Sunday, February 17, 2008

Moshiach concealed

Just like we find that Moshe ascended to the rakia with body and soul and he was there for 40 days, similarly [it will be with] Moshiach after he merits to that neshoma [the unique neshoma of Moshiach] and he knows himself that he is Moshiach. Thus it is written that Moshiach will be revealed but the rest of the people will not recognize him yet. Afterwards Moshiach will be concealed in body and soul in the pillar [of black fire]--in the manner of Moshe when he came to the midst of the cloud [meaning that he divested himself of his material body]--for one year. Then they will remove him to the heavenslike Moshe ascended to the heavens, and afterwards Moshiach will be completely revealed and all Israel will recognize him and they will gather to him. (8/17/06)

Ohr Hachamah on Zohar Shemos 7b

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Moshiach Will be Called by the Name of the Holy One

In addition, in tractate Bava Basra (the end and completion of golus) there is a hint to the true and complete geulah via Moshiach Tzidkeinu81, where it explains a number of the promises of the future...

81) To note that in tractate Bava Basra (75b) it is explained that Moshiach* is called by the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, "as it states (Yermiyahu 23:6) 'And this is his name, which he will be called, Hashem Tzidkeinu"**

*) In addition to the fact that "in the future tzaddikim will be called by the name of the Holy One, blessed be He" (ibid).

**) To note, from Zohar II 38a: "What is meant by the face of the master Hashem (as is stated in our parsha, 23:17) this is Rashbi" (And see what is noted in Nitzutzei Zohar there). It can be said that the uniqueness of Rashbi compared to the rest of the tzadikim is because "in him shone the dimension of the illumination of the light of Moshiach" (Siddur im da"ch, Shaar Lag B'Omer 307b).

From a sicha of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Parshas Mishpatim 5752

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