one's service will be in a manner that "All of your deeds are for the sake of Heaven,"
and "Know Him in all of your ways,"
but also the worldly matters themselves are G-dliness. Although the "secular" still exists, and they remain "your deeds" and "your ways," they become infused with a holy objective. One does not even begin to "detect" any other existence, because, "there is nothing else but G-d..."
This might provide us with a rationalization for the bizarre delay of the Redemption. The reason is that Jewish people have lacked the integrity in the level of Divine service that is: "I was not created except for serving my maker."
Only with this understanding can one attain the Redemption that will be characterized by the type of Divine service in which "there is nothing else besides Him." However, this impediment has now also been removed and "everything is (therefore) ready for the feast," a reference to the feast of the Leviathan and the Wild Ox and the preserved wine that will occur during the true and complete Redemption, imminently and in actuality.
...According to our sages, the verse, "Do not touch My anointed ones (Meshichoi), refers to the children who study Torah."
4. Avos Chapter 2, Mishneh 12. Rambam Hilchos De'os end of chapter 3. Tur and Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, sec. 231. 5. Mishlei 3:6. See Rambam and Tur and Shulchan Aruch there. Shulchan Aruch, Admor Hazoken, sec. 156, par. 2. 6. Mishneh and Beraisa, end of Kiddushin. This is the version in the manuscripts of the Talmud (Collection of manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, Jerusalem, 5724) of the foregoing Mishneh and Beraisa. Meleches Shlomo there, too, cites this version in his commentary on that Mishneh. See also Yalkut Shimoni, Yirmiyahu, remez 276. 7. See Berachos 34b. Bava Basra 75a. Vayikra Rabbah Parsha 13:e and in other sources. 8. Shabbos 119b. 9. Divrei Hayamim I, 16:22.
