Daily Dose of Geulah: Completing the Work of Refinement

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Mon, May 24 2010, 4:20 am

In relation to the pasuk, “In the six hundredth year of the life of Noach, etc., all the fountains of the great deep were broken (and the windows of the heavens were
opened),” the Zohar teaches that “beginning with the six hundredth year in the sixth millennium, the gates of wisdom Above and the fountains of wisdom below will be opened, and the world will be corrected in order that it may enter the seventh millennium (the days of Moshiach), etc.” “Wisdom Above” refers to the wisdom of Torah, and “wisdom below” – the wisdoms of the world, and as we actually see, there has been in these times an additional revelation in the wisdom of Torah, the inner teachings of Torah, and in the wisdoms of the world – all in order that the world will be corrected so that it may enter the seventh millennium.”
(Likkutei Sichos, Vol. 6, Parshas Noach)

In the days of Moshiach, after the completion of the avoda of birurim, removing the evil from the good, “the involvement in Torah and mitzvos will not be in order to elevate the holy sparks, rather to create more sublime yichudim (spiritual unification)…and everything will be through the inner teachings of Torah by fulfilling mitzvos with supreme devotions…the inner meaning to the mitzvos and their hidden reasons”
(Tanya, Igeres HaKodesh 26).
(Kuntres “Torah Chadasha M’Iti Teitzei” 5751)

“How is it possible that there will be no need to know the laws of issur and hetter (the forbidden and the permissible) in the days of Moshiach…for how will they slaughter the sacrifices and even meat for common usage if they don’t know the laws of drusa, chalada, and shehiya (pressing, passing, and pausing), which
render the sh’chita unfit, and regarding a defect in the knife? Will a person be born who by his very nature will slaughter without shehiya and drusa, and will a
knife be created and remain forever without defect?
(Tanya, Igeres HaKodesh 26)

“Even then they will have to know the laws of issur and hetter, pure and impure” (ibid.), “but that which is revealed will be known to every Jew with basic knowledge
without forgetfulness, and there will be no need to be involved with it.”
(Kuntres “Torah Chadasha M’Iti Teitzei” 5751)

And how is this avoda (of bringing Moshiach Tzidkeinu in actual deed) expressed? This is also quite simple: In the increase of Torah and mitzvos, in the study of
Torah – the revealed and inner teachings of Torah and stringent observance of mitzva fulfillment. This especially includes the prevailing matter of the hour – the fulfillment of the custom (as the Alter Rebbe writes in his siddur) to say and learn Pirkei Avos (after the Mincha prayer) on Shabbosim between Pesach and
Shavuos, and on all the Shabbosim of the summer.
(Shabbos Parshas Shmini 5751)

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
Selected by Rabbi Pinchas Maman
Translated by Michoel Lieb Dobry

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