How Our Righteous Mashiach Will Appear

Rabbi Daniel HaKohen Stavsky shlit"a, in a conversation that took place several years ago, reveals secrets in the name of a hidden tzaddik and paints the image of Mashiach ben David - these are his holy words.

"If our actions, G-d forbid, are not good and there are acts of separation, then it causes separation in the worlds; an iron partition is spread between the Creator and the creation - harsh judgments dwell, may we not know of them. However, when there are great evil deeds, a desecration of Hashem's name occurs, a void is created in the creation, and a decree is formed. A decree means that two levels in the worlds have been severed in two and the flow of abundance does not pass. The annulment of the decree is through the teshuvah (repentance) of Israel, and then their cry will rise to G-d and it reconnects what was severed."

"Another possibility is through great tzaddikim who know where the decree is located; they ascend there and stitch it together; they perform the spiritual work. If even that does not succeed, then they perform all sorts of acts of self-sacrifice."

"If nothing helps to rectify the decree, then - tzaddikim take upon themselves all sorts of acts of self-sacrifice. And if even that does not help and there are very harsh decrees, then the tzaddik must depart, and his soul is what plugs the breach, and through it—through the soul of the tzaddik—all the abundance descends to the world. As the holy Baal Shem Tov says regarding the Gemara (Taanit 24b), 'The entire world is sustained for the sake of my son Chanina, and for my son Chanina, a kav of carob suffices' - that the entire world is sustained and provided with parnassah (livelihood) because he is Chanina, who is like a son of Hashem. The tzaddik is like a path, like a conduit, and Hashem passes the abundance to the world through him."

"On the eve of Shavuot, a letter arrived from Aharon HaKohen, who is 105 years old, telling of difficult things that had been decreed and asking us to go out and pray. We did so, but it was not enough. An hour before the holiday, we received another letter in which the tzaddik said he could not describe what awaits us."

At the 42nd minute of the lesson, Rabbi Stavsky begins to speak about the revelation of Mashiach: "The moment we are strong in being attached to Hashem and His Torah, then the true leader will appear. None of the well-known ones is the true leader; we pray every day for Mashiach ben David to arrive and for Hashem to reveal him."

"It will not be one of the well-known rabbis; he will be very different from what people usually describe, because the prophet Isaiah already described him: 'He was despised and forsaken by men, a man of pains and acquainted with sickness, and as one who hides his face from us; he was despised, and we esteemed him not' (Isaiah 53:3). 'Forsaken by men'—he will not have an impressive personality. 'But he was wounded because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his bruises we were healed' (ibid. 53:5); he will look very repulsive, as it is written, 'he was wounded because of our transgressions.' 'A man of pains and acquainted with sickness'—such a sickly man; he will not have a tie, and according to the description, he will not look symmetrical."

"'And he shall be animated by the fear of Hashem; he shall not judge by what his eyes see, nor decide by what his ears hear' (Isaiah 11:3). 'And he shall be animated by the fear of Hashem'—Mashiach will have great faith. And whoever deals with him with all sorts of preconceptions, it is written: 'He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked' (ibid. 11:4)."

"Our leader is not from here; it will be like the Exodus from Egypt. Moshe Rabbeinu, who redeemed us from Egypt, was not someone who exerted influence from within the leadership of the Egyptian exile. No, he was from the outside—40 years in Kush and another 7 years in Midian! Aharon HaKohen, who was a prophet, knew to go out to the desert and bring him; he told the elders of Israel that this was his brother, the one who killed the Egyptian, because, after all, Moshe was wanted in Egypt."

"Moshe Rabbeinu had a police record; Moshe Rabbeinu killed one of the Egyptian authorities. He was not one of the establishment figures; he fled, the whole country wanted to murder him—Moshe Rabbeinu was an enemy of the state. When he returned at age 80 after 47 years, no one remembered him."

"He also did not study in the conventional frameworks and yeshivas; he studied in the yeshiva of Pharaoh and by Yitro, not in the prestigious yeshivas. Who even knew him? He also stuttered a bit; he did not know how to speak."

"He comes from the outside—because whoever is on the inside needs to be redeemed himself; he certainly cannot redeem anyone else. Therefore, we are waiting for someone rectified to come who has not been contaminated by this whole world, all the laws that humans invented, all the inventions of mankind."

"We pray that Mashiach will come and redeem us—he is ready, but there needs to be someone to receive him. We need someone who has some non-human concepts, not of politics, but G-dly concepts of the Torah. Therefore, we need a preparation of tikkun (rectification) of the imagination, to disconnect from these human concepts, from the human laws, from the Knesset, and everything the wicked have built. The moment we disconnect from this, pure air will enter the heart, the soul, the brain, and the intellect. Let us make room, and then G-dly values will enter, and we will be ready to receive Mashiach ben David."