0310 - Correction in Lekutei Sichos

00:01 I'd like to point out a printing mistake in the Ɣutê Sichôs Chelek Yud Dalet, the second Sich of Parashat Tetzavah towards the end on page ninety-two. There the Rebbe talks about the Rashi, where it speaks about destroying Amalek. So Rashi says, "מאיש ועד אשתו, מאייל ועד יענק, משור ועץ." That you have to destroy from man to woman, from baby to nursing child, from an ox to a sheep. So the Rebbe explains it, the ruchnius in the Adam, you have the ish, then you have the isho, which is the mekabel, which goes on the middes because they are mekabel. And when they are small, when the middes are still bekatnes, it's called ayl veyeinek, which goes on babies. And then the way it's printed, it says, "And in the nefesh elokis of the person, you have sher va'atzer," which represents it being betakef, a strong one. I guess that's the sher. Or chlish is bekatnes, a small one, a weak one, which is the zer because the zer is weak. Now really, the word is supposed to be not benefesh elokis shelo, but benefesh habami shelo. That the sher atzer represents the two levels of the nefesh habamis, whether it's betakef, which is the sher, or if it's weak, bekatnes, that's the zer. And I really don't understand how that typing mistake, printing mistake happened because it was printed, the original one that was given into the Rebbe, it said nefesh habamis. In the galleys that were given in for the second ago, which already was

01:27 typeset by the type, by the printer, it also said nefesh habamis. And sometimes if there's a mistake in a line, like if the Rebbe would change something in the second ago, you would have to redo the whole line. That's how it was those times in the printing press. You couldn't just change the word. You had to redo the whole line. So sometimes new mistakes become. But here when the Rebbe was magiya and made changes in the second ago, in this line, he didn't touch anything. So this line really didn't have to be changed. So I really don't understand how that mistake came. But lepeo, it's supposed to say, "Ubenefesh habami shelo," not, "Ubenefesh elokis shelo."