The Final Contractions of Moshiah? - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

Shaina was on the sixth floor of hadasa hospital with the baby in the Maternity Ward and we were about to go into Shabbat together and fortunately I had the foresight to throw some some Shabbat clothing and a talit in the bag um as so I was ready for Shabbat and I went down to what felt like the first floor but I think it may have actually been underground of the hospital a beautiful synagogue in hadasa hospital if you're in Jerusalem it's really worth seeing it's called the shagal synagogue because there's windows painted or designed by shagal and this synagogue was filled with the most beautiful mix of Jews from literally every single Walk of Life in the Holy Land from the ultra Orthodox wearing their sort of Regal fur stals to the secular to the religious Zionist There Were Soldiers there with us some of who it appeared had been wounded in battle but they were able to summon the strength to make it to the special Kabal about the Sabbath greeting services and as we all sang together and prayed together you could feel this genuine love in the room that we all had for each other and during this beautiful Transcendent moment I heard what felt like boom like it was like a a deep boom like I felt it more than I heard it and there were a few other people that seemed to hear it also but we all sort of looked around and most people either didn't hear it or feel it or simple ignored it I was doubting maybe it's a lot of us in Israel tabith I don't know if you often hear Phantom booms right where you hear the boom and it's not a boom and then it is and you know we all sort of have some level of PTSD around this whole thing but after Services I ran upstairs to see Shaina and all of the new mothers were holding their babies tight in the hallways outside of the rooms out of their beds where they shouldn't have needed to be because they just gave birth and they should be lying in their bed recovering and they were all holding their babies tight and I looked at Shaina and she looked at me and she said did you just come out also like did I come out as her what she meant and she said that in all of the floors above us there was red alert sirens and there were there were missiles fired into Jerusalem heading towards the area of hadasa hospital and all the the babies all the mothers many recovering and struggling to walk they were holding grabbing their babies and rushed into bomb shelters and at that moment I looked at Shaina holding my beautiful innocent newborn baby and my heart achd you know I thought I thought to myself just I sort of broadcasted the energy to my little boy like welcome to the world little boy this is where we are right now this is where we're at right now as a world right less than 24 hours in the world and he's already finds himself in a bomb shelter contending firsthand with evil in its purest form I mean it's that's the contrast that gets my fury it's the absolute Purity and innocence that is subject to this great evil I just want to wipe it out anyways you know I'm looking at my little boy and I was just visualizing his pure Beautiful Soul descending from this realm of spiritual Bliss and serenity and peace and love and being thrust into our violent and volatile Tempest storm of a world this realm of chaos and pain and confusion but at that moment as I was visualizing his journey I was seeing the the chaos and the violence of this world spinning right just violent confusion but it was all just in the palm of hashem's hands it meaning it felt it was just within this little spinning sphere of the world it's crazy but it's within the palm of hashem's loving hand and I saw it clearly at that moment that all that we are experiencing here while it's very real on one level on the deepest level it's it's an illusion it's all happening at the direct orchestration of Hashem and therefore all of the pain and the death as impossible as it is for us to understand is happening for us to give us the opportunity to be the light to illuminate the world with hashem's light through our faith in him but you know what I'm going to say here even more than our faith in him our trust in him and it was then that I had the thought which I had before that this baby born on the eth night of Kaneka born at the coldest darkest time of the year birthed into the world in the midst of one of the greatest times of trouble for Jacob in Jewish history it was clear to me that he must be a special child with a great mission of shining a light of godliness to the world may hasem protect him and allow him to do that and the truth is that we we are all we all have this Mission we are all here because we've been chosen by God to be here at this time he trusts in us to be able to be here and to do what we each need to do during these times anyone alive during these times has a great historic opportunity of of of potential to shine a light but I couldn't help but to look at my baby and hope and believe that he was arriving now for just such a time is this I know that I I'm like another Jewish father that thinks his son is Messiah but I think every good Jewish father has some thought that his son must be Messiah but now I have two so I don't even know what to do there with that but anyways I if if it felt like this is an important time and an important thing that's happening and I have no proof for believing this and I may may be wrong but I do believe that both Israel and the world are experiencing the final the final painful violent contractions of Messiah and the closer we get the more painful and violent the contractions are becoming um I don't even want to talk about the horrific story that just happened you know with the three um Kim the three kidnapped uh Jews that were able to make it out and get shot it's just so tragic it's so how do you I can't make sense of it it's like anticlimactic and tragic and painful and how do we make sense of all of this but these are the final contractions of Messiah coming into the world and the closer we get the more painful the contractions and we see this play out in the story of Joseph's brothers they find themselves in Canaan and the global famine is ravaging them as well leaving them without food as the you know these brutal Desert Winds are destroying whatever may be left of their crops we see them make their their way to Egypt to get food and they're optimistic and hopeful that they will and then they're accused of being spies and test was going back to Canaan to bring their brother Benjamin back to his to this terrifying heartless Egyptian Taskmaster the greatest source of all their pain and their anguish they need to bring their brother Benjamin him to prove the veracity of their story and throughout the entire story we see from the outside that it's Joseph their brother that is engineering all of this out of his love for them and that and that the moment will come that we'll read about in the next portion perhaps one of the greatest moments in human history in which ysep announces to his brothers I am ysep is my father still alive that is the great moment that we are all on the cusp of experiencing and we need to strengthen our our belief and our faith together strengthen each other because when that moment comes much of the world it will be such a light that it will burn so much of the world but for those of us are trusting in Hashem that have faith in him that light will warm us and soothe us and heal us and I want to bless us all that we're able to experience that readily soon any moment any moment now may that may that great Redemption and salvation come to the Jewish people and really to the entire world