Q:
We are told by chazal that בניסן נגאלו ובניסן עתידין ליגאל – “In the month of Nissan we were redeemed from Mitzrayim, and in the month of Nissan we will be redeemed from the current exile” (Rosh Hashanah 11a). What is pshat in this ma’amar chazal?
A:
So what do you want to know?
Q:
Only in Nissan? In other months, Moshiach can’t come?!
A:
What’s wrong with Nissan? Ha’levai it should be this Nissan. If you have a kasha, I’ll listen to your kasha. But I don’t hear the question right now.
Q:
What, it can’t happen in Adar?
A:
So it seems. According to that ma’amar it will be in Nissan.
Q:
So what about אחכה לו בכל יום שיבוא – “We are waiting for him to come every day.” Are these words that we always say, a contradiction – to this gemara?
A:
Oh! Now, that’s a kasha! Finally, you hit on it!
And the answer is this. If we try hard enough, he can come any day. But if we don’t try hard enough, then he will come anyhow. Sooner or later, he will come anyhow. And when he comes automatically, he will come in Nissan.
TAPE # E-228 (April 2000)
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