Lekutey Halakhos Shiur with Rabbi Nasan Maimon - September 18, 2026

Based on what we've been learning here, we could understand why the Torah explains that the reason why you have to make sure to pay a day worker on the day that he finishes the work Because he is poor.

And his nephesh is looking to the money.

And Rabbi Nisrael uses this to show that money is the root of the nefesh.

They both come from the same place.

Because of the fact that money is the root.

The origin of the nefesh, they both originate from the same place spiritually.

And this, the nefesh, is the opposite of kas.

The term nefesh is synonymous with rotzim.

Rotzim means goodwill, the opposite of kas.

That's why we must pay the worker on the day that he completes the work.

Because when we want to sweeten a judgment, a negative judgment, it's got to be done on the day of that judgment and during the time frame.

Based on the constriction of that particular judgment.

And it's forbidden to postpone it or delay it for any reason.

The person has a court case.

The person has a court date.

We know he's got to show up that day and at that time.

He comes a couple hours later.

Oh, I'm here.

I know you're here, but it's not the time.

It's not the day.

Finished.

That in some ways, the way things run down here on earth resembles the way things run in Shamayim.

And this explains also why when it comes to Kriyashma and Shmon Esrei, there's a time, there's a time, a day and a time when you have to say Zman Kriyashma, Zman Tefillah.

both in the morning and in the evening.

And in the evening, when the nefoshes are renewed, and in the morning, when the whole creation is renewed, And everything operates and runs based on the sweetening of the kas and din that's accomplished for that particular day.