Shalom u'vrachah Good Jews!
With humility and great love for Bnei Yisrael, I will do my best to answer your comments. As you read my responses, "hear" them in your mind in the best light possible because it is how they are "spoken." Read within my words no anger or rebuke. "Hear" me pleading with you to see reason, to open the hidden places within yourself which remain closed to Hashem and His mercy.
Anonymous said...
This is all very tantalizing. I am a middle aged BT who is very drawn to Navas (Dreaming of Moshiach's) postings. My heart yearns for Israel and redemption. I am alone. I am not a great communicator.TIhere is no way my very gentle and loving wife will understand. We have young children; (and dept) and no one around me is frum. They cannot see. I have spoke of great changes but no one sees. I hollared on about the tragedy of the disengagement but no one cared or understood. What is to be said to those who would drop everything but will not because they are loyal to their families?
Anonymous #1---If your house were on fire, you would know how to save your family. The problem here is that you do not believe your house is on fire. Anonymous, believe that your house is on fire.
Anonymous said...
Exactly! Just get up and go to Israel... that would be FANTASTIC..... but it is IMPOSSIBLE for so many. If Hashem wanted us all to be there, Hashem would also make it possible.... if it is impossible, then what can we do?
Anonymous #2---Hashem does not ask the "impossible" of you. It IS impossible in your own strength, that is true. But Hashem waits for you to trust Him. NOTHING is impossible with G-D and you must seriously repent of this mindset. Hashem is fully able and willing to give you success in this area, but it requires from you a very great faith in Him. If you do not know this about Him, that He NEVER lets down those who place their faith and trust in Him, then you must repent that also and get busy getting to know Him better.
I have seen many goyim, who do not have the mitzvah to be in Eretz Yisrael, leave literally everything behind them and come to Israel with a one-way ticket, on a tourist visa good for three months only, and they find a job and a place to live and they remain here for years beyond the expiration of their visas. How do they do this? They have a very great faith in HKB"H. Granted that since it is not their mitzvah, the Satan does not fight against them the same way that he does against us, a mind and heart battle, but at the same time, Hashem gives us much more assistance to succeed because the land was designated for us and His master plan depends upon the Jews returning to the land.
Realize that this talk about "impossible" comes from the yetzer hara and is not founded in any kind of reality. It is an illusion built out of your fears. Pray to overcome this and to be allowed to see and experience the true reality of Hashem's gracious and bountiful provision for you---beyond anything you can even imagine---in this world, as well as the next.
josh said...
anonymous,I'm not even 40, but I do know that NOTHING is impossible. I do know that for many, though, the obstacles are great. Anyway, I tell other people who seem to have great obstacles that if there is no possible way to drop everything now or 'cannot' make aliyah 'yet' (like most of my family), to at least mentally prepare yourself for this as 'if' tomorrow morning the plane is leaving. I beg my siblings to at least 'think' about what to pack if they had to move slow or fast. If you or others can't arrange to move an entire home full of belongings, then at least prepare yourself mentally and anticipate moving at the first moment.
Josh---I sympathize with your concern for your family. May Hashem realize for you your sincere desires on behalf of them and for yourself. This strategy has been good until now, but we are past the "thinking" stage. Now---right now---go open a suitcase up and begin to put things in it. Start with your most cherished possessions and important papers. Then set it in plain sight, set it down where you have to walk around it every time you go in and out of your room.
We live in the world of 'Actions.' That's why our prayers must be spoken and not merely thought. We have to DO things in order to change our reality. True thoughts, unlike mere self-deception, work out into tangible actions and accomplish visible results.
Dear Josh, look closely at what you have written: "... I do know that NOTHING is impossible." That's very good. But now, look at how you have taken it back in the very next statements: "...if there is no possible way...." Do you see the contradiction? You think that you believe nothing is impossible, but when it comes to actually putting it into practice, it fails you. You have left room to believe that nothing is impossible in the future, but in the here and now where it counts most, it is simply impossible. Dear Josh, Hashem is G-D of the past, present and future. It is all one with Him, just as He is ONE.
You speak of "great obstacles" and there is no denying that, but if you compare the current situation to that of years gone by, it would appear that Mashiach has already arrived! By comparison to generations past, the ease (and speed) with which it is possible to make aliyah today is incredible.
You know that three generations or so ago, there were very great obstacles for our grandparents to overcome in immigrating from Europe to America. It was not unheard of for people to leave entire families behind while they started a new life and then brought them over one by one. Many sacrifices were made and many obstacles were overcome. No one was looking for more than an opportunity to work toward a better future for themselves and their progeny. It's our loss that they chose the West over Eretz Yisrael or we would all have grown up speaking Hebrew and not have to overcome these obstacles yet again for our own children.
Anonymous said...
What about the 'converts to be' who find all these obstacles in their way to actually become the jews that they are? Isn't there any possibility to speed up the process for them? In some countries it is virtually impossible to convert.
Anonymous---This is another sign that the end is upon us. In days of Mashiach, converts will no longer be accepted. The time for conversion is also running out. We are coming to the end of freewill. The doors cannot stand open forever. What most of us have failed to properly assimilate into our brains is that there is coming a definite end to the world as we have always known it. A new reality will dawn upon us and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Neither should we want to stop it. The greatest thing about it is the end to the massive desecration of THE NAME.
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Shalom, thank you for posting your replies. Thank you for making it easier for us to post comments.
I would like to ask how do you know what you know already? If it happened on Purim in Israel then what happened is already known by others. And if you know it and other people in Israel know it then why does it have to be a secret? Why do you withhold it from those who want to know? Something seems not quite upright about this.
YOU SAY: “Those who wish to be among the remnant of redeemed in Eretz Yisrael must (physically) follow this sign.”
Do you think Hashem, the Ruler of you and me, and the World, would tease his Children this way? You come along and say, “something happened … can’t tell you … wait and see … but when you see it … come immediately to Israel”!
There are many eager neshomas desiring to be in Eretz HaKodesh. I am on pins and needles, organizing and pre-packing. Pesach is coming, preparations to be done, so much to do. Give us some halachic backup to all this flurry.
Even the Rimanover Rebbe declared:
Regarding Moshiach's task of collecting the dispersed of Israel, R' Menachem Mendel of Rimanov asks:
"Are we to suppose that Moshiach tzidkeinu will go to all the places where Israel is dispersed, to all the corners of the earth, and collect its members like a shepherd...?"
He answers as follows:
"The Moshiach, with his eleveated state of holiness, will conentrate his thoughts on exalted meditations and awesome forms of unification of Hashem's Names. Among the latter will be an especially petrifying and awesome form of unification which will produce the effect of gathering together all those that are born from the Jewish nation, who are dispersed over all the lands. Of their own accord they will feel compelled to come to the Holy Land. [Here he quotes Hoshea 11:11]
"At this time, each member of Israel will experience a faintness and trembling in his heart, which will hasten him to fly and reside in the place where he will be directed. This is what will be accomplished by Moshiach with a single thought concentration and by invoking a unique holy form of unification of Hashem's Names which "no eye will have seen" or known other then Moshiach himself, whom we aspire to have in our midst speedily in our days."
From the collected teachings of the Holy Reb Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (1745-1815)
The Rebbe says "...WHERE HE WILL BE DIRECTED..."
This means us! So, therefore, we will be directed in some way [by Moshiach]. I think we deserve more than a blogger urging us by aluding to "something...can't tell you...be ready to rush to Israel".
Please give us that "more".
Dear Neshama---I will do my very best to give you as complete and honest an answer as possible as soon as I can. There is not time at the moment to give it the attention it needs. Please give me a few hours, ok? I will respond.
Meantime, maybe you could help me out by telling me what you would really like to know. What would it take to satisfy you? I don't mean this in a flippant way. Very seriously. What are your expectations? And what is holding you up from coming to Israel until now?
Blessed to be Yerushalmi
You keep talking about this "sign". You have already given it to your close ones. So why not give it to the rest of the Jewish People to help us prepare? Why keep us in the dark like this?
"What is to be said to those who would drop everything but will not because they are loyal to their families?"
I spoke to RAv Dahan Shlita about this very important issue and he said, as did the Lubavitch Rebbe, zs'l: Shalom Bayit (Peace in the home) comes first! If the spouse does not want to make an Aliya, or is not yet ready - stay with the spouse. But if it's becuz of parents or grown children, you are not obligated to 'stay behind'.
HaShem knows the person's heart and soul....
Thank you so much.... I am Anonymous #2.... I am now going to daven, thanks to your words of inspiration. I really appreciate it.
You humble me, Anonymous #2.
Be well and be strong!
I am anonymous 1. Nava said it better than I could. I have sacraficed much of myself (enthusiasm for Torah) for Shalom Bayit.There is truth in the "rebuke" as well. I am struggling and have doubts. Not about doing teshuvah but grappling with the many strains of thought within Torah observant Judaism. How much of a Jew can one be in Golus? I am trying to shed the pernicous "western" influence from me. Lots of sleepless nights.
I am anonymous 1. My name is Mordechai Ben Hersh Yacov. Thank you for your words Nava. I have sacraficed much of myself (enthusiasm for Torah) for Shalom Bayit. Unfortunately that stunts one's personal growth. There is truth in the "rebuke" as well. I am struggling and have doubts. Not about doing teshuvah but grappling with the many strains of thought within Torah observant Judaism. How much of a Jew can one be in Golus? I am trying to shed the pernicous "western" influence from me. Lots of sleepless nights. My heart is drawn to redemption and Moshiach. I will try harder to strenghen myself and perhaps this will have positive ramifications to those artound me. Thank you.
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