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What is the special significance of the sixth of Av? In this case Erev Shabbos was the 5th of Av, the yartzeit of the Arizal; a Yartzeit carries special meaning:
All his doings, his Torah and the Divine service which he served all the days of his life...it becomes revealed and radiates in a manifest way...at the time of his passing and effects salvation in the midst of the earth.
(Iggeres HaKodesh ch. 28)
This salvation includes not only the aspects of the Arizal's Divine service which were revealed to us, but also, all the multitude of aspects that remained sequestered and were not revealed -- yet on the day of the yartzeit they become revealed.
There is also a connection between the yartzeit and the vision of the Temple. The Gemara states: "The death of Tzaddikim is equal to the destruction of the House of our L-rd." (Rosh HaShanah 18b) The goal of this descent is to reach a higher state when salvation will come to the world, which is the sequence of destruction of the Temple which leads to the higher state of the future Temple, which is the handiwork of G-d.
It was the Arizal who propounded the opinion that in these last generations specifically it is permitted and required to reveal the esoteric wisdom (see Iggeres HaKodesh ch. 26) -- including the Zohar, the Lurianic teachings, etc. For it is with this Book of the Zohar that the Jewish people will march out of the golus with mercy. (see Zohar III, 124b)
"One who prepares on Friday will eat on Shabbos" -- and when Friday is the yartzeit of the Arizal then the visions of the future which we absorb on Shabbos are much loftier. And since this day brings salvation in the world it also affects the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash so that with the study of his teachings we will in fact march out of the diaspora.
These themes of Shabbos Chazon, the Shemittah year, the fact that Friday was the fifth of Menachem Av, all have a beneficial effect also on the upcoming days and the future years. Notwithstanding that on this day the effect is much stronger. Just as the remembrance of the Exodus is stronger on Pesach -- even though we recall the Exodus every day of the year.
There actually is a real connection between this day of Shabbos Chazon as the Shabbos before Tisha B'Av and the holiday of Pesach. We know that the code for setting the day of each holiday is based on the cipher of A't B'ash -- the sequence of the progressing alphabet as it is matched with the letters in reverse order. So that the letter Aleph -- is matched with Tav, etc. Accordingly, the first day of Pesach will fall on the same day as Tisha B'Av. The symbolic inference is that although Tisha B'Av is a time of Exile its true inner essence is redemption, as evidenced by Pesach and in fact,
I will show you miraculous things as in the day when you left Egypt. (Michah 7:15)
Moreover the Aleph of Pesach comes before the Tav of Tisha B'Av to show that the remedy comes before the illness and as G-d promised:
I will not strike you with any of the sickness that I brought on Egypt. (Shemos 15:26)
In the time of the future redemption there will be no suffering.
Now, on Pesach itself the main time for recalling the Exodus is at the Seder Night which is the "protected night" when G-d liberated the children of Israel. For although the actual Exodus out of Egypt took place in the "very midst of this day" -- nevertheless, this could only take place because the night before, at midnight, "the Supreme King of kings revealed Himself to them and redeemed them."
This revelation of the first night of Pesach corrects and converts the tears of Tisha B'Av which also occurred at night: "The people cried on that night." (Bemidbar 14:1)
That night was Tisha B'Av and the Holy One, Blessed be He, said to them, "you have cried for nothing and I therefore will set this day as a day of tears for all the generations." (Ta'anis 29a)
Thus the revelation of Pesach will convert those tears to good tears. As we find that Rabbi Akiva's eyes were filled with tears when he studied the esoteric interpretation of Shir HaShirim. Those were tears of joy and pleasure, because of the great revelation of the esoteric aspect of Torah beyond the normal capacity of his mind. (see Zohar I, 98b; Torah Or, Vayishlach 26a)
Action is of the essence. On this Shabbos Chazon when everyone is shown the future Temple, and especially in this year of Shemittah, and the day after the Yartzeit of the Arizal, we should increase our actions and Divine service in Torah study, observance of mitzvos which will bring about the true and complete redemption and the building of the Third Beis HaMikdash. This includes the study and spreading of the esoteric teachings of Torah and then, "when the wellsprings will spread out -- the Master, King Moshiach, will come."
Much has already been accomplished in this area with great, immeasurable abundance, including the publication of a new volume of the Mitteler Rebbe's works based on the teachings of the Alter Rebbe with the additional broader understanding of the Mitteler Rebbe; it was delivered from the binder just this Erev Shabbos.
May it be G-d's will that very soon the promise will be fulfilled: "Awake and rise, you who dwell in the dust"; the Arizal will be among them, our Rabbis and Nessi'im will also be among them, and all together we will come to the holy land, to the holy city Yerushalayim, and to the Beis HaMikdash, as it says: "May our eyes behold Your return to Tziyon with mercy."
Shabbos Parshas Devorim, Shabbos Chazon
6th Day of Menachem Av, 5747
http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/sichos-in-english/36/09.htm
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