Lekutey Halakhos Shiur with Rabbi Nasan Maimon - August 30, 2026

Rav Nosser Zal says, everything we've been speaking about so far, based on chapter 54 in the Kutimran, is tied in also to the concept of poraduma.

Ki poro mecha peres alavoin hoegel.

The Torah tells us that the Porah Adumah was an atonement for the sin of the golden calf.

The Torah says, let the mother come and clean up the mess that the child made.

An Egel is a baby calf, and Porah is the mother.

The Egel Azorah was a form of Avodah Zorah.

Whereby the Jews... were in denial of Hashem and the Torah.

And they made this idol.

And all of this was an example of the opposite of remembering Hashem, remembering the Torah, remembering the true purpose of life.

As it says in Tehillim, They made a golden calf.

And they replaced Hashem.

They forgot the Hashem who was their savior.

Again, this shikha, the opposite of zikor and ikdusha.

Because the Torah is what constitutes us remembering Hashem all the time.

V'heim kofru ba'toira ba'shem izborach.

And they went against the Torah and Hashem.

And all of this was because they wanted to partake in the sinful desires of this world.

They refused to attach their mind to Olam Haba.

As the Gemara says clearly in Sanhedrin, that this golden calf wasn't really the end.

This was purely a means in order to lead into making a permissiveness of all kinds of sins with women publicly.

So this means they were... and that's why they revived death which we saw in previous shurim is associated with forgetting shikra is synonymous with based on that as it says in tehillim as it says in tehillim Hashem says, I thought you were going to be divine, that you were going to live eternally.

But unfortunately, because Odom and Rishon ate from the Eitz Hadas, you'll all have to die like humans.

That when the Jews received the Torah and Harsinai, the Tumah, the original Tumah of the Eitz Hadas, ceased and the people the jews became free from the angel of death there was not going to be any death any more and unfortunately as a result of the Death was revived.

As the Midrash expounds on those words, that the words were inscribed on the tablets, the Midrash says, that the word Chorus means engraved, the word Chorus means free.

That at that time at Har Sinai, the Jewish people became free from death.