שנאת חינם

There is a story where Meshiach arrives with a turned up hat in a shul, so he is told over here we wear our hats bend down. When he goes to an other shul, he is told over here we wear our hats bent up. Then he is told in Young Israel, what do you need a hat for in the first place? So he says, I am going back and only come again when you can at least agree on a hat.

Mashiach is waiting on a tower to fly down to thus temporary world from serving Hashem upstairs in the true world 24-7
Just like Eliyahu Hanavi thousands of years ago sat on a rock waiting for the dvar Hashem to come to him to give over to klal yisroel and king achav including returning to Hashem with serious teshuva and remove themselves from the worthless gods of the avoda Zara of the Baal….

May we all remove ourselves quickly from the avoda Zara of todays generation of “MONEY” and stop bowing down to it, running after it and serving it like a God etc…. And then Hashem will not need to make the money market and economy crash and take it away from us anymore C”V as bad as we have already lost but have still not woken up to Hashems wake up call to avoid it getting worse C”V

I heard a vort from Rabbi YY Jacobson:

A man was celebrating his 50th aniversarry, he was asked how he has such good shalom bayis.
He explained that while on their honeymoon, he and his wife rode through the Grand Canyon on mules. His wife’s mule slipped, and she yelled out “Strike one!” Soon it slipped again and she screamed “Strike two!” The third time she yelled, “Strike three!” pulled out a handgun, and shot the mule dead.
The husband turned to his wife in horror, and cried, “What are you doing!?”
She yelled at him, “Strike one!”
“And,” concludes the husband, “I’ve been quiet ever since!”

The vort is that true peace doesn’t mean that people are afraid to voice their opposing opinions so they keep silent and go with the flow. True peace is when you have a diverse group with disagreements, yet people are not afraid to voice their opinions and still remain friendly and peaceful with those who have the other opinion.

@Always: nu, I guess sholom bayis advice is never one-size-fits-all!

The Shevat Sofer interprets the pasuk אעשה לו עזר כנגדו when she is voicing an opposite view, she becomes a help. He can see the other side of an argument and does not get lost in tunnel vision by seeing one side only. The Midrash Shmuel explains that the Beis Shamai helped the Beis Hilel come to the truth by revealing to them the other side of an argument. Therefore they become also praise worthy and we will pasken like them leasid lavo, at the time of Meshiach.

My wife passed away 12 years ago. She was very smart but after her heart stopped for 4 minutes, she was revived, became childlike and needed a walker. She passed away five years after that when she had afib (atrial fibrillation) and could not be revived again.

If we have a state it is because sinat chinam has moderated. Lessing, in fact, thought that we would never have one because we could not get along. When was the last time there was a fist fight in shul over whether to say some tefilla? However, if the state is imperfect and we don’t have the Bet haMikdash, we obviously have a long way to go.

This fable once appeared in Mishpacha magazine:

Once upon a time, in the year 5780, after millennia of Jewish praying and yearning, the Mashiach finally arrived at the gates of Jerusalem.

He tried to enter through the first gate, but the gatekeeper, who was wearing a kippah serugah, seeing that the gentleman who claimed he was the Mashiach was not wearing a kippah serugah, doubted his authenticity and concluded that he must be a false Mashiach. The gatekeeper denied him admission.

The Mashiach tried a second gate, but the gatekeeper, who was wearing a black hat with a three-inch brim, seeing that the gentleman who claimed he was the Mashiach was not wearing a black hat with a three-inch brim, doubted his authenticity and concluded that he must be a false Mashiach. The gatekeeper denied him admission.

The Mashiach tried a third gate, but the gatekeeper, who was wearing a shtreimel, seeing that the gentleman who claimed he was the Mashiach was not wearing a shtreimel, doubted his authenticity and concluded that he must be a false Mashiach. The gatekeeper denied him admission.

So it went at all the seven gates to Jerusalem. Each of the gatekeepers at each of the remaining gates was wearing a different head covering:

At the fourth gate, a turban;

at the fifth gate, a gray fedora;

at the sixth gate, a black velvet yarmulke;

at the seventh gate, a black hat with a one-inch brim.

Wherever the Mashiach was not wearing the precise duplicate of the gatekeeper’s head covering, he created doubt and suspicion, was considered a false Mashiach, and was denied admission. Thus was he not permitted to enter any of the seven gates to Jerusalem.

And there he stands, waiting patiently for someone to let him in.

What kind of head covering was the Mashiach actually wearing?

He was wearing none of the above.

That’s because he was wearing all of the above.

A fantasy? Perhaps. Perhaps not.

Meanwhile, the Mashiach and all his head coverings linger patiently at the gate.

If we don’t realize that we are in galus and do something about it, we will be kept there.

“If we don’t realize that we are in galus and do something about it, we will be kept there.”

Hence the need to open up our eyes. This is a big and important avoda