"The Great Redemption" (58)

"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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58.

Two Moshichim through whom the world will be emended will arise then. And that faithful shepherd, Moses, will be there (too) to complete the Jewish Nation’s emendation. After all, the husk would have already been swallowed up, since the good would have been removed from impurity and would be drawn toward holiness, and evil would have been thrust downward. What’s left will attach itself onto idol worshippers who had already died and were in Gehenom.

Those idol worshippers will suffer terrible woes then, since the husk itself would be utterly without light or goodness. And that evil would remain there until the world would have come to an end. Holiness will rule then and there’ll be as great an emendation then as Adam would have effected originally. And the edifice that hadn’t been perfected would then be, throughout the days of the Moshiach.

(c) 2006 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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