BESURAS HAGEULO:

Chapter 45

It should be noted once again (as I have said many times) that the Rabbis must publicize the legal decree that "all the appointed times have passed."^[1] In regard to teshuva,^[2] teshuvah has already been done and all aspects of Divine service have already been completed. All that remains now is the true and complete Redemption in actual reality.

There is nothing more to wait for, since all aspects of Divine service have already been concluded and teshuvah has already been done, and it depends only on the coming of Moshiach himself. The statement of the Gemara that "It depends only on teshuvah" was [required] earlier, but now that teshuvah has already been done it depends only on the coming of Moshiach himself. All that is necessary is for Moshiach to come in actual reality and [for us to] "point with his finger and say this is the one,"^[3] this is our righteous Moshiach.

One should immediately "point with his finger and say this is the one." I have repeated and emphasized many times that not only will the Redemption eventually come, but the Redemption already stands on the threshold. It waits for every man and woman of Israel to open the door and pull the Redemption into the room!!

(At the visit of the Rav and Gaon,
Mordechai Eliyahu, 6 Cheshvan 5752)

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1. Sanhedrin 97b.

2. As the Gemora continues: "it [the coming of Moshiach] depends only on teshuva."

3. See Ta'anis at the end. Shmos Rabba, end of chapter 23. Rashi's explanation of Beshalach 15:2.