HKB"H Is Making Havdalah

15 Marcheshvan 5784

No matter whether it is recognized right now or not. It will become clearer and clearer over time.  HKB"H first set up the test for every person in the world to choose a side - for good or for evil.  [Good and evil have been coexisting side by side since Adam and Hava mixed them up.  The tikkun for that comes at the End of Days when that separation is restored.]

Once the separation has been made, the righteous will be rewarded and the wicked will be punished.  But each person will have chosen his own path by his own free will.  So you could say we judge ourselves and pronounce our own fate.  HKB"H just honors our expressed wishes.  He won't force anyone to live under a Torah regime who is opposed to it, and especially not one who would challenge it and rebel against it.  It's time for peace!

Some people I talk to want to say that HKB"H is making no distinctions between wicked and righteous at this time - the sword of judgment is going to fall upon us all indiscriminately without regard to our faithfulness to Him.  That may have been true for exile, where the righteous, as well as the wicked among our people, met the same fate of expulsion and dispersion.  However, these are not those times.  The prophet Malachi foretells how the birur will proceed at the End of Days...  

..."Still harder did your words strike Me," says the Lord, but you say, 'What have we spoken against You?'  You have said, 'It is futile to serve God, and what profit do we get for keeping His charge and for going about in anxious worry because of the Lord of Hosts?  And now we praise the bold transgressors. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they tempt God, and they have, nevertheless, escaped.'"

Then the God-fearing men spoke to one another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it.  And a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared the Lord and for those who valued His name highly.  "And they shall be Mine," says the Lord of Hosts, "for that day when I make a treasure.  And I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.  And you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who has not served Him."

"For lo, the sun 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 Lord of Hosts.  "And the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings for you who fear My Name. Then will you go forth and be fat as fatted calves."

"And you shall crush the wicked, for they will be as ash under the soles of your feet on the day that I will prepare, says the Lord of Hosts. [i.e., The Day of the L-rd, Judgment Day, GoguMagog.]   

Keep in remembrance the teaching of Moses, My servant - the laws and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.  (Malachi 3:13-22)

Some commentary on the above...