Shemos Exile and Redemption (066) Likutei Sichos vol. 01 page 111 ff. 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…

Shemos Exile and Redemption (065) Likutei Sichos vol. 3 page 848 ff. Making the Jews bitter was not only physical but spiritual. They became distracted from who they really are, and this is real bitterness. The lesson.

Shemos Exile and Redemption (064) Likutei Sichos vol. 16 page 1 ff. Rav and Shmuel: new king or old king who acted as though he forgot Yosef. Was his sin primarily against God or man.

Shemos Exile and Redemption (063) Likutei Sichos vol. 6 page 28 ff. This class deals only with the part of the Sicha about Yosef. Though Levi survives Yosef by twenty years, the death of Yosef marks the beginning of the Galus from the spiritual sense. The level of miracles that Ya’akov brought with him to…

Shemos Exile and Redemption (062) Likutei Sichos vol. 03 page 843 ff The entire Chumash Shmos means names because it explains how we go into Galus and how we survive and thrive.

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 (60) Likutei Sichos vol 30 page 249 ff. Yosef’s death marks the end of Braishis, because the substance of Shmos- exile to conquer the world, must be inspired and initiated by the Avos. Yosef’s death and Golus empower those who follow after him.

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 The Tribes (58) Likutei Sichos vol. 20 page 228 ff. Ya’akov wishes to tell his children when the Geula will come and they will leave Egypt. But God doesn’t let him. How could they both be correct [as Ya’akov is a Merkava and above error]?? The answer is perspective: Ya’akov hopes to encourage harder…

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…