ז׳ אב ה׳תשפ״ה | August 1, 2025
‘Moshiach Will Arrive Suddenly’
After a Shabbos Mevorchim farbrengen focused on Moshiach, the Rebbe walked out quickly and caught Reb Shmuel Levitin by surprise. “Won’t Moshiach come gradually?” Reb Shmuel asked the Rebbe. But the Rebbe told him otherwise.
After a Shabbos Mevorchim farbrengen focused on Moshiach, the Rebbe walked out quickly and caught Reb Shmuel Levitin by surprise. “Won’t Moshiach come gradually?” Reb Shmuel asked the Rebbe. But the Rebbe told him otherwise.
In a 5722 diary from Reb Zusha Feldman, then a bochur learning in 770, he records an anecdote that occurred with Reb Shmuel Levitin and the Rebbe. He writes that he heard from Reb Shmuel himself just after it transpired:
At the latest Shabbos Mevorchim fabrengen, the Rebbe spoke a lot about Moshiach. The maamar was also about the imminent redemption, beginning with the possuk, “Venigla kevod Hashem.”
After mincha, Reb Shmuel Levitin walked out, and shortly after him, the Rebbe also walked out. Since Reb Shmuel walked slowly, and the Rebbe fast paced, the Rebbe caught up with him.
Startled at the Rebbe’s sudden appearance, the elder chossid said to the Rebbe, “But isn’t it explained that Moshiach will come gradually!”
The Rebbe responded, “Moshiach will arrive suddenly.”
(Teshura Oster, Av 5781, p. 23)
From The Weekly Farbrengen by Merkaz Anash
COMMENTS
This is just conjecture but I imagine that Reb Shmuel was referring to the verse: “Ki Lo Bechipazon Teitzeiu…” However that verse is referring to how we will leave galus, with condfidence and pride. Moshiach arriving suddenly is a commentary on the manner in which he will arrive.