"The Great Redemption" (19)

"The Great Redemption" by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

-- A Discourse on The End of the Exile and the Beginning of the Great Redemption

Translated by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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19.

Just understand that there are inner and outer aspects of these Luminaries, termed their “body” and “soul” by analogy. It’s the “soul” that’s amended and repaired in the course of the P’kidah. But that has to be followed by an emendation of the “body”.

That’s why darkness is to follow it, in the course of which the Torah will come to be forgotten more and more, every hand will weaken, and each arm will become feeble until light will illuminate forever.

That’s in fact why the verse ends with “... when I sit in darkness, G-d (Himself) is my light!” (Micha 7:8). For it’s referring to this very darkness, which will appear after the P’kidah. For it had already said “For though I fell, I arose” (Ibid.).

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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