
6. Eternal Jewish Kingdom
Hashem made a promise to Abram in Genesis 15 that the descendants born to Abram from Sarai would one day inherit the land of Canaan as an eternal homeland. This promise made to Abram was not a promise of a mere earthly kingdom that would rise and fall like so many earthly kingdoms. Rather, Hashem promised Abram this land would be an eternal possession of the children of Israel.
The previous promises made to Abram was not a promise of a mere earthly kingdom that would rise and fall like so many earthly kingdoms. Rather, Hashem promised Abram this land would be an eternal possession of the children of Israel. Thus, beyond an earthly nation, with the giving of The Torah, Hashem was establishing not only the earthly nation of Israel, but also the eternal kingdom of the world to come.
It is in the world to come where all of the blessings of our earthly mitzvot-keeping will be fully brought to fruition. In the world to come, everything will truly be restored to the state of Hashem's original design: Like Gan Eden, without the possibility of sin to reenter. Truly a "new heaven and new earth" will be established, according to promises made by Hashem in passages such as Isaiah 65.
In this eternal world to come, Torah truly will rule and reign. In places such as Proverbs, we know that all of Hashem's wisdom is personified as a woman. Indeed, in Kabbalistic theology, the earthly Divine Presence, or the Shekinah, is the feminine aspect of G-d. This idea is postulated mainly because the Hebrew word is a feminine word. We do not give such genders to words in American English. However this practice of gender-assigning is common in other languages, such as Spanish (as one example).
We must be careful not to assign a conventional gender to G-d as well. Hashem has no body. Hashem has no form. Hashem cannot be thought of as the same as humans in any way.
But, we can tie the idea of wisdom being the feminine aspect of the Divine to the promise that, in the end of days (and in the world to come), women, not men, will prophesy. Too, the Wisdom of Hashem will be so vast that it will cover the world like water covers the sea. This wisdom is the feminine Shekinah. Further, the Shekinah will again come to dwell in the world at the end of days. "Her" light will be so vast that there will be no need for sun nor moon.
We can consider this prophecy in one of two ways: women will be the dominant teachers of Torah truth in the end, as stated (meaning we take the verse literally). Or we can understand that the Shekinah (feminine aspect of the Divine) will do all of the prophesying directly, rather than using the mouths of human people--or men: adam. We are told that Hashem will teach us all wisdom in the end in such a way that every heart will be changed and willingly do all that is required by Torah (see Ezekiel 36 as an example).
Through this teaching, the exterior Physical Presence of The Shekinah will ignite the Shekinah that resides in every Jewish person to new levels and heights of Godly understanding and wisdom. These heightened states of knowledge will lead to the heightened levels of our souls. The combination will lead to a level of mitzvot understanding and keeping that cannot compare to anything we know today.
Further, we know from other parts of scripture that keeping mitzvot is the only way to blessing. When keeping Torah is the only thing that will be present on earth, only blessing will come. Thus, there will come the end of all evil and eternal shalom will be ushered in.
Today, the outpouring of the promised blessing in response to people keeping Torah is the doorway through which we can glimpse the truth about what Hashem has planned for the days of moshiach and the world to come. The beauty of all of these promises is that they are promised to affect not only the Jewish people, but the global population at large. Every person on earth (whether Jew or not) will benefit from this state of blessing so long as they too perform Teshuvah and grab hold of Torah!
