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…

A surprise farbrengen.

Shemos Exile and Redemption (067) [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 became young to give birth to Moshe,…

Shemos Exile and Redemption (066) The punishment and exile included drowning the boys in the River but not the girls. The Rebbe points out that the “keeping the girls alive” was also part of the decree, it means living in the spirit of Egypt and their worship of nature. It explains the deeper meaning of…

Likutei Sichos – Vol 18 p 187 ff

Likutei Sichos – Vol 18 p 187 ff

Likutei Sichos Vol 16 p 139 ff “The best goes for Hashem” means, that the earliest hours of our (children’s) day goes to Hashem. Stories: 1) The Alter Rebbe and Shimon HaKofer, The Tzemach Tzedek and his war with the Haskala, and the Frierdike Rebbe and the 3 Tamuz talk. [Page 146].

Likutei Sichos Vol 16 p 139 ff Even if concerned with Limudei Chol as “Dina DiMalchusa Dina” we mustn’t be more concerned with that than with Din Malchus Shamayim. Limudei Chol can be learned with less time and (more importantly less) passion and still conform to “Dina DiMalchusa Dina”. Page 145-6.

Likutei Sichos Vol 16 p 139 ff More on Chinuch al taharas hakodesh. Page 145.

Likutei Sichos Vol 16 p 139 ff The Second problem as the Rebbe sees it: A total departure from what chinuch has meant and continues to mean. Taharas HaKodesh: what it means, what’s become of it and what we must do about. [Page 145].