Before Moshiach’s coming, says the Talmud, “all governments will turn to heresy.” It seems counterintuitive that wholesale moral degradation should be a sign of imminent redemption. The Talmud seeks to explain by citing a strange verse from this week’s Torah reading: “Kulo hafach lavan; tahor hu, He has turned completely white; he is pure,” meaning that if one’s whole body turns the color of the tzara’as malady, he is actually pronounced ritually pure. So too, Moshiach will come when all of the governments are entirely bad.
How are we to understand the Talmud’s prediction about the times right before Moshiach? How does the Rebbe explain that the corruption of all governments can be a very good thing?
Based on Likkutei Sichos vol. 31, pp. 77-83.
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It’s kind of simple
On shabbos there is a revelation of go-d and go-ds kingship
Shabbos has gvulim/borders
Countries/nations are from shabbos as well and it is a version of communism as shabbos is a day of community as is a nation
However the coomunity becomes big and powerful with the power over life and death as the king of Kings has shared his power with humanity and the worlds leaders etc
The cycle is the Tower of Babel, monotheism, communism and atheism then again the Tower of Babel, monotheism,etc
Have a good shabbos and Rosh Chodesh
Shalom