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To Prepare Their Hearts

ליישר ישראל ולהכין לבם

..to rectify Israel’s conduct and prepare their hearts

This preparation is imperative. Without it, a sudden transformation as momentous as this would amount to a suspension of the natural pattern of the world — in direct contradiction to what is stated in Halachah 1 above.

This is a subject on which there is more to be said.

Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XXX, p. 172

תיפח רוחם של מחשבי הקיצים

“May the spirits of those who attempt to calculate the final time [of Mashiach’s coming] expire!”2

[See the above passage in ch. 3 entitled, “Calculating the Time of the Redemption.”]