Learning Geula | The Qualities of Both David and Shlomo HaMelech | Yemot HaMashiach (25)

What do King David and King Shlomo teach us about the soul of Mashiach?

Rav Shlomo Katz explores a powerful tension in the Torah: Why was David HaMelech, our greatest warrior and servant of Hashem, not allowed to build the Beit HaMikdash? And how is Mashiach, who must also fight great wars, able to build the Third Temple?

Drawing from the Rambam, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and Chassidic masters, Rav Shlomo reveals that Mashiach will not be just a descendant of David, but also Zera Shlomo - a blend of the courage of David and the peace of Shlomo.

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🔹 The Rebbe’s secret insight into the Rambam’s words: “מזרע דוד ומזרע שלמה”
🔹 How Mashiach will conquer the world not through war, but through tefillah
🔹 Why longing for redemption, even when we can’t complete the mission, changes everything

From David’s holy wars to Shlomo’s divine peace, we uncover how Mashiach will bring the world together, without even one gunshot. Just pure presence, love, and Emunah.

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שבוע טוב and good morning everybody. Thank you for coming. We have the month of סיוון is sponsored by the Silver family, לעילוי נשמת בתיה פיגא בת ישראל, by the Aron family לעילוי נשמת לוי בן יוסף, by the Polsteins לעילוי נשמת פרידה שיינה בת יצחק and by the Sossens לעילוי נשמת Miriam’s אבא פנחס מנחם בן אברם דוד. The week is sponsored by my parents.

By my parents in memory of my aunt. You remember last year, a year ago my aunt נֶפֶך was killed in a tragic, it's already a year this week. And our daughter is named after חוה. חוה גאולה.

So in memory of my mother's sister, חוה יעטא בת חיים זעליג יצחק הכהן, in honor of her of her first יארצייט. תהא נשמתה צרורה בצרור החיים. She's working very hard in שמים because like she already had since she left the world, she had her first great-grandchild and two of her grandkids got engaged in the last few weeks. So that's that's very special.Okay, we're going to pass these around.

We're we're going to be we're going to be doing something today that I I skipped over but I realized how important this actually really is. And I think that this may shed as as everything here with the ענין oh wait a second. Can you pass one to. As everything is with regarding the ענין of גאולה and משיח.

There's a concept in חז״ל that says מגלה טפח מכסה טפחיים. מגלה טפח מכסה טפחיים. That literally means you're like you reveal a tiny bit. Whatever you reveal, it seems like there's another כיסוי, there's like a covering of a double amount of what you revealed.

So as much as what we're learning and what's being revealed, there's always another כיסוי. It's like it's very very interesting. It's very strange. Because we've been learning about all the concepts of גאולה for so long already, but almost every topic that we're learning, it seems as though it gets more concealed.

The whole matter gets so concealed and therefore one of the most beautiful I think essential statements of the רמב״ם that after everything that he shares with us about the coming of משיח, in he'll say we we've gone back to it so many times, but no one will know how it will be till it will be. So then you can ask yourself, then why bother learning anything? If no one's going to know how it's going to be until it's going to be. Ah. That's already, you can't.

You can't say listen, if the רמב״ם says no one's going to know how it's going to be actually until it will be, that's like saying, you know what, בעזרת השם a couple gets married and no one knows how the marriage will be till it will be. Let me not do anything and it will be what it will be. Good luck. That's not going to work.

Same thing with raising children, have a child. No one really knows how it's going to be until it's going to be, but hopefully it'll work out it'll just work out and everything will be fine at the end. Our role here is very very essential. It's very it's very it's very מכוון as we said in the beginning of our שיעורים.

And I'm sure that the urge and the longing to want to believe and to believe and to see with our own eyes that we're we have entered the era of of מלכות of משיח and the משיח will be coming בעזרת השם very very very very soon, sooner than we understand and can comprehend. Our learning brings our רצון closer to פועל-tuality, to actuality. Our learning of it brings our רצון. As the רבי says, it hastens the date and it makes it brings our will closer to what is.So, one of the things we have to learn about in the concept of משיח is a very interesting thing.

I want to go first to פרשת פנחס. What do we know about פנחס? What do we know about him? Who's פנחס? Besides it's your your son's בר מצוה פרשה בעזרת השם. בשעה טובה ומוצלחת. Yeah.

It's long, big, fat פרשה. A lot of different topics, there's a lot going on over there. בכלל, I I've been saying במדבר פרשיות are ADD פרשות. All this, כמעט all the the נשא, did you see what was going on this שבת? You think בהעלותך is any calmer? מה פתאום.

בהעלותך is even much more. שלח. קרח, we kind of understand קרח a lot, but but then חקת, we have we have crazy stories. It's 38 years, it covers 38 years of the journey in the מדבר.

So there's wars, there's songs, there's red heifers, there's a lot going on. Miriam dies, אהרן dies, you got a lot happening over there. And then when it comes to um um בלק, so that's mainly one story. But then פנחס, again, boom boom boom boom.

But about פנחס himself. Who was he? The grandson of אהרן הכהן. What do we know about a כהן that has blood on his hands? He can't really be a he can't serve as a כהן and do what a כהן is supposed to be doing. What do we know that פנחס merited after he did what he did? כהונת עולם.

This guy is not only a כהן, he's like an eternal כהן. כהונת עולם. Like forever he's a כהן. ברית שלום.

The guy just took a whatever you I don't even know how you say that in English, a רומח, a spear and and did what he did to two people. ברית שלום. הנני נותן לו את בריתי שלום. Giving him my covenant of peace.Well, when it comes to who could be the משיח, we also have that we have we have this we have tension going on over here.

And that's because of who דוד המלך was and who שלמה המלך was, his son, and we're going to see hopefully harmony between the two. But it's a very important סוגיא to learn inside. So as you see in the beginning over here in דברי הימים we have the story that דוד המלך asked to build the בית המקדש. כאשר ביקש דוד המלך לבנות את בית המקדש אמר לו הקדוש ברוך הוא דם לרוב שפכת ומלחמות גדולות עשית לא תבנה בית לשמי כי דמים רבים שפכת ארצה לפני.

Okay, so דוד המלך wants to build the בית המקדש. And he comes to השם and he says, my this is what I've been wanting, this is what I've been longing for. I finally found the location and השם reply to דוד המלך is, listen, your hands are filled with blood. Now that doesn't necessarily mean you did things that were bad, להפך.

דוד המלך fought the most just wars in the world. But because your hands are filled with blood, לא תבנה בית לשמי. You can't be the one to build the בית המקדש. כי דמים רבים שפכת ארצה לפני.

So there's a fascinating back and forth between השם and דוד המלך and משיח. It doesn't really add up, it doesn't really it doesn't really make sense. It's very very interesting. How could that be? It seems like a סתירה מיניה וביה.

It seems like a self-contradiction. Like השם, didn't you need me to fight these wars? If I didn't fight these wars, there wouldn't even be an opportunity to build the בית המקדש. There wouldn't even be a reality. On the other hand, what am I supposed to do with this?So we we're going to go now to a few מפרשים to explain how this thing kind of gets kind of kind of gets developed.

And it's it's very interesting. המפרשים מסבירים שאף על פי שהמלחמות שנלחם דוד היו מלחמות השם. Just like we said, even though דוד המלך didn't go out on these impulse-based sporadic wars and started killing people, they were all wars that that were so just. Just like the war that we're in right now.

מלחמות צודקות והכרחיות. They were הכרח. You know what that means? Essential, they had to be. בכל זאת היה בכך פגם לעניין בית המקדש.

But it had a blemish when it came to the concept of בית המקדש. Because בית המקדש is a place that should be שהוא לשלום ולכפרת עוון ולעטרת תפילה. Because the the Holy Temple is the headquarters of peace, it's the headquarters headquarters of atonement, and it's the headquarters of the crown of prayer. And if someone's hands had to get messed up with blood, they can't, it seems, על פי פשט, then they can't be involved in building this type of a place because this type of a place has to be completely clean of all of that.

Even if what you did was completely לשם שמים. פנחס, I just wanted to go back to it, he's it seems like his his story is completely יוצא מן הכלל. Right? Seems like פנחס's מציאות is completely יוצא מן הכלל. In הלכה that it's a lot of interesting back and forth that חז״ל go through trying to understand what are we to learn from the story of פנחס הלכה למעשה.

Because it seems like יש פה יש שם בעיה. It's exactly the opposite of how we've end how we end up dealing with these הלכות.But רב ברודנא is going to ask the obvious question that I'm sure we all we were we're all asking. על פי זה נשאלת השאלה איך יוכל המלך המשיח לבנות את בית המקדש השלישי. הרי אף הוא יצטרך לנהל מלחמות.

Wait a second. משיח has a few gigs. He's got a few jobs. Let's talk about two of his jobs.

One of them is to build the בית המקדש. What's the other job he has to do? He has to fight wars. Wait a second. So you're setting him up for the impossible? איך זה? How does it שטים? Either either the בית המקדש is built by the מלך המשיח and everyone else fights the wars.

Or משיח himself is the one that fights the wars, but someone else will end up building בית המקדש. But based on everything we've learned in the רמב״ם and in other מפרשים for this last year, he has to do both. So how does that work out?So he quotes here a רמב״ם in הלכות מלכים that says like this. הרמב״ם מונה את מלחמותיו של המשיח בשורה אחת עם בניין בית המקדש שיהיה על ידו.

When the רמב״ם references מלך המשיח fighting, building בית המקדש is right there next to it. וילחם מלחמות השם בניצח כל האומות שסביביו ובנה מקדש במקומו. Literally in the same sentence, the רמב״ם is saying that both of these things have to happen.It's like, can you imagine today? You know, I bumped into רעבעצן שאני טאַרעגער on Friday at the cleaners. I love that.

No, I just love like, you know, you do your your ערב שבת errands and you meet גדולים, like, you know, while you're walking around the فروטר or whatever. It's very special. So, he doesn't, you know, it's not like, oh, hi. How have you been? No, you don't, you know, there's you don't ask those questions.

There's going to be some some back and forth Torah going on, right? But I was reminded that she wanted to meet um when they first when their her sons, I think she shared this when she was here, not this last time, but last year when there was a event upstairs. She had shared, and correct me if I'm getting the story wrong, that she wanted to meet every one of the חיילים that were in her son's פלוגה, right? Is that the story? And what was the reason? Because she wanted Because one of them is משיח. Because one of them is משיח, and she meant it with every fiber of her being.So, we listen, if I had to put my money on any משיח candidates today, it's only someone that's on the coming back from the battlefield. Like in my in my book, you know, that that's what it is.

But wait a second. But איך זה? So I would, you know, I would bring it to her, saying רעבעצן שאני, but you know the רמב״ם is like, how could they be משיח? If they're ones that are basically have blood on their hands. And and I know when we say blood on their hands, that's usually a uh like a negative, you know, statement about somebody. חס ושלום.

God forbid. Anyone that that has the privilege of wiping out עמלק, our modern day עמלק, is not a that's we should we should we should kiss their toes. But the problem is is that the הלכה is the הלכה and what what are we going to do about this? There's a there's tension here. So and that's how he ends off this paragraph.

לכאורה איך המלחמות הללו משתוות עם בניין בית המקדש?רמב״ם, help us out here. How do these wars שטים with the building of the בית המקדש? Which one is it? Can't be both, or can it? התשובה היא, this is based on a שיחה that the Lubavitcher Rebbe gave in 1991. התשובה היא שעל זה רמז הרמב״ם בדבריו. The רמב״ם alluded to in his words when he said שהמשיח יבוא מבית דוד ומזרע שלמה.

Like it's interesting how we always know, we always attribute משיח to who? From the house of David. But the רמב״ם added these two interesting words. מזרע שלמה. Now before we read ahead, what do you think is the חידוש by focusing on these two words מזרע שלמה? So has to be the battles.

And once the battles are done, then he has the the the seed of Shlomo to be able to build the Mikdash HaShlishi like it was originally supposed to be. What's the difference between the two? It's two different probably two different people. It's well okay well that's true. It's different people, but what else about them is the what's the difference between the two of them in our context? Because this is the whole שיעור.

שלמה doesn't have blood. What does he have on his hands? Building the Mikdash. Well, right, but before he builds the Beis Hamikdash, what else does he have? He has everything that his father has handed to him. Other than a sword.

His father did the dirty work. Right. Right. And got also all the material and everything together so that when Shlomo came, he could just build the Beis Hamikdash, everything was ready for him.

And what about the attributes of him? What did he have to go through in this world? What's that? He is Beis Dovid. He comes from בית דוד. Okay, he is בית דוד. What took place in the time of שלמה המלך that we're still longing for? All the nations came to him.

Right, it's this really foreign foreign foreign word and concept. It's very we're estranged from it for many many many many years. It's a four-letter word in Hebrew. שלום.

Yeah. Heard of it? It's painful to think of how how foreign this this this this word is from us. But yes, there's an it happened. It happened one time, really as an עם, it happened one time.

And that was in the time of שלמה המלך. We spent last year or two years ago a lot of time trying to understand how it stopped, how we lost what was going on in the time of שלמה המלך. But it did happen in the time of שלמה המלך. So when the רמב״ם writes it has to be מבית דוד ומזרע שלמה, he's telling us a lot.

And the רבי is the one that 800 years after the רמב״ם wrote this, or 850 years after the רמב״ם wrote this, the רבי takes us into a little like, you know, flashlight. He brings a flashlight and he says, let's look at those words again and try to understand what the רמב״ם is telling us about who משיח is.Okay, so it couldn't have been דוד because of the battles. Now, it wasn't שלמה either, he wasn't משיח either. Right? So let's see what happens over here.

So again, התשובה היא שעל זה רמז הרמב״ם בדבריו שהמשיח יבוא מבית דוד ומזרע שלמה. בכך רמז הרמב״ם שמשיח צדקנו ימזג את המעלות של דוד ושלמה גם יחד. What's משיח? What's מיזוג? Merge. There'll be a merger of both of the מעלות of דוד and שלמה together.

This is who משיח will be. Someone that's that is is holding both of them together at the same time.What are the two things? Let's develop this a little bit. מעלתו של דוד המלך היא המלכות דוד מלך ישראל. וממנה ניתנת המלוכה לזרעו אחריו ובכלל זה למלך המשיח.

The concept of monarchy, which is also something that we're very very very far from. Whatever you, I mean, who is the last figure in Jewish history that you would attribute monarchy to? Who would it be? Not that they were actually a מלך. I'm saying in more modern times, who's a figure you'd look at them and say like, you know, מלכות, that ענין? They're like a king. בגין? Yeah? Kings don't give up parts of their own country though, that's the only problem with that one.

רבי? The Lubavitcher Rebbe had מלכות, definitely. Anybody else? How about a woman, should no one said Golda Meir? Golda Meir was like the רבי in my house growing up. My mother was infatuated by her. גאָלדע.

So it's it's because we're very we're very far from it. The the real concept of מלכות, you know. I mean, who in the world do you feel like is a מלך? Don't say אחשוורוש. He's not he's not a Who who has like, there are kings in the world, no? Are there any kings of nations, of countries? Huh? Morocco has a king, Jordan has a king.

Charles is a king? Yeah. It's מלכות is such a foreign concept to us. מלכות is something זה כבר סיפור אחר לגמרי. But מלכות, what the רמב״ם is saying is that this ענין of being a מלך.

Being a מלך comes with a lot. You know, a king is someone that when you walk down the street, even if he wasn't wearing anything, you know that's a king. They they they carry some something goes with them that goes before them without the need for them to explain, by the way, I'm I am the king of so and so. They have a presence, they have an energy, they have an aura, it really does emanate.

Very very strongly. That attribute is found in בית דוד. That's something that is in the מלכות of of דוד המלך kingdom of his of his משפחה. And this is given, that's why he says וממנה ניתנת המלוכה לזרעו אחריו.

So the kingdom continues on to his children ובכלל זה למלך המשיח including being משיח. אולם מעלתו של שלמה היא השלום והמנוחה. שלמה המלך ענין is is peace and rest. That's that's שלמה המלך time.

That's what he brings into the world. That's his מעלה. ואף מעלה זו תינתן למלך המשיח. And this מעלה, this attribute also is given to מלך המשיח.

And now I'm asking you something else. Who is the who is the figure that when you feel like you're in their presence, there's שלום and there's מנוחה. That you just feel restful. Like הכל בסדר.

Anybody? It's because you're shy or because there's no one. Soldiers? Gandhi? Wait, which one? The one that did the revolution through peace and. Oh, like Muhammad. Not not רחבעם זאבי, the Okay.

Really? Gandhi? He just gave that you looked at him and he was peaceful. You're saying that because of Ben Kingsley or because of the Both. Like you look through the pictures and everything. Okay.

There's just that little old man with the stick in his white robe and he just looks like he's calm and Mhm. Great, there's no wrong answer. It's what you feel, you know, it's whatever your your feeling. What? Is it embarrassing if we say you? For for for who? No.

The greatest, you know, the greatest gift that I learned from any of my teachers is that if you can create a sense of גן עדן or שלום for a few minutes, just for a few minutes with someone, then that's greater than anything that you could do for them. Maybe all people want is like moments of being present in the presence of someone that makes you feel for a few a few seconds like that. So, הלוואי. It's something we we, you know, it's this is actually what Shainy was saying because when I'm teaching these young guys that are hopefully going out to the world and becoming משפיעים, letting, I know, trying to give over to them that providing five minutes of שלום, a שבת for someone else, maybe one of the greatest, greater accomplishments they could ever get, they could ever do in their life.

It's very hard for a Western trained mind to incorporate that as a real success. In חסידות, that's a real, real big one. That's a big win. Because you know, the modern mind says, well what good is this going to be for five minutes if later I'm not going to be like this.

So that's like באמת someone that that that that says, why should I eat this now, I'm going to be hungry again in a few minutes. But but you're starving. Yeah, but I know but I'm going to be hungry later. So why should I eat this? Well, these five minutes becomes seven minutes, becomes ten minutes.

Right. Right. I actually can think of someone. Yeah? Rebbetzin Freisel.

The original, his first wife. רב שלמה wife? Yes. Oh, you knew her? I lived with them. Oh wow, really? Yeah.

Oh, that's amazing. I mean, we lit Shabbos candles, I mean, of course I was just becoming a Lubavitcher then. Right. The world lit up and there was such peace about her.

Like when you sat and learned with her, for me. Wow. Oh, that's so special. I would say that's the one person I ever met that I felt very peaceful when I was around.

Wow. Like she emanated it. That's so she's not she's not alive anymore, right? No, no, she passed away and remarried. Oh the fir- oh the fir- oh, הבנתי, הבנתי.

Oh, so she passed away a long time ago. Sure. Sure. Rebbetzin Yehudis Marcus.

Sure, sure. But she embodied Rebbetzin Yeger. Excuse me? Rebbetzin Yeger has the same quality. I knew her as a little girl, so.

Take her word for it, yeah. So anyway, whatever, however you envision, thank you for sharing, however you envision that that giving over of a of of a of like just being in their presence and there's there's really you feel like there's ביטחון, there's שלום, there's מנוחה, um that's an attribute that also that's that's and that also is one of the key attributes of משיח. Which is such an interesting dichotomy because on the one hand, he's the one that's holding the sword and he has to go out and fight. And on the other hand, while he's doing that, he's letting you know, you know, sweet darling, everything's going to be okay.

Everything's going to be okay.Many מילואימניקיות, many many wives of מילואימניקים, um I've heard them I've heard them many quite often say that like, you know, their husband they they'd kiss their husband goodbye off to battle on a on a Sunday morning after שבת, and when he says to her, מאמי, הכל יהיה בסדר, אני חוזר שבת, like as much as there's there's דאגה, they really really believe what their husband just said. Where it should be like you you can't breathe, you can't And these גיבורות function, I believe because each of their husbands are attributes of משיח and they're and they're carrying both of these things together. ממש. Okay, so the next page.

דוד המלך turn turn the page over. דוד המלך השיג את ניצחונו על האומות שסביביו על ידי מלחמות. דוד המלך wins, he conquered nations next to him through through war. ואילו שלמה השיג את הכנעת האומות בכוח גדולתו הרוחנית.

How did שלמה המלך get other nations to fall before him? It was because it was a spiritual war. Not not even a war, it was just that his spiritual and his wisdom, the חכמה of שלמה המלך, basically brought to a downfall of anyone that tried to come and mess with him because there was nothing they saw this is החכם מכל אדם. He was the wisest of all men, there's nothing to talk about. בזכות חכמתו העצומה התבטלו כלפיו מלכי האומות וקיבלו עליהם את מרותו עד שאפילו מלכת שבא הרחוקה.

Where where did she come from, the Queen of Sheba? It depends who you ask. If you ask רסטות, רסטפארים, right? Yeah, ኢትዮጵያ. That's where they are, right? ኢትዮጵያ. ኢትዮጵያ, yeah.

So let's say she comes all the way from there, she's also completely enamored. היא באה להתווכח בחכמתו. She comes to fight, have a philosophical discussion, but really, you know, a philosophical bout. ונשאה עימה מתנות יקרות זו שליטה שמקורה רוחני אלוקי.

Meaning that this this this control is rooted in a spiritual godly form of conquering which שלמה which שלמה המלך had. His ענין wasn't to go and fight anybody, but it was that through his wisdom to actually conquer people. I mean, I've been in the I've definitely gone to places where I thought I was going to, you know, I was I just want to hear what they have to say, you know? A younger version. I just want to hear what they have to say.

It's not me and I don't really buy into it and then their wisdom just ממש conquers you. So there's very very it's a very special thing.לכן נאמר שאילו זכינו הייתה מלכות שלמה נהפכת לשלמות המלכות. And this is one of the greatest mysteries of יידישקייט. How was it that the מלכות בית שלמה didn't last? How could it be that there was such peace and prosperity, love and unity and oneness amongst the people and amongst the nations of the world? And we say and that's why we say had we merited the מלכות of שלמה would have been a מלכות השלמות, it would have been everything.

ובית המקדש הראשון בית המקדש היה נשאר בית נצחי. It would have been eternal. והגאולה האמיתית והשלמה הייתה באה כבר אז. And the complete and total redemption would have come already then.

שכן תקופת שלמה הייתה קרובה ביותר לימות המשיח. If you want to go back to a time that most resembles what it looks like in a Messianic era, it's definitely nothing close to now, last year, the last hundred years, the last 200 years, the last 300 years, the last 400 years, the last 500 בכלל nothing to do with anything of our times and modern history. There's nothing close to it, but there was a time. And that was thousands of years ago.

How many years ago was it? Nearly 3,000, right? 2,850. It's probably close to 3,000 years ago when this took place. That's the last time. And we're still holding on to something.

שכן תקופת שלמה הייתה קרובה ביותר לימות המשיח אלא So he says, but what happened here? התערבבו דברים לא רצויים. Unwanted things started getting mixed up. Unwanted things. And this is for another שיעור, but what what those unwanted things were, I will say one טייערע ענין is and this is על פי חסידות, how could it be that the first Beis HaMikdash was destroyed and everything was so peaceful? You know what the one thing that lacks when everything is so perfect? A hunger, longing, wanting.

And in חסידות it says is that there was people were there was love, it was beautiful, it was great, but there was no צמאה לך נפשי אלוקים לאל חי. Because that wasn't needed. Everything was fine. I think we're making up for that for thousands of years already with this צמאה נפשי,, צמאה לך נפשי דאלוקים לאל חי..

But he just says here התערבבו דברים לא רצויים.. Unwanted things got mixed up in the first בית המקדש. ולכן נקרעה הממלכה בתחילה,, the kingdom of שלמה המלך was first, you know, completely messed up. ואחר כך היה חורבן,, then there was the destruction of the בית המקדש.

ואחריו באו חורבן בית שני והגלות הזאת,, and then the second בית המקדש has come and then the current גלות that we're still in. שרק לאחריה תהיה שלמות המלכות ושלימותו של בית המקדש.. That until, again, until only after, only after what we're going through right now, מלכות will be restored, and the בית the third בית המקדש will stand erect, erect and be and lasting for absolutely forever.So, let's go back though to what the רמב"ם said. זו המשמעות הפנימית בדברי הרמב"ם,, שהמשיח יהיה מזרע שלמה..

The רמב"ם says משיח has to be from the seed, from the offspring of שלמה. I think most of us when we refer to משיח, it's always בית דוד. בית דוד, בן דוד עבדך.. שלמה, in his name, does it ever get referenced when we refer when we refer to משיח? Not so much, right? This is the only one that I know of, unless you know of other references when חז"ל they talk about that דוקא שלמה'ס ענין is a key attribute of משיח.

Not so much. במקום מלכותך, what do we say on שבת? ועינינו תראינה מלכותך כדבר האמור בשירי עוזך על ידי זרע שלמה משיח עבדך.. It doesn't say that, right? Or, in what is it? And this זמירות Friday night in צור משלו. רחם בחסדך על עמך צורנו, על ציון משכן כבודך זבול בית תפארתנו,, זרע שלמה עבדך יבוא ויגאלנו..

No, it's בן דוד עבדך,, right? It's always בן דוד עבדך. It's like, I think maybe this is like an important ענין here of תפילות like. I think בן דוד always took it as שלמה? No. Never.

If we took it as it came from דוד maybe it really is. בן דוד. But he is בן דוד, that's the weird thing. He actually is בן דוד.

נכון. But the רמב"ם felt a very important need to write זרע שלמה. It's not saying דוד עבדך, it's saying בן דוד עבדך. בן, that's שלמה.

Offspring of דוד. We never took it as actual שלמה. It's very interesting this רמב"ם. זרע שלמה.

So, זו המשמעות הפנימית בדברי הרמב"ם שהמשיח יהיה מזרע שלמה.. המלך המשיח יזכה ל... Oh, my brother has such a beautiful ניגון to these words. ונחה עליו רוח השם,, רוח חכמה ובינה, רוח עצה וגבורה, רוח דעת ויראת השם..

This is from ישעיה הנביא. Do any of you recall when the last time we said this in שול? If you were in שול, you would know. So on שלש רגלים,, when we open up the ארון, before we say בריך שמיה,, there's a special, there's a special תפילה there. Where you usually, it's after we say the 13 attributes, השם השם קל רחום, we just did this on שבועות.

We do it on פסח, we do it on סוכות. Right before we we take out the ספר תורה, there's a whole תפילה there which speaks about that upon משיח will rest the רוח of השם, רוח of חכמה ובינה,, a רוח of עצה וגבורה, רוח דעת ויראת השם..And therefore, he says over here, יהיה חכם גדול אף משלמה המלך.. Now, look at footnote 27 on the bottom, because that's a very, very crazy statement to say that משיח is going to be smarter than שלמה המלך. Because שלמה המלך is החכם מכל אדם.

He's not סתם saying this as a speculation or as a hope. כדברי, look at 27, כדברי הרמב"ם, בהלכות תשובה פרק ט' הלכה ב'.. What does the רמב"ם say? ואותו המלך שיעמוד מזרע דוד,, בעל חכמה יהיה יותר משלמה.. The רמב"ם says the חכמה of מלך המשיח will be even greater than שלמה.

Yes, he will be from the house of, well here, it's, now he's messing, he's messing with us, because now he's saying זרע דוד. You saw? Like choose which one. This בית, yeah. But he is saying the same, that this king who will come from זרע דוד, he will be even, even wiser than שלמה המלך.Back on top.

הרוחניות העצומה שתקרן ממנו תמשוך אחריה את עם ישראל ואת האנושות כולה.. So the incredible spirituality that will be like shining from him will draw all of עם ישראל and all of humanity. Can you picture that? Someone today that comes onto the scene that's so clean, that's so pure, that's so wise and that's such a holy demagogue, that they're able to draw the whole world after him. It's so far from our, right? It's such a foreign concept to us that there could actually actually be someone like this.

But that is who we דאווען for when we refer to משיח. Again, משיח is not a Jewish concept. It's a, it's, it's, it's the world. It's the whole world.

It's for the whole world. And he will have this amazing, amazing ability to draw all of humanity. בכח חכמתו העצומה,, through his tremendous, tremendous wisdom, ורוח השם, and the spirit of השם שתנוח עליו,, which will rest upon him, יביא את הכנעת אומות העולם בלי שפיכות דמים.. Oh.

We haven't heard this one yet. How is he going to conquer the world? So, רבי נחמן has an amazing statement. And Carlebach wrote the most beautiful song about on this. Do you know which one, which song I'm talking about? משיח יכבוש את כל העולם בלי יריה אחת..

It's, you have to listen to this song. משיח will conquer the whole world without one gunshot. כי עיקר כלי זיינו של משיח היא התפילה.. Because משיח'ס weapon is דאווענען.

And when, it's almost to say, there's one way that I remember learning this saying like, how will he conquer the world is that when you look at משיח praying, everything in the world becomes good. You see the imagery of a person that is one with his prayer, that's his weapon, that's how he conquers you. As the אפטער רבי would often give advice to people that were struggling with תפילה, and they would say to him, רבי, how should I learn? How do I, דאווענען is really hard for me. I need to learn something about it.

Give me a, give me a ספר, give me a direction. And the אפטער רב said, שטויות.. Go and hang out with real דאווענערס. Just go and hang out with דאווענערס.

That'll get you to דאווען. משיח'ס going to, you know, משיח'ס going to conquer the whole world without one gunshot through what? Just by doing his thing. Doing his thing, in a state of prayer. בלי שפיכות דמים..

Without killing.כאשר יתגלה המלך המשיח יכירו בגדולתו העצומה לא רק היהודים.. I'm sorry to break it to us, it's not only going to be יודן that are blown away by משיח, but אלא גם הגוים יתבטלו לפניו ויקבלו עליהם את מרותו.. The non-Jewish people of the world, our holy brothers and sisters, our righteous brothers and sisters, who maybe are too ashamed and too scared today to say how much they are, they are waiting for for מלך המשיח, the real מלך המשיח, right? The real מלך המשיח. They will also receive this amazing sense of awe and also be מתבטל before him.

הללו יכירו ויחושו באור הגדול הבוקע ממנו.. They will sense the great light that's coming from him. ובהיותו מגדל אור של צדק ויושר לאנושות כולה,, that he's bringing righteous and justice to the whole, to all of humanity. לכן לא יעמדו בדרכו..

There's not going to be a non-Jewish protest against משיח. ולא זו בלבד אלא אף יסייעו לו בפעולותיו.. They'll even help him accomplish what he wants to accomplish. This is the, this is משיח.

This is who we're speaking about.So go back to the beginning of the שיעור. Why did we, how did we start this? The question of the שיעור was דוד המלך wasn't allowed to build the בית המקדש because blood was on his hands. Therefore, who ended up building the בית המקדש? His son שלמה. And the question was, but we say about מלך המשיח that he has to fight big wars and he builds the בית המקדש.

But how could that be? We already saw by דוד המלך. So how did we answer that? We answered it by by explaining that the wars that משיח will fight are not going to be wars like we understand the concept of war. It'll be a conquering of people through his wisdom, through his love, but not like רבי נחמן says, not even with one gunshot. Now to tie it even altogether, even deeper, what is the בית המקדש known as? בית who? בית דוד..

Well, the original one, right? What was it known as? בית דוד.. Even though שלמה המלך was the one that did it. So just because we're not able to complete a job, it doesn't mean that it's not ours. That's very important and it's very humbling.

Just because we are not the, like, there are things we can't for whatever the reasons were. In דוד המלך'ס case, it was a הלכי'ק reason. Still, the concept of בית המקדש was named, was his. It's not, I never saw anyone call the מקדש בית שלמה..

And it should have been, because he built it. It was always referred to as בית דוד.. בית דוד..That's because really the more you long for something and just want it to be, and less adamant that it has to be you, then that place really becomes yours. You understand? דוד המלך, what did he really care about? That he should build the בית המקדש or that there should be a בית המקדש? That there should be a בית המקדש.

אה, דוד המלך. That's what really, really, really wants, that's what you really want? יפה.. You know, there's a תורה in חידושי הלוי. חידושי הלוי in פרשת קרח.

The ברדיטשובער says that there's two types of צדיקים, and he says this כמעט every פרשה, there's two types of צדיקים, and he explains the difference between the two in the context of the פרשה. But in פרשת קרח, he says something really fascinating, really, really conquered me. He said, there are two types of צדיקים and they both want קדושה to come down unto עם ישראל. One of them is adamant that it must be through him, and one just wants it to be.

He says that's the difference between קרח and משה. קרח wanted קדושה to come unto עם ישראל, 100%. What was the פגם? What was the blemish? It had to be through me. So I was learning this with a musician friend of mine, very, not mentioning names, very famous musician, long time ago.

And I said to him, tell me brother, if there was an opportunity right now to go and shine bright light on like these newfound Jews in Montana or something, right? They needed a שבת like never before and a concert that's going to take them to the greatest heights in the world. How badly would we want it to be versus how badly would we want us to be the ones that are doing it? This is pre-social media, right? So you can't even like go and let everyone know as it's happening that you're acting like a שליח של משיח. And it's a it's a big, it's a big test for, for רבנים, for musicians, for anyone in a in a field of השפעה, bless you, that question of how much do I want something to be versus how much do I want it to be me. דוד המלך just wanted it to be, so it's called בית דוד.

שלמה המלך also just wanted it to be, so he doesn't care who what it's called, as long as it is. But it gave him the greatest נחת that it's named after his אבא. Even though he's the one that built it.These are qualities of משיח. These are like refined, like monarch, like royal concepts that we are not really around so much in the, they're not really around us so much in the world.

But I believe in the זכות of our חיילים הקדושים, a Jewish leader is being brewed right now. There is the emerging of a of a Jewish leader that's that's coming out of our world of מסירות נפש and that just wants things to be good for עם ישראל, and you that's the עיקר by them. No one, no no חייל comes home and like starts posting and saying, do you know what I did? You have to see what I did. And like, look how sure, this ביטול, total ביטול.

In their merit, our ביטול game should also step up a few notches בעזרת השם.