olam of exile becomes olam of geulah

The rectification of both solar and lunar calendars is taking place now as we approach springtime.A very prominent and well viewed total lunar eclipse marked the holiday pf Purim katan in this leap month of Adar one which kicks off the forty five days of happiness that precedes the festival of Pesach and redemption. Between now and the total solar eclipse on Tammuz29/August1, the yahzeit of Rashi, we will experience an avalanche of revealed miracles out of the continual state of concealed miracle that is the olam/world.In Zohar on the Torah parsha Pikudei for next week we have; “These are both accounts of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Testimony” Rabbi Aba opened the discussion with the verse:”And in that day it shall be, that the root of Yishai….(Isaiah11:10).”In that day “ refers to the time when the Holy One, Baruch HaShem will increase peace in the world, and then the root of the Tree of Life will prevail. From this root all other roots will prevail below, for they are all rooted and draw their strength from it”. For this weeks parsha of Vayaquel we have the people gathered together by Moshe Rabbeinu and the Zohar begins about how the great enemy amalek (from the root to cut off or uproot), “ So Amalek, the evil serpent of Israel, was lying in wait for them on the cross-roads, as is written:”how he set himself against him in the way’. He was lying in ambush on high in order to defile the sanctuary, and below in order to defile Israel…He has arrayed against thee that evil serpent from above that he may defile thee on all sides” and were it not that Moses from above, and Joshua from below, put forth all their strength, Israel would not have prevailed against him. It is for this reason that the Holy One cherished His enmity against him throughout all generations, inasmuch as he planned to uproot the sign of the covenant from its place” ZoharII-195a(sperling trans)Moshe above as the sun and tiphereth omak/depth with Joshua below as the moon and yesod omak/depth make the work possible. Miriam as the priestess of malchuth, the sea of all olamim/universes sees us across the little sea into the world of geulah. The calendars solar and lunar are healed this very spring and the seventeen years of the “exile" of Israel before he was “gathered” to his peoples(Gen49)is being completed. The eclipses are shaarim/gates that tell us the story. Happy Spring!