SPEEDY REDEMPTION
Our Sages tell us that “what He does, He tells Israel to do.” Accordingly, just as Hashem doesn’t want a Jew to remain in a state of (merely being) “called impure,” and wishes the Jew to bring a sacrifice to effect atonement, Hashem, too, conducts Himself accordingly. When we find ourselves in exile, we are “called impure.”
[As Rambam rules, every Jew in all places and all times wants (based on the Torah of Truth) to live according to Hashem’s Will. (If a Jew occasionally behaves differently, it is only because he was coerced.) All the more so is this true after all of the awful decrees and persecution — the birth pangs of Mashiach — that the Jewish people have already endured (especially in this final generation before Mashiach’s arrival).]
Hashem will free the Jewish people from this condition under which we are “called impure” — and G-d forbid to believe that anyone or anything can impede this redemption — and it will happen faster than anyone imagined.
It is only that Hashem desires that we, too, yearn to leave quickly, “immediately” — as Rambam says — from exile, from this state in which we are “called impure,” achieving a state of total purity — atonement.
Then, redemption will come to pass, as Scripture describes, “with the clouds of...
