Classes

Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 145 ff – Sara’s Life

Chayay Sara Patriarchs (12) Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 145 ff After Sara passes away we see her life. Her life is about the Jewish people exclusively while Avrohom is about all of humanity. This shows itself in each of the big events in this Parsha.

Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 122 ff / Torah Ohr Toldos (beg.) –

Vayera Toldos Patriarchs (13) Likutei Sichos – vol 15 p 122 ff / Torah Ohr – Beginning of Toldos 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…

Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 075 ff – Personal Religion

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 10 p 049 ff – Avrohom: Before and After His Bris

Vayera Patriarchs (08) Likutei Sichos – Patriarchs – Vol 10 p 49 ff Avrorhom’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…

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 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 30 p 176 ff – Yaakov wanted Shalva II

Vayeshev Patriarchs (26) Likutei Sichos – vol 30 p 176 ff Ya’akov wanted a Shalva (serenity) he deserved, but Hashem decided to give him more than he wished for. But to do this he had to go through the twenty two year Yosef ordeal.

Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 310 ff – Yaakov wanted Shalva

Vayeshev Patriarchs (25) Likutei Sichos – Vol 15 p 310 ff Ya’akov wanted Shalva (serenity) but to get it he had to go through much more hardship, but in the end he got what he wanted.