Vayera Patriarchs (07) Vol. 25 page 86 ff. Yitzchok’s Bris is superior not only to Yishmael’s but to Avrohom’s as well. Avrohom’s Bris was from higher than reason, but his 99 years of preparation cover this over, and the idea that it is entirely from Hashem is not obvious.

Lech Lecha Patriarchs (06) Vol. 01 page 18 ff. 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.

Lech Lecha Patriarchs (05) Vol. 30 page 53 ff. Bris Mila is two things: 1) a Mitzva, 2) A covenant. In as much as it is a Mitzva, what we do today is separate from what the Avos did, but in as much as it is a Covenant, we continue to bring our children into…

Lech Lecha Patriarchs (04) Vol. 03 page 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.

Lech Lecha Patriarchs (03) Vol. 25 page 47 ff. Whatever happened to Avrohom until Lech Lecha (at the age of seventy five) is not written in the Torah, because as the first Jew, his life doesn’t begin until he gets divine instruction and follows with bittul. The lesson for us: we must acquiesce.

Noach Patriarchs (01) Likutei Sichos vol. 20 page 13 ff. The Rebbe explains that the RaMbaM considers it important to underscore the idea that Avrohom’s pursuit of God started out initially as a strictly intellectual one. However, he then explains that intellect in and of itself it is not sustainable, as is evidenced from what…

Patriarchs (00) (5776/2015) The pact with non-Jews, the Jewish nation, Iyov tells God there will never be another Avrohom Avinu.

Lech Lecha Patriarchs (02) Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 075 ff What we learn from the Avos that relates to us though our Yiddishkiet is so different. How we make Yiddishkiet personal and felt by us.

Likutei sichos – Vol 30 p 103 ff Introduction: Why we have 3 Avos: Torah is balance. No polarity as is usually the case in man-made systems of law.

Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 75 ff The Answer begins. The Avos Judaism was entirely personal and therefore felt while ours is G-dly and can elude our feel altogether. Page 77