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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Vayechi 5725 COMMUNICATING THE REDEMPTION

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Vayechi 5725 COMMUNICATING THE REDEMPTION. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת ויחי תשכ''ה ד''ה ויקרא יעקב על בניו בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Vayechi 18 Tevet 5784, 30 December 20231 COMMUNICATING THE REDEMPTION T THE END OF HIS LIFE, JACOB CALLED HIS SONS TO HIM A AND SAID ‘GATHER together, and I will tell you what will happen to you at the end of days”. The fact that his sons were on a lower spiritual level, and were not able to receive the communication of the Redemption, affected Jacob himself, just as later Moses would be affected spiritually by the fact that his people, the Jewish people, had made the Golden Calf9. Hence, says the Rebbe, when Jacob called his sons and said ‘gather and I will tell you’ he was actually imparting to them and to all their descendants the power to achieve a certain level of the revelation of the Redemption, such as being able to serve G-d in freedom, free from the nations of the world and free from the evil desire. The Aggadic aspect of the Talmud is very profound, as the Sages say: ‘if you want to get to know the one who spoke and the world came into being, study haggadah, for through that you will come to know the Holy One blessed be He5. Further, when Rashi says that he said ‘other things’, what is really meant is that Jacob expressed the Redemption in those ‘other things’, which were his subsequent blessings to his children for all generations ahead. Further, the Yud between the Gimmel and Daled in the word va-agidah ‫ ואגידה‬signifies Yesod, the Attribute which draws the flow from upper (male) Sefirot into Malchut, the receptive (feminine) Sefirah. Another aspect of the word Haggadah or (in Aramaic) Aggada is that this refers to an aspect of the Talmud, the stories and explanations of verses, distinct from the discussion of the Halachah, Jewish Law. The Rebbe comments that the fact that he wanted to reveal the Messianic End is suggested by the fact that the Torah uses the word agidah ‘I will tell’ relating to the concept ‘haggadah’. Earlier, when he met his brother Esau after many years absence, he told him ‘I have oxen and donkeys’ which is a hint to the Messiah, of whom it is said that he will come on a donkey7. Since the Torah t

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