The Month When the Kohen Gadol Will Begin Serving in the Beis HaMikdash

The month of Mar Cheshvan, in which the High Priest will begin to serve in the Holy Temple on the Mountain of Myrrh, and will merit the Breastplate (Choshen) with twelve stones: Odem (ruby), Pitdah (topaz), Bareket (emerald), Nofech (turquoise), Sapir (sapphire), Yahalom (diamond), Leshem (jacinth), Shevo (agate), Achlamah (amethyst), Tarshish (beryl), Shoham (onyx), and Yashfeh (jasper). Its molad (new moon) will occur on Monday, early in the morning, at 303 parts past 5:00 AM—the secret of the three Patriarchs, the two Tablets of the Covenant that we received anew on Yom Kippur, which are the five books of the Torah, in the zodiac sign of Scorpio (Akrav), which is 72 (Ayin-Bet) cold, as it is written: "A man of understanding is of a cool spirit." At that time, all the intellects (mochin) are bestowed, and all the barren women are blessed with children, as it is written: "There shall be no barren male or female among you, nor among your livestock."

For Scorpio (Akrav) is the secret of 'Akar B' (barren no more), that there shall be no barren male or female, in the merit of the letter 'Bet' of 'Bereishit' (In the beginning), upon which we bless the new moon. And at the moment of the molad, the Holy Temple of below and of above—of stone and of fire—will be built, for then all the gates of the Temple of below and of above are opened. Then one merits the tip of the letter 'Yud', upon which Haman was hung: 'Let the thorn, son of a thorn, come and be hung upon a thorn,' which is the tip of the Yud. For the month of Adar, when Haman was hung, was auspicious for the building of the Holy Temple and for bringing down a Temple of fire. For Ezra was worthy that miracles should be performed through him as in the days of Moses, of whom it is said: "You shall bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place, O Hashem, which You have made for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Hashem, which Your hands have established," for the Temple given between two Names is greater. However, in the days of Moses, they crossed the sea with the idol of Micah, and in the days of Mordechai, most of them married foreign women, until Nehemiah came and struck them and plucked their hair, and then they divorced the women; but they had already lost the Temple of fire. Furthermore, the Temple was made of wood and curtains, without the Ark, the Urim and Tumim, and without the Menorah, the Table, and the Altar of Moses. And the fire was not that of a lion—which is the zodiac sign of Av—but of a dog, which is a sign of the kingdom of the night, as it is a dog; the secret of 'Baladan ben Baladan, dog son of a dog.' Therefore, in the month of Cheshvan, which is the secret of 'Choshen Mor' (Breastplate of Myrrh), a person must turn his face from the face of a dog to the face of a lion, and merit the Name 72 (Ayin-Bet) 'Yud-He-Vav-He', and be 'a man of understanding who is of a cool spirit.' For the month of Cheshvan corresponds to Menashe [according to the order of the festivals] [and according to the Bnei Yissachar], and the Geulah (Redemption) will begin from the tribe of Menashe because they performed kindness with Saul [Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 17]. In this month, the Geulah will begin, and then there will be the war of Gog and Magog [Zohar Chadash, end of Balak], and in Nisan will be the complete Geulah. Then the verse will be fulfilled: "For Your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth shall cast forth the dead" [Isaiah 26:19], and then the dew of the resurrection of the dead will descend from Arich Anpin. For Cheshvan has the gematria of 13, from the supreme Will (351) [Cheshvan 364], the secret of "My heart is hollow within me," for Cheshvan is an acronym for Chasid (pious), Sechel (intellect), Ve'anav (and humble), Nora (awesome)—the secret of the 'Akkudim, Nekudim, and Berudim' (the worlds of creation), which Jacob merited because he tended the flock of Laban for 20 years with faithfulness: "By day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes." For in Cheshvan, winter begins, and then the clarifications of the Torah begin until Nisan, which are the 'hidden mysteries of the Merciful One,' in the aspect of the stories of the years of old, for Hashem clothed all the secrets of the Torah in stories from 'Bereishit' to 'Vayakhel Pekudei,' in the secret of "garments for your clothing." For Cheshvan is the zodiac sign of Scorpio, and then King Mashiach will be revealed, in the secret of 'Scorpio, a find, and Mashiach come in a moment of distraction,' for everything depends on one another, in the secret of 'His counsel is faith and His work is truth.' For Cheshvan is the month of faith and the month of (faith) [truth], and therefore there is no festival or holiday in it, nor any day on which we do not say Tachanun. For after Tishrei, the zodiac sign of Libra, after the prayers of the Days of Awe—Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hoshana Rabbah, Simchat Torah—we merit a month that is entirely faith and truth. And that is why our Rebbe said: 'His throne was fiery flames,' that I saw Rosh Hashanah in reality, Yom Kippur in reality, Sukkot in reality, Hoshana Rabbah in reality, and Simchat Torah in reality. And this is why its zodiac sign is Scorpio, in the aspect of "There shall be no barren male or female among you, nor among your livestock." For after we have proclaimed for 22 days "Hashem is King, Hashem has reigned, Hashem will reign forever and ever," and we have brought down the Kingdom of Hashem to the world anew, and we have drawn down new intellects from the zodiac sign of '72 (Ayin-Bet) cold,' and we have merited "For the Conductor, upon the eighth," which is the eighth month corresponding to the eighth king: David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah—for all the sons of Ahaziah were killed and only Joash remained. Regarding this, David said 'For the Conductor, upon the eighth,' that Hashem will save the children of the eighth generation, whose father was a complete wicked person. And Joash, who was a reincarnation of Joab [the letters Bet and Shin are interchangeable, Reincarnations of Souls by the Ramac of Fano], for Joab had to return after eight generations in reincarnation, after he crowned Absalom against the will of David, and then he died with many afflictions, after he had been hidden for 7 years in the Holy of Holies. For Joab merited that his blessings were a thousand billion trillion billion trillion times more than the blessings of Moses, and therefore he merited to dwell for seven years in the Holy of Holies. But since he did not perform teshuvah (repentance) for rebelling against David, he died with afflictions and severe pains, for no man knows the secret of his reincarnation, only the tzaddik. And therefore the Maharsha arose against Ahab [Kochvei Or], and the breaker of the crosses was revealed to the rabbi of the city and said, 'I am Menashe.' And therefore, when one comes to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, and on the eve of Rosh Hashanah prostrates oneself on the holy gravesite, the Rebbe rectifies the reincarnations of each and every one, without suffering and pain, and receives here all the 120 years, in the secret of "For he is but flesh, and his days shall be 120 years." For the year 5777 (Tashayaz) appears once in a thousand years, which is the secret of "For he is but flesh," the secret of "And Hashem said to Abram, 'Go for yourself'" [Shm"g Meisharim Maggid], and this is the secret of "And its seven lamps upon it, seven and seven pipes to the lamps which are upon its head," in the secret of "And to Asher he said, 'Blessed with children is Asher,'" in the secret of "And the spirit of Hashem shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Hashem," in the secret of the daughter of Asher who entered with her body into the Garden of Eden, in the secret of what the Rambam says in Laws of Divorce 7:11 in the Mishneh L'Melech, that each and every one can merit like the daughter of Asher to live for length of days and years. For Cheshvan is 364 times the Garden of Eden (354) plus 10 Sefirot, for everything is revealed in perfection in the month of Cheshvan. It is the eighth month [Shvan in ancient Aramaic = 8, Merach = Moon] (Rabbi Avraham Shaki, Yahrtzeit 15 Cheshvan, like the Chazon Ish). For 'Anav' (humble) is an acronym for 'Akkudim, Nekudim, and Berudim,' for then in Cheshvan the attribute of humility is revealed in perfection. And therefore Abel performed fifty days and passed away in Cheshvan [Ya'arat Devash, Tevet], and therefore Jeroboam's making of Sukkot was intended for the hillula (celebration) of Abel, son of the first man.