Parshas Matos: Nedarim Emunah and the Neshama

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why is a neder, a vow, tied to Bina and to the neshama? The Kedushas Levi brings the Shaarei Orah reading neder as nun dar, living with the nun of Bina, and a neder becomes a way to realign with the neshama. The thread then runs through amen, the count of fifty, Moshe Rabbeinu at the rock and the fifty gates of Bina. The Ramchal ties Kol Nidre to this, and nedarim stand as the generation entering Eretz Yisrael awakening its emunah from below.

Key points

• The Kedushas Levi brings the Shaarei Orah: neder, a name of Bina, is nun dar.
• The Gemara in Shavuos reads amen as shevuah, kabbalas devarim and ha'amanas devarim.
• A neder holds a person back from the outside to realign with what the neshama wants.
• Moshe Rabbeinu's problem at the rock, one source explains, was that he got angry.
• One source brought reads the letters of amen as Kel, Melech, Ne'eman.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Nedarim at the start of the parsha
2. 2:00Kedushas Levi on neder as nun dar
3. 4:02Gemara in Shavuos on amen
4. 5:55Neshama, yetzer hara and the neder
5. 13:13Forty-nine and fifty: Shavuos and Yovel
6. 17:54Two halves of Sefer Bamidbar
7. 29:51Amen as Kel Melech Ne'eman
8. 33:43The fifty gates of Bina
9. 39:04Kol Nidre and the Ramchal

Topics

• Nedarim
• Amen
• Emunah
• Kol Nidre