Beneath our limited self centered self is our idealistic want to fulfill our life’s mission.

The Baal Shem Tov teaches that subconsciously we want what Hashem wants for us.

Conclusion lesson from Chana what is on the inside should also be on the outside.

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Three levels of understanding the (need for) the Makkos: 1) To get Yidden out of Egypt. That would not happen until Egypt got to know Hashem, this is the reason Hashem needed to punish Egypt. 2) To educate Egypt about Hashem for Egypt’s sake. 3) To give Yidden a deeper understanding of Hashem, as (after…

The Makkos were needed to get Yidden out of Egypt but they had deeper purposes as well.

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 the…

In contrast to the convention that there are two successive stages to the Pharaoh’s stubbornness; one where he is stubborn on his own and another where Hashem makes him stubborn. The Rebbe proves that: 1) The two levels of the Pharaoh’s stubbornness are simultaneous and last for the duration of all ten Makkos beginning with…

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

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.