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What Will Happen When Moshiach Comes?
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Mendel Green |
I am a a Jew from Melbourne Australia who strongly believes in the
moshiach. My question is, what will happen when moshiach comes? Will
the world light up? Will we be able to see G-d all of a sudden? I
am aware of the fact that Moshiach will gather in the exiles to Eretz
Yisrael but what will be the initial 'practical' effect of moshiach
comeing in more dwon to earth precise terms? This question has always
bothered me so if you could answer it I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for your time and effort. —Shimon
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ANSWER: A truism which has been heard quite frequently in recent
times, is that the more we see the world changing, the more the
world seems to have remain the same. Alongside, and often due to,
the strides made in the scientific arena and all the improvements
it has made for our existence there is an equal movement in the
opposite direction: Things are getting worse than ever before. Reading
the newspapers and magazines, looking around our own neighborhoods,
we are witness to a tremendous upheaval in our society.
But this is the state of affairs the way it is now - before Moshiach.
But with the coming of Moshiach, Maimonides, one of the greatest
Jewish authorities of all time, writes there will be no more jealousy,
no more hate, no more conflict between peoples, no more wars among
nations, no more friction between the different races and ethnic
groups. People will find peace and harmony not only with others
but also within themselves. No more inner turmoil.
Sounds like a dream world? How does this tremendous change of nature
occur?
Every person, Judaism teaches us, is in essence good. All the negativity
that we associate with the human condition is not the real us; they
are a result of all the external influences, including the suffering
and hardship we endure. All of this conceals the innate goodness
which comes from within. When Moshiach will come G-d will enable
us to remove the external cover so that our true inner goodness
will be allowed to surface. Hate, jealousy, laziness; arrogance,
anger among all other human frailties which are in essence mere
additions to our core of humanity will disappear as we are given
opportunity to express our real essence.
G-d will likewise eliminate illness and hunger, all the inherent
goodness in nature will surface in all areas of life, in fact the
world will realize the ultimate reason for which it was created,
any sensible person believes that G-d's world was not indented for
all the pain and suffering which we've experienced is the past,
and indeed Judaism has taught us that what has transpired from creation
until the present, is all part of a process. As the student who
goes to school, stays up all night studying, takes the exams, and
all this while trying to cope emotionally and socially with life,
for the ultimate purpose of getting a degree, which will enable
the graduate to make it in life, similarly all the suffering now,
is only part of a process which will become clear when Moshiach
comes.
The peace and harmony we will experience then, is a manifestation
of a more godly state which will prevail. All of mankind will recognize
that G-d is the creator who put all of us in this universe to fulfill
his or her purpose. And then we will have the ability to appreciate,
and have the desire to fulfill, that purpose. And there could be
no greater feeling of achievement and fulfillment, then the knowledge
that one is living up to the purpose for which he or she was created.
There can be no more profound feeling of satisfaction then one's
own legitimization -- that I belong, that I have a purpose, and
that I live up to that purpose. The hope for Moshiach is the hope
to realize our G-d given potential. And that is the hope of all
hopes.
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