Millennial Lights
The fact that by Divine Providence this is called the “millennial” generation is also something to meditate upon. The number 1000 is directly related to all that we have been saying. To start with, 1000 lights were given to Moses at the Giving of the Torah. It is also the value of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov (ישראל בעל שם טוב), the founder of the Chassidic movement, who sought to awaken and prepare the world for the new light of the Messianic era.
But we can go one step further: Who are the students that most reveal the new light of Chassidut? The “veteran students” (תלמיד ותיק) which also equals 1000! These students are innovating that which already given at Mt. Sinai. But while they are veteran students, they are also the greatest innovators.
Related to the polarization of politics, and the feeling of being between old and new worlds, no one feels this more strongly that the veteran student of Chassidut. He is the one most capable of taking what seems like an old Torah and showing it to be the newest thing imaginable (without changing one detail).
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