OVERVIEW Likkutei Sichos

CONTENT HIGHLIGHT

• Concept of male & female in avodah and in the future redemption – combining meditation with physical deeds (אשה כי תזריע א)
• Bris Milah reveals the holy connection and our inherent potential (ג)
• Contrast of Human existence; Value of our human efforts (אשה כי תזריע זא)
• These 33 days of tahor blood, are days of tahor without limitation (*תשב זב)
• To be clean and to be tahor (*וכבס שנית זג)
• Disagreement in the higher worlds (אדם כי יהי' בעור בשרו יבא)
• Different concepts in the matter if the man or woman provides seed first (אשה כי תזריע יבב)
• The night that shines like the day (וביום יזא)
• From going down one can reach to a greater height (סיום מס' קנים יזב)
• Mitzvah that protects (ישב יזג)
• Avodah below, which awakens miraculous ways to nullify natural influences (אשה כי תזריע יזד)
• Minhag that a pregnant woman does not act as a Kvater or as an Unterfirer (כבא)
• Tzara’as is connected to Lashon HaRa, abuse of speech itself (more subtle yet far-reaching) (רמב"ם כבב)
• Seeding and causing to grow a blessing (כבג)
• A woman after birth is called tamai until she brings her sacrifices since until then she still lacks complete atonement (וטהרה כזא)
• Judgment with love (וראהו הכהן וטמא אתו כזב)
• A lesion in an area covered by hair: Rashi says results from speaking Lashon HaRa; Rambam says results from a denial of the basics of G-d (קרח הוא כזג)
• Spreading of evil “outside” is an indicator of geulah (וכסתה הצרעת לבא)
• Excluded from Tzara’as process: Areas of body not normally seen; a Cohen who cannot see (לכל מראה עיני הכהן לבב)
• Great is the love of a Jew (אדם כי יהי' בעור לזא)
• Nega’im are an example of G-d’s love for all Jews, even those that sin (וביום הראות לזב)