26 April 2025

Another Missed Opportunity

29 Nisan 5785
Erev Rosh Chodesh
14 Days of the Omer

"In Nisan you were redeemed and in Nisan you will be redeemed."

Coming near to the end of Nisan 5785, Edom appears to be no closer to its end.  The kings of the West are still calling all the shots and we seem to be no closer to freedom from their wicked schemes.

Despite how it appears, we will never stop hoping and praying for the end of this terrible, dark galut and the realization of the promise of a future in this lifetime!

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...Going through life without contemplating the workings of the world, without looking below the surface, is oftentimes an easy and comfortable route.  But HaRav Yerucham Levovitz, the Mirrer Mashgiach, zt"l, explains that living life without contemplation is a serious mistake.  Indeed, we are obligated to look at all occurrences in our lives as osos and mofsim, nothing less than "signs and wonders," and never as products of a natural system or random events.

Rav Yerucham taught this idea almost one hundred years ago.  As an example, he cited the ongoing world interest in Eretz Yisrael.  It is not a natural occurrence that global scrutiny is centered so firmly on one tiny area of the map.  All of the world's countries, with all of their widely diverse needs and concerns, are disproportionally preoccupied with this one small country.  This is not a natural or random reality.  It is an example of Hashem's hashgachah - because Hashem "caused, causes and always will cause everything that happens."

(The End Illuminated, Chapter 2 : The Torah Perspective on Current Events by Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Sorotzkin.)

1 comment:

  1. Of corse, the world is preoccupied with EY. They know of its holiness and where they stand in the end and it is not good for them, for sure. Their sinah and kinah is well known as they have proven it for millenia. But, as long as there are no real G-D fearing giborim amongst our people and the wicked Erev Rav rule, what can we do about it? We can do teshuvah & pray hard that H' has great Rachamim on His children and send us our righteous Redeemer.
    But, the Jews are at such a low now; there are the stupid liberal Jews which are a disgrace to our nation and then the ultra leftists who literally are in an alliance with our enemies. Only nissim and niflaot will
    help us. We must teach our children never to rely on any
    person, nation, government, etc. Only Hashem is with us; even though we see that notzrim are putting a show of ahava of G-D where they think they can change the mind of the Creator to make them beloved to Him.
    There is only one way at this moment and this is to literally cry out to Hashem as we did in Mitzrayim and He will surely answer us. But there is always division amongst us, but it's time for the G-D fearing Jews
    to unite as one and cry out to Hashem that He not delay and save us
    from all the wickedness and bring us all home and undo the enemies from within and the external ones.
    May wisdom come to our people and righteous leaders. I personally think it will take miracles because there are too many of the stupid ones
    at this time in history and only because of Hashem's Love and Rachamim He will take over. How? No one knows His ways which
    are a mystery to man. May it be with great chesed and rachamim!
    yiddel

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