ייִדישער מחשבֿה אויף מלאכי 3:2

(4) When one contemplates on the service he owes to G-d for the benevolent goodness and abundant kindness bestowed on him, and he considers how much he has neglected the precepts and fallen short in their observance, both those which reason mandates and those which the torah commands, and how his pleas and excuses will be cut short when the day of reckoning comes and he will be full of regret on the great day of assembly. Then he will be submitted and his spirit will be broken, as written "For lo, the day comes, glowing like a furnace, and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be stubble. And the sun that comes shall burn them up so that it will leave them neither root nor branch, says the L-ord of Hosts" (Malachi 3:19), and "who can endure the day He comes" (Malachi 3:2).

(2) He should put to heart the coming of his day of death, when the Creator will be furious on him for having neglected his duties, as written "Now who can endure the day of His coming, and who will stand when He appears, for He will be like a blazing fire that refines metal" (Malachi 3:2). If he puts this to heart, he is bound to fear His punishment, and will resolve strongly not to repeat what will arouse the wrath of the Creator on him.

In that, the hand of God is open towards us, as we see that the Knesset of Israel has already cured a bit of its ethical ailments in the heart of the soul. Ailments that have been with us since the first generations. The long and horrible diaspora with all its horrible tortures, has acted as an iron forge, aggregating and purifying. "כאש מצרף וכבורית מכבסים" As smelter’s fire and like fuller’s lye (Malachi 3:2). The horrible need, and the troubles that are more than the human strength can stand, especially those that came on these times were like whips filled with a scorching fire that bleaches, polish, purify, and exacerbate the heart made of stone. "המלח ממתקת את הבשר ויסורין ממרקין כל גופו של אדם".the salt sweetens the taste of the meat and renders it edible, so too in the covenant mentioned with regard to suffering, the suffering cleanses a person’s transgressions (Berakhot 5a).And as goes the judgment of the individual, so it goes for the nation, she too has been polished and purified. The heart is a new and pure heart, the kidneys are prepared for all that is high, elevated and holy.While none of this has translated from potential to actuality, that process, which is hidden in the heart of the nation and its concealed powers, is the job and purpose of the wiseman of the generation, the pious (tzadikim),geniuses, preachers, the wise, and authors. Alongside them, with an even higher degree for generations to come, those who will sing with the spirit of God on his nation - prophets, seers, heroes. All according to the future ascension, one step after another."התנערי מעפר קומי שבי ירושלם".“Arise, shake off the dust,Sit [on your throne], Jerusalem!” (Isaiah 52:2)