Moshiach
Moshiach 16 – Tisha B’av, The Fall of Persia, and Moshiach ben Dovid
Why did Reish Lakish – who lived in Israel – get upset at the Babylonian Rabba bar Bar Chana? Would the Beis Hamikdash have been destroyed if all the Jews returned from Bavel when it was built? What is the prerequisite for the Divine Presence to dwell upon the Holy Temple? Why can’t the third…
Read MoreMoshiach – Gog Umagog Part 3 (World War III) – Podcast 15
What is the idea behind the three wars of Gog Umagog? Why is there a gap of 70 years from the first two until the third one? Why hasn’t this third war happened yet if the 70 years have already elapsed? What does the initial restored kingdom of the Jewish people look like? Why does…
Read MoreMatos-Masei – Stops on the Journey
Why does Hashem instruct Moshe to ‘reminisce’ about the many stops along the journey through the wilderness, especially in light of the Midrash’s statement that all these places were spots where the Jewish people angered Hashem? Why does the midrash state that in the future the wilderness will become inhabited and the habitation will become…
Read MoreBalak – Final Refinement
Why does Hashem lead the Jewish people to a place where they will sin? What is the significance of the waters of Shittim that the Jews drank of, which was also the spring that the people of Sodom drank from? Why does the midrash seem to make a clear connection to Abraham, sodom and the…
Read MoreBo – Nissan Month of Redemption
What is the concept of Nissan being the first of the months? Why is this the first commandment the Jewish people receive as a nation? What is the idea of the ‘keitz’ and the ‘ibbur’ in regards to redemption? What is the concept of ‘the first’ and how does it relate to Hashem, Jerusalem, Moshiach…
Read MoreMoshiach times? Food for thought
I just watched the following video, and if you have the patience to watch the whole thing, it is a remarkable contrast to the craziness we have heard on the Moshiach blogosphere since its inception. I invite you to contemplate the full meaning of the video’s closing. The Fallen of World War II from Neil…
Read MoreShoftim – King of Israel
What is the concept of a Jewish king? Why does the Torah command us to appoint a king, while it seems that it was not a good thing when the Jews asked for a king in the times of Samuel? Why do we pray three times daily for the king messiah, if the midrash states…
Read MoreBalak – Amalek, Israel and Moshiach – who is Amalek today?
Why is the verse that speaks about the ‘tents of Jacob’ immediately before the verse that speaks of the destruction of Agag, king of Amalek? What is represented by the number 72? How does Amalek manifest as the counter-force to the Jewish people? Who is Amalek today? How do we ‘fight’ Amalek in our times?…
Read MoreVayechi – Hastening the End of Days
What is the goal of Yakov when he gathers his sons? Why is he unable to reveal the End? Why does his rebuke to Reuven, Shimon and Levi involve a directive to be careful about being hasty? What is the difference between Asifa-gathering and Kibbutz-gathering? How does waiting for the end paradoxically hasten its arrival?…
Read MoreMikeitz – The End of Time
What is the concept of the ‘keitz’ – the end of time? How does that relate to the end of Yosef’s incarceration, and the end of the exile? What is the connection between the keitz (end) and the kotz (crown)? How does one access the transcendent temporal realm and draw it down ‘faster’ so that…
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