OVERVIEW Likkutei Sichos

CONTENT HIGHLIGHT

• Mesiras Nefesh lead to Geulas Mitzraim
• Matzah equals Bitul
• Uniqueness of the month of Nisan – entire month like Rosh Chodesh
• Midnight: beyond time in time
• Plague of Locusts: evident how HaShem toyed with Paroh
• Discussions of Bais Hillel and Bais Shammai center on concept of potential versus actuality
• Allowing מלאכה for the needs of eating on Yom Tov
• Pidyon HaBen and its brochos
• Calculating of sun and the moon: below corresponds to above
• Two Mitzvos: Shechting of the Pesach and eating the Pesach
• Milah – positive connection to G-d; Pesach – denunciation of idols
• “Rich” & “poor” Matzah and spiritual service
• Expression of infinitude: Plague of First Born
• Kiddush HaChodesh (first Mitzvah) symbolic of a Jew’s service: make a “newness” in the Creation
• Remembering the Exodus and the Shabbos
• Sanctifying time: First existence in the first Mitzvah
• Reason why a boy, who turns 13 between first Pesach and second Pesach, is exempted from 2nd Pesach
• Every Jewish home a Mikdash and Mishkan
• Nature of light to the Jews during Plague of Darkness
• Connection of Korban Chagigah to Korban Pesach
• Two types of tomorrow: after the event and in the future
• Love of G-d to the Jews is expressed in the miracles of Passing Over
• Bnai Yisroel are called “Hosts of G-d” specifically when leaving Egypt
• Law of Pidyon of first-born donkey and of the loss of money of Cohanim