Malchus Regarding Tzaddikim
But true Malchus does still exist today: the tzaddikim of our generation are wholly submissive and nullified to the Ribbono shel Olam—truly knowing that they have nothing—and the Yidden who follow them and are subservient to them glean from the light of Hashem through them.
Of course, we daven three times a day that Malchus should be revealed through the House of David in its full glory, as now, in galus, it is hidden. But when Mashiach comes, it will be revealed. Malchus is like the moon; It has phases. We are currently in a darker phase.
On Pesach night, the moon is at its peak (as it is the fifteenth of the month) and indeed, the Middas HaMalchus shines very brightly on that night. Hence the avodah of Malchus-peh on this night.
“A Beautiful Levanah on Pesach Night”
There was a well-known Stoliner chassid, Reb Avraham Elazar Zenwirth, who was a descendant of the Ropshitzer Rav and other tzaddikim. In Williamsburg, he was close to the Stoliner Rebbe, Rav Yochanan Perlow zt”l. One Pesach night before the Seder, the Rebbe remarked to him, “You see? There is a nice levanah out tonight.”
In these words lie hidden depth—alluding to the avodah of the peh of this night, and the corresponding reference to Malchus and the moon. Indeed, in the Haggadah, we say: חודש מראש יכול, one might think that we can recite the Haggadah from Rosh Chodesh.... But it is too early. The moon is yet too small at the beginning of the month. We must wait for this great avodah until the levanah is at its brightest. This is when we can engage in the avodah of transmitting the light to our children.
