כל השביעין חביבין
The Midrash (Vayikra Rabbah Parsha 29,11) states a general principle: "All Sevens are always loved." The Midrash provides a long list of things that stands out: Shabbos; the Smittah year; the Yovel year; Seventh Heaven; Chanoch (the seventh-generation since the first person); Moshe (seventh patriarch from Avrohom); Dovid (seventh son); and more.
The number seven is the number with multi-meanings. It represents the complete cycle of creation, when the seventh day seals the six prior days. We can see that the process of creation - the world was created in six days and the seventh day, the Shabbos, which is holy to HaShem, “closes the circle.”
You can also see the same concept by the structure of the created material world. The material itself is made up of six spatial directions - east, west, north, south, up and down - as on weekdays which area also six. The seventh represents the Divine power which is enclothed in the six sides of the material – just as the Shabbos does for the week.
The Seventh Concludes
Number seven is also of central importance repairing the sins of the world took place at the beginning of creation. Regarding the verse (Shir haShirim 5,1) לגני אחותי כלה" "באתי (I went to my sister's Gardens), Chaza”l tell us (Midrash Rabba on verse) that this verse was told by G-d at the time when the Divine Presence descended to give the Torah. Chaza”l are particular that the verse does not say to the garden, but clearly states to My garden, i.e., a place already in the past. For the Divine Presence in this world was already present at the beginning of creation, and only because of the subsequent human sins The Divine Presence had gone away from this world, until from the time of Avrohom the Divine Presence began to descent until the final descent upon Har Sinai.
The Midrash identifies seven generations cleared the Shekhina: "Adam's sin - disappeared Shechinah first heaven; sin of Cain - disappeared into the sky II; sinful human being - disappeared into the sky III; sinful generation of the flood - disappeared into the sky Fourth sinful generation tower - disappeared into the sky fifth; sin personnel Sodom - sixth heaven departed; sin Egyptian days of Abraham - disappeared into seventh heaven.
Then he stood seven saints and gradual process that lasted seven generations back down the Divine Presence. Abraham took seventh heaven Friday, Isaac - fifth, Jacob - fourth, Levi - third, Kahas - two, Amram - the first heaven, and Moses took to Israel. Mount Sinai is said: "And the L-rd came down on Mount Sinai" and back down the Divine Presence in this world. We see, therefore, that a correction of creation and the return of the Divine Presence down specifically related to the seventh generation, which ends the work of the generations before him.
Seven Against Seven
Chassidus makes an analogy between the seven generations from Abraham to Moses, who downloaded the Divine Presence down, and seven generations of Chabad Chassidism, aimed at preparing the world for the coming of our righteous Messiah.
"All Sevens are always loved." here means, whose kindness of the seventh is actually being seven. His kindness is not a matter that depends on the choice, will and work, because only due to being the seventh. No generation can be like the seventh generation; other generations rule first, but the seventh is can finish the job first.
It's our generation, the seventh generation, need to finish the work of previous generations and bring the redemption in the actual deed. In the words of the Lubavitch Rebbe: "This demand from each one of us, part of the Seventh Generation. Since we are the seventh generation it is not according to our choice, and some matters are not as we want, but we are the footsteps of Moshiach, and job is to finish the work.
מדרש ויקרא רבה, פרשה כט סעיף ט: כל השביעין חביבין לעולם
למעלן השביעי חביב :
- שמים,
- ושמי השמים,
- ורקיע,
- ושחקים,
- זבול,
- ומעון,
- ביה שמו. ערבותסולו לרוכב בוכתיב (תהלים סח) וערבות.
בארצות שביעית חביבה:
- ארץ,
- אדמה,
- ארקא,
- גיא,
- ציה,
- נשיה,
- בצדק ידין לאומים במישרים. תבלוהוא ישפוט וכתיב (שם צו) תבל.
בדורות, שביעית חביב:
- אדם,
- שת,
- אנוש,
- קינן,
- מהללאל,
- ירד,
- את האלהים. חנוךויתהלך וכתיב (בראשית ה) חנוך.
באבות שביעי חביב:
- אברהם,
- יצחק,
- ויעקב,
- לוי,
- קהת,
- עמרם,
- .יםקעלה אל האל משהווכתיב (שמות יט) .משה
בבנים, השביעי חביב:
- .הוא השביעי דוד שנאמר:
במלכים, השביעי חביב:
- שאול,
- איש בושת,
- דוד,
- שלמה,
- רחבעם,
- אביה,
- .אל ה' אסאויקרא וכתיב (ד"ה ב יד): אסא.
בשנים, שביעי חביב:
- תשמטנה ונטשתה. השביעיתושנאמר (שמות כג):
בשמיטין, שביעי חביב.
- .שנת החמשיםוקדשתם את שנאמר: (ויקרא כה):
בימים, שביעי חביב,
- .יום השביעיויברך אלהים את שנאמר (בראשית ב):
בחדשים, שביעי חביב,
- באחד לחדש:בחדש השביעי שנאמר: (ויקרא כג):
