WE ARE PRESENTLY IN A NEW ERA: TO BRING THE GEULAH!
Following "Hey Teves" 5747 the Rebbe declared:
WE ARE PRESENTLY IN A NEW ERA: TO BRING THE GEULAH!
After the conclusion of Chanukah, having fulfilled the avodah of Chanukah in all its details, we still have to follow the lesson from Chanukah: to advance in holiness. The halacha regarding Chanukah is that we light one candle the first day, then we progressively add more every night, because we have to advance in holiness.
It would be unconscionable to think that after Chanukah we should revert to the previous level of our avodah wherein we have to descend, Heaven forbid, to a lower level; on the contrary, one has to enhance his avodah to reach ever greater spiritual heights.
The Chanukah oil is symbolic of Pnimius HaTorah (inner dimension of Torah), and the obligation to place the Chanukah lamp "at the door to the outside," is symbolic of spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus outward.
In earlier generations Pnimius HaTorah was "concealed and hidden even from scholars of the Torah except for a select few, and even then [it was taught privately] not publicly" (Tanya Igeres Hakodesh # 26); However in the times of the Ariza"l it was "permitted and a duty to reveal" Pnimius HaTorah. Following that, in the times of the Baal Shem Tov, Pnimius HaTorah was revealed even more, through the revelation of Chassidus, particularly Chabad Chassidus.
The ever expanding dissemination of Chassidus progressed from generation to generation through our Rebbeim up until the Previous Rebbe, who disseminated Chassidus to all corners of the world through his disciples and Shluchim (emissaries) the "Chayolei beis Dovid" (soldiers of the house of David) who go out to battle those that "ridicule the footsteps of Moshiach." Until they will be victorious in the coming of Moshiach.
Thus, after the avodah of the six generations of our Rebbeim the Nessi'im, who have nurtured the "Tree of Life" of Torah HaChassidus, it should give its fruit until Moshiach—presently, in the seventh generation all that remains to be done is to bring down and reveal the eternal Beis HaMikdash in the true and complete Geulah through Moshiach tzidkeinu, whose coming depends on the spreading of the wellsprings of Chassidus outward.
Now begins a new era, relating to the Third Beis HaMikdash and the Geulah through Dovid King Moshiach.
It should be proclaimed and publicized that the present times we are living in are a special era, when all that is left to do, is [to phrase it in the terminology of the Previous Rebbe ("it is incumbent for a person to say in the language of his Rebbe" (Berachos 47a)]: Stand all of you prepared for the building of the Beis HaMikdash with the coming of Dovid King Moshiach.
...Perhaps the reason golus is prolonged for one more moment is because "Hashem longs for the prayers of tzadikkim" (Yevamos 64a), He wants we should pray, beseech, request and demand "Ad mosai"... about the length of the golus, and we should request and demand that the Geulah should come immediately — and then Moshiach will come immediately!
