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Over the chag I learned Ramchal's
maamar hageulah a couple more times. It's an amazing essay. It's about
the two meshiachs and what it says in the yaale v'yavo prayer, 'yipaked
v'yizacher'. I hope you enjoy it. So here goes...
The pekida comes before the zechira. The pekida is meshiach ben yoseph
and is related to yesod and is the tikkun of the soul. The zechira is
meshiach ben david and is related to tiferet and is the tikkun of the body.
This is the final geula. First the shechina is connected to the yesod and then
to tiferet.
So the Ramchal says that the biblical kingdom of yehudah had two tribes
while the kingdom of israel (yoseph) had ten tribes. Now meshiach ben
yoseph comes to deliver the TWO tribes and meshiach ben david comes to
deliver the TEN tribes. This is the meaning of the prophecy in Ezekiel 37,
with the two trees, one which says yehudah and one which say yoseph and
the prophet is told to bring them close each one to each other so that they
will become One in your hand. Each one is delivered by its opposite. This
is a universal spiritual law: Everything is completed by its opposite or
complement. The completion of the male is the female, and the completion
of the female is the male. Torah is perfected by science, and science is
perfected by Torah. This is true on an idividual level where one's soul is
completed by a healthy body and one's body is completed by a healthy soul.
But it is also true one a national level.
Now like in biblical times the Jewish people and split in two. You can say
one general split is the religious (dati) and non religious (chiloni). Like
then the non religious is the majority and thus are like the kingdom of
yisrael-yoseph. The minority religous camp is like the kingdom of yehuda.
The ten tribes of yisrael weren't torah abiding from the begining whereas
the two tribes were until just before the destruction of the first temple.
It's possible to say also that the religious camp (yehuda) is concerned with
matters of the soul mostly, while the secular camp (yoseph) deals with
mostly bodily concerns. So according to the Ramchal, the salvation of the
religious camp, the geula of the soul is through meshiach ben yoseph - the
secular ideal. And the salvation of the secular camp, the geulah of the body
is through meshiach ben david - the spiritual or religous ideal.
So, meshiach ben yoseph comes first and according to the Gra is the 250
years between 1740 and 1990, and also according to the Ramchal who
writes that meshiach ben yoseph is killed right after noon of the sixth day
(millenium) which is the hebrew year 5750 or the secular year1990.
His mission is ingathering the exile and building eretz yisrael and the
revelation of the secrets of the Torah. Much of this has been accomplished
already and what's more is that most of the bringing in the exiles and
building the land has been accomplished by non religious people! And this
is the tikkun of the soul - the tikkun for the religious people who need the
physical eretz yisrael to ground their spiritual wealth!
Now we're moving into the realm of meshiach ben david who saves yoseph,
the secular people. They are like the body of Israel and their tikkun is to
emprace their spiritual side. This has also started to happen. Kabbalah is
becoming more and more popular and many secular people are turning to
spiritual persuits. So eventual both the soul and the body of Israel are
completed: The soul of Israel is completed by the body and the body of
Israel is completed by the soul.
If we take a broader look at this process we find that the Jewish people and
like the soul to the rest of mankind who are like the body. Rav Kook wrote
that meshiach ben yoseph is the nationalism of Israel which is not the
ultimate goal. Meshiach ben david is the ultimate goal and that is the
unification of all of humanity into one family where all call in the Name of
G-d. Before we can move into the ultimate goal the nationalist ideal has to
be taken apart somewhat because it is lacking because it has too much love
of the specific. In order to move into meshiach ben david consciousness
which is general-universal the specific-nationalist meschiach ben yoseph
has to "die". The people of Israel granted a homeland in eretz yisrael by
the nations of the world is the tikkun of the soul of humanity. Now it is the
time for people of the soul to unite with the rest of mankind to bring about
the tikkun of the body of humanity. For the whole world to find their souls
and connect to their spiritual sides and build the third beit hamikdash
which is the house of G-d for all the nations.
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