The Hunger That Bread Can't Satisfy - Rabbi Zamir Cohen

Then there is a verse that says, "Behold days are coming declares the Lord when I will send a famine upon the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord." And today we see this. Torah classes are filling up with people, and you know that there they don't hand out candies, no bread, no water, no falafel. So, what are they coming for? They come to hear words of Torah. Young men, young women, people of different ages, people who didn't grow up in religious schools at all, but they feel a hunger, not a hunger for bread, not a thirst for water, but to hear the word of God. And there is a very unique phenomenon, which is also one of the signs of our generation. This is what is written about the verse, "And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers." Let us read Rashi's wording on this verse, "And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the Holy One, blessed be He, through the children." Go and speak to your fathers to hold fast to the ways of the Almighty. It is written that before the coming of the Messiah, the young will strengthen the elders. In all generations, who taught whom to put on tefillin? A child reaches his bar mitzvah and the father teaches him. No one ever thought there would come a generation where the father doesn't know how to put on tefillin, and when the son puts them on, the father says to him, "Come, teach me how to do it because I haven't done it since my bar mitzvah." And today you see a daughter teaching her mother the laws of kitchen kashrut. All these are great things.