"The Great Redemption" (31)

"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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31.

But there’s something else you'd need to know, since G-d’s thoughts are very deep and boundless, and every one of His deeds embraces many profound mysteries.

Rain comes in the winter, when the land gets the sustenance it must have (as is known). Then its shoots and seeds that so delight all who behold them come out, thanks to the showers that had already fallen. That’s the time (of year) for strolling about and enjoying all the things I’d indicated.

You can understand a great many mysteries from this. The verse (we'd cited before) doesn’t say that the rains had “stopped” but rather that they were “over and gone” (Song of Songs 2:11). For what rains do is go from place to place, as they first derive from their celestial source, and they then fall to the ground which they then fertilize and have yield produce.

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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