The Geula - under 10 Tefachim

00:00 The hemsach to the previous installment on the topic of the geulah and the various expressions we heard from the Rebbe, benigeah to the arrival of the geulah. We now continue with installment number five, discussing additional expressions which the Rebbe elaborated on at great length. In the sicha of Yutzva Tovshin Lamadzayin, 1977. In one of the sichas from the Fabringen, the Rebbe said that there was a question why he's using so often the expression, which is an expression in the Talmud, in Halakha, which means lower than the height of ten hands breadth. The Rebbe says this is connected, related to a word of our sages which we have mentioned many times in the tractate of Sanhedrin. That all the deadlines for the end of the exile have already passed and it is only dependent on teshuva. This was already stated in the time of the Talmud and then we see it also be ikvese de Meshecha which are the closest generations to the arrival of Meshech and in particular in our generation that all the signs that describe this period of ikvese de Meshecha and are stated in the conclusion of the tractate of Seita are already happening to a great extent. And bemele, the inyan of kolokola kitsin, the fact that all the deadlines have passed for the exiles to end are already over. So the Rebbe says since on one hand kolokola kitsin, all the deadlines have passed and on the other hand the redemption didn't come yet, the geulah didn't come because it

02:21 is dependent on teshuva. So bemele it is understood that it will depend on the difference as it is from the perspective from heaven or from the perspective from the creations in this world. As it is from the perspective of the heavenly spheres, the meilah it is shayach that there should be, it is very prone that there could be an obstacle that the kets, the deadline for the golus did not arrive yet. Since the Ebishtar designated a time, so therefore the deadline needs to arrive. So bemele, but since the Talmud tells us that all the deadlines have already passed, so from the perspective of above, the geulah, the redemption is already existing in a revealed state. But when we look from the perspective of the lower worlds and this physical world, so although it was kolokola kitsin that all the deadlines have already ended, but there still could be an obstacle because there is teshuva which is still lacking, still not accomplished. And this is what the Gemara tells us that it is dependent only on teshuva. Although that from the perspective from above all the deadlines are already over and it's already in a state of redemption, but nevertheless in order that the redemption should be drawn down in a very physical sense, we need also the inyan of teshuva, inyan of repentance. So the Rebbe says where does teshuva apply? In the higher worlds the redemption is already existing in a revealed state since the only obstacle was the deadlines, the designated times for

04:38 the redemption to come and they already have passed. And the inyan of teshuva, repentance, is not shayach over there, is not relevant in the higher worlds. So bemele this is the difference between something that finds itself in the lower ten hands breadth in world and something that's higher than that. It's mentioned in Shulchan Aruch in Hilchah Shabbos there is a halacha that something that finds itself in a domain which is higher than ten hands breadth it is not referred to a public domain. A public domain halachically is only if it's lower than this measurement. From this we understand that when we find ourselves in a time period which we're already discussing the redemption and we are requesting and want it should already be fulfilled that the geulah is already here in a factual manner and in meyad heyn nigolian immediately. So therefore we need to stress that the geulah should be lemato ma'asarat vachin, lower than ten hands breadths from the ground. Within the ten hands breadths from the ground which is basically the public domain, this physical world where we find ourselves in. And bemele the Rebbe continues especially as it is known the story that the previous Rebbe told about, related about his grandfather the Rebbe Marash that there was a certain designated year for the geulah to come and the year came and went and we were still left in golus. The Rebbe Marash asked his father the Tzemach Tzedek that there was a kets, there was a designated time for the

06:47 geulah to come a certain year. Where is Mashiach? Tzemach Tzedek said that the Lekut HaTeydah which are the discourses of the Alter Rebbe on Chumash were published. This is a revelation of Mashiach. So the Rebbe Marash said we need Mashiach in a literal sense. Not just in a spiritual sense but basically in a physical world. So the Rebbe says surely in our time it's a definite fact that we need the geulah in a factual manner and bemele it needs to be lower than asarat vachin. And the Rebbe concludes that this should be in our time, the way we calculate time as we mentioned in the previous installment in a very pleasant and peaceful way. And bechesed and betev ha'nir ha'niglan a revealed good and immediately they should be redeemed in an efen of Avnei Yisrael yetzim beyad rama that they go out with the uplifted hand to greet Mashiach Tzedekenu.