when the בית המקדש will be rebuilt, the revelation will come back and in a much higher level. So there's certain, so those tzadikim that gave dates for the coming of Mashiach, to them, for their neshamah, actually the revelation of Mashiach actually took place. So they weren't lying in that way too. Plus, they just mentioned an auspicious time. Now, I just want to go back to the other parts of this halacha, when he speaks about Eliyahu Hanavi. He says Eliyahu Hanavi is not going to come to make טהור טמא, he's not going to make כשר or פסול, that's not his job. The purpose of coming to the world will be to bring peace to the world, that's all. Now, it doesn't mean that Eliyahu Hanavi is not going to answer halacha questions. Eliyahu Hanavi will be the greatest teacher. He will answer all the halacha questions that we have. And as you mentioned, we know that it's better when the Gemara has a question, it has no answer, the Gemara always says tiku. Tiku means it stays that way, as a question. But the sefarim say the word tiku is an abbreviation of תשבי יתרץ קושיות ואיבעיות. Tishbi, which is Eliyahu Hanavi is called Tishbi, he is going to answer all the questions. He'll be the one that will be מבשר, he will notify that Mashiach has come. Right, he'll come before. The argument is only how close to Mashiach, right before Mashiach or a little bit earlier. But he will come. But he will answer halacha questions. He will, but that's not going to be the function of him coming before Mashiach. He is a great scholar. He

will not answer the questions as a נביא. He is Eliyahu Hanavi, he's a prophet. He will not answer these questions because he's such a great prophet. The din is, there's הלכה תורה לא בשמים היא, the Torah is not in Heaven. A prophet has no right to answer a halacha question with prophecy. No one could say that I was revealed from Heaven that the halacha in this and this שאלה is so-and-so. We can't accept it. We know the famous story in the Gemara when there was a big argument with Rabbi Eliezer, called תנור עכנאי, about a certain oven whether it's טמא or טהור, and Rabbi Eliezer claimed one way, and the חכמים argued. And we know that according to הלכה, יחיד ורבים הלכה כרבים, the halacha is always like the majority, and the halacha was like them. And he wants to show he's right. So he got up and he said, מן השמים יוכיחו, I want them to prove from Heaven that I'm right. יצתה בת קול, a voice from Heaven came out and said, הלכה כרבי אליעזר. עמד רבי יהושע על רגליו, and Rabbi Yehoshua got up and said, אין משגיחין בבת קול. We

don't care what the bat kol says. We don't care what they say from Heaven. Who's the bat kol? The voice from Heaven is from Hashem. Who gave us the Torah? Hashem. So Hashem says you're wrong! Too bad. Hashem gave us the Torah, and He gave us rules how to study it and how to pasken. And He said that one of the rules is that you have to pasken according to the way you understand down here, and you can't pasken from Heaven. תורה לא בשמים היא. And we find a place where Hashem said, נצחוני בני נצחוני, you won. There's a a story in Gemara where they had an argument between Hashem and the מתיבתא דרקיעא, in the Heavenly yeshiva, and they didn't know how to pask