OVERVIEW Likkutei Sichos

CONTENT HIGHLIGHT

• Coin of fire; harmonize two opposing qualities
• Undecided is worse than idolatry
• Jew (half a Shekel) with G-d is complete
• Kiyor expresses that holiness can be opaque (mundane with good motives)
• To distance oneself from cruelty
• Multiple views to Torah allowed the possibility of breaking of Unity, eventually to the place of the sin of the Golden Calf.
• Moshe immediately bowed when HaShem first appeared
• Fiery coin indicates the manner of giving
• Sages disagree about compromise of the present vs. compromise of the future
• Moshe’s objections to G-d’s declaration to punish the Jews
• Mixed multitude were not all killed; power of Teshuvah
• Just coming into the Tabernacle (preparations) warranted a washing of the hands and feet
• The Girgashim left on their own, explains the question regarding two different verses
• Kesher of Tefillin - remembering one’s connection with HaShem which nullifies sins which result from forgetting
• This coin of fire makes physicality into spirituality
• Alluding to the holiness of the Kehunah
• Second Tablets and the broken Tablets together in the Aron; completeness and humility in the service of HaShem
• Kiddush Yadayim is the remedy to the soiled face
• Extra soul of Shabbos – change in the person in quality, as opposed to Yom Tov
• Moshe did not eat for 40 days can be understood in 3 ways
• When to say a thing in the name of the one who said the matter (segula or perhaps a law); concept of Kinyan Torah