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Gemara in sanhedrin says before Moshioch comes you will loose your money. If something happens to WIFI no more money. Russia might hack the bank.
No money, no Prozac?
And pallets of toilet paper!
Which Daf?
Most BTs have a pretty good command of English, most trolls don’t
I’m not taking a position on the groceries and diapers exhortation, but this is the gemara he refers to (97A):
ת”ר (דברים לב, לו) כי ידין ה’ עמו [וגו’] כי יראה כי אזלת יד ואפס עצור ועזוב אין בן דוד בא עד שירבו המסורות ד”א עד שיתמעטו התלמידים ד”א עד שתכלה פרוטה מן הכיס ד”א עד שיתייאשו מן הגאולה שנאמר ואפס עצור ועזוב כביכול אין סומך ועוזר לישראל
The Sages taught in a baraita: The verse states: “For the Lord shall judge His people and atone for His servants, when He sees that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left” (Deuteronomy 32:36). From the phrase “their power is gone” it is derived that the son of David will not come until informers will proliferate. Alternatively, the Messiah will not come until the number of students of Torah diminishes. Alternatively, the Messiah will not come until the peruta will cease from the purse. Alternatively, the Messiah will not come until they despair from the redemption, as it is stated: “And there is none shut up or left,” as though there were no supporter or helper for the Jewish people.Rashi in this weeks parsha on the pasuk Tomim tiyeh im hashem elokech, people should not look for answers about what is going to happen in the future. People should trust in hashem and do the right thing. By scaring people into all kinds of worries, serves absolutely no purpose. Roy Neuberger continuously makes these dramatic videos about Gog and Magog, and Nissan, guess what Nissan passed and still no Moshiach. So thats what Rashi means when one shouldnt speculate about whats going to happen in the future. We have no prophets today so anyone trying to explain a gemarah and apply it to whats happening today is a false prophet
“We have no prophets today so anyone trying to explain a gemarah and apply it to whats happening today is a false prophet”
חכם עדיף מנביא
We have gedolei Torah who throughout the generations pointed to signs in tanach and chazal of opportune times for geulah.
More recently, gedolim including the chofetz chaim began saying that we are in עקבתא דמשיחא, the heels of moshiach, ths last period before geulah. Rav chaim kanievsky would say geulah is very imminent; these are not false neviim chas veshalom.
No one said a definite date, and all predictions are with conditions that unfortunately don’t seem to have been fulfilled.
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