#566: Amida: Es Tzemach Dovid (Part 6)

responsible the S family for we're on the 15th we gave the historical background the historical precedent when the when they recited and responded this when things come together when we see that in fact our history and our destiny there are an evolution they are a development towards a final stage towards a final plan towards when mosia will come and that's our longing that's our hope and that's our aspiration that is our test ultimately after 120 years we come upstairs and one of the questions we will be asked were you satisfied were you happy where you were was it good enough were you comfortable or were you uncomfortable did you remain maladjusted to the world so much so that you longed for it to be different and you waited for mhia so we spoke is one of the names of mashia is that it happens over time it doesn't happen overnight that word so we saw the told us in M things are going to speed up it's going to speed up we see that's happening in our time we mentioned Information Age and medical and technological breakthrough travel everything is moving so much quicker it's it's speeding up but the meant something else by that as well Inland he says the test of the period preceding the arrival of Messiah will be a test of amuna and that's in fact what you see in the world today with all the that advancement is this feeling that we have access to information we've conquered the world aiom could be an alternative there's all kinds of movements and fears that have become a religion into its own right we'll feel by controlling robots and AI we in fact are competing with God forbid with God so there's an is there's a tremendous test of Amun in the period of M in the period before msia is going to come why because Hashem mhia the arrival of Messiah will be a time in which Hashem is some times revealed and sometimes hidden we see his guiding hand and then there is a a hiddenness to God and then it seems that he we can't find him the brings says says Redemption is going to happen in waves it'll feel like it's revealed we're making progress we're advancing it's the beginning of redemption and then you have October seventh and then it feels like we're conquering we're succeeding we're United and then you have a discovery of six hostages executed and then it feels that it's forward and it's backward we take steps forward we take steps backwards it's covered and it's revealed similar to The Who in the forest who that's the way it operates is revealed is accessible and then is hidden and that's the way we experience as well K tell us rash in that Sim the time before Mia comes it's similar to a woman who is in labor where she gets contractions so it's very interesting contractions don't come I've never experienced them but I'm told contractions don't come in a uniform way they don't come in a linear way and increasing way contractions come in cycles and in fact when a woman wants to know what point does she call the doctor when do you go to the hospital when do you head in so when your contractions are certain closeness together when they're not so far apart so the process proc of giving birth the process of Lea which you'll give birth to something magnificent and wonderful and great so much so you're willing to experience even the pain in that labor but labor isn't ongoing the labor happens in waves the contractions they come and they go brings down from the that just like in labor the closer the woman is to childbirth the less time the less space there is between the contractions they're coming rapidly they're coming a lot faster so is going to come similarly the contractions Theos the tests the challenges The Suffering The Struggle those contractions of this world they're going to increase in frequency they're going to come more often with less space in between and taka that's what we're feeling right now as we long for so that that to say suggest maybe that's what we're doing we want the contractions to come quickly because we want this labor to be over we want to give birth we want to celebrate the birth of mhia the birth of a new world order the birth of a new time and we want it to be not spaced out not dragging on and not ongoing pain we want to be to be something which is going to go and something which is going to move quickly we identify D here as D why might you be confused which D we're talking about the D you went to Yeshiva with the D you went to Camp with d you're not sure so much author this thank you to those who are smiling and showing some signs of life it's greatly appreciated your why do we have to be identified as as so uh so there are many interpretations but the most significant or the most I find meaningful comes from of Pinkus or Pinkus and chabas Mala says that the uniqueness of D's monarchy is that other kings are consolidating power other kings it's about Fame and Fortune other kings it's about their influence in the world entirely surrendered and submitted to hasem it was all about it wasn't about himself that's why that's why we say the Moon is like because the moon doesn't provide is not the source of its own light the moon reflects the light of the sun D reflected the greatness of Hashem he wasn't competing with Hashem and he wasn't trying to have his own source of light of power of influence his whole mission his whole role the whole way he saw himself was like the moon to be a reflection and to reflect Hashem to illuminate the world as a reflection of Hashem so the great greatest appalation the greatest title and description that we could give David isav was an yes he was a and yes it's that Mal that we're longing for but the reason is the pritor of Messiah because he was an unusual unique Mel a Mel who is not about himself a Mel who is about others and this is a reminder to us of what is the necessary ingredient to be able to bring to bring Mia we want we want to see the blossoming and the sprouting we want to see D's great grandchild mhia come how will it happen just like was we have to be we have to be servants we said Hal this morning we close with this said Hal this morning everyone knows the famous story that came to the Reb who needed things in his life and having all kinds of troubles if we had time I would make it dramatic and Bel labor and the reab said have kav when you sayem tomorrow's you're going to say have when you say goes the next day DAV is there early he's all set Hal he has tremendous kav tremendous concentration at the words hasem and yet time goes on and his issues aren't resolved they're not solved he's still struggling and whatever the challenges were he comes back to the rebi and he says rebi what happened I had cavana with Anem so the Reb said which Anem said Anem save me give me success said that's the wrong I was meant the is answer me be there for me why because I surrender to you I'm your evid my whole life is about a mission to serve you so that's what we invoke if we walk in the footsteps of David if our concentration if we're worried not only about and not only save us not bring us success but because I want my life success in my life will be defined by whether I can serve you that's what will see the Fulfillment of we'll see the Fulfillment of mhia