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Birthing Moshiach

By Ari Goldwag | February 2, 2009 |

The Geulah process is compared to the birth of a child, and the troubles we currently experience are the birthpangs – the difficulties that will be’H bring about the final redemption. I was recently thinking about some interesting parallels that this idea leads us to. For the last few months of pregnancy, the average baby…

Rav Shapiro on Moshiach

By Ari Goldwag | January 21, 2009 |

I thought it appropriate to share something I heard during the Lebanon war. At the time, I spoke to a certain rav I am close with in Jerusalem, who is a student of Rav Moshe Shapiro. Rav Shapiro is a ‘ba’al machshava’ (codename for a mekubal), who many of us know through his teachings which…