#603: Amida: V'sechezena eineinu (Part 4)

respons the S family and the last three of the we went through we're on the words our eyes your return to we ask that it be done with compassion and kindness we last saw the beautiful inside of the that even though they were told they'll be there'll be a cataclysmic War there'll be what in the on thei seem to make sound like a nuclear war lightning electricity strikes before uh before the uh the loss of mhia Ben Yos and before ultimately mashiach bav the sh said that just like the gas of MIT that we're beginning to read about this week I love when the Paran cpets come together just like the G MIT was Consolidated and was shortened because of its intensity so too our gullis which has been so long and so intense we've already s to say prepaid the war of Goog and suggest the s in the early 20th century therefore when mhia comes we won't first need to suffer and that's that's our wish that's our ask that's our hope is that there are two ways that can come says if we Merit then we can we can accelerate mhi's arrival if we don't Merit then it's a point appointed time so when it's in its appointed time then get toan I I don't want to be around to see Mas because I don't want to suffer the if one understands unlike the that there's a price to pay that just like the woman who gives birth yields hopefully a beautiful healthy baby but the labor pains before uh there were epidurals the labor pains you know the way kava did it back in the day no judgment of those who do it of those who do it differently but the the labor pains which were a kapara so once the baby's born maybe they're happy to have endured but while they're in labor ran says they bring carbonos later because they curse their husband I'm never having another child so the mashia the labor pains of what what it means for mhia to come I said this on a day CL continues to pay such a heavy price more kadosh more holy soldiers now next to the k we ask Hashem to protect all of our soldiers and to bring them home hopefully finally with the hostages we pay these heavy prices this time of Mia entertains even a wish a person if they consider what that might be like would say I'd rather not see I'd rather not be around so we have a tradition the gamar tells us in sanedrin there that if we Merit then we'll see it happen speedily we'll see it accelerated we won't have to suffer the pain of it and then it'll be in its right time so in this that we are focused and concentrating as we last left off we're we're we're Seekers we're looking we're yearning we're hoping we want mhia it's not only one minion in our Sho every minion should want mashiach now something we all have it's fundamental one of the foundations of our faith so we want Masia but we want it to be we don't want to suffer the labor pains we want an EP Shalom us is Loosely translates as let it be a quick labor you don't even need an epidural or let it be a quick labor with an epidural let us feel nothing and let it just be the birth of this beautiful beginning and this beautiful future that's why we say why do we incorporate the image of the eyes let our eyes see what else do you see with other than your eyes why do we need to incorporate the words so the in his commentary on the he says it's based on the deeper meaning of the B we that the eye sees when hem will return to and we say it should be for the reason that we uh we just described so we want the eye to see it should be something that that we behold what does that mean why our eyes should see so we alluded to it previously L's wife was not entitled to turn around no according to one opinion in Rashi was not entitled so was not a window he wasn't entitled to look at everyone else drown we want to be able to look not to see suffering of others but we want to Merit to be worthy of Salvation Redemption ourselves so worthy that we don't have to turn around and we don't have to Shield or close our eyes but we can look out at the world and we can welcome we can see The Return of the we can be grateful forem bringing the back and then the concludes hem is the one who Returns His divine presence now you might note H doesn't mean doesn't it's not formulated dramatically bash it doesn't say Hashem will return his presence which is the hope it says he is returning his presence in the present tense why does it in the present tense why is it described as something which is happening which is happening already so one understanding why it's in the present tense is because we are living B we're on this journey Redemption is not binary it's not gas or Gula it's not all or nothing it's not dark or light but it happens incrementally and it zigzags and they're ups and downs and we take two steps forward and one step back which is our history over the last 2,000 years and the last 80 in particular steps forward and a step back and so we see this zigzag pattern to Gula doesn't happen automatically overnight it's what we're living through what we are is the journey towards the journey towards G so we should be patient we should be impatient and maladjusted and demand and want mhia now but simultaneously we should be patient and not frustrated and even on a day like today a horrifically tragic one not give up on the Gula or not believe that it's not happening or the beginnings of it but to understand and to lean in deeper and to leave believe with greater faith and to have more meaning in what's happening including these horrific losses by seeing them all as part of the journey in the process towards gem is doing it as we go another understanding ofir why is it in present tense we'll end with this is because we ourselves contribute to the Gul not in a binary fashion it's not like we have an account and we collect as many Mitzvah and as we can and when we hit the mark you know when the thermometer of mashiah the thermometer of mashiah gets to 100% then he comes now each contribution we make is taking us one step forward in real time we're bringing him in real time everything that we do and every Mitzvah and every kind deed we're laying another brick and that's the B the that's Bon we spoke about this back on the and Bon is also in the present tense we are building by being dorish by yearning and seeking and wanting and being unsatisfied until it's here that in itself is how we build how we contribute and how we will please God Merit to see his return