The Feminine Future

This post is an idea I suggested for my wife to say at her Neshai Chanukah event. 

In many seforim (see hakdamah to Chazon Ovadyah Chanukah) it is cited in the name of the Midrash that all the holidays will be בטל in the future except for Chanukah and Purim (in texts of Midrash we have, only Purim is mentioned, but this is a girsa many cite.)  What does it mean the holidays will be בטל if the laws of the Torah are not subject to change?  It means that the moadim will exist but their significance will fade in the great light of the Messianic era (see Teshuvot Rasha #13.)  Why is it that the holidays of Chanukah and Purim won't dim in the future as well?  

The holidays of Chanukah and Purim are unique in that they are the only holidays in which we find that woman are obligated in the mitzvot of the holiday due to the principle of אף הן היו באותו הנס and according to some opinions that means not only were they including in the same miracle but they were the catalyst for the miracle, Ester in the Purim story, and Yehudit in the Chanukah story.  

The possuk says about the days of the future (Yermiyahu 31:21) נקבה תסובב גבר, "a woman shall go after a man."  The Alter Rebbe explains that in the current state of affairs the man is the one to chase after the woman (Kiddushin 2b,) which reflects the heavenly flow from the זעיר אנפין (the masculine presence) into מלכות (the feminine presence.)  However, in the days of the future the state of מלכות will be elevated higher into the משפיע.  Hence, the woman will not play a passive role but an active role.  נקבה תסובב גבר, the woman will run after the man, she will seek to be משפיע to him, תסובב also as in סיבה ומסובב, she be be the cause for her husband's success.  There two modes are reflected in the last two of the sheva berachot.  The sixth beracha ends בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה', מְשַׂמֵּחַ חָתָן וְכַלָּה, the chatan is first, he is the giver and the כלה is the recipient.  The final beracha which describes the Messianic era, מְהֵרָה ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ יִשָּׁמַע בְּעָרֵי יְהוּדָה וּבְחוּצוֹת יְרוּשָׁלָיִם וכו, ends בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה', מְשַׂמֵּחַ חָתָן עִם הַכַּלָּה, the word עם meaning through as in the chatan's strength will come through the woman.  

Hence, it is specifically the holidays that come about through the actions of woman that are a harbinger of the days of the future when the feminine presence will be dominant and therefore their light will only grow stronger in the days of the future.