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time, we felt that we were collapsing
from pain and anguish, having been
driven out from before Your eyes.
Happy are we! How good is our lot at
this great time, when Hashem again has
shone upon us with shining countenance
and revelations that no other generation
has merited, and the site of our Temple,
a place that the divine presence never
has departed, has been restored to us!
The greatest elation and pleasure that
a Jew feels in this world is when he
feels the closeness of His divinity, as
is stated: “Yet for me, the closeness of
G-d is good for me” (Tehillim 73:28). The
best-suited place for this is the Kotel
HaMa’aravi, where a Jew feels that he
stands before the presence of Hashem
and pours out his heart like water before (PHOTO: AMOS ZUCKER/BAMAHANE MAGAZINE/DEFENSE MINISTRY’S IDF ARCHIVE)
Him, and when he says there “Blessed
are You…”, he feels a deeper sense of His have begun to show Your servants Your when it happens to start emerging with
presence, for although the entire earth greatness and Your mighty hand, for its feet, that is a dangerous birth, yet this
is full of His glory, that is the only place what god is there in heaven or earth too might result in a birth. The same is
in the world that the divine presence
has never departed from. If our mouths who performs the like of Your deeds and true of the coming of the messiah. In the
feats? “Please let me pass and see this
were full of song like the sea, we could absence of merits, everything proceeds
not sufficiently [express gratitude]. From good mountain and Lebanon” (Devarim the wrong way, as when the feet emerge
3:25). That is to say: may He rebuild
Hashem did this emanate! It is wondrous the Temple for us speedily and in our first, but it may be that all this is the
in our eyes. footsteps of the messiah, to which we
days, for the divine presence remains must look forward. We must shout to
We must hear the voice of Hashem in exile, and we have not yet merited high heaven: “Our Father, our King,
that emerges from the events of these even the beginning of the redemption, reveal the glory of Your kingship upon
great days, calling us, as our master for what is the nature of redemption? us, and appear and be exalted over us
the rebbe said regarding the verse: “He That all of creation, which is immersed before the eyes of all who live.”
called to Moses, and the L-rd spoke to in materialism, merits redemption,
him…” (Vayikra 1:1), explaining why it “and the land is filled with knowledge The events of these days and our role in
opaquely states “He called,” instead of Hashem, and we see Him with our this hour should be seen as intimated in
of stating Who calls: for from all the own eyes upon His return to His abode, the verse: “You saw what I did to Egypt;
events that happen to a person, a call and the glory of Hashem is revealed and I bore you upon the wings of eagles
comes forth from Hashem. Sometimes all flesh see together [that the mouth of and brought you to Me, and now, if you
it is from joyful events that uplift him, Hashem has spoken]” (Yishayahu 11:9, listen to My voice…” (Shemot 19:4). We
and through this he hears the word of 52:8). have merited to see the first miracle that
Hashem calling to him, and sometimes Yet we also must look correctly at the Hashem visited upon Egypt in front of
it is from anguish and pain that crush our eyes, and we have merited to see the
his spirit, from which he must also hear immense events that we just experienced, revelation and the shining of the divine
and everything that we experienced in
the word of Hashem calling to him. All the past generation, beginning with countenance that brought us closer,
of life and all the events experienced by the dreadful annihilation, and all the for we can go to the place of the divine
a person are a great call from his Father unusual events that we experienced presence as described by the words “I
in heaven. brought you to Me,” and all this greatly
of late, the whole of which demands obliges us. All this is a great call from
If this is so in the life of the individual, contemplation and thought, for we are Hashem – “you shall be a treasure to Me”
then all the more so with this immense progressing toward redemption, as our (ibid.) – for we shall come closer to Him
event, the miracles and wonders that holy rabbis interpreted the diction of our with all our heart and all our soul.
Hashem has done for us, which are a Sages, may their memory be blessed, in
great call from our Father in heaven. the phrase “let him anticipate the feet Indeed, there is the well-known
The great revelation from the shining of the messiah” – for the term “the feet statement that appears following the
of His countenance is that Hashem has of the messiah” at first glance has no receiving of the Torah: “All the nation
remembered His nation, and we must meaning. Yet hinted here is that just as were perceiving the thunder, the flames,
arouse bountiful [divine] compassion it is known that in a normal birth, [the and the sound of the horn… and all the
[through prayer], for You, Hashem, baby] begins emerging with its head, but nation was fearful, moved away, and

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