Passover: Elijah’s Cup – Pour Out Thy Wrath
The Baal Shem Tov says that before Moshiach comes everything will become more clean.
The word for “man” in Hebrew is “Adam” — aleph, dalet, mem. Now “mo’od” in Hebrew — mem, aleph, dalet means “very”. Everything that comes from the same letters comes from the same root. So before Moshiach comes, a good man will be very good and an evil man will become very evil.
When we open the door for Elijah the Prophet during the second part of the Seder we say words which sound horrible. First we say holy words of love and peace, and then we say, “Pour out your anger at the world.” The world needs a little cleaning out. We are begging G-d, “Would you please do the cleaning?”
When we open the door for Elijah, who will come to announce the Messiah, we are on the level of saying we don’t want to do the cleaning. There are a lot of people who are so eager in fighting evil; it’s the greatest thing in their lives. At the Seder we say to “If there has to be some wiping of evil, please, You do it.”
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