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0:00 If a person has a son (ben) - that is Binyamin, and in Heaven they are judging his father - that is Avidan ('my father is judged'), they are judging his father, then the son can be Gidoni - he can cut down (ligdo'a) the judgment on him in Heaven. This is a beautiful insight of Rabbi Shimshon of Ostropoli. So look at another insight of mine, just like that, on the seventh day. Let us say a nice insight. 'On the seventh day, the prince of the children of Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; his offering, one silver bowl...' So whoever wants 'Elishama' - that Hashem should hear him - should be Ephraim, should be ashes (efer), should make himself as ashes, not think anything of himself.
0:32 If he is Ephraim, then 'Eli' - the G-d in Heaven - will hear him. And there is one more thing he has to be: 'Ben Ammihud' - 'ami', my people, is the Jewish people, and 'hod' is to praise the Jewish people. To judge them favorably, to strengthen them, to encourage them. Ephraim and Elishama ben Ammihud. First of all, to hold himself as ashes, so that Hashem will hear him, and always 'My people', Hashem says - to thank and to praise. And not... - even Yeshayahu, who said 'in the midst of a people of unclean lips' - what happened in the end?
1:00 Hashem have mercy. One must also know to beware of this, and not to bring out any slander against the Jewish people. Menashe is also from the word for forgetting. 'G-d has made me forget.' So when a person needs to strengthen himself in memory - not to be of the children of Menashe, those are the ones who forget the Holy One, blessed be He. To remember the Holy One, blessed be He. Menashe is from the word for forgetting, so they say memory - 'Gamliel': to remember everything Hashem has bestowed (gamal) on us, all the miracles and wonders, all the salvations, everything He does for us - we remember it all, we forget nothing, we merit memory, and then 'Ben Pedahtzur' - Hashem redeems (podeh) a person from all his troubles (tzaros), because a person usually forgets everything Hashem has done with him, all the miracles, all the wonders He did for our fathers, and that is where heresy gets into him.
1:50 But if a person remembers, he will have remembrance of the Holy One, blessed be He - all the miracles He did. Therefore these miracles are a hint to the eighth day. It says 'on the eighth day' - the eighth day is above time. So the eighth day - you remember what was done on the eighth day, all the miracles and wonders, and then he tells you: 'to the children of Menashe'. 'Menashe' - the reverse: to make it memory, to remember, not to be from the word nashiyah, forgetting. And then Gamliel - to remember everything Hashem has bestowed (gamal) on you, everything He does with you, and then this will bring you to 'ben', which is offspring, these offspring will bring forth for you 'Pedahtzur' - that the great Rock (Tzur) will redeem you from all the troubles, amen.
2:26 Beautiful, right? This is in the way of the Maharash of Ostropoli - on the insight of the Maharash of Ostropoli.
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