Parshas Bo in the Mayaan Chai Series. Note: The questions in this class could not be amplified due to distortion in the recording and the low volume of the questions. However, the content of the questions is clear from the answers.

12-02. First Mitzva, Kidush Hachodesh. This Mitzva is given to Beis Din alone. They must determine the months and the years, deciding when and how to add a leap year. The class (which is divided in two because of it’s length), deals with opinions about this mitzva. There is a surprising Rabbeinu Chananel, and the…

Class One: This class (the first of two on this Ma’amar) deals with the idea of: לא הי’ צריך להתחיל התורה אלא החודש הזה לכם, ומה טעם פתח בבראשית? משום כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו לתת להם נחלת גויים The Torah doesn’t bring בראשית just to defend a non-Jew’s onslaught, but because the world is where…

Class One. Going out of Mitzrayim, brought the Yidden freedom not by losing their Egyptian masters, but by becoming servants of Hashem. Thus the Mitzvos complete the exodus, and the first to be given and recorded is Kidush Hachodesh and Ibbur Shanim. There is something special about this Mitzvah. It makes three points about Yiddishkeit:…

Class One. Introduction to the Sicha: on the afternoon of the 15th of Nissan we were given freedom and we ran with it. The idea (discussed in Likutei Torah etc.) about the two types of Matza: 1) Before midnight that must be watched 2) After Midnight that guards itself. The events of mid-day on the…

[A Rashi Sicha]. Two expressions, two actions, both at the same time. ועברתי the killing of the Egyptian first born is a passive act, achieved in one pass over Egypt. ואצא בתוך מצרים the saving of the Jewish people happens proactively with much attention. This class explores the what and the why of these ideas.

Introduction. There are four (“miracle”) events that are not about a miracle per se’, but about the revelation of Hashem in this world to set up Mattan Torah. AT Mattan Torah the divide between heaven and earth was broken, these four miracles made that possible. Likuttei Sichos vol. 21 page 55 ff (2). Inside. When…

The Mesiras Nefesh it took for the Yidden to trust Hashem and hold and kill the Idol of Egypt and its reward.

Inside. ר’ מתיא בן חרש who lived in Rome taught that to create the nation of Yidden we must do two things: 1) Go out of evil and idolatry, through the Korban Pesach. 2) Bring good and holiness in, through ברית מילה.

This class discusses the Jewish people’s preparation for leaving Egypt. It involved the two bloods: 1) Mila 2) Korban Pesach. To be continued.