Midah k'Neged Midah

Now we can understand the late date at which the word "Mitzvot" was inserted in the Torah. It was added, as Klal Yisrael lacked the capability of seeing Hashem in themselves, like the self-image of the prophets. Rather, they saw Him as outside of themselves, and so the Torah was adapted to their Madregah. The Mitzvot are thus commandments to man, from the outside. It is Midah k'Neged Midah, and that is really what it is.

At the time that Zerubavel took it upon himself, as Moshiach ben David, to become a suffering Moshiach, going down in Madregah with Am Yisrael, the nation suddenly found itself ruled by classes, by the Kohanim and by the Levi'im, through the Torah of P and of D. They were ruled by Chaverim, by Rabbanim, by Rebbes, by Generals, by kingdoms of various types and kinds, and by every type of evil, in the Galut. Why?

Klal Yisrael has descended many Madregot. Can we ever return? Will we ever have Nevuah, prophecy, again? Yes. Through the Moshiach, through the Light of Haskalah, through Chochmah, through the full realization that Hashem is in us. He is us, but we are not Him. Close are the days, when the lowest of men will become the first of men, through the Light of Haskalah.

Then Klal Yisrael will come to understand history, and that includes prehistory. Then the whole world will come to understand our history, and their history, with the help of Hashem. Then, Hashem will be understood as the God of all mankind, of all time. And we will in truth represent Hashem to mankind. We will rise up, and proclaim that Hashem, our God, is bigger than we had thought.

We who have rejected Zerubavel. We who have sinned. We went to the other side, from where one sees Hashem only from afar. Thus said Ramchal (Iggeret 15): "there are many Keitzim to the Geula, as at many Madregot (we) can be redeemed." We have rejected the Geula, time and again, we spurned the Moshiach and spitted on him, and we desecrated the name of Hashem, time and again. It is Midah k'Neged Midah and that is really what it is.

מֵעֲמַל נַפְשׁוֹ, יִרְאֶה יִשְׂבָּע--בְּדַעְתּוֹ יַצְדִּיק צַדִּיק עַבְדִּי, לָרַבִּים; וַעֲו‍ֹנֹתָם, הוּא יִסְבֹּל

(Yeshayah 53:11)