Shabbat Hagadol Shalom,
Every Year the Shabbat before Pesach is called Shabbat Hagadol (the Great Shabbat), in our days it is famous to be Shabbat of the drasha from the big Rabbi of each community to prepare his congregation before Pesach. But Really it starts from the first Pesach when we were in Egypt. In this Shabbat before Pesach we got commanded to take the lamb or goat and to put it aside to be sacrificed on the day before pesach. In this
first pesach in Egypt Shabbat Hagadol was on the 10th of Nissan, just like in this year Shabbat falls on the tenth of Nissan. We can put this with a long list of similarities to the first Pesach that point that things are moving in the world towards a big revelation of the Kingdom of Hashem.
In the Pesach we did in Egypt we had a special mitzvah (commandment) not to go out of the house on Pesach night, and Ba-al Ha-Turim which is one of the big commentaires of the Chumash wrote that the same thing will be in the final redemption. This year in a miraculous way almost half of the world is contained in their homes for the eve of Pesach. One of the questions that have come up is; Why is it that now it is not only for the Jewish
People? Why all of a sudden there are millions upon millions from all different nations are also confined to their homes?
We know that in the first redemption after leaving Egypt the Jewish people went to Har Sinai to receive the Torah. Hashem told Moshe Rabanu to write the Torah in 70 languages for the whole world. So even though in that first redemption it was a unique process for Am Israel but the revelation that followed that redemption was designated for the entire world.
Through the over 3000 years that have passed since then, more and more nations of the world have recognised the Truth of the Torah. Have followed in differing levels its teachings. This revelation that we are expecting in the midst of the final redemption is definitely designated for the whole world. which could be our answer to why not only the Jews are in quarantine. This is what we pray for every Rosh Hashana "Ve Yaasu
kulam aguda-a echad" that the whole world will unite together to serve Hashem as one. with the full recognition in the absolute truth of the Torah.
