Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

Rso:
“But if “even the buttons have been polished”, i.e. absolutely everything has been done, then “the Am” caring about it is included and has already been fulfilled. On the other hand, if it’s necessary that “every regular man woman and child care about” Mashiach coming, and that is not yet the case, then the buttons haven’t been polished.”

K here goes (feel free to ask for the sources of anything I say here, just not typing out each one):
The era of Moshiach is the whole purpose of Creation. What’s fascinating about it is that Hashem so to speak constantly reworks His Plan according to our choices (although He also knows the end result.) This is why there are so many options and variables connected to the era of MOshiach and how it will come about.

In general, chazal speak of the two options of Zochu or Lo zochu. Besides for the literal translation being meritorious, zochu also comes from the word zach- pure. I.e. there is always an option for us to preempt the Plan and bring it early- zachu- but that would entail working on a more spiritual and pure level- zach.

The longer golus takes, ie lo zachu, the more we get into the grittiness and chumrius of the world and deal with lo zachu stuff. But that ends up making the era of Moshiach more enjoyable, meaningful and rich, which is why Hashem prefers the latter.

This has played out in history: To refine the world, as mentioned above, we need to elevate the 288 “sparks” of holiness hidden in the world, by working with the world and using it to serve Hashem. This started with the Jewish Nation in MItzrayim where as discussed previously, they elevated 202, leaving us a mere 86.

Now another point: We were all originally one soul- Yaakov, and the more Jews born, the more our one soul splits into different bodies. Also, every generation the souls have generally less power so they take more people and more effort to accomplish what a previous generation could have. That’s why the Yidden in Mitzrayim were able to elevate an awful bunch, whereas the mere remaining 86 took thousands of years.

The next phase of the Plan (as the 400 year one didn’t work, because we sunk into 49 shaarei tumaah and had to get out early before we finished our task,) was that Yidden would live in Eretz Yisrael and not have to deal directly with the nations etc. Indeed we were commanded to expel/ kill those there so they wouldn’t be any sort of hindrance to us. By the lofty power of our avoda, we were to draw the remaining sparks in chutza laaretz to us in Eretz Yisrael, and thereby refine them without having to leave. We were to be like the bonfire that draws sparks inwards. The Goyim were meant to learn from us by hearing od our example in their lands, and coming to visit etc.

TBC