The Nigun "We Want Moshiach Now" - Part 3

00:00 The hem shech, in reference to the earlier installment, B'negeah, to the nigun, We Want Mashiach Now. We continue now with installment number three, discussing additional aspects, facts, B'negeah, to this nigun. We mentioned earlier from a sicha, a talk that the Rebbe gave on Shabbos Parshat Tzav, Shushan Purim, 5751, 1981. And the Rebbe continued and elaborated on deep insights of what the word now means kabbalistically. The Rebbe said that it came to mind on that Shabbos Parshat Tzav, although the nigun, We Want Mashiach Now, already began, the children already started to sing this nigun on Simchas Torah, which was about six months earlier. But then there was a need to have an explanation about this nigun. So it was this Shabbos, the Rebbe said, Shabbos Parshat Tzav, that something came to mind, an insight, B'negeah, to this nigun. And the Rebbe connects it and elaborates on the word now. The word now, written in Yiddish, as we see children write and adults write, it is nun, alef, vav. Nun, alef, vav is the numerical value of fifty-seven. The word nun, zayin, fifty-seven, is also the letters of the word zon. And they are the numerical value of fifty-seven is a total of two sacred names of Hashem, Shem Kel and, and Shem Havayah, which is the four-letter word Yud Kei Vav Kei. And the Rebbe explains that when we speak about numerical value, it has also a connection with Purim. As the Talmud tells us that a person should drink and rejoice to the extent that

02:33 he cannot differentiate, distinguish between Baruch Mordechai and Arur Haman. Blessed is Mordechai, Arur Haman, cursed is Haman. The, the, uh, that the... So it says in the Sefarim that the gematria, the numerical value of the two words Baruch Mordechai is the same numerical value of the two words Arur Haman. So melee, the Rebbe continues, when it get to the nigun We Want Mashiach Now, that now has the summation of the numerical value of Shem Kel, which is thirty-one, and Yud Kei Vav Kei, which is twenty-six. Twenty-six and thirty-one is fifty-seven. What is the significance of these two names? Shem Kel is the Inyan of Chesed, goodness, energy, the source for all the Hashpaz, of all the energy that comes into the world that originates from the higher spheres, godliness. To the extent that the Shem Kel, as it is explained by the Kabbalists, it is according to some opinions, the beginning of the thirteen Midot Harachamim, the thirteen attributes of mercy. Kel Racham V'chalem. What are the thirteen attributes of mercy? They are higher than the chain of creation, higher than limitations. That although a person might not always deserve to get the best, but from the perspective of mercy, the person gets it because of the thirteen attributes of mercy. And the Rebbe continues, v'meile, when Shem Kel is combined with Shem Havayah, the two names which they sum up to fifty-seven, that means that the Shem Kel, the godly energy that is coming down from a level, from a source that is higher

04:53 than the chain of creation, it is the source of all, everything that is being drawn down into the world. And it comes through, and it is drawn down into the four letters of Hashem's name. V'meile then comes everywhere, in every place and in all times. As it is higher than the chain of creation, it comes down here, descends into this world. Fifty-seven, as mentioned earlier in Hebrew, is also the letters zon. Zon means feeding. Hashem is feeding the world. He nourishes the world with his goodness, with graciousness, and with mercy. And he nourishes all, as we say it in the first blessing of Birkat Hamazon, the grace after meals. Which means that zon is referring and reflecting how Hashem nourishes the entire chain of creation, and then it comes down into the individual livelihood for each person individually in this physical world, in a physical sense and in a spiritual sense. And the Rebbe continues and begins concluding that this Inyan, that godliness will be revealed in this physical world. We will see it in an obvious manner in the time of Mashiach, in the upcoming redemption. But since we already want this Inyan of zon, we want parnassa, we want livelihood and, um, success in everything in a very prosperous manner, physically and spiritually, also in the time of the exile. And since all the revelations of the upcoming redemption are dependent on our avoda, therefore, there needs to be an initiative on our part which reflects the climax of how and what will

07:08 take place in the upcoming redemption. And therefore, the children now, already in the time of exile, are singing, We Want Mashiach Now. Therefore, the word now, which adds up to fifty-seven, which signifies the two sacred names of Hashem, showing how the energy, the godly energy is being drawn down into the world, and it comes down to physical state that everyone benefits from it all in a physical sense. The climax will be for in the days of Mashiach.