900 ISSUES – ONE MISSION

By Divine Providence, the 900^th issue of Beis Moshiach will appear concurrent with the Kinus HaShluchim, for the goals are identical: to do the one and only remaining shlichus of the Rebbe MH”M, Kabbolas Pnei Moshiach Tzidkeinu B’Poel Mamash.

This issue, issue 900, appears concurrently with the Kinus HaShluchim.  The Rebbe MH”M teaches us that there is no coincidence and we need to learn from everything that occurs.  Therefore, there is a connection between a milestone in Beis Moshiach and the International Shluchim Convention. 

Shma milsa hu – the name of something is significant.  The Rebbe illuminates the connection between the name of things and their unique quality.  For example, in his letters to the Shluchim conventions in Eretz Yisroel, the Rebbe notes the name of the city and sometimes even the name of the neighborhood and the street.  So, it’s only natural, that when shluchim come home, to Beis Rabeinu sh’b’Bavel, to Beis Moshiach, and the 900^th issue of Beis Moshiach is published, and they bear the same name and the same significance, that we find the common denominator between them.

To be a shliach is a privilege and an enormous responsibility.  In countless sichos, the Rebbe covers the topic of shlichus from every possible angle, starting from the novel idea of sending emissaries to every corner of the world, not just to carry out specific missions but as a life’s project, to spread the wellsprings, to transform the place, and to be like the meshalei’ach himself.

The shlichus that the Rebbe innovated is both in quantity – the numbers have no precedent – and in quality – only extraordinary individuals and the elite among the Chassidim were chosen by the earlier Rebbeim, and even then, only to specific places in accordance with the need, or for a specific time or project; whereas with the Rebbe, the limitations were removed and Chassidim of all ages and levels joined and continue to join the Rebbe’s army of shluchim.

Being that this is so, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the kochos that are provided are in accordance with the task.  The Rebbe reveals and innovates more and more levels in the connection between the shliach and the meshalei’ach, or better put – in the bittul of the shliach to the meshalei’ach, together with the entire force of his existence as a shliach, who becomes, literally, like the meshalei’ach.  Not only are the actions of the shliach imputed to the meshalei’ach, but he himself, his entire being is a shliach.

All the wondrous abilities and levels, everything the Rebbe gives to all of us as shluchim, he directs and focuses on the one remaining shlichus, the shlichus to be mekabel pnei Moshiach Tzidkeinu, whom we know exists in our generation in a tangible way, and he announces to all who he is.

As the years go by, people try to find something new, other topics and slogans, in order to generate interest in the avoda of shlichus.  It’s not always so obvious that there is actually one shlichus and one only, that pertains to our times, and everything that is done needs to be permeated solely by it.  One day follows another and the days turn into weeks, into months, and years and they are all permeated with one avoda, one shlichus.

Every week a magazine is published whose picture and cover, as well as the name and mission statement never change.  Kulhoo mischalfin u’malka lo mis’chalef – “They are all subject to change and the king is not subject to change,” i.e. you can have all kinds of topics but one thing remains, the king, Melech HaMoshiach, whose home is Beis Moshiach, and the shlichus and the avoda are kabbolas pnei Moshiach.

Our goal is the goal of all the shluchim gathered here at this time, to bring the king’s message to everyone and every place.  To announce the news of the Geula; to enable, inspire, and strengthen each of us to fulfill this shlichus.  The slogan and the anthem do not change.  They express the strength of our belief and the goal, that the world in its entirety proclaim, by way of preparation and afterward in the true and complete Geula, the same proclamation: Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu V’Rabeinu Melech Ha’Moshiach L’Olam Va’ed.