The Geula Depends on Toil in Torah and Mitzvos

The Ohr Hachaim HaKodesh

The Geula Depends on Toil in Torah and Mitzvos

“And you shall command Bnei Yisrael that they should take for you pure olive oil pressed for illumination to light the ner tomid – continual lamp” (27:20).

The Ohr HaChaim finds in our pasuk a hint at the need for toiling in Torah in order to end the exile and bring about the Ultimate Redemption. He cites the Zohar (Bereishis 8) that Bnei Yisrael were redeemed from each of the four exiles in the merit of one of the Tzaddikim: the Avos and Moshe. We were redeemed from the first Golus in the zechus of Avrohom, the second in the zechus of Yitzchok and from the third Golus in the zechus of Yaakov. The Geula from the fourth and final Golus will be in the zechus and merit of Moshe.