(פרשת החודש) Class One. This class begins with a lengthy introduction about the Rebbe’s unique contribution to מאמרי חסידות. One of the Rebbe’s big new ideas is the idea of the אלקות of חושך וצמצום עצמו. This class explains the aforementioned idea by explaining why the Torah begins with (darkness) בראשית ברא אלוקים which must…

Bo Exile and Redemption (106) Likutei Sichos – Vol 31 p 46 ff Continued. Inside. Darkness. Two opinions about what is included within the purpose and “Lesson” in darkness. Does it involve both darkness for the world and light for the Jew as one idea or two separate ideas.

Bo Exile and Redemption (104) Sefer HaSichos Bo 5752 (03) Continued (3). Moshe fears the positive spiritual Pharaoh as well. Why?

Exile and Redemption (098) Introduction (part one). The history of the world until this point in the series.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (097) 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.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (096) Likuti Sichos vol. 11 page 24 ff. (01) 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.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (094) 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…

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (089) Likutei Sichos vol. 26 page 49 ff. (part one). The event of the stick becoming a serpent and then a stick again and only then swallowing the sticks of the Egyptian magicians, goes to the core of all the ten Makkos to show Hashem’s dominance over the Pharoh. This explains…

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (085) Likutei Sichos vol. 16 page 58 ff. Moshe and Aharon: dual leaders, are exactly the same inasmuch as they are their parents children, but they are different inasmuch as they in their own way is concerned.

Shemos Exile and Redemption (067) Likutei Sichos vol. 06 page 26 ff. [Same as Exile and Redemption (063) Sicha, but discussing the beginning and the end rather than the middle]. Moshe the redeemer needed to be above the limitations of all (3) levels of exile, his mother, therefore, was conceived outside of Egypt, and miraculously…