"The Great Redemption" (32)

"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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32.

Now, since this is so and this emendation will have already been in effect when the Shechina was in exile, it will be a time of great delight. For the Shechina will behold her own beauty and glory, as well as most of her beloved and lovely produce. And the King will then stroll about in His garden in great joy, since it’s he who would have needed to be enstrengthened and bolstered.

Since all who were hungry would now be satisfied, it would be time to stroll about and bask in the light of the King’s Countenance. And since the King won’t leave His garden, the garden will be bathed in the abundance of light that would emit from the gleem of His Countenance.

Oh, who could ever depict the great joy that will be manifest then! For everything and everyone will be gleeful and enjoy His great illumination. For aside from the daily needs that He’ll grant them, they'd be in a state of perpetual light and blessing, about which it’s said “You’ll be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters will not fail” (Isaiah 58:11).

For the flow will never, ever cease (even) after it will have come to full measure; it will go on forever, and please and delight all souls.

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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

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