[Avodah] What does "Redemption/Geulah" mean?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:33:15PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: Thank you for those links, but from my perspective, they're very much
: about Emes, while I didn't see too much about Geulah....

My argument was that both the process of revelation of Emes, the return
from galus haShechinah, and the final ge'ulah are both described as
"Vehayah Hashem leMelekh al kol ha'aretz..."

And as I noted:
:> Rav Hirsch places the "ge'ulah" in the same family as [yud
:> ayin lamed] (to progress), ...
:> Our definition can thus be phrased as "a process for the
:> ultimate revelation of truth."

So, both ge'ulah is the endstate (or perhaps asemptote) of a progression,
as is revalation of truth, and both reach culmination in the same pasuq.
I therefore identified the two. I didn't say you had to, just that to me
it seemed reasonable.

: My problem with this is that ge'ulah always appears in context of being
: the redemption of a group or of an individual...

A person's ge'ulah is when he can get a peek through the "anan va'arafel
sevivav" and instead "ba'amud anan yedabeir aleihem".

Thus, the complete ge'ulah after galus Mitzrayim was the Sinaitic
Revelation. (Complete with anan there too...)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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