Vaeira Exile and Redemption (094) Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 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...

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (101) In the aftermath of מכת ברד (for the first time) we find the Pharaoh being remorseful and even penitent. The way the מכת ברד ended reveals levels in the תשובה that the Pharaoh was thinking to do. Did he do the equivalent of תשובה עילעא or only of תשובה תתאה.

Likutei Sichos – Vol 16 p 047 ff – Moshe protests are protested by Hashem- Pshat or Midrash?At the end of Shmos Hashem’s displeasure with Moshe is Pshat; in the beginning of Vaeira it is Midrash.The Rebbe disentangles two very overlapping Rashis and makes them shine.

VaEra Exile and Redemption (085) Likutei Sichos – Vol 16 p 058 ff Moshe and Aharon as dual leaders are exactly the same inasmuch as they are their parents’ children, but they are different inasmuch as each in his own way is concerned.

VaEra Exile and Redemption (086) Likutei Sichos – Vol 16 p 069 ff Moshe is Elokim to Pharoh, and Aharon is his Navi. Some things can not be delegated; the breaking of Pharoh needed to be done by Moshe. The story of the מאמר ראה נתתיך אלוקים לפרעה.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (095) 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.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (084) Moshe complains (and he is right). But Hashem explains that the only way to get הוי’ה on the level above all constraints.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (091) 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...

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (100) 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.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (087) Likutei Sichos – Vol 36 pp 33 ff Introduction: The Makkos were needed to get Yidden out of Egypt but they had deeper purposes as well.

VaEra Exile and Redemption (088) 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...