הזוהר הקדוש מגלה מתי ייבנה בית המקדש! | הרב אלישע וולפסון

Peace be upon you. The holy Zohar says, at the end of the Parasha, something very interesting that requires reflection: the Holy One, blessed be He, will eventually visit His people. When the Holy One, blessed be He, wishes to visit His people, the Congregation of Israel will return from its exile, and because the Holy Temple will be built first, the Zohar says that when the time comes for the Holy One, blessed be He ......to visit the people of Israel from exile, the Congregation of Israel, the Shekhinah, will return from exile. First of all, where will it go? The first thing is to its house. It will first go to the Holy Temple, because the Holy Temple will be built first and filled. The Holy One, blessed be He, says: "Arise from the dust, forward." The Holy One, blessed be He, will tell it: "Awaken, rise from the dust.""Awaken, awaken," it replies, saying, "Where are you sending me? My house is destroyed!" The Holy One, blessed be He, will say, "Where? Why, where will I go? My house is destroyed! " Until the Holy One, blessed be He, builds the Temple first, and restores it , and builds Jerusalem, and then it will rise from the dust, as it is written: " The Lord builds Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel." First, the Lord builds Jerusalem, builds the structure of the Holy Temple. And then, afterward, the outcasts of Israel will gather, and they will rise from the dust, those who are in Jerusalem, and the exiles of Israel will be gathered, as it is written: "builds ...first, and then he gathers." The holy Zohar says something immense. >> The Holy One, blessed be He, will say to the Shekhinah: "Come to the Holy Temple ." How can there be a Holy Temple? The Holy Temple... "Come, I will build it." And He will come and build the Holy Temple, and only afterward will there be an ingathering of exiles. Now, what does this mean? What, will the Holy One, blessed be He, build the Temple as if all the people of Israel are still in exile? First of all, where is the Holy Temple? And then where? Naturally, His. What is the holy Zohar saying here? The holy Zohar says: First of all, even before the Shekhinah returns in its glory, in its revelation, the Holy Temple must first be built here. The Holy One, blessed be He, builds the Temple through the hands of the righteous who will pave the way for the people of Israel. Then the Holy Temple will be built by the righteous who build it here, and through the building of the Holy Temple , we will merit a full ingathering of exiles. Our Sages also say: "Gathering, He will gather." The Ramban says this is the hint. At first, there will be an initial gathering; the Holy Temple will be built , and then, by the power of the holiness of the Temple, there will be a full, complete, total ingathering of exiles— all ten tribes, all the exiles, everyone . >> So all the outcasts— "If your outcasts are at the ends of the heavens, from there He will gather you." Therefore, our work now, the Zohar says explicitly , "firstly"—the very first thing—is to build the Holy Temple, and through that , we will merit a complete redemption with mercy, speedily, and may this be His will. Let us say Amen. >> Amen.