Likutei Sichos – Vol 03 p 787 ff and Vol 01 p 63 ff – Yaakov
Vayetze Yaakov was the most successful of the Avos, as all his children were Tzadikim and he had them in Golus.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 03 p 757 ff – Avrohom’s Bris
Lech Lecha Patriarchs (04) Likutei Sichos – Vol 03 p 757 ff Bris Mila is another step in Avrohom’s spiritual climb. It was the first (and only) Mitzva that he did that actually elevated the physical.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 085 ff / Torah Ohr 28c – Dreams
Miketz The Tribes (30) Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 85 ff / Torah Ohr 28c Dreams are the illustration of the experience of Exile, thus the story of Galus is punctuated by dreams. A positive lesson: in a dream one can skip steps, nothing is above anyone.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 63 ff / Likutei Sichos – Vol 03 p 787 ff – Yaakov
Vayetze Patriarchs (18) Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 63 ff / Likutei Sichos – Vol 03 p 787 ff Yaakov was the most successful of the Avos, as all his children were Tzadikim and he had them in Golus.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 031~034 – Chayey Sara
Chayey Sara Patriarchs (11) Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 31-34 Sara (the Zohar says) is the body and Avrohom is the Soul, yet, Avrohom 1) listens to her 2) mourns her, as she is the purpose.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 01 p 018 ff – Yishmael’s vs Yitzchok’s Bris
Lech Lecha Patriarchs (06) Likutei Sichos Vol 01 p 18 Yishmael’s Bris was rational and that is a liability compared with Yitzchok’s super-rational bond. It is the basis of the Jewish people and that they are a miraculous people attached to Hashem higher than reason, from infancy.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 36 p 033 ff – Reasons why the Makkos were necessary (02)
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…
Likutei Sichos – Vol 36 p 033 ff -Reasons why the Makkos were necessary – Introduction
VaEra Exile and Redemption (087) The Makkos were needed to get Yidden out of Egypt but they had deeper purposes as well.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 36 p 007 ff – What merit entitles the Jews to be redeemed?
Shemos Exile and Redemption (078) What is the answer to Moshe’s question: What merit entitles the Jews to be redeemed? Answer: the waiting and anticipating was already actual in Egypt.
Likutei Sichos – Vol 21 p 038 ff – Frogs
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.
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