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Mizrachi Inspiration 15 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi Inspiration Sheer #15. So how do we know when we're in
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  the process of Goulah of redemption?
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  We would like to believe from the science fiction type Judy,
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  as the many of us were talked to when we were younger, that
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  things are going to Shoals are going to float in the air to
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  Israel. Huge miracles are going to
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  occur. But if you open up a tenner to
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  open up the Bible, listen to what it has called the Prophet
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  teaches us, but you and mountains of Israel, you shall
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  shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to buy people
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  Israel, for they will soon be coming, says Rashi.
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  There can be no surer sign of the end of the exile than this.
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  Than what? First, the land, which for so
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  many years lay desolate, is commanded by Ajam to give forth
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  its fruit. To who?
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  To my people, Israel. So when the Jews come home, the
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  land responds agriculturally, and all of a sudden, after years
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  of desolation, it's yielding its beautiful produce.
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  And the next one, they will soon be coming.
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  The Jews are coming home. And we've seen that as well,
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  Jews moving to Israel from every part of the world.
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  In a famous letter to his sons soon after his own alia to
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  Israel, the Ramban Nahmannadis mourns over the destruction of
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  the land and the even greater devastation of Jerusalem.
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  Also, Mahabdil, the American writer Mark Twain, notes in
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  Innocence Abroad, the diary he kept on a visit to Israel that
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  the roads were more rocky than the hill sites.
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  He describes the unusual poverty of the land marriage.
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  Israel was conquered again and again, but only when her
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  children came home did she bring forth her fruit.
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  Interesting. It wasn't the flourishing of
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  Israel's spiritual life that caught the attention of Rough
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  Cook. But he pointed to the
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  agricultural boom down to earth, harvest of oranges, bananas,
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  grapes, whatever was growing in the land of Israel, which the
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  Gomaro says is a surest sign of the end of exile.
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  And you just have to wonder, what are most Jews who don't
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  understand this? Waiting for the religious Jews
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  who read the Tanoh. What?
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  What? What do they want to see
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  happening? The endgathering of the Exiles
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  and the rebirth of the land are two sides of the historic divine
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  prophecy which is unfolding in our very midst and through our
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  actions. The prophets don't talk about
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  exclusively returning to Hashem, everyone being religious to
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  keeping the Halaka properly. It's always what will the land
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  do, people coming home and then at the end at the next stage
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  will be a return to Hashem. But these are later stages in a
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  process that begins with something very earthly, very
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  very basic. If the land of Israel gives
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  forth her fruits and abundance, this is not just a coincidence.
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  We don't believe that the world is run by chance.
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  God forbids us rough cook. Only people have impoverished
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  thinking. What a great phrase from
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  intellectual laziness. Believe that all the miracles we
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  are witnessing today are mere accidents of history.
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  It's a mistake if events happen in accordance with prophecy.
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  We know that it's all a matter of divine design.
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  Now, in the same way that a Jewish person can see how sham
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  in his individual life, his good health, his daily sustenance,
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  his joys, and even the things that go wrong in life, we have
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  to see how sham in the life of the nation.
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  The same way Raftsveer the cook talk challenged his students to
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  meet the living God of Israel in the events of our day on a
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  national level where his presence appears in four lights,
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  ask a Jew how he is in Jose Barak Hashem.
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  He understands that Hashem is guiding his life and he's
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  thankful for the interaction. In the same light, Barak Hashem
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  should be our national expression thanking Hashem for
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  bringing us back to our land. We have cook urge us to see
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  Hashem not just as the master of the individual lives, but the
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  master of generations and history.
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  He told us to see that divine hand which had brought the Jews
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  out of Egypt and led Joshua and his armies into Israel, was
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  likewise bringing about wars between nations in our time, in
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  order to return his people to the land.
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  Of course, challenges to understand that Ashram, the
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  source of all goodness and love, is also the master of wars, who
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  unleashes foreign armies to expel his children from their
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  land, and who sends foreign armies to chase his children
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  back have to recognize not only Hashem in the individual, but
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  also on the national, and definitely come down to earth,
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  because it's from the earth that we can see Hashem clearly have a
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  lovely day.