"Halachah Le'Moshe mi'Sinai" as the distillation of Torah She'be'al peh.
In general the written Torah gives to the oral Torah just as Yehonatan took of his princely armour and gave it to David. A concept that is compared to the masculine giving to the feminine. Most laws in the Torah are based on the verses they are learned out from.
However, the concept of "Halacha le'Moshe Me'Sinai" represents the essence of the Oral Torah as it exists as a direct divine gift from above. These are the halachos that do not have a proof in the oral Torah. This is not because of a lack on their part, but because they are the Oral Torah as it expresses the essence on its own.
This can be understood in the same vein as miracles beyond nature that effect the physical world, like the splitting of the sea, and miracles that are within nature itself, like the miracle of Purim. The miracles beyond nature bring shem Havaya (past, present and future as they exist as one, beyond nature) into shem E-lokim, gematria "hateva" - the divine expressed in nature. This is like the intimacy of the masculine giving to the feminine.
However, miracles that originate within nature represent the feminine aspect as it will be in the days of Moshiach, where the feminine will be equal to the masculine and will receive directly from beyond without receiving this divine flow through the masculine. Rather, as described by the mekubalim, "keser echad li'shneyhem" - "a single crown for both of them.
So "halachah le'Moshe mi'Sinai", as we learn it now, is a taste of the world to come.
(See there for an intersting explanation of the verse "hineh ha'alma hara" connected to this idea. Also, notice how in the story of David and Yehonatan, David tried on the armour, but in the end went on his on, with out it. He went instead with his slingshot, an item the Tikkunim equates with tefilin, where the black straps etc are halachah le'Moshe mi'Sinai)
Mittler Rebbe Perush Hamilos 141
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