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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refulah shleimah of Malka Esther bat Tziporah. She is critically ill and in desperate need of our tefillot. May Hashem send her a complete healing among all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in his book ‘The Real Messiah’ writes that whoever wishes to truly see the hand of Hashem at work can. We are at a stage in history where civilization has developed beyond man’s wildest dreams. Does the progressive advancement of society foretell the arrival of Mashiach? Certainly. All has been prophesied and predicted as the Zohar HaKadosh precisely writes, “In the 600th year of the sixth millennium, the gates of wisdom on high and the wellsprings of lower wisdom will be opened. This will prepare the world to enter the seventh millennium, just as a man prepares himself toward sunset on Friday for the Shabbat. It is the same here…” The 600th year of the 6thmillennium was the year 5600 (1840) where there was a sudden expansion of secular knowledge; the scientific revolution.
The times we are living in as outlined by the prophets would seem impossible thousands of years ago when made. Yet today with the advancement of technology we can see how ‘grapes can be as large as hen’s egg’ or ‘grains of wheat as big as a fist.’
This era of rapid change is foretold to have a massive impact on the generation gap between parents and children, since children literally feel they are living in a different world, one in which their parents ‘simply don’t understand.’ Many of us undoubtedly experience this in our homes. Chazal describe a sort of spiritual plague, an ailing feeling of constant discontent, of always wanting something new in such a fast-paced ever-changing world.
These are but some of the signs given to us which we can already see before our eyes. All of the proposed dates found in the Torah for the arrival of Mashiach have already passed. We can no longer bear the spiritual hardship of the exile. Those of us who really want to be an ‘Eved Hashem’ feels that Mashiach is very near. B’H, b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
More on this subject tomorrow.
