Daily Dose of Geulah for Tu B'Shevat

mimivan

Sun, Feb 08 2009, 12:51 pm

Certainly (one must) take advantage of the farbrengan (Chassidic gathering) for the Rosh Hashana of the trees to awaken the desire and the longing to the point of joy through the knowledge that imminently and immediately we are entering Eretz Yisroel to eat from the fruits of the land, to enjoy their goodness, and to fulfill the mizvos that depend on the land of Israel in ultimate completeness (The mitzvah as You wished).

May it be Your will that even before the 15th of Shvat will be the final, complete growth of the person named Tzemach (plant) and upon him it was said there would arise a tribe a king, a governor from Israel, and it came as a sprout from the lineage of Yishai and an outgrowth of his root will blossom. There will stand a king from the House of Dovid, a king appointed to fight the wars of Hashem, the war with Amelek for Hashem, and he will build the Holy Temple in its place.

--The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Mencahem Mendel Schneersohn, Sicha parsahs Beshalach, 1992)