Hatzlochoh Butcher is a Tzadik

The SHaloH writes in a discourse on Pesach that no Jew ever sinned and that when Moshiach comes we will understand why. He then mentions the sparks of Tohu forcing and needing to be purified and thus the Jew’s descent into hell.

In Mesechte Avoidoh Zoroh, in an eschatological debate between the nations of the world and G-d, concerning the Jews, G-d bears witness that the Jews kept the entire Torah. I remember first reading this, in a Yerushalayim Yeshivah, and reading it and re-reading it I realized that this was even deeper than the most beautiful justificational toirohs which I had read in Chasidic sforim.

Another twist: the Arizal writes, in Sefer Hagilgulim, that in certain Gilgulim, and especially in the first one, it is impossible for a soul not to steep to the nethermost domains of impurity. The Arizal says that there is nothing he can do and compares it to the sin of Adam, which had to happen in order to bring about the rectification of certain holy sparks which dwell in evil.

Chassidus never sees sin in terms of crime and punishment. Sin is about the beginning of a process, a sojourn into the great unknown abyss to reveal and find G-d. The process is Zichuch, purification, and Birur, clarification.

In the end of Daniel it says “it will become clarified and whitened and many will enjoin”. The Alter Rebbe, The first Chabad Rebbe, once walked into the study hall and addressed the young men with the latter verse, expounding that “many will enjoin” refers to the many Tzadikim who will become Rishoim, in the days leading to Moshiach”.

Traversing with a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZY”A, about how Reb Yoichonon, having said after eighty years of being a Tzadik that “he did not know in which way they were leading him”. Meaning, the Rebbe explains, that although he had been righteous for many years he was not sure of what the internal part of his soul consisted. Was it evil or good? The Rebbe then explains that it is possible for one to be a Roshoh his entire life and then in one instance become a Tzadik as in the case of Eliezer Ben Durdaya. And vice versa; a life-long Tzadik can in one instance become a Roshoh.

In terms of the Hatzlochoh meat scandal: he is a a tzadik, his Neshomoh is Chelek Eloika Mima’al Mamash, an inherent part of G-d and the Teshuvoh that this man will do will open the greatest gates ever opened, as Reb Nachman explains in Tinyono.

One last thing. The Ba’al Shemtov’s dictum “that the blemish that you see in the other is really your own, has as a precedent the talmudic phrase “Hapoisel Bimumoi Poisel”, loosely translated as “the finger-pointer is using his own blemish with which to point his finger”.

Imagine if we all join with his Teshuvoh and really really know that we are one and that in essence we did it to ourselves since the Hatzlochoh butcher and mamash every single jew is Yochid Umiyuchod! Let us all love each other for the new year in an amazing way which covers all our sins and evokes G-d’s love for us, a love so strong which he will use to cover our sins.

- Rabbitobenamedlater