In this week’s Torah portion, G-d gave the Land of Israel to Avraham and his descendants, the Jewish People. The Land of Israel includes the lands of ten nations, but throughout history we have only ever conquered seven of them. The other three will be given to us peacefully by the non-Jews themselves in the Redemption through Moshiach.
The seven lands correspond to the seven emotional attributes, and the other three correspond to the three intellectual attributes. Before the Redemption, the main service of G-d is refining the emotional attributes, and the intellectual attributes are used mainly to influence the emotions. In the Redemption through Moshiach, though, the intellectual service of G-d will be also and mainly a service on its own, to unite with G-d in the most wondrous union of uniting our intellect with G-d’s wisdom, the Torah. Start now, especially by adding in learning the inner part of Torah (Chassidus), (including the explanation of this intellectual service of G-d), including about the Redemption and our righteous Moshiach.
(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Lech-Lecha 5752 (1991))
