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Something there is a HaYom Yom for 3 “No, I don’t think so,” he said. must have happened!” I Tammuz which says that the sigh “If that was true, I think your concluded my speech as of a Jew is also a great t’shuva.” mother would have said that Shmuli turned to look at me in “Then the Geula can happen something happened but it’s not admiration. already!” I said. a reason for you to worry. If she “What’s the connection?” said that she didn’t hear about asked Shmuli. 14 anything, then I’m sure that is true.” “Very simple. 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I suppose the [email protected] HEBREW EDITOR: [email protected] Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409 neshama of those sighers of yours www.beismoshiach.org Rabbi S.Y. Chazan [email protected] Issue 1004 • 35 1004_bm_eng.indd 04-05 12/01/2016 10:01:54 D’VAR MALCHUS THE CROWN OF SHVAT Chapter Five of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros Vol. 2. (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis.) Translated by Boruch Merkur Where do we find that the Rebbe is the hilula of my revered father told us to publicize the identity in-law, the Rebbe, when “all his of Moshiach? In fact, the Rebbe deeds, his Torah, and his avoda that did more than that; he personally he did throughout the days of his publicized in the media who is the life…are revealed and shine…and Moshiach in our generation: “The ‘bring about salvation in the midst G-d will reveal Himself to him and Rebbe, my father-in-law, the nossi of of the land’”**; as well as the crowns send him, etc.” If only they would our generation, is the Moshiach of of the subsequent months, includ- not have mixed in things that are our generation.” ing the finale of Shnas HaTzad- th undesirable, which act as obstacles 13. […] Since MarCheshvan dik*** (the 90 year of the Rebbe’s and cause delays, etc., the advent of is the first month that emphasizes life), with, “O prosper it, the work Moshiach would have taken place; the avoda of man in the world [i.e., of our hands,” the building of the Moshiach would have come in the following Rosh HaShana, etc., the Third Beis HaMikdash by Melech literal sense. HaMoshiach, “A king from the Da- month of Tishrei, when the empha- But according to the announce- sis is on spirituality], to establish for vidic dynasty” (who “has merited the royal crown…for himself and ment of my revered father in-law, G-d a home in the physical world, the Rebbe, leader of our generation, it includes within it, in a general his descendants…forevermore”), who “builds the Beis HaMikdash.” the Moshiach of our generation, we sense, the months that follow it. have already completed and fulfilled Thus, the 20th of MarCheshvan, the May it happen this very moment, on Chai MarCheshvan (leading all matters of avoda, and presently Crown of MarCheshvan [twenty be- we are standing ready to welcome ing numerically equivalent to “kes- up to Chaf MarCheshvan), for the promise has already been fulfilled, Moshiach Tzidkeinu. Thus, in our ser – crown”], includes within it the times (as above, Section 13), all “crowns” of the subsequent months: “They will seek G-d, their L-rd, and Dovid their king” (as we have said obstacles and delays, etc., have been The crown of the month of Kislev, nullified. Therefore there is (not only which concludes with the days of in Kiddush Levana for the month of the existence of Moshiach but) also Chanuka, symbolic of the chanukas MarCheshvan, and with the addition the revelation of Moshiach. Now ha’Mitzbeiach v’ha’Mikdash (the of “amen,” which indicates its fulfill- ment in the literal sense). we must simply welcome Moshiach inauguration of the Alter, as well Tzidkeinu in the literal sense! as the Mikdash, the Holy Temple), 14. The topic of primary impor- (From the address of Shabbos Par- and is in honor of the miracle of tance, however, is this: shas VaYeira, 18 MarCheshvan 5752; the oil, which is connected with the In addition to what was ex- Seifer HaSichos 5752, pg. 94-95) inner dimension of the Torah, “the plained above (in Section 11) – that NOTES: oil of the Torah,” which is revealed Moshiach exists in the sense of his *Footnote 114: Shvat being the eleventh through the teachings of Chas- “spark” (the aspect of Yechida) month (“ashtei asar chodesh”), which is sidus in the month of Kislev; the residing within every single Jew connected with the aspect of the crown, crown of the month of Teives, “a – Moshiach exists in the literal which transcends the Ten S’firos. month when the body benefits from sense as well (the general Yechida). ** Footnote 116: And on Chaf [i.e., a[nother] body” [because of the Indeed, it is known that “in each “kesser – the crown], the twentieth of cold –Rashi], alluding to the benefit Shvat, the ten days (a complete number) generation there is born one from are perfected; the tenth of the month imparted to the Supernal Body, the the descendants of Yehuda who is attains excellence and perfection.