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Coronavirus: A Jewish Perspective

Is the Virus a Punishment? Should We Panic?

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On Friday, March 13, 2020, Rabbi YY Jacobson was interviewed on the Detroit radio show "The Jewish Hour", by Hershel Finman.

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Chaya Gross -4 years ago
No prophet either...but...
Am writing from Jerusalem and it seems

so odd to me that nobody yet amongst

Jewish leaders in the Diaspora are talking

about returning from the four corners of the

earth to the “Promised Land”! Is it not yet

clear that the messianic era is in full swing

or are they still waiting for Moshiach to say

let’s go. Need an Aminadav...
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  Meir Eichenstein -4 years ago
  So, it's in full swing. Indeed, nearly 30 years ago the Rebbe invoked the Yalkut Shimoni (Isaiah:499) to prophecize to us that that year, 1991, "The year Moshiach is first revealed ...", had brought us across the threshold into the Era of Redemption.
  
  We all see that more and more with significant events occurring since then that point to the above fact that Geulah is building momentum. We saw miracles occurred with every war Israel fought (or didn't fight, as in the Persin Gulf War); We saw that when Trump won a miraculous triumph, a real Purim miracle, where a turnaround happened in a matter of hours, that upset a miserable Jewish-Israel forecast based on Hillary's impending win, who'd follow in the footsteps of the previous evil administration's steps, where, instead of Arab influence inside the White House, we now have benevolence projected upon the Jewish world; We see it too in the technology that developed in the last 20 years which gives every individual across the whole globe access to the news in the palm of his hand; And now we see it with the Chinese virus where the whole world is experiencing an upheaval in social living by what? By something invisible -- a very fitting paradigm because God is invisible, as a prelude to prepare us for an even greater universal phenomenon, to one that'll be embraced by all of humanity, none withstanding; Where without even leaving your home to buy a newspaper you'll discover about the Third Temple first appearing in חוץ לארץ and when the Moshiach's revelation will be cast upon all of us.
  
  But the way, how Moshiach's arrival is meant to occur, as hinted above, is not how you picture it. The Rebbe tells us, as he understands the Rambam in fact, is that certain aspects of the final stages of that utopic era will actually begin from חוץ לארץ! To share the final days of Geulah, I don't have to go to Israel for that to happen; I can first share it right here in the diaspora, as could the millions of others Jews worldwide. Just save me a front row seat!
  
  You say you're not a prophet ... but - at least know what the most recent prophet, the Rebbe, says about the Era of Redemption. The Rebbe's words will soothe your concern, besides giving you a new, delightful perspective worthy of your study. It'll also prepare you if only to know the qualifications that must be met by Moshiach by which for you to identify him, as per the qualifications listed in the Rambam.
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Anonymous -4 years ago
Thank you so much

may you be gebentched always

most especially in our present challenge

that holds the potential for the greatest revealed good ever

helping to tap the most innermost core in each one of us

chazak v’amatz

chana Schmukler

an avid participant
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Stuart -4 years ago

thank you for the chizuk

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Rachele -4 years ago
Interesting what’s happening: back to basics. The weddings and simchois were becoming outrages, everybody was outdoing the previous simche. Now we are back to no cost simchois. Without 10000’s of people like in a market place. Now just immediate family can join the simchois, how nice and intimate.
Kids were left by babysitters, for long hours in school because Mom was out in the world...
All the kids are being reunited with their family ( yes sometimes it’s worse). We are all back home...no longer kidnapped by the world...
We have to face the truth of what it’s like to be a family again....for better or for worse....
And connect to the only force we can rely and count on Our Father in Heaven...
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Aron -4 years ago

Thanks for the chizuk on the current situation. I knew I could rely on you you to say the right words.

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