Last week I briefly touched upon the phenomenon of supposed stalwarts of conservatism and moral rectitude who have inexplicably thrown in with a candidate who holds views and exhibits behavior they’ve opposed their entire lives. As I’ve watched this spectacle unfold I’ve kept in mind the Gemara’s teaching that a telltale sign of the Ikvesa D’Meshicha the pre-Messianic era which gedolei olam have long said is upon us is that of ein lanu l’hishaein elah al Avinu Shebashamayim.
It will be a time in which all of the normal supports on which we tend to rely — and enable us to avoid having to place all our trust in He Who is the only true source of salvation — will be kicked out from under us. If we want to merit redemption we will need to be driven willy-nilly into His arms.
One can see the pieces of the ein lanu…elah endgame falling into place both in Eretz Yisrael and inAmerica. There it began withIsrael’s fall from its vaunted military invincibility and continued with its slow encirclement by vicious enemies. ThenIran announced plans to destroy it from afar andAmerica its most trusted ally rebuffedIsrael’s plea and made a deal with the enemy.
In theUnited States we’re just now emerging from an eight-year experience with political messianism. What began with Obama campaign rallies that were virtual revival meetings replete with fainting acolytes and with his acceptance speech in Denver before grandiose Greek columns is about to end as two terms of nearly unmitigated debacle both domestically and abroad.
