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“Next Year in Jerusalem!” Several Remarks on Leviathan

Summary/Abstract: The Sukkot holiday ends with the words: “May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelt in this sukkah so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan. Next year in Jerusalem”. This is a reference to a fragment of the Talmudic treatise Bava Batra 75a: “Rabba says that Rabbi Yoḥanan says: In the future, the Holy One, Blessed be He, will prepare a sukka for the righteous from the skin of the leviathan, as it is stated: ‘Can you fill his skin with barbed irons [besukkot]’” (Job 40:31) (“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook? … Or pierce his jaw with a barb?” [Job 40, 26]). In the light of the cited words and wishes expressed upon numerous occasions during assorted Jewish holidays I shall refer “Next year in Jerusalem” to Leviathan – the Book of Job – Light – the Messiah within the context of Lublin – the Exodus – Darkness – the Apocalypse. While using the image of the eschatological feast I would like to deliberate on “the temporal quality” of tomorrow and ask whether the Messianic mark distinctly reflected in the words of this blessing abolishes existing order and is a new / successive beginning.

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