Classes

Likutei Sichos vol. 31 page 23 ff.

Moshe complains (and he is right). But Hashem explains that it is the only way to get הוי’ה on the level above all constraints.

Likutei Sichos vol. 21 page 10 ff.

Two reasons for Jews to get the wealth they took from Egypt: 1) To punish Egypt. 2) To reward them. This latter reason requires it to be given with benevolence.

Class One Hundred and Thirty, Sweetening bitter with bitter (Machar Chodesh 5711)

Class One Hundred and Thirty, Sweetening bitter with bitter (Machar Chodesh 5711).The two opinions how the waters at Mara were sweetened whether through light or bitterness itself.The deeper idea is transforming bitterness to sweetness using bitterness itself.

Likutei Sichos vol. 16 page 13 ff.

Class One, Introduction. Class Two, Text. This Sicha discusses the idea that placing Moshe in the River Nile did far more than save his life, it broke the decree of the killing of the children, and it broke the idol of Egypt altogether.

Likutei Sichos vol. 21 page 38 ff.

The frogs represent an in-between state: creations that are neither helpful nor harmful, that are philosophically worse than both extremes. Like an in- between level of faith. They too declared אחדות השם.

Class One.

Likutei Sichos vol. 28 page 131 ff. Para Aduma and a prayer for Moshiach. This Sicha explores the RaMbaM’s prayer for Moshiach in the middle of the laws of Para Aduma, and explains that there is a Halacha in this. It is law in Tefilla (hinted and not said outright that the time to pray…

Class Two.

Likutei Sichos vol. 18 page 271 ff.   Class One. This class gets to the heart and center of this Sicha, which discusses the basic understanding of Moshiach according to the RaMbaM and Halacha. The end of RaMbaM is about Moshiach, because Moshiach is the end of Torah, Mitzvos, and Halacha. This means, when it…

Class Four.

Likutei Sichos vol. 34 page 114 ff. This Sicha focuses primarily on the third Raia from Arai Miklat (Halacha 2,) and explains the need for this third proof, (and in a second Halacha) because it links Moshiach to a Mitzvah which must be literal and physical and impossible to change. He explains that the three…

Class Five.

Likutei Sichos vol. 22 page 76-8. These two pages about the joining of Tazria (the Avoda in Golus) and Mitzora (Moshiach) together in most years, teaches us that the pnimiyus of the (Avoda in) Golus is already (for the sake of) the Geula.

Class Six.

Sefer Beis HaBechira on RaMbaM pages 97, 5, 98. Do we build the Beis HaMikdash as the RaMbaM holds or does Hashem biuld it as RaShI and Tosefos hold. Four or five answers: 1) We put up the doors and the rest comes from heaven. 2) Zachu from heaven, Lo Zachu we have to build…