28 Nissan (5776/ 2106).
(Yeshiva Chovevei Torah’ Beis HaMidrash). Purim 5747 is one of the key ways of making sense of the Sicha of 28 Nissan.
Class Ninety Four.
Likutei Sichos vol. 01 page 119 ff. The first two plagues represent parallel yet opposite ideas: Dam- Blood, is to warm Egypt from it’s natural coldness to holiness, to be warmed by it. Tzfardea- Frogs were to cool off Egypt’s passions to worldliness. Here the order (is atypical:) first from the top down and then…
Class Ninety Five.
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 Ninety Six.
Likuti Sichos vol. 11 page 24 ff. The first three plagues punished the Egyptian gods, only from the fourth plague and on were the Egyptians themselves being punished. Therefore only from the fourth plague on was the difference between the Jews and the Egyptians very noticeable.
Class Ninety Seven.
Likutei Sichos vol. 11 page 24 ff. (2). Continued. The Midrash sees all the מכות beginning with the very first as a series of steps to exhaust Egypt. accordingly ערוב wasn’t about killing Egypt, but to confuse them, thus the name: ערוב.
Class Ninety Nine.
Getting Yidden out of Mitzrayim didn’t need to be so complicated. It was because it was (also) an education to Egypt and the Jewish people about Achdus Hashem. This is why there needed to be ten Makkos.
Class One Hundred.
Likutei Sichos vol.36 page 26 ff. A unique characteristic of מכת שחין was that it was performed in a way that could be seen as natural. This is part of how Hashem taught Egypt about Himself.
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