The Addict

Yossi, allow me to elaborate on your point and take it a step further.

If I understand correctly you are saying that right now we (or at least part of us) despise the evil and unholy. So when Mshiach comes when all the evil will disappear, it is not going to be a new reality because deep down that’s always who we really were.

An addict trying to recover. Part of him hates the addiction part of him craves it. The first thing any therapist will tell him is “buddy, you must admit that you’ve got a big problem”. Recognizing the sickness is the only motivation to become healthy, you can’t find the strength to overcome if you don’t recognize that there is a problem.

The addiction can be the motivation for the cure. The cure did not just knock on the door and show up. It took a long time to ferment. The cured addict is not a new person. His current state of being is an outgrowth from the person he was yesterday and the day before.

In Gulus we are “sick”. Part of us craves evil. The other part of us can't be satisfied with material pleasure. It does not make us happy. We yearn for something more, something truer, we yearn for Hashem.

Moshiach is the cure. The cure does not come in a vacuum, it takes nineteen hundred years to achieve. When Moshiach comes are personality isn’t a new one, it’s the outgrowth of all the challenge and addiction that we suffered through.