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 proofs have three ideas each with their…

Class One. The plague of blood was static- being fully manifest from the first moment and not advancing over the course of the week it lasted. Still at week’s end it was completed- why? We’ll continue next time.   Class Two. Blood still advances over the week, as its education is completed not only over…

מכת חושך is compared to Golus as it relates to the Yidden (as we’ll see in the next class on this Sicha) accordingly we discuss how this מכה was a Golus (of sorts) for the Egyptians.

Class One Hundred and Thirty Three, (first of 2 parts) Likutei Sichos vol 31 p 85 ff. The Manna and Shabbos- total rest.Lecture (with no text).This class discusses the side of Shabbos and the Manna which explains the idea of pure rest and the divine pleasure of this.And how this is not nothing or worse…

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Bris Mila is two things: 1) a Mitzva, 2) A covenant. In as much as it is a Mitzva, what we do today is separate from what the Avos did, but in as much as it is a Covenant, we continue to bring our children into the Covenant of Avrohom Avinu.

Yitzchok is even more like Avrohom, chesed, than is Avrohom himself because of the Bittul of Yitzchok.

Yitzchok’s idea is digging wells. What water the wells give him is Hashem’s business. As a result his wells last. The three wells, built with different levels of dedication and sacrifice, last for different lengths of time. The third which is through Bittul and Kabbalas Ol lasts forever.

Ya’akov wanted the Shalva (serenity) he deserved, but Hashem decided to give him more than he wished for. But to do this he had to go through the twenty two year Yosef ordeal.

Ya’akov tells his children to get ready to be dependent on the Non-Jews in the time of famine, because he senses that Golus is coming, and that this is how God’s miracle would reach them. In Golus we get our food and knowledge (from Hashem, but) through the non-Jew. this is the meaning of ‘Lama…