Ki Teitzei
Likkutei Sichos 19 — Why Remembering Amalek and Shabbos Seem to Clash
Explores the six perpetual mitzvos including remembering Amalek and Shabbos, why repeating a mitzvah still counts, and a chassidic reading of Amalek as spiritual 'vinegar' that can be transformed.
Rabbi Schapiro on the Parshah: Ki Teitzei
Traces the din that a worker may eat grapes or grain while laboring in his employer's field, but may not take any home, to the principle that Hashem keeps every mitzvah He commands, making Bnei Yisrael His own workers entitled to the same right. Draws on the Rambam in Hilchot Teshuvah to show that the physical blessings Hashem promises for Torah and mitzvot are not the true sechar, reserved for Olam Haba, but peirot eaten in this world that remove obstacles and free a person to keep learning and doing more. Distinguishes, through the bracha of Borei Nefashot, between the kerem's grapes, representing service done with ta'anug like a ben, and the standing grain, representing service done out of necessity like an eved, tying this to the two names Yaakov and Yisrael, and shows that Hashem grants the peirot to both.
Parshas Ki Seitzei
A vort on Parshas Ki Seitzei exploring Rashi's distinction between an obligatory war (milchemes mitzvah) and a discretionary one (milchemes reshus).