How to Bring Mashiach Soon

Editor’s Note:  Because of the ongoing military operation against Iran, we cannot download the weekly Q&A video from YouTube and create a standalone video for the website. Instead, we are embedding a link here to the video in YouTube. For those viewers whose internet filter blocks the YouTube video, a synopsis is given below the video.

 

Highlights 

Every war is governed entirely by Hashem, the “Man of War”. The war with Iran is like the war with Haman-Achashverosh! 

 

@09:45 In parshat Behaalotcha, the verse in Bamidbar (Numbers) 10:9 says:

And if you go to war in your land against an adversary that oppresses you, you shall blow a teruah with the trumpets and be remembered before the Lord your God, and thus be saved from your enemies.

The Baal HaTurim writes that a war will come that hints to the future war of Gog and Magog. The Baal HaTurim further writes that Hashem will remember our forefathers and in their merit, we shall see miracles. 

 

Questions 

@11:17 What is the most important thing to do now to help am Yisrael?   

• Observe Shabbat and help other Jews to do so. Shabbat is a tremendous gift that lights up a Jew’s soul; learning and prayer on Shabbat is many times more valuable than during the weekday.  

• Pray to Hashem to guard all am Yisrael, especially in eretz Yisrael.

• Strengthen your emuna – Hashem loves each one and is guarding and fighting for each one of us 

• Put Likutei Moharan in rooms of your home.

• Distribute emuna to strength others.

 

@27:57 How to handle children’s anxieties during the war? It’s important to strengthen one’s own emuna that Hashem is protecting us. Remember that Hashem is our Protector! Even one person in a crowd can calm an entire group and create an atmosphere of confidence in Hashem!

 

@30:00 Is there a segula (special merit) or special advice for protection during these days?  As answered above in the first question. Emuna is the main advice – sing “Hashem Always Loves Me”, “Mizmor L’Todah” (Psalm 100).

 

@31:03 Does Rabbi Arush think that this war is the beginning of the War of Gog and Magog? What does that mean? See the answer in the first question – the Baal HaTurim’s answer. Again, emuna is the main advice – never forget that we are in the hands of Hashem!

 

Rabbi Arush concluded with a description of the Jews’ travels in the desert – packing and unpacking (sometimes only for an overnight stay!), settling in places that were unsuitable for encampment while bypassing perfect places for camp. It was all counter-intuitive, so why didn’t the Jews complain about that? The Jews didn’t complain because they saw the Pillar of Cloud/Fire over the Mishkan. The Jews only cried and complained when they didn’t see Hashem’s presence!

 

This is the message for US: whatever difficulty you’re going through, see Hashem in it and accept it with love! In this war, let us see ONLY Hashem!