Moshiach

We're perfecting a world. So what happens? After 2000 years of galus. Boom. Moshiach's here. All of a sudden there is miracles all day long. Peace everywhere. No one fighting or jealous. Is this some kind of joke? I thought we're perfecting our world and we get a totally different world. The one we lived in was never perfected it's gone. It made way to the new world! So I repeat myself is this some kind of joke?

This is the classical understanding of Moshiach. And truth to tell, in my mind this is how I picture Moshiach. So I struggle with this whole Moshiach concept.

Comes the Alter Rebbe and says. No. You got it all wrong. The work we do today is what is Moshiach later. Or in the words of the Rambam, "there will be no difference between now and then. Except who's in charge". No miracles. No supernatural stuff. And no Sheep grazing with lions. That aint gonna happen. It will be the same street, the same car and the same person. Yet no jealousy or fighting.

This week I heard a class from der feter Rabbi Manis Friedman. He put it this way: The world is ready. People are sick and tired of war. They're sick and tired of cheating and thievery. They're just sick and tired of all the garbage. They've had enough. Genug shoin.

Materially also. We are so close to tapping in to endless resources. We can actually see it. Even feel it. It's at our fingertips. We just need one little .... and it's all there. Enough for everyone and more.

So all we need is one person to say the right word and in no time everyone will jump on the band wagon.

The question then really is not, how is it possible Moshiach could happen? It's how on earth did it not happen yet. We're there so what's missing?

For someone who sees this, it's very frustrating every minute that it didn't happen. Because why did it not happen?!

Maybe that's the Rebbe meant when he said and Mincha we'll daven in Yerushalayim with Moshiach. And get up and daven. Because to the Rebbe it made more sense to be with Moshiach. To stay here makes no sense at all.

Gave this over tonight in a class about Moshiach