*From the Rebbe’s Father זצ״ל*

Lech Lecha

*That I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal*, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Avram rich.

14:23

Talmud Sota (17a)

Rava taught : *As reward for that which our Patriarch Abraham said* (to the king of Sodom)

*That* (I will not take) *a*

*thread nor a shoe strap*

*his children merited two mitzvot* *The thread of sky-blue*

(Tzizit), *and the strap of Tefilin*.

Question’s

A) Why was it *RAVA* who expounded on the words of *Avrohom*?

B) What is the connection of *Shoes* & *Tefilin*?

C) The Emphases of the *STRAP* of the Shoe?

תורת לוי יצחק ע׳ עא

ילקוט לוי יצחק לך לך סימן צד