THE DREAM OF EXILE - PART 2

Translated by Boruch Merkur

The wall of exile is not fully intact; it has windows, cracks, splits, and holes. Through these windows and cracks, Moshiach Tzidkeinu gazes and watches. Moshiach stands behind the wall and eagerly awaits and looks, wondering when will he finally be able to come! Of course, he does not suffice with a passive role, just observing. Rather, Moshiach’s gaze has an actual impact in bringing about the redemption. * Part 2 of 2

Constantly speaking about the advent of Moshiach actually brings about its manifestation in the psychical world (below ten handbreadths). SPEAK ABOUT MOSHIACH UNTIL THEY ARE COMPELLED TO SEND HIM

The reason why we constantly speak about the imminent coming of Moshiach Tzidkeinu is because that is the fact; it is no mere dream!

As discussed above, “all predicted dates for the advent of Moshiach have passed and the matter is only dependent upon t’shuva, repentance,” and t’shuva can be done “in a single moment, in a single instance.” Thus, Moshiach Tzidkeinu comes immediately, in reality!

But even if Moshiach has not yet come, and even if Eliyahu HaNavi has not yet come, we speak about it again and again, at every farbrengen – once, twice, even three times, which “is a chazaka, a presumed condition.” We speak about the imminence of Moshiach even a hundred times, at which point habituation becomes habit, the person’s nature (see Tanya Ch. 15) (“second nature,” or “habituation becomes one’s nature” period) – even a hundred and one times (see Chagiga 9b, Tanya Ch. 15; see Likkutei Sichos Vol. 26 pg. 208, note 45). And if, G-d forbid, Moshiach does not come tomorrow or even by today at Mincha time, we shall speak about it yet again, until they will be pestered to such a degree (“nudged,” as people say) – both below and likewise On High, as it were – that it actually brings about the advent of Moshiach!

“MORE THAN THE CALF WANTS TO SUCKLE, THE COW WANTS TO FEED”

This is especially the case insofar as the “cow” is more concerned about it than the “calf” (ala “more than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to feed” –P’sachim 112a, end), as it is written: “‘G-d, your L-rd shall return your returnees’ – it doesn’t say ‘heishiv – return [others]’ but ‘shav – [He shall] return,’ teaching that the 
Alm-ghty returns with them, among the exiles.’” [That is to say that G-d Himself is anxious to bring about the redemption, for until that time, He suffers, as it were, (along with the Jewish people, His chosen nation) in exile.]

So too with regard to Moshiach, “Behold, he stands behind our walls, observing through the windows, peering through the cracks” – Moshiach stands behind the wall and eagerly awaits and looks, wondering when will he finally be able to come!

The wall is not fully intact; it has windows, cracks, splits, and holes. Through these windows and cracks, Moshiach Tzidkeinu gazes and watches. Of course, [he does not suffice with a passive role, just observing, rather] Moshiach’s gaze has an actual impact.

CONSTANTLY SPEAKING ABOUT IT MAKES THE “DREAM” OF MOSHIACH A REALITY

At every opportunity we continue to speak about the “dream” of Moshiach (according to those who argue that exile is real), for Moshiach Tzidkeinu is indeed coming.

If there are still questions, then “The Tishbi [i.e., Eliyahu HaNavi] will answer difficulties and enquiries,” a phrase that spells the acronym “Teiku” (Tishbi Yitaretz Kushios V’abayos).

Constantly speaking about the advent of Moshiach actually brings about its manifestation in the psychical world (below ten handbreadths), “and he shall fly with the clouds of the heaven,” which is the ultimate dream…

May Moshiach come immediately, on this Shabbos and in this beis midrash, and we shall daven together with him, T’fillas Mincha of Shabbos in the Third Beis HaMikdash, “with our youth and with our elders, etc., with our sons and with our daughters,” all the Jewish people, alive in this physical world.

(From the address of Shabbos Parshas Pinchas 5740, bilti muga)