Class One. Why is there division in (the days we celebrate) Purim and not in Matan Torah? This class explores the beginning and the end of this Ma’amar. We discuss Hasaga vs, Bittul and struggle to understand which is which.

Shemos Exile and Redemption (069) Likutei Sichos vol. 16 page 1 ff. This class deals only with Chapters 3,4,6 in the Sicha. Moshe was a Tzadik at birth, the home was filled with light. He was Torah which is Emes that never changes.

Shemos Exile and Redemption (061) [See Likutei Sichos vol. 16 pp. 475-479]. This oral class (based on a Sicha, though no Sicha was read), explains that for a nation to be born, where even the greatest sinners are members, we must be branded on the deepest levels of the subconscious, and that was Galus Mitzrayim….

VaYechi The Tribes (59) Likutei Sichos vol. 3 page 831 ff. This class explains the unique place of Yosef in Galus: he is both a part of it (not like Yaakov) but altogether above it (not like his brothers). As a result he can initiate it and he can predict its end.

Vayechi Likutei Sichos vol. 15 page 432 ff. In Galus there are two ‘first borns’: Yosef’s first born is Menashe: to remember from where you come and not to be influenced by the environment you are in. Ya’akov’s first born is Ephrayim: to succeed and prosper and take something from the Exile and to ultimately…

Vayechi The Tribes (55) Likutei Sichos vol. 15 page 422 ff. Parshas Vayechi really is about Ya’akov’s passing, yet it is called Vayechi- that Ya’akov lived his best years there! The idea is that life is eternal, and that is only in, and with, God, and only when Ya’akov showed his true connection to Hashem…

Vayechi The Tribes (54) Likutei Sichos vol. 10 page 160 ff. Yaakov’s best years were in Egypt not because of what was going on with him, but what was going on with his children, who were susceptible to the realities of Golus. Their learning Torah made Yaakov’s stay in Egypt the best moments of his…

Introduction to the school year 5776/2015-16: Lives of the Avos, Shevatim and Golus and Geulas Mitzrayim. The pact with non-Jews, the Jewish nation, Iyov tells God there will never be another Avrohom Avinu.

Vayigash The Tribes (52) Likutei Sichos vol. 15 page 405 ff. Jewish people settle in Egypt and take possession of (what is theirs) but it is Egypt. Eventually Egypt will take hold of them. Ultimately however the land’s taking hold of them will result in them leaving Egypt with all Egypt’s wealth!

Vayigash The Tribes (48) Likutei Sichos vol. 30 page 222 ff. רב עוד יוסף בני חי Upon discovering that his son is alive not only in body but in spirit as well, Ya’akov celebrates what his son Yosef has become, exceeding all expectation.