"The Great Redemption" (30)

"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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30.

Understand then why the redemption of the Jewish Nation has to occur in Nissan: for that’s when Kindness flows, as I’d written. As such, it will be calm and tranquil.

That’s why the verse (previously cited) says, “Behold, winter has passed” (Song of Songs 2:11), since that refers to the aforementioned constraining of the light; and it’s said “the rain is over and gone” (Ibid.) because winter had passed and rain would no longer be needed.

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

(Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org )

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