Lech Lecha Vayera Patriarchs (05) Likutei Sichos – Vol 30 p 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…

Vayera Patriarchs (07) Likutei Sichos Vol 25 p 86 ff Yitzchok’s Bris is superior not only to Yishmael’s but to Avrohom’s as well. Though 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.

Vayera Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 122 ff This class combines a Sicha about Avrohom and the Torah Ohr (beginning of Parshas Toldos) that helps enlighten what separated Avrohom from Yitzchok. Avrohom shone light and inspired from above, doing what appears in affect to be forcing Arabs to see things his way and acquiesce…

Vayera Patriarchs (08) Likutei Sichos – Vol 10 p 49 ff Avrohom’s life divided into two: before and after the Bris. Before he was doing Judaism (like a brick) afterwards he was Jew, a representative of God on this earth (like a stone which is natural and not like a brick which is artificial).

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.

Lech Lecha Patriarchs (06) Likutei Sichos Vol 01 p 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.

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.

What we learn from the Avos that relates to us though our Yiddishkiet is so different. How we make Yiddishkiet as personal and felt by us.

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