Rabbi Avraham Benhaim Halacha Evil Spirit of the Night Part 1 HEBREW 2010 11 08

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Happy Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Chodesh Kalev, the second Rosh Chodesh to Rosh Chodesh Selev, we will continue with the series of short lessons in halacha. We apologize for the fact that one of the lessons disappeared. I think it was number two due to photography problems. But we will try to mention the same ideas that photography problems. But we will try to mention the same ideas that we mentioned in the second lesson. In the meantime, we will continue. The last thing we started to explain is the matter of an evil spirit. What is an evil spirit? It is a spirit of impurity that resides in the human body during sleep. When one wakes up, as is known in the Zohar of the Holy Scriptures, when a person sleeps, his soul goes and in its place. What sustains the body is the soul. But there is a well-known rule in Kabbalah that the moment the holiness leaves, the entire soul is holiness. The moment the soul leaves the body, the forces of impurity immediately enter. So in this matter, by the way, this is the reason enter. So in this matter, by the way, this is the reason why our rabbis say. It is written in Tractate Sukkah that King David did not taste the taste of sleep, meaning he did not sleep for more than half an hour at a time. Half an hour is the first degree of sleep. After half an hour, you fall asleep. And then while you are asleep, that is the time that a person is considered dead, as the Gemara says: One in 60 sleeps from bed. And a bed is a

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1. 0:03Happy Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Chodesh Kalev, the second Rosh Chodesh to Rosh Chodesh Selev, we will…
2. 2:42disagreed about the question of what causes an evil spirit, sleep or the night, but we…
3. 5:55hands. Why do you touch something while your hands still have the power of impurity? This…
4. 9:08not take it. You are forbidden to wash your hands from him. If so, this is…
5. 11:41you should not wash even with water that comes to you from a person who did…
6. 14:59lenient of course they also prefer that it is a mistake a person should be careful…
7. 18:17the books of Kabbalah, we teach it to be lenient and do not insist on what…
8. 20:59you went to sleep at 1 At night, then it is clear that the issue of…
9. 24:10mouth, especially for those who put their finger in their mouth and have not yet washed…
10. 27:23become soma as if you do not see or are deaf in the Torah meaning your…

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