of total purity — atonement.
Then, redemption will come to pass, as Scripture describes, “with the clouds of heaven,” “I shall hasten it” (within “I shall hasten it”). May this happen speedily in our days!
— From a talk delivered on Shabbos parshas Tazria, 5741 (1981)
Notes
Note Radak’s (on Yeshayahu, ibid.) continuation of his explanation of “in its time”: “We can explain that when ‘its time’ arrives, I will hasten it to complete it speedily, for the time from the beginning of the Redemption until it is complete will not take long.”
Yeshayahu 60:22; Sanhedrin 98a.
Daniel 7:13; Sanhedrin 98a.
Mishneh Torah, “Hilchos Teshuvah,” ch. 7, par. 8.
See Shabbos 31a: “{When a person passes on and is being brought to judgement, among other questions he is asked:} ‘Did you anticipate salvation?’”; et al.; the yearning itself brings closer and hastens his arrival (see the talk of Acharon shel Pesach, 5699).
See Yechezkel 36:25 (and Radak there).
As the Previous Rebbe spoke extensively in his talks on many occasions (see [for instance] the three declarations [“public proclamations”] of 5701 [Igros Kodesh, Admur Mh’Rayatz, vol. 5, letter 1447; letter 1455; letter 1480]).
Mishneh Torah, “Hilchos Geirushin,” end of ch. 2.
Shemos Rabbah, ch. 30, par. 9.
