Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Arso,

“ You find it funny, but it find the above very sad. In ALL the seforim avodas habirurim is what is required since sheviras hakeilim, and when that is finished Mashiach arrives IMMEDIATELY. (Surprise, surprise! You can find all this on our erstwhile friend chabadpedia.) Yet your source – the LR, right? – says that we’ve finished avodas habirurim, and the fact that Mashiach hasn’t come yet means that Hashem is (c”v) doing something that doesn’t make sense. I suggest that it’s not c”v Hashem who doesn’t make sense. Rather it’s the one who purported that we have finished avodas habirurim!

Is it any wonder that we look at some of the statements made by the LR and are unsure whether they border on apikorsus?”

Again which sefarim all discuss this? Chabad? Other? Names?

The Rebbe said that Avodas haBirurim is finished because he knew what he was talking about. He said at the same time that it should not make sense, that it must be that what Hashem wants of us now is to switch to the avoda of Welcoming Moshiach. According to the Rambam, the early Yemos HaMoshiach start in golus. What does it mean to welcome moshiach?

A) to live your life as ready for moshiach to come any min. Say Hashem would declare Pesach any min, The readiness you’d have a as far as a chometz free house etc. so too, living with moshiach awareness means taking on and living with all the hachlotos you would want to do if you knew he’s coming now.

B) spreading Moshiach awareness by learning Inyonei Moshiach and geula. For the not frum- just learning about what geula is and how to await it today. For the frum already- making it top in mind and lived with. For those interested, one may tell who Moshiach is, as this gives clarity on how to ready the world…

Todays Tanya says the geula is an outgrowth of the work we put in in golus. The Rebbe saw that this concept extends to actually bringing the era here by helping people to live and want it, happen naturally in that way…