Likutei Moharan, Part II 79:1/ליקוטי מוהר"ן·תנינא ע״ט:א׳

1We found another manuscript penned by the Rebbe, of blessed memory, containing the topic headings of an amazing teaching: “The voice is the voice of Yaakov” ☛ a declaration ☛ Esav, “And he raised his voice” ☛ Yitzchak, time, kuf tzaddi, sleepers, etc. ☛ “you shall return to God your Lord and heed His voice” ☛ “Yitzchak the son of Avraham,” time unites ☛ “Avraham who loved Me” ☛ “in his eyes but a few days because of his love” ☛ “the remnant who returns is your son” ☛ “If you return, I will take you back” and you will stand before Me.

2“For the sun had set” ☛ time contracted ☛ “vayishkav (and he lay down) in that place” ☛ yesh khaf-bet ☛ “Take words with you and return” ☛ “of the stones of the place,” stones – letters ☛ “at his head,” the mind purifies all.

3“And Yaakov sent angels,” time-based mitzvot, he performed many mitzvot, many angels were created ☛ “before him” ☛ repentance ☛ “I will take you back” ☛ “in the land of Seir” ☛ N-D-T -H-R ☛ “let me assign” ☛ sukkah, repentance ☛ “Tesukkeini (You covered me) in my mother’s womb” ☛ birth ☛ “the remnant who returns is your son.”

4“And Yaakov dwelled in the land,” to fulfill honoring one’s parents, to void the power of Esav’s honoring ☛ “These are the offspring,” disqualifies Esav’s progeny ☛ Yosef, repentance ☛ adding to tzaddikim ☛ In the place where penitents stand ☛ “the House of Esav for straw,” “the House of Yosef a flame.”

5“At the end of two years” ☛ the End of Days ☛ “Pharaoh dreamed” ☛ the Other Side gains strength ☛ “and, look, he was standing,” he was silent ☛ “the river,” repentance, “He dammed up the river’s depths” ☛ “the rivers raise up their voice.”

6“Then Yehudah approached him,” a drawing near of king to king, they united through mitzvot ☛ “Behold, the kings,” then “they passed over” all the destroying angels ☛ “let [your servant] speak [a word] in the ear,” that they not confuse my voice ☛ “let your wrath not flare,” “When you are in straits” ☛ “like PhaRAoh,” repentance ☛ “b’phroa praot (when vengeance was inflicted,) when they offered themselves” ☛ “for you are like Pharaoh” ☛ commensurable repentance ☛ Yosef hid away my shame.

7“The days drew near for Yisrael to die” ☛ the unification of time ☛ “to die” is: “When you are in straits…,” in the End of Days ☛ “and he called for his son, for Yosef” ☛ repentance, “the remnant who returns is your son” ☛ hid away my shame ☛ “do not bury me in Mitzrayim,” in the meitzar (narrow) of the throat ☛ at the time of “When you are batzar (in straits).”

8“And these are the shemot (names)” ☛ “Go and see the works… shamot (devastations),” works – mitzvot ☛ shamot, separation between the mitzvot ☛ “All the souls were… seventy souls” ☛ unity ☛ through “and Yosef was already in Mitzrayim (Egypt),” “asaf (has taken away) my shame.”

9“And I appeared to Avraham… as El Shadai,” time and the bounds of exile ☛ “but by My Name YHVH,” when they will knock on the doors of mercy ☛ prior to the End ☛ this is the nearing of the times ☛ “I have also established My covenant… to give them the land of their sojournings,” their dwellings, repentance, “And also I have heard the groaning of the Israelites” ☛ this is voice ☛ “sojournings,” the gathering up of the sparks through repentance ☛ to the Land of Israel ☛ “the builder of Jerusalem” ☛ “He gathers in the outcast of Israel.”

10“Come to Pharaoh” ☛ Moshe, the concept of uniting the times, “Mah shehayah, hu sheyihiyeh (What was, will be)” ☛ Pharaoh, “its voice like a snake slithering away” ☛ “I have hardened his heart, so that I might set My signs” ☛ “if they do not believe… the voice of the sign” ☛ “in his midst” ☛ the load with which He burdened Israel in order to rouse them to repentance ☛ “And Pharaoh drew near.”

11“And Yitro heard” the splitting of the Red Sea and the war against Amalek ☛ splitting the Red Sea, this is the nullification of the times ☛ “and God looked out over the camp of Egypt through a pillar of fire and cloud, and He confused them” ☛ “a pillar of fire” is night and “cloud” is day, and the Blessed Holy One mixed them together and nullified the times ☛ the war against Amalek is repentance ☛ “Moshe, Aharon and Chur”; Rashi comments: they were fasting ☛ because of this “And Yitro heard”—he heard the voice. {Until here is leshon Rabbeinu, may his memory be for a blessing.}