Cosmic questions such as the purpose of exile, the role of the individual Jew in ending it, and the indicators of the Redemption in our generation, are illuminated in this outstanding compilation by rich chassidic insights.

This skillfully constructed work was undertaken in response to a call by the revered Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shneerson (1902-1994) that Jews everywhere escalate the process of Redemption by (among other things) studying subjects related to the coming of Mashiach, in both the legal and the mystical dimensions of the Torah.

Accordingly, the reader is here provided with a masterly translation of classic teachings on these subjects by the Rebbe and by earlier leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch chassidic movement. For both the mind and the soul, this eminently readable anthology is a veritable feast.