.....the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the bruise of His people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. [Isaiah 30:26]
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| Ohio: Photo D Mason |
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| Western Massachusetts, Photo C Hanley |
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Today is the first of Av, the beginning of the Nine Days
Is it fair to say that climate change contributed to the heat waves?
Climate change is occurring because of the passing binary solar system whose sun is behind our sun.
It is unfortunate that there are a lot of fake photos on the internet and often people can't tell the difference between real and fake. But even the fake photos are using REAL photos of these planets' clouds which we have never seen here on Earth until now. They are just cutting and pasting the clouds onto landmarks etc. Real photos come from real storm watchers and random people, not making money from them, just sharing their experience, who don't even know they are photographing clouds from outer space.
How long is this binary system expected to take to pass ?
They are saying it's the closest it's ever been and will be this close for about another 6-8 weeks at least.
If Moshiach comes today, Hashem will remove it and make the temperatures and weather back to normal?
Yes, the weather will be back to normal. The world will have changed.
If it took Noach 120 years to build the Teiva because Hashem wanted to give the generation a lot of time to do teshuva (people lived very long back then), how do we know Hashem won’t wait until 100 years from now until he puts an end to our sick and corrupt society with Moshiach’s arrival?
Anonymous 1:30, do you read the comments published here? If you did you would know that we all feel it is impossible for the world to continue as is for any long period of time. Apart from the fact we already have all the signs of The End of Days as prophecised. The world has been corrupted for a long time now, it's just gotten worse now.
We feel it, but how did they last 120 years with a society deserving of destruction back then? The righteous back then also felt that it couldn’t go on. End of days signs being fulfilled doesn’t give us a timeline of how long after Moshiach has to come by. It just says “the signs before Moshiach’s arrival”
The photo from Western Massachusetts reminds me of Malachi and the "wings of the sun." TC
It’s a metaphor
It may be a metaphor, but there are many photos of the sun with wings lately, so maybe it's not a metaphor at all.
That strange sun photo in western Massachusetts is from the hazy skies from the Canadian wildfires. The sun looked strange for almost everyone in the northeast for a few days in the last months.
When you have so many photos of the sun like that, some will look like “wings”. One can say it’s to remind us of the metaphor in the Torah.
The sun turns red from bushfire smoke, it doesn't turn yellow and red, and have a circle around it, and a pink haze, and sometimes stripes. We've had enough bushfires in Australia, a red sun from bushfires is something I have often seen.
Why think it's only a metaphor? Hash-m controls everything. The miracles with the Final Redemption will be greater than those we saw in Yetzias Mitzrayim. The world will be changing over to a much more spiritual reality, where the knowledge of Hash-m will fill the earth as the waters fill the seabed. Right now we're living in a world where Hash-m is concealing Himself from us, so we have bechira chofshis, to believe that there are causes other than Him, and that open miracles can't happen, chas v'shalom. TC
Rav Chaim Kanievsky said not long ago that we're at the keitz mguleh, which means that Moshiach is coming and it can't be delayed anymore. It's comparing the Geula process to the birth of a baby-at a certain point the baby is being born and the process won't stop. TC
Maimonides discusses many of the prophecies of the Messianic era as being metaphors.
Each Jew has his derech. Go by the Rambam if that's what you feel is right. TC
The Rambam is the only one that wrote actual halachos on Moshiach.
Maimonides said:
Maimonides rules in his Laws of Kings about the times of Moshiach: “Do not think that the world will undergo miraculous changes. The world will continue according to the natural order. And prophecies such as, ‘The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,’ are metaphors.”
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/1775206/jewish/Redemption-a-Process.htm
Correct. The wolf and the lamb will still hate each other.
I feel like that isn't right. I thought all the world lives peacefully, including the animals. We're going to need another opinion here.
Maimonides says it’s a metaphor that the wolf will dwell with the lamb. Seems clear to me that Maimonides was saying that animals will have the same nature.
The prophet Isaiah depicts the messianic era as a miraculous time. “A wolf shall live with a lamb, a leopard shall lie with a kid, a calf and a lion cub and a fatling [shall lie] together, and a small child shall lead them. A cow and a bear shall graze, and their children shall lie together; and a lion, like cattle, shall eat straw” (Isaiah 11:6–7). The Torah, too, promises (Leviticus 26:6): “I will remove wild beasts from the Land,” which seemingly implies a new supernatural order. Nevertheless, the words of our sages seem to contain conflicting messages in this regard.
Other great sages, however, vehemently disagreed with Maimonides’ interpretation of the messianic prophecies.
The accepted middle ground is that the messianic era will consist of two periods. During the first period, the world will be at peace and the Jews will be autonomous—but everything will continue operating according to the laws of nature.1 The second period, which will commence with the resurrection of the dead, will be completely miraculous.2
Nevertheless, the prospect of entirely skipping the first period, and Moshiach immediately ushering in the second supernatural period, is a possibility.
Read the full article at:
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1127415/jewish/Will-There-Be-Miracles.htm
According to the Zohar and Leshem, the second period of Moshiach will be starting by the year 5786 or 5790 (the deadline for techiyas hameisim)
Does this mean that if someone is too old and ill to get on a long flight to Israel, they will be left behind for kibbutz galiyos when Moshiach comes?
It would seem so. The rambam says everything will remain the same. Those unable to make it because of health reasons or finances will be left behind in chutz la’aretz. It’s a sad reality but the rambam says there will be no changes except no more anti-semitism and having a third temple.
I have heard that in the first 40 years after Mashiach arrives, the change in the world will be that there will be no more wars between nations.
But we will still have jobs and most things will continue as they are now.
Others say the Geulah Shleimah will be accompanied by miracles even greater than the Exodus from Egypt.
Reb Dov bar Leib wrote on his blog that if you look at the order of brachot in the Shmonei Esei, it hints at
Kibbutz Galiyot
Mashiach
Rebuilding of the Temple
in that order.
There is then the talk of Olah Haba.
The Amora Samuel states this will be after Mashiach. This is when it has been said the earth's climate will remain temperate all year round, and some people will fly, and we will see an end to most or all illness.
Some have said we will all fly above the earth which will be covered by water. Though I am not convinced the Temple would be covered by water.
To 5.03
What I remember from the Rambam:
at the time of Moshiach, people will go to the doctor, only to be told that they are healthy, implying that there will be general healing.
no-one knows exactly how the geula will unfold until it happens.
Generally, we must all strengthen ourselves in emuna, that Hashem is Hakol yachol, all powerful. He can change your circumstances today, so that you will have the energy, health and wealth you need to make aliya.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that someone who didn't make aliya on account of their circumstances would be left behind.
Why would anyone go to the doctor and why would there be doctors if we will be completely healthy when Moshiach comes? I don’t think anyone is going to go to a doctor to be told they are healthy if we will know we are all healthy and healed from anything needed.
-Chana
"Personally, I find it hard to believe that someone who didn't make aliya on account of their circumstances would be left behind.""
I think enough of this has been said.... Living in EY is NOT a prerequisite for deserving the Geulah. None of us should think that by living there we are ultimately eligible to rejoice at the end of days. Actually very very many of our gedolim have lived scattered throughout the world for millennia!
Although it is a big Mitzvah to live in EY, we were never told that we must live there. So, we need to stay very close to Hashem and follow His words regarding all of the Mitzvos, and let us not take the 'living in Israel' as the one thing that is more important than the rest of the Torah!
SGK
The Slonimer Rebbe explains - You either have to live in Israel or if you can't you have to yearn to live in Israel.
Gershon
Who said that living in EY is not prerequisite? According to many poskim it is Mitsva Deoraita, and we always follow the rule of Sofek Depraita we go Le Humra. And please do not compare simple Jews with Gedoley Israel who lives in Diaspora. They have a more important job there to do a Kiruv . I agree with Gershon @5:53 in this case .
—Moshe
One thing to understand when thinking about animals living peacefully together as a metaphor... this wouldn't be a miracle as it once existed before Adam's sin. Anything that was the normal then or even up until the time of the flood was "normal". Women giving birth to babies who could walk and understand language was normal then so it can happen again without a miracle.The current natural state of the world can revert to the old in a second as the final tikkun is done. The curses would disappear. The curses are we see now as the natural way of things. Women will no longer have cycles and lengthy pregnancies as it once was. Conception and birth was on the same day.
I asked Rabbi Anava who said that it would again be like that immediately after the para aduma would be brought in the new beit hamikdash since that would be the last thing needed to rectify Chava's sin and reverse the curses. Going back to the way Hashem designed the world to be is perfectly natural. We, unfortunately, have a very cursed natural existance. When it says loaves of ready to eat bread will grow from trees, they will as raw wheat was not the way Hashem wanted it. The sin changed everything. The bark of trees was supposed to taste like the fruit and be edible. Every single tree was to have edible fruit. There's so much to expect to "change" after moshiach comes but it will be the way of reverting back to the old normal before really supernatural changes happen. The atmosphere was also different then and extended people's lives. All this is before we get to the miracles that will be even greater than Egypt.
Part 3 Tikkun Hatsot (After Midday we also say Tikkun Rachel)
Our teacher Arizal writes as follows (Shaar HaKavanot page 89c) "Concerning Ben HaMetzarim, which is 21 days between 17 Tammuz and the 9 Av, it is a very good an proper custom for every serious person to sit in mourning after Midday on all these days, and literally cry over the Destruction of the Bet Hamikdash. And the reason that this is after Midday is because that is the time when judgment is aroused...For this reason the Sanctuary was burned after midday. And this causes great benefit to man's soul. And concerning Tikkun Hatsot after Midnight, there is no need to mention it, for even on all other nights one should mourn the Destruction , and how much more so on the nights on Ben HaMetsarim, when we should weep more. And of this it is said (Isaiah , chapter 66, verse 10), 'Rejoice with Jerusalem..., all those who mourned over her.'
For this reason, many pious people follow the custom of Yeshivat Bet El and sit on the ground after Midday and say Tikkun Rachel with tears.
So, in short, we say Tikkun Hatsot (Rachel and Leah at Midnight) and we say Tikkun Rachel only at Midday(during Ben HaMetsarim only).
On the 9 Av we say Tikkun Rachel only at Midnight.
It is guaranteed by Hahamim that your life will be much easier when you accept willingly this hard Mitsva rather get problems unwillingly and the most important thing that you will Merit to see the 3rd Bet HaMikdash.
--Moshe
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