Chezkas Moshiach/Moshiach Vadai

ראוי להיות משיח: 

We have someone in every generation - a tzaddik in that time & if Hashem wants to bring Moshiach n his generation then he is Moshiach. If that generation doesn't have the zechus then he doesn't become Moshiach and Moshiach doesn't come in that generation. This is the nassi hador = moshiach hador. Rebbi Yehuda's students said their Rebbe is Moshiach, then found froof for R' Chanina...no contradiction because these people each lived in a different generation and each of them was the Moshiach of the generation. 

חזקת משיח:

1) He starts to do the peulos of Moshiach - he's trying to be Moshiach and if someone's trying to be Moshiach you have to follow him

2) It's the time of golus (once it's geulah he's for sure Moshiach)

*He's from Beis Dovid

*In his personal life he's a tzaddik - he keeps torah shebaal peh & torah shebichsav perfectly (so obviously can't be osoh ha'ish because he didn't keep torah shebaal peh - also shabsai tzvi they saw he wasn't so careful with mitzvos)

*He'll influence the world & people around him - get the yidden to follow the ways of Hashem - not by force but nicely (and not changing halacha to accomadate them either)

*He fights the wars of Hashem - Rebbe says this isn't a physical war - it's a spiritual war against assimilation. We're in that war now. The Rebbe never used an umbrella: "Did you ever see a soldier with an umbrella?"

משיח וודאי:

1) he succeeded and is for sure Moshiach - a fact- he is the real Moshiach that Hashem promised about in the Torah - Moshiach that brings geula & the BHMK. 

2) After geula - there is no way back, geula is forever -- so if he brings Geula he's for sure Moshiach

Builds the BHMK, gathers all the yidden to eretz yisroel, wins the war, brings yidden back to yiddishkeit, & succeeds against the goyim. Will make the whole world serve Hashem - even the goyim - but that's not part of Moshiach vadai. 

If it's possible for Moshiach to have techias hameisim and bring geula, how do we know it's not a tzaddik from a long time ago, not just the Rebbe? 

The same person who will be Moshiach has to start the job right before Moshiach comes - he has to prepare the yidden for geula (Rambam hints this & the Rebbe explains it). 

The Situation Now

Chezkas Moshiach has to be revealed - he can't be a hidden tzaddik - everyone has to know about him. The Rebbe already said we have a chezkas moshiach in our generation & yehi ratzon that we should already be zoche to get Moshiach vadai = complete geula. 

How do you know who isn't Moshiach?

Yes, someone can be chezkas moshiach and then he's not Moshiach anymore. 

If...1) He wasn't successful - you see the opposite of success - he's pushing Yidden further away from Yiddishkeit. 

2) He was killed (in a war) this is the exact opposite of success in war - not only did he not succeed in war but he lost 

*If someone passed away he can still be Moshiach - he can get up by techias hameisim and continue the process of Moshiach. Yes, in general techias hameisim is in the 2nd tekufa but for specific individuals can have techias hameisim even before Moshiach. Throughout history people had individual techias hameisim and so can Moshiach. 

The difference between dying and being killed:

Rambam writes neherag-killed- because if a chezkas moshiach passes away he's not disqualified from being Moshiach. Death is not the opposite of succeeding in the wars - his job can continue on when he will wake up by techias hameisim & he'll continue as Moshiach vadai. Moshiach can get up before everyone else because for specific individuals there can be techias hameisim before Moshiach comes. The Rebbe says the frierdiker rebbe is Moshiach & will bring geulah - some tzaddikim will wake up right away before the beis hamikdosh. 

Moshiach must start the job right right at the end of golus, so it can't be a Moshiach from a while ago who will get up by techias hameisim. 

Story: Yishayahu: 

A king from beis dovid is a grandson of chizkiyahu hamelech - a very special person, influence bnei yisroel to do torah & mitzvos, got rid of all the avoda zara for a long time -- was chezkas Moshiach. Mitzrayim had a fight with Naharayim and eretz yisroel was in the middle, and mitzrayim said 'I just want to go through eretz yisroel'. Mitzrayim said if you don't let me I'll have a war with you, so he fought with him and Yishayahu had 200 arrows in his body. A good melech kasher - he said Hashem will fight for us with the goyim - it doesn't have to do with the yidden, but he still didn't let. 

1. ונתתי שלום בארץ 

I will peace that no one with fight with the Yidden. 

2. וחרב לא תעבור בארצכם

A sword will not go through eretz yisroel (even a goy's sword to another goy's sword)

He thought it was the time of Moshiach because he fulfilled chezkas Moshiach, so he figured that paroh won't be able to go through eretz yisroel because of this posuk. It also hints to in the gemara that yishayahu is Chezkas Moshiach because after 300 arrows hit him, he started speaking 'Hashem s right - tzedek hu' that he shouldn't have gone to to a navi - yirmiahu - to tell him that he's Moshiach 

UMOS HAOLAM L’ASID LAVO

What the Torah says on Osoh Ha'Ish

Rambam brings out 3 points: 

1) Moshiach will make it good for the yidden in gashmius - redeem them from their golus troubles

2) Moshiach will gather the yidden to eretz Yisroel

3) Moshiach will strengthen their torah and mitzvos

Osoh ha'ish did the opposite of all 3 things. Was a stumbling block, killed a lot of yidden and made a lot of troube for them, spread us out instead of gathering us to eretz yisroel, tried to change the torah, caused the majority of the world to serve avoda zara

If he was killed = not success, can't be Moshiach

Moshiach vadai = means he actually succeeded, didn't just trie

If he was just died he can have techias hameisim and continue the job but not if he was killed

So why did Hashem out Osoh Ha'Ish into the plan?

The fact that Islam and x-ianity pave the path for Moshiach is from Hashem because they spread the concept of Hashem, Moshiach, Mitzvoos - so when Moshiach comes these concepts will we known already

What will be with Goyim when Moshiach comes?

Rashi: They will be converted – regular yidden – source
“In moshiach’s times I will call the goyim and they will all speak about Hashem echod”
Q: Gemara says we don’t accept geirim at 2 times 1. In the time of shlomo hamelech 2. In the times of moshiach – when it’s good for the yidden – want him to be sincere.
A: We won’t accept converts at first. Because first everything will look good physically, but eventually enough of the light of Hashem will be revealed and they will see the beauty in yiddishkeit then we’ll let them convert because it’s for the right reason.

2nd opinion: Rambam
The goyim are going to stay goyim, just they will start keeping sheva mitzvos bnei noach. Yiddin always have a responsibility to make sure the goyim are keeping sheva mitzvos bnei noach- but once we have the power to do it, then we have to enforce it.
Source: Shimon & Levi killed the whole city of shchem when the took dina – one of the sheva mitzvos is giluy arayos – besides for which they have to make judges & make a system to make sure its enforced in their community

The world was created for yidden to do mitzvos
Why were goyim created?
1. make it not boring, add company
2. make bechira for yidden-a challenge to keep mitzvos

Alter Rebbe: The goyim will do some mitzvos besides sheva mitzvos
We know that goyim will be slaves – eved cnani – responsible for more mitzvos – has to go through a certain conversion process beforehand
Every yid will have 2800 slaves – each corner of tzitzis will have 10 from each of the 70 nations. 7x4x10 – whoever is zoche to keep the mitzvos of slaves
Husbands zechuyos go to the wife and vice versa- even before marriage they affect each other

You see from all 3 opinions that goyim will exist when Moshiach comes.

Seuda L'Asid Lavo

סעודה לעתיד לבא

Midrash: How they'll be killed

The Shor Habor & the Levyoson will kill each other at the same time. Shor Habor will kill with its horns & the levyoson will kill with its fins. It's going to be a show, like a circus. 

Who will get to watch the show> People that didn't participate in goyshe entertainment (movies, music, theaters, etc)

Who will get to eat it? People that kept kosher. 

אז ימלא שחוק פינו

We'll watch it and laugh - just like people watch a bull fight and laugh at how the bull thinks it's in charge but really it's being teased and the guy knows exactly what he's doing. We'll laugh at how we battled the yetzer hara and how our yetzer hara thought it had power. 

Another interpretation: we'll see all the physical wars that bnei yisroel had with the goyim - like a movie throughout history. 

If our yetzer hara really doesn't have any control what's with bechira chofshis? 

Part of controlling the animals - circus people tease animals & it seems like the animal is put down, but really it's to lift him. Same with us and Hashem. Hashem sometimes puts us in the situation - it looks bad at the time we'll see how it was really yerida ltzorech aliya. 

What's the difference between simcha and schok? 

Simcha: Happiness is from something of value that's limited - it's connected to some greater accomplishment. 

Schok: laughter out of fun is unlimited - it's not limited to a reason - you're just laughing. When the Shor Habor & Levyoson are fighting there will be such great joy it will be unlimited - laughter. 

יין המשומר

It's from brias haolam - 4768 years old. Wine, the older the better. 

Q: Why are the Avos not going to say kiddush and Dovid will? Aren't the Avos greater than Dovid? 

A: Regarding this specific topic, Dovid is greater. 

You have to have 4 things to bentch on the kos:

1) bris 2)torah 3) eretz 4) beis hamikdosh

	Pshat	Maharal’s Opinion	Maharsha’s Opinion
Avraham	Had a son - yishmael	Children caused trouble in golus	Children didn’t have a bris milah
Yitzchak	Had a son - eisav	Children caused trouble in golus	Children didn’t have a bris milah
Yaakov	Got married to 2 sisters which was later assur	The children- shvatim split into malchus yisroel & yehuda – children caused machlokes	Torah doesn’t allow marrying 2 sisters (torah)
Moshe	Didn’t enter eretz yisroel	Fact that Moshe didn’t enter eretz yisroel	Didn’t go to eretz yisroel (eretz yisroel)
Yehoshua	Didn't have children to live on	Didn’t have a continuation so he can’t be connected to geula	No children to continue the process of building the bhmk (BHMK)
Dovid Hamelech	No problems – kos yishuos esa uvshem Hashem ekra’	Dovid represents Moshiach coming out of him.	Dovid had shlomo to continue building, and fulfilled all 4!

THE CUP

It will be 221 Lug. 2) We know this because dovid said 'kos rivaya' a cup that satisfied & the gematria of rivaya is 221. 2) The level of the kos is the level of arich - which is the gematria of 221. 

Q: How is Dovid going to make kiddush onto such a big cup? 

A: The shor habor & levyoson will give us strength. We'll never have to eat again & we'll have so much strength that we'll be able to hold it. 

The Mayla of the cup: Gavia is a pitcher it-it fills other cups, 'kos' is small. 

Kos yishuos ESA uvshem Hashem ekra

Baalei Teshuva will merit to drink Yayin Hamishumar

Q. How coma a man who NEVER sinned can't drink wine?

A: Not litarally! Baalei teshuva are people who overcame a challenge, even something little like a tayva. Therefore all of Yidden are baalei teshuva.

Q: But still the PSHAT is that it's baalei teshuva. Why are baalei teshuva greater than tzaddikim?

A: A Baal Teshuva turns of his aveiros to good, because the sparks of elokus that are in 3 klipos hatemeios are much higher than in klipas noga. A baal teshuva naturally does so many more mitzvos than a regular person & with so much more chayus. It's like a stream that's blocked & then let out - there's lots of energy. 

Baal Teshuva has a harder challenge because since he already did aveiros it's much harder for him to overcome the temptation the next time. 

*We are on the level of maharsha & rambash but not of the Alter Rebbe. 

1) In a smaller scale than a REAL baal teshuva

2) if you get someone to do teshuva, it's as if you did it. 

Who will actually drink?

1) Either someone who practically is a baal teshuva 

2) someone with challenges

Why do we say 'lchayim ulvracha"?

Wine has a lot of power. It brings out the inner part of a person. We say lchayim ulvracha because we want to bring out the good part in a person. 

2 times that wine brought out bad:

1) Adam - it was  a grape tree that brought out bad

2) Noach - wine brought upon a curse 

So we say lchayim ulvracha so only good things should come from it. 

Chof Ches Nissan

כח ניסן

“Chas veshalom there are some yidden that it’s comprehensible to them that moshiach won’t come tonight, tomorrow, the next day, etc.”

1) Where is the source for this in Torah?
Achakeh lo bichol yom sheyavo – 13 ikkarim –
A person who believes in Moshiach but doesn’t wait for him, is kofer the torah. At least it should be in our mind that we’re expecting him.
1. How could you say he’s a kofer – he believes?
2. How could the Rambam say this is one of the foundations of yiddishkeit?

2) Story:
R’ Yehoshuah ben leivei had a lot of connections with eliyahu hanavi. One day met eliyahu hanavi by the cave of r’shimon bar yochai. R’ yehoshua said I heard 3 sounds but I saw 2 people. (the 3rd was Hashem).
Asked eliyahu ‘when will moshiach come?’ he said ‘why don’t you go ask moshiach.’
‘who is moshiach’
‘(in that generation) he sits by the sick people in rome – the point is Moshiach is found wherever the yidden are exiled)
asked him eimosai kosi mar
said today – so he got all excited
next time he sees eliyahu hanavi he says ‘he told me a lie!’
he explained ‘hayom im bkolo tishmau – today if you will listen to Hashem’
moshiach wanted to teach r’ yehoshua a lesson that the answer has to be ‘hayom’

3) Explanation of the meforshim on Rambam - MISSING THIS PART 

4)Why is this the basis of the torah? 

Because when moshiach comes we can do all the mitzvos – so someone that’s not waiting for this time is a kofer – shows his attitude towards mitzvos

Shema yisroel Hashem elokeinu – for now Hashem is only our G-d, Hashem echod – but when Moshiach comes Hashem will be echod

according to Rashi you have to have in mind Moshiach

Question of the Rebbe Maharash & explanation of lechatchila ariber: MISSING THIS PART

Tut Altz Vos Ir Kent

Q: What specifically will bring Moshiach closer?

LEARNING INYONEI MOSHICH & GEULA

Why learning?

1) Hashem created a world through torah - Torah is the blueprint. So when we learn Torah, we bring Torah down. Same with learning about Geula- when we learn about geula we bring geula down. 

2) Through learning yinyonei geula it becomes clear the signs of Moshiach coming and WE come to believe it. 

Q: It says Moshiach will come unexpectedly. So how can we learn about Moshiach - then we'll be expecting him?! 

A: 2 amorim were calculating when Moshiach would come. Another amorah told them that by calculating they're prolonging Moshiach. When someone tries to calculate & figure it out with his knowledge, then this can stop Moshiach C"V. But we know that it's beyond our knowledge to decide when Moshiach's coming, so then learning about moshiach BRINGS moshiach. 

Proof: Most of our davening is talking about Moshiach - so you can't say we're not supposed to think about moshiach and then it will be unexpected. 

2nd Major thing to bring Moshiach: TZEDAKA

Why?

1) In Tanya it says gemara says whenever the word 'mitzvah' is used, it refers to tzedaka. Why? When someone works he puts his whole life into making money. When he gives tzedakah all that energy is converted to kedusha. Since the point of Moshiach is to elevate all gashmius, if we have the intention of Moshiach while giving tzedaka it will bring Moshiach. 

גדולה צדקה שמקרבת את הגאולה2 

THE STORY ON RAV GUTNICK - DON'T HAVE IT

"Moshiach won't come until all the neshamos have been born"

A way to bring Moshiach is to have kids. Having kids has a special bracha to bring Moshiach quicker, because Moshiach will come when all the neshamas from the treasure up in Shamayim (gof) come to this world. 

Q: The Rebbe said our work is done - so what's the point of having more kids now?

Intro:

When Moshiach comes 2 things will be different about giving birth. 

1) The won't be pain because cheit eitz hadaas will go away

2) Instead of 9 months, pregnancy will be 9 hours. 

Q: Where will neshamos come from when Moshiach comes if we have to finish up the treasure for Moshiach to come?

A: There are more neshamas that aren't from that box - the Moshiach neshamos. They were set aside when the world was created. So every neshama we bring down brings much more world to the light to get ready for Moshiach. The neshamos that we bring down now are Moshiach Neshamos.

MIVTZOIM - did we ever learn this?

Kibbutz Galiyos

קבוץ גליות

The Rebbe said: it already started nowadays, it's the only time in history that so many people came to Eretz Yisroel - especially from places that in was never possible to come from (Russia etc). 

Q. What's the difference between this view and Zionism?

Zionism:

1) When it first started was not associated with Hashem and Yiddishkeit. Wanted a Jewish state to show that the Jews are the same as all the nations and they can have their own country too. 

2)There is Frum Zionism - they say that the founding of Medinat Yisrael is the beginning of geula. There are 2 issues with this:

a. Geula has to come through Moshiach - a tzaddik who is leading bnei yisroel to come to eretz yisroel. Who is could it be then? Definitely not the government C"V - Moshiach has to be a tzaddik and help Bnei Yisroel increase in Torah and Mitzvos. 

b. Ramban: Real kibbutz galiyus comes after the Bais Hamikdash was already build - and it wasn't yet. 

Q. What's the difference between what the Rebbe said - that kibbutz galiyus started - and what the zionists say?

A: The Rebbe was saying it started in a ruchnius sense but not a physical sense. Also, the rebbe says kibbutz galiyus specifically though Moshiach, the Rebbe, not C"V the other way. 

Q. Why isn't it geula?

A: Geulah doesn't just mean that Yidden are in eretz yisroel - geula means teh whole world will be changed. 

Mashal: A husband and wife got into a fight. The wife leaves. She comes back at night to get some stuff - you might think they're back together because she's  back home, but really their relationship is not the same even though she is physically in the house. 

Bnei Yisroel are in eretz yisroel but it doesn't mean we have the geula relationship with Hashem. 

Finished Avodas Habirurim

נסתיימה עבודת הבירורים 

First Source: Yaakov Finishing the Birur

Q: Yaakov ran away from eisav, so why did he think to send him presents to make peace? Didn't he know he's putting himself at risk?

A: Yaakov thought he already finishing elevating the sparks and that the world was ready for Moshaich. He thought even eisav could be elevated not - that's why he sent him non kosher animals too. 

But...Yaakov was mistaken

Yaakov had only elevated the place where he lived -- the whole world wasn't ready for Moshiach. 

Outcome

Yaakov already lived with Moshiach. Although the world wasn't ready, he couldn't even tell because he lived Moshiach so much. Just like Menachem Mendel m'vetebsk who had to open his window to smell outside if Moshiach was there - because inside he was already living Moshiach. 

In our generation we finished elevating the world world

The Rebbe says that today we already accomplished all the birurim - the world world including the goyim. There's nothing left to do. 

How do we know it was purified completely?

1) Teshuva nullifies aveiros and more mitzvos added up than aveiros. 

2) There are shuchim going out elevating all over the world - not like yaakov, they don't just do their own daled amos but go out and affect other people. 

The Outcome: It's a fact

There were 2 ways the Rebbe talked about Moshiach: Wish & fact. Someone wrote two versions of a sicha about avodas habirurim and showed it to the Rebbe. The rebbe crossed out wish and wrote fact - it's a fact that it's already finished. 

So why don't we see what we've accomplished?

Hashem want's to challenge us. We'll get a much greater reward because it's so much harder. We were able to work even when we didn't see any results. This is how we have bechira chofshis!

Mashal: Someone that cuts wheat was offered to get paid the same amount standing in a room inside just doing the motions of cutting wheat. Even though it seems like a good deal (not hot inside, easier, etc.) it was SO much harder because he didn't see himself accomplishing anything. 

Q. How come there's evil in the world if we finished our job?

A: Finishing doesn't mean there's no evil. There's a certain percentage necessary to accomplish to bring Moshiach - so we accomplished that percent so Moshiach can come. 

In a sicha the Rebbe says we don't even need to do Teshuva, everything's finished, and in another sicha the Rebbe says we have to do Teshuva. 

Q: So which one is it- how can the Rebbe say both?

A: Bnei Yisroel did teshuva and mitzvos - enough through all the generations. So Moshiach can come, but individually we each on our own need to do teshuva - but that can't hold back Moshiach from coming. 

If there's only a small percentage of bad why is it so strong?

A; It says before Moshiach comes bad and good will separate so they'll each be very strong. (like gray being separated to black & white) Our job today is to take klipas nogah and elevate it to kedusha - physical things for Hashem. Kedusha gives energy to klipas noga who gives it to 3 klipos hatemeios - but when we elevate it to kedusha 3 klipos hatemeios don't get any energy. 

*When Moshiach comes there will still be evil (a different type of evil) an evil that won't be mixed with goodness - it won't affect the jews - our yetzer hara until techiyas hameisim. Once there is techiyas hameisim then Hashem will eliminate bad completely. 

*The Rebbe says that today we can all become tzaddikim. By elevating ourselves to the time of Moshiach we can totally get rid of evil. 

Mashal: Soldier who's paranoid after war.

Nimshal: We don't have to fight bad - we're done avodas habirurim but we are so used to fighting our yetzer hara. 

So if we finished avodas habirurim then what's left to do?

Q: The Rebbe says everything is finished and ready and there's nothing left to do, so we demand ad mosai - but in the very same sicha the rebbe says that since Moshiach is not here it's a proof that we still have things left to do. So which one is it?

A: There are 2 parts of our avoda: logic & emunah. 

According to logic of torah we finished everything. 

We still have to have emunah, which is above logic, and know that Hashem is the ultimate of justice. 

Proof: Moshe Rabbeinu

Moshe asked how come Bnei Yisroel are suffering in Mitzrayim (logic)? Hashem answered Moshe 'you have to have emunah. Yes, it doesn't make sense logically, but you have to have emunah'. 

The torah always writes in a positive way. If it's written in a negative way it's supposed to teach us something.

The lesson: We have to complain & ask Hashem 'ad mosai?!'

What's our avoda now?

To reveal Moshiach in actuality 

Avoda Chadasha: We have to accept the light of Moshiach and realize the truth. In order to accept we have to understand it - so we have to learn. The more we learn the more we can accept! Every mitzvah we do we must have in mind that it's for Moshiach. 

Mashal: A man goes to the hospital to get better. Once he's already healed, in order to get out of the hospital it's a whole procedure, paperwork, etc. etc. 

Bnei Yisroel went into golus to get purified=cured. Now the world is cured, we are finished and ready to go out. Now we just have to do the procedure of getting cured - we have to prove that we are healthy and ready to go out. 

Proof: Kal Vchomer from Yaakov

Yaakov himself was ready for Moshiach but the world wasn't ready, so Moshiach couldn't come. The Rebbe says if yaakov was ready & the world wasn't, how much more so now when the world IS ready. 

Moshiach Notes

Here were my notes from class...it's really missing a lot though so don't depend on it. The notes from the review class are below. 

UMOS HAOLAM L’ASID LAVO
Rashi: They will be converted – regular yidden – source
“In moshiach’s times I will call the goyim and they will all speak about Hashem echod”
Q: Gemara says we don’t accept geirim at 2 times 1. In the time of shlomo hamelech 2. In the times of moshiach – when it’s good for the yidden – want him to be sincere.
A: We won’t accept converts at first. Because first everything will look good physically, but eventually enough of the light of Hashem will be revealed and they will see the beauty in yiddishkeit then we’ll let them convert because it’s for the right reason.

2nd opinion: Rambam
The goyim are going to stay goyim, just they will start keeping sheva mitzvos bnei noach. Yiddin always have a responsibility to make sure the goyim are keeping sheva mitzvos bnei noach- but once we have the power to do it, then we have to enforce it.
Source: Shimon & Levi killed the whole city of shchem when the took dina – one of the sheva mitzvos is giluy arayos – besides for which they have to make judges & make a system to make sure its enforced in their community

The world was created for yidden to do mitzvos
Why were goyim created?
1. make it not boring, add company
2. make bechira for yidden-a challenge to keep mitzvos

Alter Rebbe: The goyim will do some mitzvos besides sheva mitzvos
We know that goyim will be slaves – eved cnani – responsible for more mitzvos – has to go through a certain conversion process beforehand
Every yid will have 2800 slaves – each corner of tzitzis will have 10 from each of the 70 nations. 7x4x10 – whoever is zoche to keep the mitzvos of slaves
Husbands zechuyos go to the wife and vice versa- even before marriage they affect each other

You see from all 3 opinions that goyim will exist when Moshiach comes.

Seuda
Levyoson – created zochor & nekaiva but Hashem saw that if they would have children the world wouldn’t be able to exist because too powerful – killed the nekaiva and salted the meat for the seuda of moshiach – the zochos still exists and chazal say every time you have an earthquake in the water it’s because the levyoson is moving- why don’t we see it now? It’s a physical animal but now it’s not necessarily in a way we can see it – physical potential – levyoson will shecht the shor habor with it’s sharp fins
Shor habor – a bull – bheima bharrei alaf – his food every day is a thousand mountains – but it’s not really physical now – that’s the amount of energy it gives off
Yayin hameshumar

Introduction according to chassidus
Some meforshim don’t accept that it will be physical – for example maharal
When will this seuda take place? If it’s in gan eiden there’s no idea of eating gashmius, so he explains its ruchnius concepts.
Avodash hakodesh says it’s going to be a physical seudah. He holds that the time of the seudah is in yemos hamoshiach (physical) not in gan eiden.
There are 2 kinds of neshamos of tzaddikim. Some are dealing more with ruchniusdike things (example r’ shimon bar yochai – couldn’t physically do mitzvos)
Alma diskasya – don’t feel the identity only the source- levyoson- the tzaddikim whose avoda
Shechita is an elevation of the animal – before it wasn’t kosher and now it is – shor habor is the idea of dira btachtonim, elevating
They’ll kill each other – so we’ll have both aspects in our life


ZIONISM
Rambam: bais hamikdosh then kibbutz galiyus, also zohar
Medrash: kibbutz galiyus then bais hamikdosh
The second one is always higher, gets high from the first one

No one disagrees with rambam in halacha
So halachically there is no way for kibbutz galiyus before

So what’s the difference between us and Zionism?
MOSHIACH is here…but this is not the beginning of geulah

CHOF CHES NISSAN
“Chas veshalom there are some yidden that it’s comprehensible to them that moshiach won’t come tonight, tomorrow, the next day, etc.”
Where is the source for this in Torah?
Achakeh lo bichol yom sheyavo – 13 ikkarim –
A person who believes in Moshiach but doesn’t wait for him, is kofer the torah. At least it should be in our mind that we’re expecting him.
1. How could you say he’s a kofer – he believes?
2. How could the Rambam say this is one of the foundations of yiddishkeit?

Source of the Rambam:
R’ Yehoshuah ben leivei had a lot of connections with eliyahu hanavi. One day met eliyahu hanavi by the cave of r’shimon bar yochai. R’ yehoshua said I heard 3 sounds but I saw 2 people. (the 3rd was Hashem).
Asked eliyahu ‘when will moshiach come?’ he said ‘why don’t you go ask moshiach.’
‘who is moshiach’
‘(in that generation) he sits by the sick people in rome – the point is Moshiach is found wherever the yidden are exiled)
asked him eimosai kosi mar
said today – so he got all
next time he sees eliyahu hanavi he says ‘he told me a lie!’
he explained ‘hayom im bkolo tishmau – today if you will listen to Hashem’
moshiach wanted to teach r’ yehoshua a lesson that the answer has to be ‘hayom’

why is this the basis of the torah? Because when moshiach comes we can do all the mitzvos – so someone that’s not waiting for this time is a kofer – shows his attitude towards mitzvos

shema yisroel Hashem elokeinu – for now Hashem is only our G-d, Hashem echod – but when Moshiach comes Hashem will be echod
according to Rashi you have to have in mind Moshiach

Moshiach in Jewish History
Story of Yehuda & Tamar:
1. Why is it put here before the story of yosef?
2. Why is it written at all?
General explanation: Hashem puts the cure before the sickness – before they go down to mitzrayim you have the concept of Moshiach coming from Yehuda

FINISHED AVODAS HABIRURIM

Q: if we finished avodas habirurim why is there still evil in the world?
A: only need a certain percentage purified to bring moshiach- its not our business- Hashem wants it that way but we finished our avoda
Parshas noach nun beis: we have to do teshuva as a preparation for moshiach- Rebbe paused- don’t we always say everyones ready? Moshiach’s about to come- am yisroel in general is ready – nothing could stop Moshiach from coming- individually people need to do teshuva but not anything that would stop Moshiach from coming
Q: Why is there so much more bad?
A: bad is mixed with good- as they start to separate, good becomes extremely good & bad becomes extremely bad
Once the klipa has no kedusha then it can disappear
Q: Why don’t we see it? That we finished purifying?
A: once Hashem shows us how much we’ve accomplished, we won’t have any bechira
new avoda- bring the hisgalus to the world
moshiach is here – we have to accept it
1. learning
2. ad mosai, begging for it
3. every act should be done with focus of moshiach
mashal of hospital

Yaakov avinu: only he was ready, now the Rebbe says the whole world is ready

THESE WERE FROM THE REVIEW CLASS:

NISTAYMA AVODAS HABIRURIM

The first case of finishing avodas habirurim was the case of yaakov – yaakov worked & learned torah – he thought that he had already purified the whole world – that’s why he sent messengers to eisav lets be friends- thought esav didn’t have evil anymore. Eisav sent a message back that he’s ready to kill him anyway – the point of the problem is that the world was not ready.

The outcome: Yaakov personally had finished elevating, but the world wasn’t finished being purified.

 

In our days the Rebbe said we finished avodas habirurim.

Story: Rebbitzen Chaya Mushka said to someone that there was a tzaddik that heard shofar outside so he opened the window to smell – said Moshiach’s not here. Inside he was living Moshiach, but had to check if the world was ready.

 

How do you know if the world is ready? The shluchim went out and purified the whole world. It’s not just a wish that he world is purified, it’s a fact.

 

So why don’t we see it? If we would see that the world is ready, we wouldn’t have free choice – we have the challenge that we don’t see what we’re accomplishing. Like the poretz that made the guy cut the wheat and he couldn’t see what he was doing so so much harder.

 

KIBBUTZ GALIYUS BIZMANEINU

Nun beis the rebbe said that kibbutz galiyus in a certain aspect happened – a tasta of kibbutz galiyos. Some came from Russia, now there’s no place in the world that it’s not possible to go to eretz yisroel.

Prob with Zionism:

1- not connected with Hashem & yiddishkeit

2- frum Zionism – the Israeli gov. is not Moshiach – kibbutz galiyos has to come through Moshiach – moshiach then kibbutz galiyos