Hey coffee addict,
Would like to suggest a possibility and would love feedback:
The term גלות means exile. If this is correct there can be two definitions of the term. (Place and and era/period in history)
{There is a concept of ישוב ארץ ישראל , regardless of whether משיח has come or not. }
There has been a level of קיבוץ גלויות in the past 100 years… עיין history.
While there are some that believe that this קיבוץ גלויות is an התחלה to the גאולה, I don’t believe anyone actually thinks that משיח is here.
So while משיח hasn’t come yet, we still have the ability to live in the מקום of ארץ ישראל— not the land of גלות, but we are very well still in the era/period of גלות.