Everything is ready for the Redemption, like a “set table”. This is especially so after the generations of Jews fulfilling the Jewish laws written in the “Shulchan Aruch”, which means “set table”, including the “tablecloth”, the comments of the Rama on the Shulchan Aruch. Although the Rama is Ashkenazic, the Sephardim follow his opinion regarding the Chanukah lighting. And this ruling of the Rama is according to the Rambam, who is Sephardic; both Sephardim and Ashkenazim are following the opinion of an Ashkenazic rabbi who is actually following the opinion of a Sephardic rabbi.
It is time for the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim to inherit the land of Edom, as we read about in this week’s Haftorah. The table is set with the feast for the “wedding” of G-d and the Jewish People, with the Leviasan fish, wild ox and guarded wine, and with knowledge of G-d filling the world “as the waters cover the sea”
(See talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Vayishlach and 19-20 Kislev 5752 (1991))
