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    newbee
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    Perhaps deep down some people dont want moshiach to come. I want to earn a connection with Hashem and a place in olam haba through my bechira. If moshiach came everything would be obvious and the entire fight of keeping miztvos while living in a world of illusion and trials would be lost. So I guess deep down some people dont want moshiach to come. Thats the best way- to earn it for yourself the hard way. If moshiach comes tomorrow night, we wouldn’t be able have the ability the same way anymore.

    #1132542
    Joseph
    Participant

    Yes, it is very wrong. And one who doesn’t want Moshiach may find himself left behind by Moshiach when he does come.

    Very very soon, IY”H.

    #1132543
    Avi K
    Participant

    A man heard on the radio that Mashiach had come and was organizing one-way flights to EY. When he told his wife she said “The Jews made it through tough times before and we will make it through this”.

    Seriously, we do not want trials. We might fail c”v. Gemar chatima tova.

    #1132544
    zahavasdad
    Participant

    Shbtai Tzvi was a trial and we failed, It also damaged the future as well. People became much more synical after Shabbatai Tzvi

    #1132545
    newbee
    Member

    So when we say Hashem created the world that we can earn olam haba, and that the entire point of olam haze is to work and earn it, why do we want moshiach to come for personal reasons? To want moshiach for the world in general I get, but why for personal?

    #1132546
    newbee
    Member

    How is l’fum tzara agra compatible with moshiach?

    #1132547
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Newbee,

    So you’re selfish?

    Sorry for being so harsh

    One really should want moshiach so hashem’s name will be complete in this world

    #1132548
    Redleg
    Participant

    My guess is that the OP’s concern is based on his (or her) belief in what the Messianic Age will be like. There are, of course, many opinions on that issue. I, myself, think that the RAMBAM’s description is the most mistabra but I’d bet that I and everyone else, whatever shita we hold, will be surprised when the Day comes, b’meheirah b’yomeinu.

    #1132549
    simcha613
    Participant

    I don’t agree with your premise, that we will lose all bechirah when Mashiach comes. Our challenges will certainly be different, but why do you assume that we will all become robots or angels? We will still have to earn our way to Olam Haba.

    #1132550
    mazal77
    Participant

    One of the reasons, why I want Moshiach so badly, is because I am so tired of the Goyim, saying that we are not Hashem’s chosen and that we have no right to E”Y. I want so much that they see that Hashem is truly the King and Creator of the Universe. It hurts so much. The bloodshed and hate will end. There will finally be a true peace in the world.

    #1132551
    son
    Member

    Yes. The medresh says everything is about “kivui” – anticipation; one of the things listed is anticipation for moshiach (and of course, it is one of the ikkarim).

    That said, the Gr”a said that when people get to Olam Haba (note: that’s after yemos hamoshiach) they’ll be wishing they were in Olam Hazeh in order to be able to accomplish more. The yegiyah is what is truly important.

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    #1132552
    apushatayid
    Participant

    what does the rambam say? lo nisavu chachamim liyimos hamashiach elu kidei sheyizku lichayei olam haba. not really sure the context, or the pshat in this rambam. I just remember the MBC song with the words.

    #1132553
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Mazal77, why are you saying that we are not Hashem’s chosen and that we have no right to E”Y?

    #1132554
    Chortkov
    Participant

    Mazal77, why are you saying that we are not Hashem’s chosen and that we have no right to E”Y?

    Not what I meant and you know it!

    #1132555
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Mazal77 is yekke2?

    #1132556
    newbee
    Member

    coffee addict: “So you’re selfish? One really should want moshiach so hashem’s name will be complete in this world”

    Do you really think Hashem lacks the ability to make His name complete in this world? Why did Hashem create this world in the first place, and why were we sent here?

    Why were we not simply created to live in olam haba to begin with?

    If you ever read mesilas yesharim its rather clear- so that we can earn olam haba for ourselves.

    Thats not selfish. Thats self-caring.

    #1132557
    newbee
    Member

    Honestly, to many people, whats the difference between davening for moshiach and davening to die?

    After you die, you see the emes and see the sheker for what it is and get a dveikus to the borei olam were you dont have to work anymore or pay rent and can live a life of pure simcha, kedusha and tahara.

    After moshiach comes, you see the emes and see the sheker for what it is and get a dveikus to the borei olam were you dont have to work anymore or pay rent and can live a life of pure simcha, kedusha and tahara.

    I dont blame people for wanting this, I want to die and get this also. But I dont pray to die every day and look forward to it constantly- I still have some work to do before that happens.

    #1132558
    newbee
    Member

    Joseph,

    I’m curious, how do you vision your life after moshiach comes vs after you die and go to olam haba? Is there really that big of a difference?

    #1132559
    my own kind of jew
    Participant

    For me, whether or not I would want Moshiach to come would depend on what Moshiach coming would actually mean for the world and the people living on it, practically speaking.

    And yes, I know I’m a terrible person for not wanting moshiach to come no matter what.

    #1132560
    Chortkov
    Participant

    Coffee Addict – I was just quoting RebYidd’s subtitle.

    #1132561
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Do you really think Hashem lacks the ability to make His name complete in this world? Why did Hashem create this world in the first place, and why were we sent here?

    I think You’re confusing two things, one is that Hashem wants us to be happy the other is that we want hashem’s name to be complete in this world

    You’re supposed to want the latter so Hashem should want the former

    #1132562
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Yekke

    Oh now I get it

    #1132563
    newbee
    Member

    “one is that Hashem wants us to be happy the other is that we want hashem’s name to be complete in this world

    You’re supposed to want the latter so Hashem should want the former”

    Then what you really SECRETLY want is for Hashem to make you happy. Since that is your goal. What is this a game? Why would we want something other than what mesilas yesharim says we were sent here for in the first place?

    #1132564
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Honestly, to many people, whats the difference between davening for moshiach and davening to die?

    Does dying bring giluy k’vod haShechinah? Rabi Akiva was m’tzapeh (which is not the same as davening, because you’re probably not allowed to daven) to die al kiddush Hashem, but stam dying?

    Also, we want to do mitzvos. We can still do mitzvos after Moshiach arrives.

    #1132565
    simcha613
    Participant

    When Mashiach comes, we will still be human, with ta’avos, and with yeitzer haras. After you die, you will no longer be human, and will be a pure neshama. There’s a big difference.

    #1132566
    newbee
    Member

    “Does dying bring giluy k’vod haShechinah”

    Yes, when one dies they see the k’vod hashechinah. We also continue to grow and grow after we die and come closer and closer to Hashem during the times of techias hameisim.

    “When Mashiach comes, we will still be human, with ta’avos, and with yeitzer haras. ”

    So if we still have yeitzer haras and taavos there will still be murder, theft, work, crime, rape and world-wide suffering when people give in to those taivos. And if people cant give in to those taivos, they are not real taivos.

    “There’s a big difference.”

    I dont see the big difference. Techias hameisim is after death also and we will have a guf.

    #1132567
    newbee
    Member

    Instead of davening for moshiach, why dont we daven to die and live during techias hameisim? For most people, whats the difference? Isn’t moshiach the thing thats going to allow us to come close to Hashem with ease?

    #1132568
    apushatayid
    Participant

    “how do you vision your life after moshiach comes”

    One can imagine, and hope. This is what we daven for though. Until it happens, we wont know what will be.

    #1132569
    simcha613
    Participant

    newbee- who says we won’t be able to give in to taivos? Will those violent taivos that you described exist? I have no idea. But our Gedolim have taivos and challenegs, so I’m sure we will too, even if it’s not the same taivos that exist today.

    A neshama has no guf or yeitzer hara, so it’s much different.

    And I think Techias HaMeisim is a one time event. I don’t think it means death will no longer exist when Mashiach comes.

    Do you know that God exists? Is it not obvious to you? Does that mean you don’t have challenges? Just because there will be a giluy shchinah doesn’t mean there will be no more challeneges. There was a giluy shchinah at Har Sinai and we still had challenegs. Knowing that God exists and runs the world doesn’t take away our yeitzer hara.

    #1132570
    Avram in MD
    Participant

    newbee,

    If moshiach came everything would be obvious and the entire fight of keeping miztvos while living in a world of illusion and trials would be lost. So I guess deep down some people dont want moshiach to come.

    If my office computer broke, but I was somehow able to overcome that and finish my work on time, my boss would be very impressed. Even so, I’d much rather not have my computer break, because having a broken computer is very stressful and significantly ups the risk that my work won’t get done.

    In a way, humanity broke its computer in Gan Eden by partaking of fruit from the etz pri hadaas. When Moshiach comes iy”H, the computer will be fixed, and we’ll be able to work the way we were originally intended to.

    #1132571
    simcha613
    Participant

    “how do you vision your life after moshiach comes”

    I think my vision of life after Moshiach is similar to how the Rambam perceives it. On a global scale, it would be vastly different. There would be world peace and universal recognition of God. The non-Jews will continue their lives observing the 7 Mitzvos Benei Noach, but they will still have politics and governments and things like that (I do not envision a new world order with a universal government centralized in Yerushalayim and led by the Melech Yisroel and the Sanhedrin… but who knows?).

    On a personal level, other than Kohanim, Levi’im, and those living in Yerushalayim itself, our lives will be similar. We will still have similar halachos to what we have today (with the addition of tumah and taharah, aliyah laregel, and others), but we’ll still have to wake up for minyan, and balance working for a parnassah with Torah, and shalom bayis. The ultimate goal in life is not the coming of Mashiach, it’s to get closer to Hashem through Torah and Mitzvos. The coming of Mashiach may change the means to that end, but the goal will still be the same. We will still be trying to earn our place in Olam Habah even after Mashiach comes.

    #1132572
    newbee
    Member

    “other than Kohanim, Levi’im, and those living in Yerushalayim itself, our lives will be similar.”

    If you look at the maharsha it says the kehuna will revert to the bechorim during moshiach. But I guess we can worry about that when he gets here.

    I dont think most people view moshiach coming as still having to pay their rent bills and go to work every day and fight all their personal issues in life. Most people I speak to describe moshiach coming basically as gan eden. like Avram in MD just did.

    #1132573
    newbee
    Member

    Avram in MD: I think your reasoning is very problematic. You have to believe that problem you got from your computer was tailor made just for you. Isn’t that was gam zu letovah means?

    You honestly believe 99.999999% of humanity exists the way it does for 99.99999% of the time humanity existed because of some fluke or mistake or sin one person did? I think thats a simplistic way of reading the parsha.

    #1132574
    newbee
    Member

    When people sing, “we want moshiach now” over and over and over they are expecting to go back to their old jobs and deal with their same old issues after moshiach comes? To me it sounds a lot more like they are praying to get what comes after death in olam hazeh without the actual death process.

    #1132575
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    You can’t compare one person’s awareness to an awareness which will fill the entire world.

    #1132577
    newbee
    Member

    DY: During the times of techias hameisim the awareness will fill the entire world as well. And all the people living in the world will become “aware” after they die as well.

    #1132578
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    That wasn’t your question, though.

    #1132579
    newbee
    Member

    My question was relying on the fact that it is not wrong to not want to die, and mochiach coming has correlations to what happens after death as well in the minds of many people who want said moshiach to come.

    #1132580
    EpshureWhat
    Member

    Am I reading this? Is this comming out of a heligi yids mouth? of course ITS TERRIBLY! You need a little more amuna.. don’t ruin it for the rest of us! Reb Yd not wanting Moshiach to come is exactly why each dor isnt zoche for moshiach to come! This is the reason your a yid! Have some respect for the torah, have a little more emunah and hopefully youll be zoche.. what’s so complicated? What Hasafa is this? Have some emunah in Hashem… it’s not that hard…

    #1132581
    newbee
    Member

    EpshureWhat: I smell a troll in the room. I dont think the mods will allow you to last very long.

    #1132583
    EpshureWhat
    Member

    In which if that happens… can’t I just make a new account?…. Then you wonder why intelligent people run the world… but in that regard ok…

    Of course you can make a new account. If you use the same offensive style you will be blocked again. If you choose to post normally, we will be happy to have you.

    A Gut Yom Tov.

    #1132586
    epshurewhat2
    Member

    Im so Predictable 🙂

    Fine Ill Behave 🙂

    #1132587
    newbee
    Member

    “Fine Ill Behave :)”

    Good to know, lets hope so.

    #1132588
    Avram in MD
    Participant

    newbee,

    You have to believe that problem you got from your computer was tailor made just for you. Isn’t that was gam zu letovah means?

    Of course. But on Rosh Hashana we eat apples dipped in honey to show that we not only want goodness in the upcoming year, but sweet goodness. On Yom Kippur we daven to be cleansed without serious illness or suffering. If I were sleeping in the wilderness with a sefer, candle, rooster, and donkey because the nearby town turned me away, I would hopefully come to say gam ze letova like Rabbi Akiva did (although I am nowhere near his level though, and I’d probably feel very upset about it), but if I had a choice, I’d want to learn and then sleep in a warm bed in the town’s inn with food in my belly and have no bandits to fear.

    You honestly believe 99.999999% of humanity exists the way it does for 99.99999% of the time humanity existed because of some fluke or mistake or sin one person did? I think thats a simplistic way of reading the parsha.

    I think looking at the parsha as a fluke or mistake or sin that one person did is an incomplete/incorrect way of reading the parsha. Furthermore, on a simple level, since we are not living in Gan Eden, we have to work hard in agriculture, we don’t have complete mastery over animals, and pregnancy lasts 9 months, then yes, we do exist the way we do because of Adam and Chava’s sin.

    #1132589
    GoGoGo
    Participant

    newbee funny to see that a sixth month person knows the coffee room well enough to know what wuill happen. probably you yourself had a differeny username and was kicked out for being a troll.

    #1132590
    mobico
    Participant

    One big difference between wanting to die and wanting Moshiach to come is that the latter is a Mitzvah while the former is an Aveirah.

    And Newbee, your original question is a very good one. Part of the answer is that Moshiach won’t / can’t come until we deserve it to happen. And so, one who truly cares about Kevod Shamayim will live his life in such a manner, which includes not only WANTING Moshiach to come but also actively BRINGING Moshiach.

    #1132592
    newbee
    Member

    “One big difference between wanting to die and wanting Moshiach to come is that the latter is a Mitzvah while the former is an Aveirah.”

    I dont think wanting to naturally die and go to olam haba is an aveira. There is a story in the talmud about a tzadik wanting to die so he could go to olam haba.

    But you are not answering my question. In fact, if the only difference is that (according to you) one is an aveira and one is a mitzvah. This does not provide a logical answer to my question.

    #1132593
    newbee
    Member

    GoGoGo: “probably you yourself had a differeny username and was kicked out for being a troll.”

    I am you gogogo, we are the same person with 2 user names. I just gave us away.

    #1132594
    newbee
    Member

    “but if I had a choice, I’d want to learn and then sleep in a warm bed in the town’s inn with food in my belly and have no bandits to fear.”

    But you must also say, “if I had a choice, I’d want to sleep in the warm bed in gan eden and learn Torah from the light of the shechina in olam haba.” So ideally, we all want to live in olam haba- in pure bliss and paradise with no problems.

    #1132595
    GoGoGo
    Participant

    well I never got kicked out so why’d you open a new account?

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