“In the Time to Come, Moshiach will convey the inner dimension of the Torah even to the Avos, and to Moshe Rabbeinu, and Aharon.”
“None arose in Israel like Moshe” — yet the Rebbe shows that this holds only for prophecy. In kingship, in the root of the soul, and in the Torah he will teach, Moshiach is greater than Moshe Rabbeinu.
אגרות קודש כרך ד, אגרת תתקכג · ט״ז אדר א׳ ה׳תשי״א
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Radical belonging
“Not me alone did the Holy One redeem — but also whoever is merely called by the name of Israel. For every Jew’s heart is perfect with Hashem.”
The redemption reached even the Jew with no Torah and no mitzvos — one who is only “called by the name of Israel.” Not because of what he keeps, but because of what he is.
אגרות קודש כרך ד, אגרת א׳עה · the first Yud-Beis Tammuz
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Every deed counts
“Each and every effort to spread the wellsprings outward illuminates the darkness of the exile and brings closer the revelation of Moshiach.”
The one instruction he returns to most in all the letters: the Redemption does not wait on great events but on ordinary acts of goodness. He adds that there are no words to describe how precious is even one additional moment of that revelation — so nothing we do toward it is small.
We counted every letter. In the war years the Rebbe closed as many as 83% of them with the cry “לאלתר לגאולה” — immediately, to redemption. By 1949 that cry had fallen silent. Rising in its place: the call to build the vessel — to spread the wellsprings outward. Redemption was never spoken of less; it turned from something awaited into something made.