Taste of Chassidus - Tractate Sotah

Sotah 17The inner connection between Avrohom Avinu feeling, "I am earth and ashes," and the two mitzvos of Sotah and Parah Adumah.A short expanation according to Chassidus.Sources:Likkutei Torah Ekev 17c-18dLikkutei Sichos 25:79-85

SotahThe majority is water, but the earth/ashes must be visibleA short expanation according to Chassidus.Sources:Sefer HaMaamorim 5565 1:435Or HaTorah Bamidbar 5:1662Likkutei Sichos 25, fn 21. 6, fn 37Likkutei Sichos 4:1311-2

Sotah 15Mincha from animal food (barley) because her actions were like those of an animal. But why is the Omer offering also from barley?A short expanation according to Chassidus.Sources:Zohar 3:87aInyonya shel Toras HaChassidus fn 3-6Maamorim beginning "U'Sfarta Lachem"

Sotah 14Regarding Moshe Rabeinu's burial place, "When standing above, it appeared below them. When below, it appeared above them. They split into two groups: To those standing above, it appeared below them. To those below, it appeared above them."A short expanation according to Chassidus. Sources:Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 12a - the Alter Rebbe in the name of the Maggid of MezeritchSefer HaSichos 5749, 310

Sotah 13"Moshe didn't die." Why does it say this only by Moshe (and Yaakov - Taanis 5)? In Berochos 18a it says about all Tzadikim that, "even when they die, they are called, 'alive'"!A short expanation according to Chassidus.(based on Likkutei Sichos 26, 1-9)

Sotah 12Why was Yocheved conceived outside Egypt and born upon entering Egypt?A short expanation according to Chassidus.(based on Likkutei Sichos 6, 26-34)

Sotah 11Why was the primary work in Egypt making bricks?A short expanation according to Chassidus.(based on Likkutei Sichos 6, 13-25)