0454 - The Rebbe Spoke Very Sharply Against the Sefer Hatkufa Hagdola

00:01 The Rebbe spoke in many farbrengens, many sichas, against saying that what we have now in Eretz Yisroel is azchaltu degula, is the beginning of the geulah. Because there are some people say since the, uh, Yisroel is in the hands of Eden, so it's already the beginning of the geulah. And the Rebbe spoke very, very strongly against it many times. And the main raya that the Rebbe has is that since everything has to be taken from halakhah, this is also has to be taken from halakhah. And the one that paskas in halakhah what the seder of the geulah will be is the Rambam. And the Rambam doesn't say anything that's happening now. The Rambam says the seder is at the end of Hilchot Melakhim, close to the end, Pe'erik Dalef. The Rambam writes that the seder will be Yaamed Melech on Beis David. There will be a king from Beis David. He will learn Torah a lot like David, Torah Shebikdosh and Torah Sheba'al Peh, and he's gonna do all the mitzvahs, and he's gonna make sure that other people also do the mitzvahs. He'll cham rechames Hashem, and then he will build the Beis Hamikdash, a whole seder. And as long as it's not that seder, it's not part of the geulah at all. And nobody argues on the Rambam. And the klal in the Rambam is that if no poskim beforshim of the Rambam argue, asim under maskim. So everybody is maskim to what the Rambam says is the seder of the geulah. And

01:13 as long as that didn't happen, we know it's not even azchaltu degula. I have a ray from a gadol thinking about it here, a midrash there, a reshali here. As long as it's not halakhah, we can't pasken anything from there. Over mele al pi halakhah, this is not azchaltu degula. The Rebbe spoke very sharp many times. But what I wanna mention is what he said by the farbrengen of Parshas Breishes, the second farbrengen, Tov Shin Lamed Alef, because that year, Simchat Torah was Thursday and Friday, so the main big farbrengen of Simchat Torah was the end of Shabbos Breishes, second farbrengen, in addition to the farbrengen in the morning, in the afternoon. So there the Rebbe spoke very strongly against the union of azchaltu degula, and the main thing he spoke about was that at that time, not long before that, Rebbe Nachum Kasher, who is the mechaber of the Torah Sheleima, gave out a sefer, a very big, thick sefer. He called it Hatkufa Hagdola, and the whole sefer is based on explaining that the way it's now, it's azchaltu degula. And the Rebbe went strongly against him, and he said, "How could you say such a thing?" And the Rebbe even complained for other people why they're quiet and they're not going out against it. The Rebbe said, "I spoke to somebody and I asked him, 'You also believe that it's not azchaltu degula. Why are you quiet?'" And the Rebbe asked him, "Did you read the sefer?" And he said, "I read

02:24 the Hagdola." And nothing else, so he said, "Well, I also read the Hagdola to Kol Hator," which is, I guess, the, a section in the sefer called Kol Hator, which is meyuchas, I think, to the Grod, they say. From there, he wanted to prove that it's azchaltu degula now and there must be a Hagdola there, something like that. And the Rebbe said... So he told the Rebbe that he read the Hagdola. But the Rebbe complained, "Why are you quiet?" And the Rebbe said this is against the Rambam, and he himself brings the Rambam in his sefer, this Rambam that the Rebbe's quoting. And Rebbe does- doesn't realize that it's a contradiction to everything that he says. And then the Rebbe used the expression with this tone, "Un dos ruft men nan hatkufa hagdola." And this you call hatkufa hagdola, the big season, the big period in history, that you're calling this the big ser-- uh, uh, period in history. And the Rebbe spoke very much against that. And here we see the sa- seder of the Rebbe that even though the Rebbe held from Rebbe Nachum Kasher, the Rebbe quotes his sefer, his Svarim, Torah Sheleima, a lot of times in the sichas. Nevertheless, when the Rebbe saw that he writes something that's against the Torah Hashkafa, the Rebbe came out full force against him. And the Rebbe spoke about this not only then, but many other times to make sure that people don't, chas v'shalom, make a mistake that the state of Israel is

03:36 azchaltu degula.