Golus: Part 5

00:00 Behemshech in reference to the earlier installments where the Rebbe discusses in unusual expressions in regards to the Galus. We continue now with installment number five, discussing an additional sicha from the Rebbe, Shabbos Parshat Tzav, Shabbos Hagadol, right before Pesach in the year tof shin mem beis. It was that year that we heard, and we read now in the Sichas, interesting, unusual expressions in regards to the Galus. It was very obvious that this was a conversation going on between the Rebbe and HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The Rebbe says that when Yidden find themselves in Galus, when darkness covers Earth, and in particular after the difficulties and trials and tribulations of the Galus, it is understood that every avoda, every initiative, every deed that is accomplished through Yidden, they bring about a nachas ruach, a special pleasure to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And therefore, surely that HaKadosh Baruch Hu listens to their tefillahs when they say, "Ad masai oshanto bisfilas amecha," which is in Tehillim chapter eighty, verse five. Which means, "Until when will you fume at the prayer of your people?" And this means that Yidden are tired from all the difficulty of the Galus, as it is mentioned in length in this chapter of Tehillim, "You fed them bread of tears. You have made us an object of strife to our neighbors and our enemies mock to themselves." And this is similar what the Rambam says in Hilchot Teshuvah in regards to the judgment of the nations, that they will be judged, that Yidden were enslaved in

02:24 Mitzrayim four hundred years, although this was based on a decree of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And this is, there's also a difference in opinion between the Rambam and the 11th. Nevertheless, that although it was destined earlier as a decree, but nevertheless, the person who does the damage is obligated and needs to pay for it, for the, uh, uh, for the negativity on which his choice is based. And the Rebbe says the main thing is that although HaKadosh Baruch Hu made a decree for gezuras Galus, Yidden do not listen to this gezorah, but instead they convert Galus to geulah. As it is known, mentioned in Chassidus, that the word geilah means Galus. The word geulah means redemption. The difference is the alef. When Yidden place the alef, which is HaKadosh Baruch Hu, who is HaKadosh Baruch Hu into world, they convert from geilah that it should be geulah, redemption. And the Rebbe sums it up that after all the explanations that there are in regards to the general meaning of Galus, that HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants to reveal the potential, the unique potential that is found by every individual Yid. Yidden scream, "Ad masai? Viflas is hashir?" What's the limit? We're already in Galus more than nineteen hundred years. And al pi halacha, a father is not permitted to hit his son who's already over bar mitzvah, as it's also mentioned in the Rambam, Hilchot Mamrim of Tere. And the Rebbe says this is even by thirteen years old. Surely one would speak about the general nation

04:29 of Yidden since Yetzias Mitzrayim and Matan Torah, they became a Goy Gadol, as mentioned earlier, adult. Nevertheless, the Galus continues and a longer time, more than the nineteen hundred years. U'kemaimei ra zal and as, as our sages tell us, kol hakol hakitzim, all the deadlines for the Galus to end have passed. This is already mentioned in Gemara, in the Talmud, and surely in our time. And what it says, that it depends on teshuva and repentance, surely every Yid has repented in a full way. And as the psak din of the Rogatchover, the resai of a Yid is avoda shel teshuva. So beyechidot and the Rebbe concludes with the beracha, that it should be the will of Hashem, that instead of the arguments of Yidden in regards to the difficulty and the length of the Galus, we should very soon merit to the true and complete redemption through Mashiach Tzidkeinu. Miyad heyn nigolin now, Rebbe says immediately, l'mata ma'asot ha'cham in this physical world, bimheira b'yamenu mamesh, very soon in our days.