“The more bitter the heart of the singer, the sweeter his song”
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here’s a spiritual ascent that begins with Tu B’Shevat and peaks on Shavuos. From the 20th of Sivan we begin to descend sharply, reaching the lowest point on Tisha B’Av. Why are we being made to plunge into the dark?
We’re being sent to find the sparks of Mashiach, the diamonds that lie in the murky depths.
While technology and civilization continuously advance, human suffering still plagues the planet. But we’re not stuck in endless cycles of heartbreak. In multiple places in the Torah, as well as dozens of times in Navi, Hashem promises that the world will one day be a utopia. This promise is what we call Mashiach.
In our intense longing for Mashiach, we’ve romanticized, imagined, wondered, and conjectured. In truth, we know extremely little about Mashiach because the neviim only received vague prophecies, and Chazal didn’t have a clear tradition of interpretation.
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