined speech. Okay? So, by you are on the extreme and the Egyptians saw…
8. 16:25Avraham and Sarah together, their mission in Egypt was to already clarify holy sparks trapped there…
9. 18:59interest of evil, is not to let allow the world to be rectified. To keep it…
10. 21:32holiness that's in potential that's supposed to come out, it gets stuck in Egypt in the…

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