What was the Rebbe going on about
By zevi770 · December 8, 2014
Many even in Chabad actually are clueless – the Rebbe promoted for forty years almost like an obsessed individual about the coming of Moshiach
But to paraphrase the Alter Rebbe “the Moshiach that is coming nobody is waiting for and the Moshiach everyone is waiting for is not coming.”
If I were to promise you a reward, you define the reward based on your perceptions of what a reward is
But the Moshiach that is coming is far beyond our expectation and he is already here
In other words, for a child (I recall thinking this way) Moshiach may be candies growing on trees, for an adult, perhaps no more having to pay bills
But Moshiach is obviously not a candy or a check
If the entire world had built to this point, is must be far greater, more sublime and all of Chassidus speaks about it
Once you understand what it is, you see it everywhere
Our paradigm of God, though having some validity, also is limited by its own perception
In other words, we know God is beyond us
Which limits God to being beyond us
Hence we can imagine God as communicating with Mosses but impossible with me
But the true paradigm of God is, “He who has no limitations” hence is not limited to being beyond us, He can just as much be a child, as a master; as the story of a great sage who heard God’s voice like the whimpering of a pigeon “woe that I have destroyed my home (the Beis Hamikdosh) and sent my children into exile” – now of course others heard God’s voice like the roar of a lion, hence the sum total of truth is, as God replied to Mosses who requested to know God, “I am who I am” – in other words, who I appear to be in the given moment – whether a humble pigeon or powerful lion – is who I am to you.
All in all, the messianic redemption is not revealing the limited God of our perception, a great miraculous boom submitting our puny selves to its grandiosity and all powerful force – in truth it is the exact opposite, like the Rebbe teaches (to preface) God told Elijah to go (if I am not mistaken) to the crevice in a mountain and there he would speak to him – across his mountain, facing him was another mountain, first an earthquake split that mountain, but that wasn’t God, then a fiery fire descended, but that too wasn’t God (I don’t recall all the magic tricks God displayed) and then a small humble voice spoke to him and that was God!