כי ישאלך בנך ה’תש”מ.

A י”א ניסן Ma’amar. Class One .The בן חכם knows what עדות חוקים ומשפטים are. He is questioning the אשר ציוה ה’ אלוקינו אתכם the constant in all three categories is that Hashem must command us to do the עדות חוקים ומשפטים because we would do none of them on our own. In other words only in עולם הזה התחתון is it necessary to be commanded to do the right thing. The question then becomes: once we understand that only down here must there be the אשר ציוה ה’ אלוקינו אתכם how can we do them and bring אור אין סוף into the world, we are not the אבות. Class Two. The answer is עבדים היינו ויוציאינו ה’ אלוקינו משם… The ביטול הגזירה along with the ביטול of the Yidden make it possible even for “אותנו” ordinary people like us to connect to Hashem and bring down אור אין סוף. The Rebbe ties this is with the two ideas (from lower to higher) ואנחנו עמך וצאן מרעיתך being a sheep is higher than being עמך. At the end of the מאמר the Rebbe divides two into three: By the בן חכם it says כי ישאלך בנך because although he is also an עבד but it is not אתהפכא. But the other three sons it says והי’ כי ישאלך and the והי’ה is הוי’ה backwards, which shows on higher than השתלשלות because of אתהפכא.