The Nigun "We Want Moshiach Now" (6) - Duration of the Golus

00:00 Behemshech to the recent installments on the topic of geulah and the various expressions we heard from the Rebbe on geulah. We now continue with installment number six, discussing a sicha of the Rebbe, describing the long galus and the urgent need for geulah. In the sicha of Shabbos Parshah Nosay, Tof Shin Mem Beis nineteen eighty-two, the Rebbe elaborated on the verse in the prophet of Malachi, "Ohavti eschem omar Hashem." I love you, Hashem says. Malachi, the navi, lived after the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash, which is when the love of Hashem to Yidden was in a concealed state. Therefore, this above verse is followed by the question Yidden are asking, "Bameh ahavtanu?" How do you love us? Where is this being expressed, since we don't see it in an obvious manner? The mere fact that the Yidden are asking this is the sole proof that it is a situation when the love is not revealed. It is when Yidden were exiled from their homeland, and not only that they don't see where this love is expressed, but on the contrary. They believe that Hashem still loves them, but they want to see it in a revealed state. And as the story of the Rebbe Maharash as mentioned in the earlier installment, that despite the unique quality in publishing the Likutey Torah, which are discourses of the Alter Rebbe on Chumash, nevertheless, this is not sufficient. But the Yidden want and need bias Moshiach tzedkenu lemata ma'asarat rochen. Moshiach's arrival down here, lower than ten tefach

02:04 and ten handbreadths. And especially that Yidden are found in galus and are suffering chains of endless troubles more than nineteen hundred years. How is it that a Yid should be in exile and in a state as one is enslaved and working behind the mills? Even when we speak of a servant, the master is obligated to give him all his needs. And surely when this is a child of Hashem, every Yid is a child who is trying to please his father, Hashem. So how is it that the king's son is found in a state of working behind a grinding mill? And especially as Torah says that every Yid is compared to a melech. Therefore, after all the many years that Yidden are in galus, the time has surely arrived that Hashem's love to Yidden should be revealed. As long as we are in galus, we need to raise a commotion, ufsturem un veltn, to storm up worlds and announce and request we want Moshiach now. There are those who enclose or don a garment of fear of heaven. They hide behind this impression that they have yiras shomayim, fear of heaven, and say this is not their way to request from Hashem. So the Rebbe continues, how is it not their way? There is a mitzvah in Torah that when one feels that he is lacking something, and surely if it is the lack of geulah, he needs to request of Hashem. That is the halacha of what tefillah is. Therefore, when people are saying this

04:06 is not their way, their way of conduct in this matter is the opposite of the mitzvah in Torah. In every prayer throughout the year, weekdays, Shabbosim, and Yomim Tovim, even during Mincha on Shabbos afternoon, most auspicious time in the higher heavens, we recite the verse, "V'sechazenu eineinu beshuvcha l'tzion." May our eyes see, behold Your return to Tzion with mercy. And at the conclusion of the tefillah, we recite, "She'yibaneh Beis Hamikdash bimeheira v'yamenu." May it be Your will that the Beis Hamikdash be speedily rebuilt in our days. And the Rebbe concludes the sicha. As mentioned earlier, the word of the Rebbe Maharash that Yidden want and need Moshiach lemata ma'asarat rochen, down here in this physical world. And surely the Rebbe Maharash will have his way, and his request will be fulfilled in a manner of l'chatchilah, ribi, famous verse of the Rebbe Maharash that the world says you can't go under, you go over. The Rebbe Maharash states, "And I say you should right at the beginning, right at the outstart, aim for high, on a very high level beyond all limitations."